Name: Debt is a Labor Issue: Unions and Debt Abolition
Start: 2025-07-04T12:00:00-0500
End: 2025-07-04T13:30:00-0500

Friday July 4, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm CDT

TBA

In this interactive session audience members will develop a robust analysis and critique of debt and discuss campaigns for debt abolition led by organized labor. Organizing for better wages and benefits is to organize against debt. To organize for debt abolition is to strengthen the power of the working class.

Speakers

Jasson Perez

Lindsey Muniak

Lindsey Muniak is an organizer with the Debt Collective, where she leads national efforts to abolish medical debt, interrupt patterns of financialization in healthcare, and bring those who have experienced the failures of our profit-driven healthcare system into the fight for its... Read More →

Jason Wozniak

Jason Wozniak is associate professor and Coordinator of the Transformative Education and Social Change program at West Chester University. He is a researcher and organizer with Debt Collective, and Founder and Co-Director of The Latin American Philosophy of Education Society (LAPES... Read More →

Jeannine Woods

Jeannine Woods has been an educator for over 20 years. She currently serves as a District Organizer and a Functional Vice President on the Executive Board of the Chicago Teachers Union. Jeannine is also a member of the Illinois State Educator Preparation and Licensure Board (SEPLB... Read More →

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