Mitchell, Tony (1999), Dario Fo: People's Court Jester (Updated and Expanded), London: Methuen, ISBN 0-413-73320-3. GOD DAMN, this goes hard. Debt can be such a useful tool, but the good kind of debt isn’t available to most people often enough. Investors, businesses, “entrepreneurs” and other capital owners can use debt to generate great wealth. For everyone else it is just a predatory aspect of the current uber-capitalist system we have. Nobody should be going into unwanted debt because of medical, educational, housing, or imprisonment reasons. It’s easy to understand the growing anger and militancy. Natural gas is used heavily in the United Kingdom — the fuel heatsthe vast majority of British homes and plays a major role in electricity generation — and so the post-pandemic upsurge in demand, compounded by cuts in Russian supplies, has hit the nation hard.

Ten thousand people not paying their bills is one thing. But a million people not paying is quite a different thing,” Scott said. Defusing explosive debts and undermining the legitimacy of the punitive, profitable debt system of the current United States is insurrectionary work, and uniting debtors in common cause is solidarity and justice work. This anticapitalist manual is a beautiful guide to how and why to do all those things." —Rebecca Solnit

Writing 4/5. The dialogue wasn't long or outdated however it stretch out a lot. I suppose it would be better if I watched it instead of reading it. The narration was slightly difficult to understand but it is a play, after all, we were supposed to figure out how to portray the story not interpret it. The humor though! I was rolling on the ground with laughter I share my favorite lines down below. However, I felt like the humor was a little bit outdated. It kept stretching the joke and the more they stretched the joke the less it became funny. It's like "ugh is this joke over yet?" This book explains the role of debt and how it has historically been used, but also more importantly it explains why ordinary people should come together and force governments to cancel debts, and ultimately demand a political economy that doesn’t put people in debt. To measure unemployment, we use the fact that the PSID provides the employment status for both the head and the spouse over the previous calendar year as well as at the time of the interview. We discuss our exact unemployment variable definitions in detail in Section 3.2, where we present the results from our empirical models. Using the measure of employment status at the time of the survey yields an unemployment rate of 5% in our sample of mortgagors. For the years in question (2009, 2011, and 2013), the average of the headline unemployment rate reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics was 8.5%. 6 General opinion is that it is inappropriate to issue court proceedings against someone who has every intention to pay but unable to do so. Indeed, the Practice Direction – Pre-Action Conduct and Protocols of the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 (or Pre-action Protocols for Debt Claims in the case of a sole trader), the issue of court proceedings is stated as being a last resort. Businesses will therefore need to demonstrate that attempts have been made to reach a settlement. Won’t Pay daVinci Nichols, Nina (2005). Maurice Charney (ed.). "Italian Comedy". Comedy: A Geographic and Historical Guide, Volume 2. Greenwood Publishing Group: 420. ISBN 0-313-32715-7.

Because we’re in the era of fascism, the working class is going to have to find ways to undermine the economy of the ruling class which keeps most people in debt and struggling. Protests in the streets are important, but we need to also learn and use the power of economic boycotts, debtors’ unions, job strikes, and other forms of resistance to force the government to make changes. I'm afraidthis left us both stoney faced with a feeling of "The Emperor's New Clothes" Was this supposed to be funny? In fact, we left at half time, very disappointed. Two weeks after the play's first performance, women in Milan began taking control of the cash registers and paying the prices for items before the sudden raise in costs; right-wing newspapers considered Fo and Can't Pay? Won't Pay! to have inspired the incidents. Fo responded to these allegations, commenting: [11] Across the battlefield, debt holders are negotiating from a significant position of power. They already have a lot of money and a government willing to bail them out, so they can afford to be patient. They influence and write local, state, and federal legislation around debt. They have nothing to gain from giving in to debtors' demands for *blanket* forgiveness: if they forgive debt, they lose money, but if they do not forgive debt, they lose less money.

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To compare the magnitudes of residual income loss and changes in equity on default, we show that our baseline estimates indicate that head of household job loss has an equivalent effect on the likelihood of default as a 35% decline in home equity, and if both the head and spouse lose their job this has the same impact on default as a 55% decline in home equity. These point estimates are very stable when we restrict the analysis to only involuntary job loss spells. However, the levy was painted as the most retrograde step in taxation since introduction of the original poll tax in 1380. Lords and ladies living in mansions were to pay the same as nurses, receptionists, roadsweepers and labourers. And the link to the original tax was that all who were entitled to vote would have to pay an equal share. The electoral roll in England fell almost 85,000 in 1989, having risen more than 200,000 annually for much of the preceding decade. The English electorate peaked at 36.5 million in 1988, a year before the poll tax was introduced, and did not reach that figure again until 1994, one year after the tax was scrapped. It is thought that more than a million people in Britain failed to register to vote during the poll tax era. Donna Goddard, Head of Debt Recovery at Boyes Turner has a look at the distinctions between Can’t Pay and Won’t Pay. Can’t Pay

I appreciate the many examples Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay shares, and the depth of the information it provides. However, I do wish there was more attention on the solutions to these problems. The final chapter does cite what the movement has accomplished so far, and offers some tactics we can use to make further progress. But I felt it could have been more fully explained. As it stands, I feel that I’d still need more information about how I can take action. Debt strikes sounds good in theory, but it’s not something I’d feel secure in doing on my own or even as part of a small group. How can we finally get organized on a greater scale? How can we protect ourselves financially? I still have questions, but this book gets the ball rolling and is a great first step. Ben sadece söz söylemeyi beceririm, içimi boşaltır, rahatlarım hepsi bu; sadece sohbetleme konusunda başarılı birisiyim. At the start of the night we were informed that the main actress, Elli Garnett, wasn't able to perform due to illness so Jo Donnelly has taken over the role for Antonia (main character in the play). It is true when they say "The show must go on" as in this case Jo Donnelly had to still carry the script on her hand during the entire play, something really unlikely to happen in theatre but obviously not impossible. Prices have exploded, and this is having a devastating impact on people’s finances,” saidAdam Scorer, the NEA’s chief executive. “A household in fuel poverty is one that has to spend 10% of its income or more just to have a basic level of heat and electricity.A year ago there were around 4 million British households in that position. By October, we expect there to be 11 million. So we’re not just talking about folk on the lowest incomes, but a third of all households won’t be able to afford the cost of a warm, safe and powered home.” Ending 4/5. I thought it would end very wholeheartedly but it made a very good point. Ever heard of the phrases "Respect Existence or Expect Resistance" That's sort of what they were saying in the last line of the play to show that these issues need to be taken seriously.

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A large literature has studied the determinants of residential mortgage default, with a focus on the extent to which default occurs among borrowers who have the ability to pay their mortgage, but who choose to default for what are called strategic reasons related to negative equity, compared to default among borrowers who simply do not have the ability to pay their mortgage. Understanding the relative importance of these determinants of default is central for designing policies aimed at reducing the probability of a future wave of mortgage defaults and foreclosures, and for designing loss mitigation policies that reduce the negative economic impacts of future possible foreclosure crises on lenders and homeowners (see, e.g., Chatterjee and Eyigungor 2009; Foote et al. 2010; Adelino, Gerardi, and Willen 2013). What is even more amazing is that Donnelly was drafted in at the very last minute owing to original player Elli Garnett's omission due to ill health. True, the politics of the plot do get lost quite early on but what we witness is the sort of production that brings a broad smile to the faces of a local audience that hasn't seen this level of laugh-out-loud comedy for far too long. Whether or not you’re in debt, you should read this seriously important book. In the era of financialisation (or what Marx called the finance stage of capitalism), debt plays a huge impact on entire economies, individuals and families. The Debt Collective identifies debt as a form of social control, and situates debt as the underlying instrument in virtually every single oppressive system over the last few centuries (enslavement, land dispossession / settler colonialism, neo-colonialism, austerity, predatory inclusion, etc.). The book makes a compelling case for debtors in America and around the world (especially in the Global South) to band together and collectively refuse to satisfy debts to multi-national corporate entities only concerned with extreme extraction and profit maximization. The goal of "debt abolition" is to weaken and dismantle global capitalism and usher in a more egalitarian form of socioeconomic governance.