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Credit Card "Insiders" Speak Out About Abusive Practices

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:36:25 -0400

Earlier this year, former employees of MBNA and Bank of 
America contacted AFFIL looking for a way to speak out about 
disturbing sales practices they were trained to use as employees. Their stories confirm what
we've long suspected: that credit card companies extend credit
to those who can't afford it, and engage in a "tricks and traps" 
business model designed to max out cardholders and keep 
them on a debt treadmill as long as possible. Watch the video 
and listen to what Cate Colombo
and Jerry Young have to say.

A must read for every college kid heading back to campus!

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:12:35 -0400

Credit Card Tips for College Students

Now that you're making financial decisions for yourself, be sure to protect yourself from credit card tricks and traps. Here are some tips to consider before you break out the plastic. Adapted from "Credit Card Tips for College Students,” Consumers Union...

War on the middle class

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:40:29 -0400

Credit card companies go after American college students, often with the help of universities. Lisa Sylvester reports.

What Will Mac ’n’ Mae Cost You and Me?

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:30:11 -0400

THE inevitability of a taxpayer-funded bailout of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the hobbled mortgage behemoths, shook investors last week, and shares in both companies plummeted on fears that existing stockholders would be wiped out.

These government-sponsored entities guarantee or hold $...

That Student Loan, So Hard to Shake

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:28:08 -0400

MOST people struggling to pay off their student loans keep quiet about it. They do not want to acknowledge that, perhaps in a fit of naïve, youthful optimism, they borrowed more than they could handle.

Then there is Alan Collinge, who for years has described his struggle with tens of thousands of dollars in student loan debt to anyone who will listen. He has appeared on “60 Minutes” criticizing...

Avoiding College's Plastic Hangover

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:25:34 -0400

The immediate gratification of using plastic to buy an iMac, tickets to a Coldplay concert and nights of bar hopping has a way of coming back to haunt college students after graduation.

Despite their lack of a credit history and sizable student loans, most college students can get their hands on credit cards with as much ease as a swipe. And they're often lured into doing so with awards like free T-shirts. Along with the freebies, however, come some not-so-pleasant surprises: high interest rates and a range of fees and penalties.

As It Tried to Increase Its Business, Company Gave Risks Short Shrift, Documents Show

In January 2007, as years of loose mortgage lending were about to send the nation's housing market into devastating decline, Fannie Mae chief executive Daniel H. Mudd wrote a confidential memo to his board.

Discussing the company's successes,...

'Liar loans' threaten to prolong mortgage crisis

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:28:06 -0400

Ally Request - Common Good Finance

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:58:51 -0400

Opportunity for Webmasters and Bloggers! FREE USE OF WEBSITES

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:32:14 -0500

King or Queen of your own sustainability domain!

We'd like to offer you some of the valuable Sustainability-related domains collected over the years.

What we ask in return is that you design a really cool site that gets people involved, spreads the Sustainability Symbol (the 3 finger symbol) around the world and brings attention to, and supports at least one of the Climate Change related projects we’re working on (Like “STOP the GLOFs”) The rest will be up to you.

Almost two years ago we introduced the 3 Finger Sustainab...

Ally Request - Pip

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 10:53:29 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Progresswear

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:44:50 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Shoeboxed.com

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:04:32 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Melanie

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:58:06 -0400

Ally Request - Neighborhoods Partnership network

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:19:26 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Chris Advansun

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:17:42 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - steph

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:28:05 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Frank Miller

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:57:01 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Sarah Byrnes

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:08:03 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Eric

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 09:38:23 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Americans for Fairness in Lending

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 09:38:10 -0400

Are you a great designer, or translator?

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:15:45 -0400

We are in the process of translating the word/concepts/phrase of

1. SOCIETY

2. ENVIRONMENT

3. ECONOMY

... into the languages of the world, and adapting the different ways of writing to the three fingered hand symbol.

You can see a sample of the Sustainability Symbol in Chinese script on this message.

Your name will be forever associated with the chosen modification of the symbol that represents “Society, Environment, Economy” in your linguistic communi...

Convert website into something attractive

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:51:00 -0400

The three finger Sustainability Symbol is beginning to attract attention on and off the internet. This is a double-edged sword.

On one hand, more and more people are learning about the campaign (personally passing it along from one individual to another),

on the other hand, our website stinks.

It’s homemade, and as you will see, I’m no web designer!

If there are any talented web designers out there in the Rethosarian community, please have a look at www.DragonTHINK.com and make a suggestion of how we could use some of the existing conte...

Alliance Accepted! - Philip McMaster

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:23:11 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Student Movement for Real Change

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 16:10:54 -0400

Ally Request - Media Bistro

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 15:02:45 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Kendrick Pullen

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 13:02:20 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Josh Cohen

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 14:42:16 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - NOLA YURP Initiative

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 14:41:25 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Austin Community School

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 21:21:10 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Technology For People Group Inc.

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 09:33:14 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Book Bank Foundation

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:52:51 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Jonathan Levin High School for Media & Communications

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 06:46:58 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - AR

Sat, 22 Sep 2007 23:30:13 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:11:51 -0500

Alliance Accepted! - Alex

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 13:17:48 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Christine

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 01:32:14 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Cornel West

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:51:12 -0400

Alliance Accepted! - Tom Buckley

Sat, 22 Sep 2007 23:10:38 -0400

MTV THINK Host Political EVENT!!!

Sun, 02 Sep 2007 21:43:43 -0400

Calling all citizen journalists, visionaries, bloggers and vloggers! As part of a collaboration with The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Knight News Challenge, MTV News is looking for one aspiring reporter from every state and Washington, D.C., to be part of our Choose or Lose team. Read more about the program and if you think you have what it takes fill out the application .

MTV&#...