The Debt Resisters’ Operations Manual
Subtitle: Debt Rules Everything Around Me
Publisher: PM Press/Common Notions
Published: 04/2014
Place of publication: United States
Language: eng
Format: Paperback, eBook
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781604866797
Description: Written by a network of activists, writers, and academics from Strike Debt, The Debt Resisters’ Operations Manual reveals how the predatory debt system works to increase inequality, undermine democracy, and ruin lives. It provides detailed strategies for fighting common forms of debt and lays out an expansive vision for a societal movement of debt resistance. The full text of the manual is available here for free.
Table of contents: title: Glossary i; title: Introduction 1; title: CHAPTER ONE; title: Credit Scores and Consumer Reporting Agencies 19; title: CHAPTER TWO; title: Credit Card and Automobile Debt 39; title: CHAPTER THREE; title: Medical Debt 55; title: CHAPTER FOUR; title: Student Debt 65; title: CHAPTER FIVE; title: Housing Debt 81; title: CHAPTER SIX; title: Tax Debt 97; title: CHAPTER SEVEN; title: Fringe Finance Transaction Products and Services 109; title: CHAPTER EIGHT; title: Fringe Finance Credit Products and Services 123; title: CHAPTER NINE; title: Debt Collection 137; title: CHAPTER TEN; title: Bankruptcy 153; title: CHAPTER ELEVEN; title: Strategies for Survival 165; title: CHAPTER TWELVE; title: Municipal and State Debt 177; title: CHAPTER THIRTEEN; title: National Debt 187; title: CHAPTER FOURTEEN; title: Climate Debt 195; title: CHAPTER FIFTEEN; title: Prospects for Change 207; title: APPENDIX A; title: Sample Letters to Credit Reporting Agencies 216; title: APPENDIX B; title: Sample Letters to Consumer Reporting; title: Agencies for Checking Accounts 220; title: APPENDIX C; title: Sample Letter to Collection Agencies; title: Regarding (Alleged) Medical Debt 225; title: APPENDIX D; title: Sample Letters to Collection Agencies 226; title: INDEX 228