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      <title>The Bloc Party</title>
      <category>blog</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;I fondly remember the days when all we&amp;nbsp;
worried about was &lt;span id="lw_1222887917_0" style="cursor: pointer;"&gt;&lt;span class="yshortcuts"&gt;climate change&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;!&amp;nbsp; Watching Paulson, Obama,
McCain, Bush, the &lt;span id="lw_1222887917_1" style="cursor: pointer;"&gt;&lt;span class="yshortcuts"&gt;Dow Jones&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and everything else makes social
change seem like a &lt;span id="lw_1222887917_2" style="cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; background-attachment: scroll;"&gt;&lt;span class="ysho...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:09:58 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1611</link>
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      <title>Credit Card "Insiders" Speak Out About Abusive Practices</title>
      <category>audio_video</category>
      <description>&lt;pre&gt;Earlier this year, former employees of MBNA and Bank of &lt;br /&gt;America contacted AFFIL looking for a way to speak out about &lt;br /&gt;disturbing sales practices they were trained to use as employees. Their stories confirm what&lt;br /&gt;we've long suspected: that credit card companies extend credit&lt;br /&gt;to those who can't afford it, and engage in a "tricks and traps" &lt;br /&gt;business model designed to max out cardholders and keep &lt;br /&gt;them on a debt treadmill as long as possible. Watch the video &lt;br /&gt;and listen to what Cate Colombo&lt;br /&gt;and Jerry Young have to say.&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:36:25 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1603</link>
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      <title>A must read for every college kid heading back to campus! </title>
      <category>audio_video</category>
      <description>&lt;h2&gt;Credit Card Tips for College Students&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now that you're making financial decisions for yourself, be sure to protect yourself from credit
card tricks and traps.&amp;nbsp; Here are some tips to consider before you break out the plastic.&amp;nbsp; Adapted from "&lt;a href="http://www.consumersunion.org/pdf/CollegeCCTips.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;Credit Card Tips for College Students&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;rdquo; &lt;a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=3084649&amp;amp;msgid=56877&amp;amp;act=J9QU&amp;amp;c=185756&amp;amp;admin=0&amp;amp;destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.consumersunion.org%2F" target="_blank"&gt;Consumers Union...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:12:35 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1593</link>
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      <title>Otesha is Hiring: High School Programs Director</title>
      <category>blog</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;The Otesha Project is hiring a new High School Programs Director!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;See the attached job description, or check http://www.otesha.ca/files/HSProgramsDirector08.pdf for more information.&lt;/p&gt;
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      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:00:11 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1591</link>
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      <title>Simple Fall 08 Ads </title>
      <category>blog</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:56:39 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1589</link>
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      <title>Simple Fall 08 Ads </title>
      <category>blog</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:56:01 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1588</link>
      <guid>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1588</guid>
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      <title>Simple Fall 08 Ads </title>
      <category>blog</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:54:34 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1587</link>
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      <title>Simple Fall 08 Ads</title>
      <category>blog</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:48:15 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1586</link>
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      <title>War on the middle class</title>
      <category>audio_video</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Credit card companies go after American college students, often with the help of universities. Lisa Sylvester reports.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:40:29 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1585</link>
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      <title>What Will Mac &#8217;n&#8217; Mae Cost You and Me?</title>
      <category>article</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;THE inevitability of a taxpayer-funded bailout of &lt;a title="More information about Freddie Mac" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/freddie_mac/index.html?inline=nyt-org"&gt;Freddie Mac&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a title="More information about Fannie Mae" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/fannie_mae/index.html?inline=nyt-org"&gt;Fannie Mae&lt;/a&gt;,
the hobbled mortgage behemoths, shook investors last week, and shares
in both companies plummeted on fears that existing stockholders would
be wiped out.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;These government-sponsored entities guarantee or hold $...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:30:11 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1583</link>
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      <title>Natural Building Internship</title>
      <category>Opportunity</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;font face="verdana, arial, sans-serif"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;font face="verdana, arial, sans-serif" color="#696969"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font face="verdana, arial, sans-serif"&gt;Community
Rebuilds is an initiative to build affordable and energy efficient
homes for the workforce in Moab, Utah. We assist families that own
homes in disrepair (such as manufactured homes built prior to 1976) to
recycle the existing structure and build a new home using green
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      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:41:00 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/opportunities/view/83</link>
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      <title>Internship Opportunity - Tour Liaisons</title>
      <category>Opportunity</category>
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&lt;p&gt;Internship Opportunity&amp;mdash;Tour Liaison&lt;br /&gt;Otesha Cycling and Performing Tours &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.otesha.ca/"&gt;www.otesha.ca&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Otesha Project is seeking 14 dedicated, organized, fun-loving individuals, aged 18 to 30, to serve as Tour Liaisons for its 2008 cycling and performing tours. As part of a team of 15 to 20 performers, you will take care of all administrative and on-the-road logistics for the tour. Successful candidates will support team members as individuals, foster a positive team environment, support teams in achieving tour object...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:51:37 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/opportunities/view/82</link>
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      <title>Want to coach young social entrepreneurs?</title>
      <category>Opportunity</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Are you a seasoned social innovator?
Have experience that you would like to share?
....A burning love for social change?&lt;/p&gt;

    &lt;p&gt;Be a Conscious Lifestyle Liaison!&lt;/p&gt;

    &lt;p&gt;A Liaison serves as a mentor to new CL ventures, helping them with:
&#226;&#8364;&#162; development and design
&#226;&#8364;&#162; infrastructure and management
&#226;&#8364;&#162; organizational growth
&#226;&#8364;&#162; quality control
&#226;&#8364;&#162; publicity/outreach&lt;/p&gt;

    &lt;p&gt;As a Conscious Lifestyle liaison, you&#226;&#8364;&#8482;ll get the opportunity to work with outstanding students leaders, help to cultivate the growing movement of &#226;&#8364;&#339;conscious living&#226;&#8364;&#157;, be a part of a vibrant young up-s...</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:51:07 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/opportunities/view/73</link>
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      <title>Get $1,000 for your Socially Innovative Idea</title>
      <category>Opportunity</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Are you passionate about making the world a better place?
Have an idea about how to make your fellow students and your school more socially responsible?
Want to turn that idea into a reality&#226;&#8364;&#166;?&lt;/p&gt;

    &lt;p&gt;Conscious Lifestyle is accepting applications for its venture program.&lt;/p&gt;

    &lt;p&gt;Submit an application for the chance to win:&lt;/p&gt;

    &lt;ul&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Up to $1,000 in start-up funding&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;Web space on consciouslifestyle.org&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;Monthly skill-building workshops&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;Personalized support&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;Access to a network of social entrepreneurs&lt;/l...</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:44:36 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/opportunities/view/72</link>
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      <title>Halliburton Victim Twice Over - Americans for Fairness in Lending</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:49:27 -0500</pubDate>
      <description>Check out this important message from our Partner, Public Citizen:
http://action.citizen.org/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=22031

    &#226;&#8364;&#339;No one &#226;&#8364;&#8220; especially a victim of a heinous, violent crime &#226;&#8364;&#8220; should be denied access to a judge and jury because of a binding mandatory arbitration clause in an employment contract.

    &#226;&#8364;&#339;Unfortunately, this is what is happening to Jamie Leigh Jones, who recently told ABC&#226;&#8364;&#8482;s 20/20 that she was gang raped while working for a Halliburton subsidiary in Iraq. Now, she is being victimized twice over.  Halliburton is denying her constitutional right to tak...</description>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/citizens/alexis/inbox</link>
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      <title>Otesha launches 2008 Cycling and Performing Tours</title>
      <category>Opportunity</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;The Otesha Project has announced the routes for the 2008 Otesha Cycling and Performing Tours (Check out: www.otesha.ca/bike+tours/index.en.html). Applications are now being accepted for seven regional tours throughout Canada that will take more than 120 inspiring young change-makers on the journey of a lifetime. You could be one of them!&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Tour members will share an incredible experience as they live as a mobile and sustainable community for two months. They will cycle from performance to performance, braving the elements, connecting with communities along the route, and explorin...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:22:59 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/opportunities/view/67</link>
      <guid>http://www.rethos.com/opportunities/view/67</guid>
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      <title>Simplify the Holidays and stay away from Credit Card Traps - Americans for Fairness in Lending</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:12:59 -0500</pubDate>
      <description>As you consider how to celebrate the holidays responsibly, take some time to protect yourself from credit card tricks &amp; traps. Read AFFIL&#226;&#8364;&#8482;s Holiday Credit Card Tips before you break out the plastic this season, at http://www.affil.org/consumer_rsc/holiday-credit-card-tips.

1. Don&#226;&#8364;&#8482;t get tricked, trapped or suckered into a card with bad terms. If you want a credit card, get one with a long-term low interest rate (APR). If you get a low introductory rate, chances are it&#226;&#8364;&#8482;ll start at 0% and then jump to 20% with one almost-on-time-but-didn&#226;&#8364;&#8482;t-quite-make-it payment. Still want a credit ...</description>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/citizens/alexis/inbox</link>
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      <title>Help us create a new space</title>
      <category>Opportunity</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;In the new year, our organisation, Public Achievement are moving into new offices in Belfast&amp;#8217;s City Centre &amp;#8211; actually in the new &amp;#8216;Cathedral Arts Quarter&amp;#8217; up-and-coming funky part of town.  We are moving because our existing building is in a terrible state and the owner won&amp;#8217;t get it fixed, but we are excited about the move.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Now what we are getting is just over 1500 square feet divided into two office spaces (600 and 900 square feet).  The smaller part will be used as a meeting/workshop/studio space and includes an extremely basic &amp;#8216;kitchen&amp;#821...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:25:26 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/opportunities/view/57</link>
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      <title>Overdraft Abuse:  Tell Your Story - Americans for Fairness in Lending</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:05:18 -0500</pubDate>
      <description>Congress needs to hear your story:  A message from the Center for Responsible Lending

Jennifer Rakowski of Oakland, CA had been with her bank 
for 15 years when, before she knew what hit her, she accumulated a series of overdrafts in quick succession that put her over $300 in the red.

Has something like this happened to you?

Consumers are catching on to the ways in which banks artificially increase overdrafts, costing their account holders billions per year in unfair fees.

When the House Financial Services Committee was debating H.R. 946 this month, Congresswoman Carolyn Malone...</description>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/citizens/alexis/inbox</link>
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      <title>Ally Request - DragonTHINK</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2007 05:59:58 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/citizens/alexis/allies</link>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Polina Malamud</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2007 09:42:14 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/citizens/alexis/allies</link>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Allyce</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 20:25:07 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/citizens/alexis/allies</link>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Americans for Fairness in Lending</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:00:15 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/citizens/alexis/allies</link>
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      <title>Conserve the Rainforest</title>
      <category>Opportunity</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Support an organization that works to conserve biodiversity and ensure sustainable livelihoods by transforming land-use practices, business practices and consumer behavior.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:32:14 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/opportunities/view/19</link>
      <guid>http://www.rethos.com/opportunities/view/19</guid>
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      <title>intern/vounteer to build peace though education in southern sudan!</title>
      <category>Opportunity</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;New Sudan Education Initiative (NESEI) is looking for talented people who are dedicated to rebuilding southern sudan. We belive this rebuilding is though education, education, education. We are a  non-profit based in burlington, VT and we need you to help us compleate our vision of peace for Southern Sudan. please contact us as nesei.us@gmail.com if you are intersted in doing some rewarding grassroots level work in a wondeful state!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:05:37 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/opportunities/view/6</link>
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