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Philadelphia Debt Solidarity Healing Clinic Series: Acupuncture for Rebel Debtors

  • Making Worlds Bookstore & Social Center 210 South 45th Street Philadelphia, PA, 19104 United States (map)

Sunday, March 17 1p to 3pm | Acupuncture for Rebel Debtors
Advance registration encouraged and appreciated.


Acupuncturist Mariko Wirth (he/they) from Rise Acupuncture & Wellness will offer a history of ear/acupuncture in activist spaces and treat participants. While Mariko treats attendees, others will gather around food, drink, and some prompts for writing, reflecting and visualizing our debt. We will also start to consider next steps, debt analysis, and the possibilities of creating a toolkit on education debt for groups to bring into existing campaign spaces.

Some of the offerings to come in the series include: meditation, nutrition and food scarcity, yoga, and techniques from Theater of the Oppressed . . . to support grounding, strength and collective resistance in everyday debtor life.

Please save the date for the next three sessions in the series:

Sunday, April 28th, 4pm | Meditation and mindfulness for Rebel Debtors
Sunday May 26th, 4pm | Nutrition and confronting food scarcity for Rebel Debtors
Sunday June 23rd, 4pm | Theater of the Oppressed and techniques for liberating oneself and others from oppressive situations for Rebel Debtors

Philadelphia Debt Solidarity Healing Clinic
A four-part series

To our beloved community of Philly K-12 educators, please join the Philly Debt Abolition Coalition for a series of convenings dedicated to healing from living indebted life, learning with other educator debtors about debt cancellation, and creating new ways of being, teaching, and abolishing debt.

Beginning on Sunday, March 17th (1p to 3pm), and continuing through June, Making Worlds Bookstore and Community Center will be a site of critical consciousness building, emotional well-being practices, and skill-sharing that aims to free us from the debts that burden us and that plague our K-12 school system.

Note: Drop-ins are welcome (advance registration appreciated), but for the purposes of developing community and continuity we ask participants to attend at least three out of four encounters. We are able to offer a $100 gift certificate to those who participate in three of the events listed below. Drinks and refreshments will be provided at all events. Childcare available upon request. All events are at Making Worlds Cooperative Bookstore and Social Center (www.makingworldsbooks.org; info@makingworldsbooks.org. For questions and more information, please email jason@debtcollective.org.