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This is something you would never see in a million years from the far right. Bravo to OWS! 
For a year and a half, 80-year-old Kentucky resident Shirley Logsdon received repeated calls from a debt collection agency over an unpaid medical bill.
Then one day, out of the blue, she received a letter saying the $983 debt had been handled purchased by Rolling Jubilee, a group linked to the Occupy Wall Street movement.
I was dumbfounded but delighted, of course, Logsdon, who is retired along with her husband of 62 years, told AFP.
We got a letter saying that everything had been resolved finally it is over, you dont have to worry, you dont owe us anything. ( ) I didnt know these people. It was a godsend.
So what is Rolling Jubilee? The group is an outfit launched just a year ago by former Occupy Wall Street members now grouped under the nationwide Strike Debt collective.
Together we can liberate debtors at random through a campaign of mutual support, good will and collective refusal, it says on its website, rollingjubilee.org.
The idea? Buy up the personal debt of those who are struggling to fulfill their basic needs, like health care or housing.
For the New York-based groups first anniversary, it announced this month that in one fell swoop it had bought up the equivalent of nearly $13.5 million in medical debt that some 2,693 people owed to hospitals and medical offices.
Former Occupy Wall Street activists start ?Rolling Jubilee? to buy up Americans? personal debt | The Raw Story
For a year and a half, 80-year-old Kentucky resident Shirley Logsdon received repeated calls from a debt collection agency over an unpaid medical bill.
Then one day, out of the blue, she received a letter saying the $983 debt had been handled purchased by Rolling Jubilee, a group linked to the Occupy Wall Street movement.
I was dumbfounded but delighted, of course, Logsdon, who is retired along with her husband of 62 years, told AFP.
We got a letter saying that everything had been resolved finally it is over, you dont have to worry, you dont owe us anything. ( ) I didnt know these people. It was a godsend.
So what is Rolling Jubilee? The group is an outfit launched just a year ago by former Occupy Wall Street members now grouped under the nationwide Strike Debt collective.
Together we can liberate debtors at random through a campaign of mutual support, good will and collective refusal, it says on its website, rollingjubilee.org.
The idea? Buy up the personal debt of those who are struggling to fulfill their basic needs, like health care or housing.
For the New York-based groups first anniversary, it announced this month that in one fell swoop it had bought up the equivalent of nearly $13.5 million in medical debt that some 2,693 people owed to hospitals and medical offices.
Former Occupy Wall Street activists start ?Rolling Jubilee? to buy up Americans? personal debt | The Raw Story
