Can't Pay, Won't Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition

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Biz emekçiler eve, tıpkı yarasını yalayıp tedavi etmek için inine giden hayvanlar gibi girip çıkıyoruz... uyuzunu, bitini temizleyen hayvanlar gibi. The Debt Collective turns a sense of entrapment into a collective call for liberation." —Stephanie Kelton During his architecture studies and while working as decorator and assistant architect, Dario entertained his friends with tales as tall as those he heard in the lakeside taverns of his childhood. In 1951 he met and married Franca Rame, with whom he has subsequently collaborated many times. In 1953 he wrote and directed a satirical play 'Il dito nell'occhio'. After initial success both government and church authorities censored his work. He later gave up architecture in disgust at the level of corruption he found. He continued to write and produce plays within which he spoke out against state corruption and political scandal and openly criticised the church. The play is clearly a political statement about the life and times of Italy in the 1970s. Dario Fo shows that the struggle to make ends meet, coupled with the loss of jobs, is the cost that working class carry in the fight against inflation. It is arguably also a feminist comedy, as it is written to show the viewpoint of the housewife, struggling to afford the ever rising prices in the shops. Its themes of unemployment, class division, and women’s role in society then continued to strike a relevant note through 1980s Britain. Continuing decades have also seen its relevance to their own problems, in various countries, with crooked politicians and bankers’ bonuses.

You can't just say to the bosses... "Excuse me, could you just move over there; we need a bit of breathing space. Please be a little kinder, a bit more understanding...let's come to an agreement." Oh no, the only way to get that mob thinking straight is to stuff them down the bog and pull the chain! Then things would be great. Maybe there would be a few less illuminated window displays, less motorways...we've always been rushing around to keep them going...now we'll keep ourselves going...we'll build our own houses...make a new life for ourselves! Criticisms [ edit ] Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay! is set in a “modest working class flat” in a working class suburb of Milan. The playwright details how in his play the political situation in 1974 translates into chaos in ordinary people's lives. It starts with the Italian prime minister Signor Rumor’s warning to the population that they will have to tighten their belts, because of the international money crisis. This results in a four hour general strike in protest at the government’s delay in dealing with inflation, unemployment and the energy crisis. By March the government has resigned, and a new government is formed without Republicans. However, there is continuing financial crisis, and now soaring inflation. The new government resigns after just 3 months. In the play, both the pace and the absurdity are cranked up a notch. Hischak, Thomas S. (2001). American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama, 1969–2000. Oxford University Press. p.178. ISBN 0-19-512347-6. Even if your contract doesn’t say you’ll be paid for overtime, your employer shouldn’t use it as a way to get out of paying the National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage. Your average hourly pay rate should still be at least the legal minimum. That said, I find this book a little light on the details when it comes to organizing around debt abolition. It's a thorny practical problem on an individual level. Refusing to pay debt can absolutely rip up your life in the short term; your unwillingness to pay can lead to garnished wages, denial of housing, and so on. So many folks still have a lot to lose in the short term. And, as the book stresses, debt abolition without a radical restructuring of multiple social systems--water and power, work, housing, education, incarceration, medicine--will be incomplete, and debt would begin to accumulate again immediately. So comprehensive debt relief won't happen overnight, meaning that debt abolitionists will be in riskier positions for a longer period of time.Martindale said that, as a businesswoman, it went against the grain to refuse to pay a bill. But she shrugged off the possible consequences, including any damage to her credit rating. Not since the U.K. poll tax revolt of 1990 helped sweep then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher from power have the Brits been in such a rebellious mood.More than 100,000 of them have reportedly pledged online to refuse to pay their natural gas and electricity bills this fall unless the government takes further action to defray the escalating cost of household energy.

Protesters are expected to take to the streets. But as well as more traditional campaigning methods, they also plan to pile pressure on energy suppliers and the government by ignoring their bills and cancelling their direct debits. Healey, Robin (1998). Twentieth-Century Italian Literature in English Translation: An Annotated Bibliography 1929–1997. University of Toronto Press. p.299. ISBN 0-8020-0800-3. Bu soysuz yaşamdan usandım, özellikle sakız gibi uzattığın nutuklarından... sorumluluk duygusu, özveri üzerine... kemerleri sıkmanın onuru, emekçi olmanın gururu üzerine attığın nutuklardan...You can usually make a claim for unpaid wages at a small claims court instead. The court will decide if your employer owes you any pay. You can decide whether to make a small claim. If you’re struggling with the cost of living