Debt Collective co-founder Astra Taylor's new book explores why we all feel so insecure these days, regardless of our economic standing. "Even people who crawl their way to the middle class or upper ...
Astra Taylor has been fighting to get student debt forgiven for a decade. She's not giving up now: "The genie of debt cancellation is not going back in the bottle." In 2014, Astra Taylor co-founded ...
The Supreme Court has blocked President Biden’s student debt relief plan, which sought to cancel up to $20,000 in individual loans, adding up to over $400 billion of federal student debt. The decision ...
Solidarity forever” goes the refrain on an old union song. But for many decades solidarity has been out of fashion, cast aside as a relic of the past. Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor want to change ...
Astra Taylor is a writer, documentary filmmaker and debt abolitionist who speaks and teaches about the power that debtors can wield. Taylor shares her Brief But Spectacular take on student loans and ...
A post-inauguration roundtable hosted by Haymarket Books with Naomi Klein, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Astra Taylor and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on the dismantling of the administrative state and the path to ...
Geoff Bennett: This week, the Supreme Court announced it will hear a case that will decide whether the Biden administration can broadly cancel student loans. Tonight, we hear from one of the millions ...
My guest this time is Astra Taylor, a writer, documentarian, and activist who has spent years thinking about debt, insecurity, and the way our feelings about both are manipulated by powerful ...
Student loan borrowers gather near the White House on May 12, 2020 to tell President Biden to cancel student debt. (Paul Morigi / Getty Images for We, The 45 Million) Powered by RedCircle By signing ...
On the C-SPAN Networks: Astra Taylor is an Author with eight videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2014 Interview as a Documentary Filmmaker. The year with the highest average ...