Pamela Brown is an activist with the Occupy Wall Street offshoot Strike Debt and the Occupy Student Debt Campaign. She holds her undergraduate degree in Philosophy from Dartmouth College, and a Master of Arts in Media Studies from The New School. She is a doctoral student in Sociology at The New School for Social Research.
11/15/2012
Occupy Wall Street Launches Rolling Jubilee, an Innovative Program To Erase Debt
"More than a year after the Occupy Wall Street movement was forcibly evicted from Zuccotti Park, aka Liberty Square, in Manhattan, the movement has returned full force with new energy flowing into two directions: Occupy Sandy and Strike Debt. Later in the hour we’ll hear about storm relief efforts, but first, an offshoot of 2011 Occupy Movement, has put together a project called “Rolling Jubilee” to put an end to the crushing burden of debt affecting millions of people in this country. Strike Debt is kicking off its campaign with a sold-out event called “The People’s Bailout” tonight which will will be streaming live online."
Uprising with Sonali Kolhatkar
11/14/2012
Charity or Mutual Aid?: A Conversation with Organizers of the ‘Rolling Jubilee’
"Collection and credit rating agencies are very much part of the system that makes debt so crushing—they assign you a number that determines whether you can get a new apartment, sign up for utility bills, or buy the car that you need to travel to work. There’s an intimate connection between Wall Street and the secondary market where they sell defaulted debt. We want to reveal the system, and allow people to see it for what it is."
Interview - In These Times