'Pick Up the Pen, Joe': DC Protest Calls on Biden to Cancel Student Debt

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'Pick Up the Pen, Joe': DC Protest Calls on Biden to Cancel Student Debt
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'If Biden restarts payments on May Day we know that nearly eight million people will be pushed into default,' said one StrikeDebt organizer. 'We don't need to pause this crisis, we need to end it.'

that"when a few dozen of us gather together and we start to say [the amount of] our debt, you quickly realize you only need a few people to get to a million dollars. You only need a few people to get to a billion dollars."

"The idea of economic disobedience starts to really come alive when people say, 'What if we withhold our payments?' They start thinking about their debt as financial leverage," said Brewington.

"A piece of paper with a number on it literally holds so much power over you to the degree [that] people are willing to sell their homes, they're willing

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