Our Mission: Strike Debt Portland builds a movement of strikers resisting all forms of oppressive debt and demands economic alternatives that benefit the common good. builds a movement of strikers resisting all forms of oppressive debt and demands economic alternatives that benefit the common good. Strike Debt is committed to utmost solidarity between, and the emancipation of, all debtors; and disdains all divisive evaluations by the capitalist market. We work to redefine “debt” so that our societal debt obligations are to our friends, our families, our communities and our civic values, not to the banks or the 1%.