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Joining team human are debt resisters Astra Taylor and Thomas Gokey.\\xa0Astra Taylor is a filmmaker, writer, activist, and musician. Her films include the documentaries Zizek! and the Examined Life. Taylor\\u2019s recent book The People\\u2019s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age takes a hard look at the persisting and embedded inequalities in today\\u2019s digital media landscape.\\xa0Thomas Gokey is a visual artist, adjunct professor at Syracuse University, and activist. Gokey\\u2019s piece entitled,\\xa0Total Amount of Money Rendered in Exchange for a Masters of Fine Arts Degree to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Pulped into Four Sheets of Paper\\xa0reimagined his own student debt as art.\\xa0Both Thomas Gokey and Astra Taylor seized the momentum of Occupy Wall Street to help launch a direct action campaign of debt resistance. Working through the collective force of Strike Debt, Rolling Jubilee, and the Debt Collective,\\xa0Gokey and Taylor are fighting back against the economic injustice of debt in America.

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