FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Los Angeles, CA/San Francisco, March 11, 2019 – Asm. Miguel Santiago (D-Los Angeles) and Asm. David Chiu (D-San Francisco) held press conferences in their respective districts on Monday to introduce a new bill that will make it easier to establish regional and...
Originally posted in Medium. Dianne Feinstein, our Senator, had a viral moment on Friday, February 22, when a video circulated online of her lecturing Bay Area children about why she does not support the Green New Deal. The children were her constituents, on a visit to her office as part of an...
The Board of Supervisors urged the state to create a public banking charter on Tuesday, its first formal show of support for a movement to break from Wall Street. Supervisors unanimously co-sponsored and approved a resolution that backs publicly-owned bank and called for state legislators to...
On Monday, February 4, ten activists from the California Public Banking Alliance went to Sacramento to attend a hearing on public banking, convened by Assembly Member Monique Limón (chair of the Assembly Banking and Finance Committee) and Assembly Member Cecelia Aguiar Curry (chair of the...
Response to California Cannabis Public Bank Feasibility Study California Public Banking Alliance info@calpba.org January 15, 2019 VIA EMAIL AND U.S. MAIL State Treasurer Fiona Ma, CPA 915 Capitol Mall, Suite 110 Sacramento, CA 95814 Dear Treasurer Ma, We write in response to the publication of...
Cal Matters – By Felicia Mello and Ben Christopher. Once an idea batted around mostly in Occupy Wall Street circles, public banking is attracting a surge of interest among policymakers in several states, including California. “We must break Wall Street’s chokehold on state finance and...
On November 6, responsible and sustainable economics was on the ballot in Los Angeles in the form of Measure B. Measure B was arguably one of the most important midterm ballot items in the country. For the first time in ninety-nine years, voters had the opportunity to approve by referendum a...
Public Banking Institute – Although LA’s Measure B did not pass, the effort generated massive awareness and support in a few brief months. The California Public Banking Alliance is now using that momentum in their work toward statewide legislation that will enable cities and regions...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 21, 2018 Media Contact Sylvia Chi info@calpba.org 415-946-4002 Public Banking Proponents See Victory in Outcome of Measure B Vote (Los Angeles) Although Measure B, which proposed amending the Los Angeles City Charter to authorize the city to establish a municipal...
The Next System Project – This week on the Next System Podcast David Jette from Public Bank LA and Juleon Robinson from the New Economy Project, a member of Public Bank NYC, a broad-based coalition of community, worker rights, economic justice, and environmental groups to sit down to...