OCCUPY STUDENT DEBT

Student debtor stories submitted by the 99%

Hey Sallie Mae, Why are you all the sudden censoring your Facebook pages? What exactly are you afraid of? Perhaps that you aren’t living up to your mission statement of making college accessible? Perhaps that you’re bankrolling our legislators and waging war against students, families, and higher education? Why did you spend over $3 Million last year (that we know of) to lobby against our best interests? “We are excited to help families save and pay for college through our partnership with Upromise,” said Tim Fitzpatrick, CEO, Sallie Mae. “This transaction advances our mission to increase access to higher education and to educate students and families on how best to meet college costs.” If the above quote makes you sick, feel free to post this to the Upromise Facebook page: Sallie Mae is turning education dreams into financial nightmares. It’s time for Sallie Mae to drop their $50 unemployment penalty for loan forbearance. http://chn.ge/SallieMae Sallie Mae/Upromise is censoring the posts on their Facebook wall and have restricted posting so only their own admins can post, but you are still able to post it in response to any of their comments. Chances are, they won’t turn that completely off. They want feedback on all their infomercial-like posts about Wal-Mart and Kaplan that they keep posting. :) We stand with Stef! And we stand in solidarity with everyone that is fed up with this predatory lending system. We are #OccupyStudentDebt. This is why we occupy. We are the 99%!

Hey Sallie Mae,

Why are you all the sudden censoring your Facebook pages? What exactly are you afraid of? Perhaps that you aren’t living up to your mission statement of making college accessible? Perhaps that you’re bankrolling our legislators and waging war against students, families, and higher education? Why did you spend over $3 Million last year (that we know of) to lobby against our best interests?

“We are excited to help families save and pay for college through our partnership with Upromise,” said Tim Fitzpatrick, CEO, Sallie Mae. “This transaction advances our mission to increase access to higher education and to educate students and families on how best to meet college costs.”


If the above quote makes you sick, feel free to post this to the Upromise Facebook page:

Sallie Mae is turning education dreams into financial nightmares. It’s time for Sallie Mae to drop their $50 unemployment penalty for loan forbearance. http://chn.ge/SallieMae

Sallie Mae/Upromise is censoring the posts on their Facebook wall and have restricted posting so only their own admins can post, but you are still able to post it in response to any of their comments. Chances are, they won’t turn that completely off. They want feedback on all their infomercial-like posts about Wal-Mart and Kaplan that they keep posting. :)

We stand with Stef! And we stand in solidarity with everyone that is fed up with this predatory lending system. We are #OccupyStudentDebt. This is why we occupy. We are the 99%!