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correctiveshoes621) wrote2013-11-12 07:23 pm
correctiveshoes621) wrote2013-11-12 07:23 pm
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This is amazing. In this scary, horrible, on-its-last-legs world - things like this give me hope. Not so much that it will change things, not so much that it will help me, personally - just that there are still good people, out there.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/12/occupy-wall-street-activists-15m-personal-debt
A group of Occupy Wall Street activists has bought almost $15m of Americans' personal debt over the last year as part of the Rolling Jubilee project to help people pay off their outstanding credit.
Rolling Jubilee, set up by Occupy's Strike Debt group following the street protests that swept the world in 2011, launched on 15 November 2012. The group purchases personal debt cheaply from banks before "abolishing" it, freeing individuals from their bills.
By purchasing the debt at knockdown prices the group has managed to free $14,734,569.87 of personal debt, mainly medical debt, spending only $400,000.
It still doesn't counterbalance the ever-growing horror that is Fukushima, and what is going on on the west coast and in our dearly departed Pacific ocean, but. It's something, right? Right?
http://enenews.com/scientists-alarmed-hundreds-sea-turtles-discovered-dead-pacific-coast-dogs-stopped-breathing-died-almost-instantly-when-eating-biologists-looking-possible-females-having-reproductive-problems
http://enenews.com/scientists-especially-worried-we-dont-know-how-the-pathogen-is-doing-this-to-sea-stars-i-watched-one-tear-in-half-walk-away-and-turn-to-goo-caused-by-environmental-factors-h
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/12/occupy-wall-street-activists-15m-personal-debt
A group of Occupy Wall Street activists has bought almost $15m of Americans' personal debt over the last year as part of the Rolling Jubilee project to help people pay off their outstanding credit.
Rolling Jubilee, set up by Occupy's Strike Debt group following the street protests that swept the world in 2011, launched on 15 November 2012. The group purchases personal debt cheaply from banks before "abolishing" it, freeing individuals from their bills.
By purchasing the debt at knockdown prices the group has managed to free $14,734,569.87 of personal debt, mainly medical debt, spending only $400,000.
It still doesn't counterbalance the ever-growing horror that is Fukushima, and what is going on on the west coast and in our dearly departed Pacific ocean, but. It's something, right? Right?
http://enenews.com/scientists-alarmed-hundreds-sea-turtles-discovered-dead-pacific-coast-dogs-stopped-breathing-died-almost-instantly-when-eating-biologists-looking-possible-females-having-reproductive-problems
http://enenews.com/scientists-especially-worried-we-dont-know-how-the-pathogen-is-doing-this-to-sea-stars-i-watched-one-tear-in-half-walk-away-and-turn-to-goo-caused-by-environmental-factors-h