By Anne B. Ryan, Feasta
Modern economic systems have sanctified the payment of debt but this is not some natural or God-given rule, rather a situation designed by financial elites. The wisdom of Rumpelstiltskin needs to be revisited and adapted for modern times.
By Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org
•Occupy Wall Street activists buy $15m of Americans' personal debt •A Permanent Slump? •To tackle pollution, China to drop pursuit of growth at all costs
By Fabien Tepper, YES! magazine
Strike Debt, which grew out of Occupy Wall Street, wants to foment conversation about the debt we rack up in pursuit of basic needs, and the industries that profit from that debt.
By Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org
•Could Economic Growth Kill Us? •Occupy Wall Street campaigners buy-up debt to abolish it •Shift Change (new movie) •Small towns attract Spanish job seekers (video)
By Stephen Reid, New Economics Foundation
Rolling Jubilee, a project of Occupy offshoot Strike Debt, has caused quite a stir online and in the media (see the Telegraph, Huffington Post, and Guardian).