Courtesy of Truthout/photographer: PaulSteinJC/S15 Occupy Wall Street demonstration down Broadway to Liberty Square.
Truthout reports debt resistance opening demonstrations as a central issue for Occupy Wall Street at the S15, S17 one year anniversary marches.
More blogging on that here.
In a related article, Truthout reports homelessness and hunger a growing phenomenon among American college students, with UCLA even creating an economic crisis response team. Stories abound from various campuses with students taking out greater and greater loans to keep up with rising tuition, housing, food, essentials, utilities, medical bills, transportation, and as social services are cut, jobs are scarce, or as students, in economic desperation, drop out, already deeply in debt-- although now they don't even have the degree as the projected debt for completing the program-- growing and growing as the students proceed through the program-- becomes so frightening. As just one story, among so many:
Last year, Washington Post reporter Petula Dvorak chronicled the story of two homeless D.C.-area students, Ronnell Wilson and Miracle Lewis.
Lewis--in her late twenties--had worked as a flight attendant for United Airlines, but decided to go back to school after mass layoffs in 2008. She got a scholarship to study business and took temp jobs to make ends meet. But when temp work "dried up," she found herself living in the Calvary Women's Shelter in Northwest Washington, D.C.
"With September 17 anniversary on the horizon, debt emerges as connective thread for OWS"
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