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	<link>http://ourfinancialsecurity.org</link>
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		<title>Sign the Petition to Hold Big Banks Accountable</title>
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Sign our latest petition to hold big banks accountable!

Urge your Senators to support financial reform and the Consumer Financial Protection Agency.  Write to your Senators today and ask them to resist the Wall Street lobbyists, ...]]></description>
		<link>http://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2010/03/sign-the-petition-to-hold-big-banks-accountable/</link>
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		<title>AFR: Senators Merkley and Levin Work to Prevent Wall Street from Betting Our Savings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Washington, DC – Americans for Financial Reform released the following statement about the Protect our Recovery through Oversight of Proprietary Trading Act (or PROP Trading Act).
 
 
Heather Booth, Executive Director, Americans for Financial Reform: ...]]></description>
		<link>http://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2010/03/sens-merkley-and-levin-work-to-prevent-wall-street-from-betting-our-savings/</link>
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		<title>NPR: Soros Supports the CFPA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[George Soros has made billions of dollars predicting the ups and downs of global financial markets.  In this discussion with NPR&#8217;s Steve Inskeep he strongly endorses the creation of a Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA).
Listen here.
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		<link>http://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2010/03/npr-soros-supports-the-cfpa/</link>
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		<title>Song A Day #419: The Robin Hood Tax</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Mann sings this funny and informative song about the &#8220;Robin Hood Tax,&#8221; also known as the Financial Transaction Tax (FTT).

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		<link>http://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2010/03/song-a-day-419-the-robin-hood-tax/</link>
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		<title>Video: Heidi Montag Says No to Plastic, Yes to the CFPA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click here to watch!   Then call your Senators toll free (866-544-7573) and tell them to support financial reform.
Heidi Montag knows a thing or two about plastic.  The star of The Hills recently had 10 plastic ...]]></description>
		<link>http://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2010/03/heidi-montag-says-no-to-plastic-yes-to-the-cfpa/</link>
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		<title>Video: SNL Presidents Unite to Support the CFPA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click here to watch!   Then call your Senators toll free (866-544-7573) and tell them to support financial reform.
Will Ferrell, Fred Armisen, Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Dana Carvey and Darrell Hammond, the Saturday Night Live actors ...]]></description>
		<link>http://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2010/03/video-snl-presidents-unite-to-support-the-cfpa/</link>
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		<title>AIG, Greece, and the Problem with Derivatives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times recently posted this editorial about the connection between Greece&#8217;s financial problems and Wall Street and the need for better regulation of derivatives trading.
As Greece has tottered on the brink of fiscal ...]]></description>
		<link>http://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2010/03/aig-greece-and-the-problem-with-derivatives/</link>
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		<title>President Obama Refocuses on Foreclosure Prevention</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent editorial in the New York Times talked about new steps that President Obama has authorized to deal with the needs of homeowners dealing with foreclosures, especially unemployed homeowners and those with underwater mortgages.  ...]]></description>
		<link>http://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2010/03/president-obama-refocuses-on-foreclosure-prevention/</link>
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		<title>Consumer Protection Would Help Small Businesses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Hill recently published this Opinion piece from business owner Lya Sorano about the way that a Consumer Financial Protection Agency would help small businesses.  She says:
The Chamber of Commerce and the bank lobbyists have ...]]></description>
		<link>http://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2010/03/consumer-protection-would-help-small-businesses/</link>
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		<title>Presidential Reunion Puts AFR in the Spotlight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Americans for Financial Reform has been getting lots of press attention related to the recent financial reform video from FunnyorDie, which you can read more about and watch here.  Here is a sample of news ...]]></description>
		<link>http://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2010/03/presidential-reunion-puts-afr-in-the-spotlight/</link>
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