Blog 2- salon article

Now that the Senate has decided they will not double the student loan interest rates, activists are now organizing and petitioning for a total debt strike. This means students will refuse to pay loans.

Allusion: "As Salon's Andrew Leonard reported..."
“There have been repeated debt forgiveness movements. And all of these initiatives always fail,” explained Mirzoeff, who has advocated for debt refusal repeatedly on his popular Occupy 2012blog.
*****She brings in excellent points from other articles. The reader then knows that other writers and important people are deliberating on this subject.
Analogy: "As with any idea of strike, a student debt strike thus presents itself like a prisoner’s dilemma – if everyone did it, then it would likely work, but in fear that most people won’t do it, no one does."
*****This portrays the fear in everyone, and possibly the reader.
Contrast: "At present, debt refusal holds appeal for militant anti-capitalists and reformist liberals alike. A jubilee on student debt would, within a liberal framework, potentially function as massive stimulus injection — young people previously impoverished by student debt could instead buy cars, houses and other economy-fueling commodities. Meanwhile, for radicals, the idea of a student debt strike has the potential to blow a hole in neo-liberal assumptions about personal debt and obligation and possibly forcing an entire rethinking of how we structure education."
***** The writer creates a contrast of rationale that are both in favor of debt refusal.
Emotion(Pathos): "Even as a well-paid lawyer, Husain could not pay off his large law school debts while supporting his family in Palestine, and has now reframed his inability to make loan payments. “I’m very poor, I don’t have healthcare and I used to worry about it all the time."
*****This strikes the emotions of the reader and causes them to sympathize.
Provocation: "At a certain point, I just thought, ‘Fuck you’.”
"This atomization needs to be broken.”
"under the banner “Strike Debt,” emphasizing that an active blow needs to be delivered."
***** These aren't her words, she uses quotes to effectively stir up the reader. 




I chose this because I am very interested in the subject, and don't have a stance. I am interested in the Occupy movement, but don't follow it too closely. I love how the writer uses a direct and informative tone, and doesn't have to say which side she's on because it's all in the writing.