5LL #134 - Loans, GameStop, White Supremacy, Teachers, Mutual Aid

You Are Not A Loan
Astra Taylor, The Intercept
Activists and academics discuss the crisis of higher education and the growing movement to cancel student debt and make college free for all.
The Final Boss Is Capitalism
Sarah Jones, New York Magazine
Perhaps we can learn something from r/wallstreetbets, if only by accident.
Breaking Up With White Supremacy Was Always the End Game
Tressie McMillan Cottom, Medium
If you follow all the prescriptions of checking your privilege, unpacking your invisible knapsack, centering the marginalized, excavating your deeply held white supremacist notions and not becoming a Karen, you will absolutely positively have to break up with actual white people.
Why Do People Hate Teachers Unions? Because They Hate Teachers.
Corey Robin
Mediocrity, I’d venture, is a more or less universal feature of the human condition. But among the upper classes it’s treated as the exclusive preserve of teachers.
'Solidarity, Not Charity': A Visual History of Mutual Aid
Ariel Aberg-Riger, CityLab
Tens of thousands of mutual aid networks and projects emerged around the world in 2020. They have long been a tool for marginalized groups.
Split a donation between 70+ community bail funds, mutual aid funds, and racial justice organizers
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