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“I recognize that we cannot afford to leave any form of power or any kind of coalition off the table in order to bring about democracy in society,” Parker says. “We need everybody, all hands on deck — that’s not only labor unions trying to build more power for workers, that also means debtors unions: people who are saddled with personal debt, medical debt, rent burden – coming together to fight back and build a society where debt isn’t a problem, because debt doesn’t exist, because we want all the public goods we need to survive.”
lyrics
If the question is student debt then the answer is cancel it.
If the question is medical debt the answer is cancel it.
If the question is prison debt then the answer is cancel it.
We can do it with a movement baby you can bet your ass on that.
If the question is how much of it, the answer is all of it,
If the question is how many for, the answer is all of us
If the question is should debt exist the answer’s abolish it,
We can do it if we do it with a movement of borrowers.
We If the question is student debt then the answer is cancel it,
Joe can do it with the movement of a pen or a pencil,
It’s just a fancy flick of the hand and then all of it vanishes,
And then all my homies hoping to be parents get a fairer chance,
I know y’all hear us in Hyderabad,
Screaming let us catch our breath a bit, so if the question is: Can you shred the records of indebtedness?
Then the answer is just as simple as I said it is,
Second question: Should I get the pen?
We can scatter you and smother you in costs that aren’t covered, for insurance when your hip is reconstructed,
Student loans for studying a subject with substance,
The ankle monitor mandated for being the plug
or an engine that’s starting to sputter,
Blatantly bury you under the interest, wasting your life indentured,
8 to 5 and then some,
Just to pad our pockets with the payments we invented,
Breaking your resistance isn’t an accident it’s exactly as it’s intended.
Y’all finished fleecing us with your greasy agreements,
We can bring you to knee if we tell you know and we mean it,
Y’all the ones that owe us and we are the ones behemoth
Withholding what we’re told to fork over to you til you free us.
In our fighting for collective liberation we be taking on the titans,
Telling the big bankers we ain’t making any payments for our hospitalizations or our cars or our credit cards,
Tell em they should thank us,
For all the paper they making off the weight of all our student loans,
Can’t pay? won’t pay! Time to tell them looters no!
From Seattle to Nevada, Louisburg to Louisville,
End privatization and erase the debts we should owe.
I’m serious, abolish it, give us free college, end joblessness, give free healthcare to all of us,
We can’t pay so we won’t pay,
Unite and debt strike cause together we own the whole bank.
If the question is student debt then the answer is cancel it.
If the question is medical debt the answer is cancel it.
If the question is prison debt then the answer is cancel it.
We can do it with a movement baby you can bet your ass on that.
If the question is how much of it, the answer is all of it,
If the question is how many for, the answer is all of us
If the question is should debt exist the answer’s abolish it,
We can do it if we do it with a movement of borrowers.
credits
released March 1, 2023
Music by Linqua Franqa
Director and Executive Producer: Nolan Huber-Rhoades
Video Producer: Haseena Peera
Choreographer: Paige White
Sound Engineer: Joel Hatstat
Listening to this a few years on, Chapter 319 feels almost melancholic, a reminder of the time where police abolition had nearly mainstream appeal. The tracks still make me furious at the bullshit cops continue to get away with. dninemfive
I love these women. the voices mesh together perfectly; also the world music is exceptional. I have all of their albums and they're all excellent. Give them a listen. Steve Lake