Student debt advocates: I am in awe of you.

Total outstanding debt has now been reduced for the first time in history from $1.9 trillion in 2020 to $1.6 trillion today, its lowest point since 2015. This is not nearly enough, but it is a big deal. And you made it happen.

📢 Join us for two solidarity actions tomorrow in New York City!

MFJ Union On Strike Picket for 60 Days on Strike
📅 Friday, April 26, 1-3 PM
📍 100 William Street

Stand Up for Members, Stand Up for Gaza
📅 Friday, April 26, 4 PM
📍 Washington Square Park

📢📢BREAKING: MFJ Union applauds former U.S. Attorney Eric Holder's Refusal to Cross Our Picket Line!

Holder said the following in a statement: 'I will not...cross a picket line to attend the ceremony.'

On 4/12 we announced a boycott of Mobilization for Justice's gala.

Full statement below.

Do you have older FFELP loans? If so, you may need to consolidate your student loans before April 30th to participate in the IDR Account Adjustment and get closer to cancellation. That's just five days away!!!

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If you took out student loans before 2011, apply now! It takes 10 minutes.

Do you or someone you know have any #FFEL student loans? Or do you have #studentloans that went into repayment at different times?

If so, don't miss out on the benefits of the Biden Admin's one-time #IDR account adjustment!

** The deadline to consolidate is April 30. **

Debt rules everything around us. Cancel carceral debt.

The freedoms to speak, assemble, & protest are fundamental to democracy & essential to our ability to build working class power in this country & around the world.

UAW Region 9A will continue to stand with protesters & our membership at NYU, Columbia, the New School, & beyond.

“Hearing from Palestinian organizers, auto workers who’ve recently unionized in Mexico and organizers for farmworkers’ rights was a helpful reminder that we are part of a global movement for workers justice,” - Leah Duncan, secretary-treasurer Association of Legal Aid Attys thechiefleader.com/stories/at-chi…

We're hiring!

The Association of Legal Aid Attorneys - UAW Local 2325 is seeking an organizer to join our team. ALAA combines organizing, legislative, and legal advocacy to effectively represent 3,000 attorneys and staff across the NYC metro area.

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We Got Next! VW workers just won their union. Mercedes workers in Alabama vote for their union May 13-17!

#StandUpUAW

The student debt system we have today was a reaction to campus activism of the 1960s. Same ghouls, same playbook.

One of our Association of Legal Aid Attys members talks about how #PSLF cancellation has lifted financial burdens and made it easier to keep working as a public defender. This is why our union organizes around student debt cancellation and why yours should too!
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The Dept. of Ed will temporarily stop all processing for the PSLF program starting next week. Download your records before 4/30. Here's what else borrowers should know. forbes.com/sites/adammins…

If you read the Teenage Liberation Handbook, chances are extremely high you're now in the labor movement. 🙋‍♀️

Leaving Labor Notes more inspired than ever to keep organizing to cancel not just student debt but ALL worker debt. Coming home to another Association of Legal Aid Attys member getting #PSLF and seeing our union debt liberation surpass $22.2 million is an incredible moment.

The most important vote I ever cast. That's my President.

Telling generations of young people that there isn’t enough money for free college or free healthcare and then spending billions to commit the gravest assault on Gaza really does elicit a very particular type of rage.

When they try to tell you we can't make Higher Ed free for all.

Hearing updates about the @uaw Volkswagen vote while at Labor Notes is a beautiful thing.