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11 Apr 13
Show Support for Robin Hood Tax on Facebook
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Robin Hood and his merry men and woman from across the country will gather in Washington, DC on April 20 to call for a tax on Wall Street trades.

You don’t need to be in DC to show your support for the Robin Hood Tax movement.

Use Facebook to show your love.

Please share and use this “I support the Robin Hood Tax” as your profile picture. It’s easy to do.

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04 Apr 13
Robin Hood in Washington D.C., April 17
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Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) will announce the reintroduction of The Inclusive Prosperity Act on Thursday, April 17, a bill inspired by the Robin Hood Tax and supported by a large and growing list of endorsers, now more than 140 organizations. The Ellison bill seeks to raise up to $350 billion annually through a sales tax on Wall Street financial transactions, funds whose goal is to rebuild our communities, assist international efforts to treat HIV/AIDS...

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22 Mar 13
Nearly Naked Students Say Robin Hood Tax Can Help End AIDS
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The words written on her body:  Robin Hood Tax to end AIDS.

On her mind: Outrage over funding cuts to global AIDS programs.

The bikini-clad co-ed stood among several nearly naked student AIDS activists who took over Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s office Thursday to protest funding cuts to global AIDS programs.

The students convened in Congress today from schools -- City College New York, Columbia,...

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20 Mar 13
"Misled"-Citigroup Settles with Mortgage Investors, but Homeowners Continue to Face Foreclosures
Tax Wall Street. It's time for banks to pay up.
Posted by Robin Hood
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This week, after four years of litigation, investors in Citigroup had their day in court, winning a settlement of $730 million in their class action suit brought in federal court  in Manhattan.   The investors claimed they had been “misled” by the big bank’s disclosures during the years 2006-2008, that is, the period leading up to the financial crisis. (These were the years in which Jack Lew, now Treasury Secretary, was a top exec...

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