News and Media

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2011-10-16 Occupy Wall Street's anger isn't enough: How the push for change can be sustained
2011-08-01 Synod resolution on aligning money and values affirmed unanimously
2011-06-29 "Common Ground builds on success with banks to address foreclosure" from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
2010-05-03 "Grass roots group.... wants lower bank interest on borrowing" from The Baltimore Sun, 4-30-10
2010-04-19 "Move Those Dollars: Anti-Usury Campaign Shares Principles with Move Your Money," from The Huffington Post 4-19-10
2010-04-17 "When pizza becomes predatory" from the New York Times, 4-17-2010
2010-04-16 "In show of faith, banks should limit interest to 18 percent" from the Boston Globe, 4-16-10
2010-04-15 "Massachusetts moving money out of 3 big banks to protest interest rates" from The Washington Post, 4-15-10
2010-04-14 "Massachusetts moves Bank of America funds over rates" from Bloomberg News, 4-14-10
2010-04-14 "State to move funds after banks won't cap interest" from the Boston Globe, 4-14-10
2010-04-14 "Tim Cahill warns big banks on credit rates" from The Boston Herald 4-14-10
2010-04-15 "Lenders Must Pay the Price: Good Things Can Happen if Pols Pull Funds From Banks Hurting NYers" from The New York Daily News
2010-01-09 "The People's Interest: A New Battle Against Usury" from The Christian Century
2009-12-11 "Stop Usury Now" by William Greider for "The Nation"
2009-11-29 "Interest Rate Caps Sought for Plastic" from the Charlotte News Observer
2009-11-29 "The Free Market in Loans is Inhumane" from The Guardian
2009-11-27 "Londoners in Call for Clamp on Usury" from the Financial Times of London
2009-11-27 "Scrooges Fate is Lesson for London Bankers..." by Simon Clark for Bloomberg.com
2009-11-21 "Citi Would Back an Interest Cap" from The Boston Globe
2009-11-21 Boston Globe coverage of GBIO accountability action with candidates for Ted Kennedy's Senate Seat
2009-11-21 "Not your typical forum" from New England Cable News
2009-10-21 "Low-Cost Brooklyn Housing Sees Few Foreclosures" by Jim Zarroli for NPR
2009-10-05 "Angry Customers to March on Bank of America" from Black America Web News
2009-10-05 "Faithful Fight High Interest" from Charlotte News Observer
2009-10-05 "Should there be national usury laws?" from Forbes.com
2009-08-12 Isaiah J. Poole on the Campaign for America's Future Blog
2009-08-12 "Anti-usury movement hits the streets, but House bill’s stuck in committee" by Paul Schmeltzer from the Minnesota Independent
2009-08-12 "Religious leaders and trade unions press bank to curb loan sharks" from The Guardian
2009-08-10 "Tackling Usury" by Charles Lemos for MyDD.com
2009-07-23 "Group Wants to Cap Interest Rates" from American Public Media's "Marketplace" (6-23-09)
2009-07-23 "Activists Want More Protections for Consumers" from WAMU/NPR (7-23-09)
2009-07-23 "Activists Tell Banks, Other Lenders: 10% Is Enough" from the Durham News and Observer (6-23-09)
2009-07-22 "Local clergy call for lower interest rates" from The Boston Globe (7-22-09)
2009-07-22 "Heard the one about a rabbi, an imam and a priest, who walk into a bank?" by Jonathan Freedland for The London Guardian (7-22-09)
2009-09-05 "Multi-City Campaign Seeks to Revive Usury Laws" from The Washington Post (7-23-09)
2009-09-05 "10 Percent Is Enough" by Deepak Bhargava for The Huffington Post (7-22-09)
2009-07-22 "The Trouble with Democrats" by William Greider for The Nation.
2009-07-22 "Campaigners in London and New York call for return of usury laws" from The Independent Catholic News (7-20-09)
2009-07-22 "Bring back usury law to control interest rates, campaign urges" from The London Observer (7-19-09)