Debt resistance – 02 – Carl Packman – Payday Loans
PUTNEY DEBATE: Unsettling Debt: What does Debt Resistance mean in the UK
From PFI contracts that make hospitals three times as expensive as public funding would, to the bubble in the housing sector, from graduates’ average debt burdens of £44,000, to unpayable energy bills …debt affects all aspects of our lives.
Be it private, national or local government, debt is one of the neoliberal system’s most powerful tools to discipline us.
But together, we can overcome the shame attached together with the idea that you need to be an expert to understand what is happening.
Together we can start building strategies for resistance.
As part of Occupy London’s New Putney Debates, Debt Resistance UK organised an evening of discussion to share informations, hear more from participants on debt together with explore possibilities for collective action.
SPEAKERS:
Carl Packman – Payday Loans
Claire Welton – Fuel Poverty
Mary Robertson – Housing Debt
Helen Mercer – NHS Debt
Joel Benjamin – Local Government Debt
Jonathan Stevenson – National Debt
Fanny Malinen – Student Debt
Debt Resistance UK is a London-based group dedicated to challenging the narrative of debt injustice as inevitable together with apolitical.
This debate was held on Tuesday 4 November 2014
7pm
Room B102, Brunei Building, SOAS
For more information:
https://www.facebook.com/DebtResistanceUK/info
http://thenewputneydebates.com/
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