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Umme Hoque
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WPKN: Politics, Policy, and Planet Podcast
Growing National Boycott Campaign Targets Avelo Airlines for its ICE Deportation Flights Contract
Interview with Umme Hoque, an organizer with Defend and Recruit, conducted by Melinda Tuhus.Avelo Airlines is the only known commercial carrier that is operating deportation flights from the U.S. under contract with Trump administration’s Department of Homeland Security. One of its commercial passenger hubs is in New Haven, Connecticut, where it has grown from a few flights to as many as 14 per day, mostly to the Southeast and Puerto Rico.The Coalition to Stop AveloDefend and RecruitImmigrant Rights Advocacy Group: Siembra NC"Activists Are Fighting Tax Subsidies for Airline Running ICE Deportation Flights By...
2025-06-06
05 min
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine podcast
‘Project Esther’ Advocates Suppression of Pro-Palestinian Protest, Equating All Dissent with Terrorism
New York Times best-selling author Andra Watkins: ‘Project Esther’ Advocates Suppression of Pro-Palestinian Protest, Equating All Dissent with TerrorismProgressive Democrats of America Executive Director Alan Minsky: Passive Democrats Fail to Convene Emergency Meeting to Confront Trump’s Assault on DemocracyDefend and Recruit organizer Umme Hoque: Growing National Boycott Campaign Targets Avelo Airlines for its ICE Deportation Flights ContractBob Nixon's Under-reported News Summary• Seventy-five of the poorest nations owe large debts to China• Tax breaks flipped GOP representatives on Medicaid cuts• Pro...
2025-06-04
29 min
The Student Loan Podcast
48. Umme Hoque | The Debt Collective and Their Calls to Cancel Student Loan Debt
Today, Umme Hoque, the Organizing Director for the Debt Collective joins the The Student Loan Podcast to discuss why student loan debt cancellation is desperately needed in America today. We discuss with Umme Hoque: The purpose and mission of the Debt Collective; Calls for President Biden to fix the current student loan debt crisis; The need for student loan debt cancellation for all Americans; Ways you can demonstrate your unhappiness with the current state of the student loan system; and much, much more... Visit the show notes for all the extra details: https://thestudentloanpodcast.c...
2021-09-29
46 min
Matter of Life and Debt
Mini-Episode with Umme Hoque
In this week’s mini-episode, returning guest Umme Hoque, Organizing Director of The Debt Collective, talks about the recent student debt cancellation week of action. Umme discusses how the movement to cancel student debt is building pressure on President Biden to take action, and it's working. She also gives us an update on the memo Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona is writing to President Biden about student loan cancellation. Read more
2021-04-06
08 min
The Marc Steiner Show
The debt is too damn high!
Americans are currently buried under a staggering $1.7 trillion in student debt, and many see no way out. This is why the Debt Collective, a debtor’s union, has organized the Biden Jubilee 100, a debt strike carried out by 100 people, one for each of Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office. In the first segment of this week’s “Marc Steiner Show,” we talk with Umme Hoque, Organizing Director of the Debt Collective, about the fight to cancel all student loan debt. Then, Marc is joined by Dr. Stephanie DeGooyer, a residential Burkhardt Fellow at UCLA and an incoming assistant professor of English...
2021-03-26
47 min
Matter of Life and Debt
Power in Collective Action
Umme Hoque, Organizing Director of The Debt Collective, talks to Nikki about how, after taking on student debt she became disillusioned with the American Dream. She now works for complete student debt cancelation as well as a radical overhaul of the American education system. Read More
2021-03-25
25 min
Bloc Party
Make ‘em pay. Put ‘em in debt. They’ll quiet down.
45 million Americans hold a total of $1.7 trillion in education debt. How did we get here?Guido sits down with writer and filmmaker Astra Taylor to discuss the seeds of the current crisis. How did government-backed, private loans and an anti-civil rights, anti-peace movement backlash led by Ronald Reagan and neoliberal economists produce the historic debt crisis in higher education? Also, there’s a small bit of good news for student debtors in the American Rescue Plan, and AOC says: the time is ripe to mobilize and win. But how? In the second half, Guido talks to Umme Hoque, the...
2021-03-21
1h 03
The Nomiki Show
1/22/21 - #FemFriday - w/ Umme Hoque + Daniela Lapidous, Emma Vigeland | The Nomiki Show
Democrats have the majority in the Senate, yet Mitch McConnell still has a lot of control. The reason for this: the filibuster. Also, Umme Hoque, organizing director for The Debt Collective, talks about her op-ed about debt. And later, The Majority Report's Emma Vigeland and progressive organizer Daniela Lapidous join our #FemFriday panel. Umme Hoque is the Organizing Director of the Debt Collective, an organization created to “fight back and transform how basic necessities, such as education, health care, and housing are provided.” Twitter: @ushoq • Links: https://debtcollective.org/ Daniela Lapidous is a progressive organizer, traine...
2021-01-23
1h 21
The Nomiki Show
1/22/21 - #FemFriday - w/ Umme Hoque + Daniela Lapidous, Emma Vigeland | The Nomiki Show
2021-01-23
1h 21