How is the Occupy movement encouraging creative activism?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Occupiers who are staging foreclosed home demonstrations, pushing for the creation of state banks and bringing attention to inequality. What other ways are you seeing the Occupy movement galvanize people to support innovative strategies for turning the economy around? Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. How can the Occupy movement continue to spread its message and reach more people? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Max Rameau, founder of Take Can the Land

Blithe Riley, a member of The Arts and Labor Committee for OWS in NY

Brian McKeoun, the initiator of the credit union project and a long time camper with OccupySF

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What do you want to know about how banks operate?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the differences between the too big to fail banks, community banks, and credit unions. According to the Credit Union National Association, last month, over 650,000 people moved $4.5 billion out of the big banks into smaller banks and credit unions. How do small banks and credit unions do business differently? Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. What do you want to know about your bank? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Bill Peterson, Chief Credit Officer at New Resource Bank

Rob Johnson, a Senior Fellow and Director of the Project on Global Finance at the Roosevelt Institute

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Why aren't banks lending?

On the next Your Call, we continue with our Agenda for a New Economy series by looking at why financial institutions are clamping down on lending. In 2009 lending contracted 7.4%. Why are individuals and businesses still having a hard time borrowing? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How is the continuing home foreclosure crisis affecting people who'd like to get loans now? And who has the power to make the banks loosen their purse strings? That's on Monday's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar.

Guests:
Liz Ryan Murray, senior policy analyst at National People's Action and co-author of the report "Gaming the System."

Rob Larson, Assistant Prof. of Economics at Ivy Tech Community College in Bloomington, Indiana

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What's the status of the Financial Reform Bill?

What's the status of the Financial Reform Bill? On the next Your Call, we'll continue with our Agenda for a New Economy series. The Senate and the House are meeting to iron out a final financial reform bill. With heavy lobbying by the big banks, what's being debated, what will stay in the bill, and what will be thrown out? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where is financial reform? And what's needed to fundamentally change the financial system? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Jane D'Arista, a research associate at PERI and the co-coordinator of the Economists' Committee for Stable, Accountable, Fair, and Efficient Financial Reform (SAFER)

Heather Booth is the Director of Americans for Financial Reform.

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Can Moving Your Money Make a Difference?

On the next Your Call, we'll continue our Monday series Agenda for a New Economy with a conversation about the "Move Your Money" movement. It's calling on people to take their deposits out of the big banks and put them in smaller banks that work at the community level. How much money would have to move to significantly bolster the small banks?

Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How many people have moved their money so far and are you one of them? It's Your Call, with me Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:

Stacy Mitchell is a researcher with the New Rules Project of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance.

Rick Hofstetter, president and chief executive officer of The Lighthouse Bank

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What Should Banks Do for Us?

We the taxpayers bailed them out--so what should banks do for us? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about President Obama's proposed limits on the size and scope of banks. Would new regulation help consumers and homeowners? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Is the President right to curb the power of the banks? It's Your Call with Hanna Baba and you.

Guests:
William Black, a former senior bank regulator, now associate professor of economics and law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC). He writes for New Deal 2.0.

Nomi Prins, a former managing director at Goldman Sachs. She is a senior fellow at Demos.

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Your Call 100509 Is cheaper always better?

Is living more cheaply part of the solution to our economic crisis or part of the problem? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Laura Weber, author of In Cheap We Trust. During economic hard times, questions about consumption and frugality become more urgent. Does an emphasis on thrift lead us to a more simple way to live or to Sam's Club? Join us live at 11:00 or drop us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Was there ever a time when thrift was the norm in America? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Lauren Weber, journalist and author of the new book In Cheap We Trust.

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Your Call 091009 Do you know where your money is?

A year after the collapse of Fannie Mae and Lehman Brothers, do you know where your money is? On the next Your Call we'll speak with Nomi Prins, author of It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street, about the death and rebirth of the financial industry on your dime. Why did the bankers get a bail-out and not foreclosed homeowners? Where did all that TARP money end up?

Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. How do we get rid of the banking system we have and get one that works for us? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Nomi Prins in Los Angeles
Former managing director at Goldman Sachs, author of several books on corruption in Washington and on Wall Street, including her latest It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street. Prins writes for Mother Jones, Fortune, Alternet, the Nation, and is a senior fellow at Demos, the New York-based think tank.

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Your Call 062209 Are smaller banks an option?

On the next Your Call we discuss an agenda for a new economy: As the big banks implode, can community banks provide a real alternative? How have smaller banks and credit unions managed to survive the wave of consolidation in the banking industry? Have they managed to escape the current banking crisis? If you're thinking about moving your account to a smaller financial institution, what questions should you ask?

We'll be joined by Josh Silver of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, Lynn Athens, CEO of Spectrum Federal Credit Union and Steve Andrews, president of the Bank of Alameda and former chairman of California Independent Banks.

Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. What can community banks and credit unions offer during this financial crisis? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Join the conversation at 866-798-TALK, that's 866-798-8255. Or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org.

Guests:
Lynn Athens in Studio
CEO of Spectrum Federal Credit Union.

Steve Andrews in Alameda
President of the Bank of Alameda, former president of California Independent Bankers, board member of Independent Community Bankers of America.

Josh Silver in Washington DC
Vice President of Research and Policy at the National Community Reinvestment Coalition.

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