Forum Post: Former Occupy Wall Street activists start ‘Rolling Jubilee’ to buy up Americans’ personal debt
Posted 11 years ago on Dec. 1, 2013, 6:21 a.m. EST by GirlFriday
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For a year and a half, 80-year-old Kentucky resident Shirley Logsdon received repeated calls from a debt collection agency over an unpaid medical bill.
Then one day, out of the blue, she received a letter saying the $983 debt had been handled — purchased by Rolling Jubilee, a group linked to the Occupy Wall Street movement.
“I was dumbfounded but delighted, of course,” Logsdon, who is retired along with her husband of 62 years, told AFP.
“We got a letter saying that everything had been resolved — finally it is over, you don’t have to worry, you don’t owe us anything. (…) I didn’t know these people. It was a godsend.”
Normally debt collectors don't call to say the matter is cleared up, do they? They never give away their rights to sue at a later time for the remainder of the money.
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I agree.
It does seem odd that it all of a sudden shows up in a French paper.
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Yeah, for some reason they pick up from there and, too often, the Guardian. I have zero expectations from the telly.
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Well it ain't gonna get coverage here ( USA corp(se)oRATe media ) - that's for sure.
I wouldn't look to 60 Minutes or CNN or ya......
But, it has been showing up in the last month
https://www.google.com/search?q=Rolling+Jubilee&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#q=Rolling+Jubilee&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&tbm=nws
BTW - from your page link:
Tweet - Former Occupy Wall Street activists start 'Rolling Jubilee' to buy up ... =
DKAtoday @DKAtoday
Former Occupy Wall Street activists start ‘Rolling Jubilee’ to buy up Americans’ personal debt | The Raw Story http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/01/former-occupy-wall-street-activists-start-rolling-jubilee-to-buy-up-americans-personal-debt/ …
To share out to a wider audience - that is how the internet can get better presentation to the general public.
Well since an obvious shill downvoted the comment - it must be good for a repeat:
BTW - from your page link:
Tweet - Former Occupy Wall Street activists start 'Rolling Jubilee' to buy up ... =
DKAtoday @DKAtoday
Former Occupy Wall Street activists start ‘Rolling Jubilee’ to buy up Americans’ personal debt | The Raw Story http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/01/former-occupy-wall-street-activists-start-rolling-jubilee-to-buy-up-americans-personal-debt/ …
To share out to a wider audience - that is how the internet can get better presentation to the general public.
Oooo down voted twice - same shill ? No matter seems like some shill (s) do not like my encouraging people to use social media to share out information to a wider audience - SO - it MUST be worth it to repeat:
Well since an obvious shill downvoted the comment - it must be good for a repeat:
BTW - from your page link:
Tweet - Former Occupy Wall Street activists start 'Rolling Jubilee' to buy up ... =
DKAtoday @DKAtoday
Former Occupy Wall Street activists start ‘Rolling Jubilee’ to buy up Americans’ personal debt | The Raw Story http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/01/former-occupy-wall-street-activists-start-rolling-jubilee-to-buy-up-americans-personal-debt/ …
To share out to a wider audience - that is how the internet can get better presentation to the general public.
Yep - if you're gonna "find" coverage - the internet would be the place to "LOOK" as it is not a presentation. I expect foreign media is doing the same as our own home grown corp(se)oRATe media = using events elsewhere for distractions from what is happening at home.
Yeah, I go to newspapers overseas to get the other side or the dirt on what is not being reported here. I suspect they do the same over there and somewhere we get pretty close to the truth in the middle.
Has a tendency to make the gamesmanship in the media much more obvious.