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What’s Next in Faith-Based Community Organizing: A Rolling Jubilee
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Tikkun (2013) 28 (2): 36–38.
Published: 01 April 2013
...Donna Schaper What the banks need to do is make money on our debt. What we need to do is to cause them to financially fail the way they have already morally failed. It’s called jubilee and it’s the way our Abrahamic forebears managed their fields. Faith-based community organizations today have...
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Published: 01 April 2013
Annie Bissett ( anniebissett.com ) The jubilee note below is part of Cash for the Crash , a set of currency designed by Annie Bissett. The currency also includes four denominations that are free and priceless: earth, air, fire, and water.
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Published: 01 April 2013
Annie Bissett ( anniebissett.com ) The jubilee note below is part of Cash for the Crash , a set of currency designed by Annie Bissett. The currency also includes four denominations that are free and priceless: earth, air, fire, and water.
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Jubilee and Debt Abolition
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Tikkun (2015) 30 (1): 17.
Published: 01 January 2015
... Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2015 In addition, don’t miss the powerful web-only articles on this topic at tikkun.org/jubilee . In addition, don’t miss the powerful web-only articles on this topic at tikkun.org/jubilee. Medical debt. Student debt. Mortgage debt. Payday loans...
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Sabbatical Year and Jubilee in Twenty-First-Century America
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Tikkun (2015) 30 (1): 18–21.
Published: 01 January 2015
... the Torah’s call for a Sabbatical Year would bring us one step closer to truly caring for the earth. Painting by Sharon Gilbertson. T his section of Tikkun on “Jubilee and Debt Abolition” is meant to function as a thought experiment, opening up conceptual space for thinking afresh about our world...
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Jubilee on Wall Street: Taking the Bull by the Horns
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Tikkun (2015) 30 (1): 23–25.
Published: 01 January 2015
...SHANE CLAIBORNE Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2015 S ometimes folks say , “But the Jews never really practiced the Jubilee.” We Christians have never really practiced the Sermon on the Mount very well, either. Nonetheless, God’s intention is clear, despite our failure to obey. Jubilee...
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Reimagining Jubilee: A Political Horizon for Our Times
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Tikkun (2015) 30 (1): 26–27.
Published: 01 January 2015
...PAMELA BROWN Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2015 H istorian peter linebaugh traces the first known African American usage of the concept of Jubilee to an 1834 edition of a children’s magazine called The Southern Rose Bud . The description of slave children singing a hymn reads: “Don’t you...
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Published: 01 January 2015
Shutterstock “Jubilee was God’s alternative to the empire, to Wall Street, and to the patterns of injustice,” Claiborne writes.
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Published: 01 January 2015
Corinne Reid ( corinnereid.com ) The Jubilee is not about guilt—it’s about joyful redistribution through giving.
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Published: 01 January 2015
Joe Alterio ( joealterio.com ) The Rolling Jubilee is a good consciousness-raising tool—it buys debt for pennies on the dollar and then abolishes it. Now activists are taking the next step: organizing toward a debt strike.
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Published: 01 January 2015
In addition, don’t miss the powerful web-only articles on this topic at tikkun.org/jubilee .
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Power without the King: The Debt Strike as Credible Threat
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Tikkun (2015) 30 (1): 31–34.
Published: 01 January 2015
...Joe Alterio ( joealterio.com ) The Rolling Jubilee is a good consciousness-raising tool—it buys debt for pennies on the dollar and then abolishes it. Now activists are taking the next step: organizing toward a debt strike. ...
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Published: 01 April 2013
Creative Commons/notanalternative ( notanalternative.org .) Did you know that debt cancellation is the biblical norm, not the exception? Occupy Faith’s next big project is a rolling jubilee to abolish debt and uproot internalized capitalism.
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Published: 01 January 2015
Caitlin Ng ( caitlinng.com ) Taken alone, debts are individual problems. But when lumped together, they are a systemic threat. The threat of mass debt refusal could usher in a contemporary Jubilee. Illustration by Caitlin Ng.
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You Are Not a Loan: Strike Debt and the Emerging Debtors Movement
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Tikkun (2015) 30 (1): 28–30.
Published: 01 January 2015
... is to change this basic equation by creating and empowering a constituency of debtors for organization, advocacy, and resistance. Both the Rolling Jubilee and the Debt Resisters’ Operations Manual lay the foundations necessary for a debtors’ movement. But neither, by itself, helps to organize...
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Readers Respond
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Tikkun (2015) 30 (3): 3.
Published: 01 August 2015
... am very pleased to see that through the online addendums to the Winter 2015 issue (published at tikkun.org/jubilee ) the Jubilee and debt sabbatical themes are still very much alive in Tikkun magazine. I’d like to share a response to Norman Solomon’s online contribution, “The Jubilee...
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Adapting Ancient Ethical Principles in Modern Times
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Tikkun (2015) 30 (1): 22.
Published: 01 January 2015
...DAVID KORTEN Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2015 T he biblical dream of Jubilee—the periodic forgiveness of all debts and equal redistribution of land—has the power to inspire contemporary activism, but it would be misguided for us to try to revive biblical Jubilee laws in a literal way...
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Human Rights and Ecology
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Tikkun (2008) 23 (4): 48–50.
Published: 01 November 2008
.... This diversity is the face of God. The
fullness of being human is, simply, known in and through the diversity of the whole.
Jubilee and Land Rights
T h e l a s t s t e p : w e h a v e t a l k e d a b o u t r i g h t s a s t h o u g h t h e y w e r e a g iv e n , b u t t h e
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Embracing the Radical Economics of the Bible
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Tikkun (2015) 30 (1): 44.
Published: 01 January 2015
... of a Jubilee Year. Every fiftieth year, all agricultural land is to be returned to the original family of ownership without payment. Behind this law is the tradition that every Israelite family received a piece of agricultural land when the Israelites arrived in the promised land. The law recognizes that over...
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Transcending Market Logic: Envisioning a Global Gift Economy
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Tikkun (2015) 30 (1): 39–40.
Published: 01 January 2015
.... Having wasted the gifts of the many on the devastation of our invented enemies, we stand empty-handed. The best we could do for a Jubilee year would be to restructure the global economy to value and honor the many gifts that are currently being forcibly extracted and taken for granted...
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