Debt Resistors' Operations Manual - Book Launch & Archival Screening

The Debt Resistors' Operations Manual is a project of Strike Debt and Occupy Wall Street. It is a guide for individual and collective action for those fighting debt in all of its forms.

On September 15, following its release earlier in the day, Strike Debt will host a discussion about the manual and its role in the emerging debt resistance movement.

The event will be followed at 10:00pm by... [read more]

The Debt Resistors' Operations Manual is a project of Strike Debt and Occupy Wall Street. It is a guide for individual and collective action for those fighting debt in all of its forms.

On September 15, following its release earlier in the day, Strike Debt will host a discussion about the manual and its role in the emerging debt resistance movement.

The event will be followed at 10:00pm by a special screening of archival OWS footage. Join the party!


A sneak peek of the manual:

"This manual shows us the ways in which we are all made to pay for basic social survival—for the rest of our lives. This is the traditional idea of a “debtor”—a person who borrowed money and owes a sum of money to a bank or government agency. This is fairly straightforward and most people are beginning to understand this: mafia capitalism means that governments make cuts and the people have to go into debt to survive. The burden of sustaining “life” gets shifted from the state to the individual and household. Most households are drowning in various forms of debt; it is a way of controlling us—making us weak, afraid and financially unstable.

Our whole system runs on debt and credit—our households, our cities, our countries and all those who slip between the cracks. From municipal bonds that we never agreed to, to the low-income or unemployed worker forced to take payday loans after being excluded from “mainstream” credit, the whole word has become indebted. This is how the 1% maintains its wealth and power.

Anyone fighting the 1% is a debt resistor. We are all debtors now."

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