The editorial staff gathered 19 of the year’s best ideas into their Solutions of the Year print magazine. Rounding out the top 19 solutions is the California Public Banking Alliance’s AB 857 Public Banking Act! Oscar Perry Abello reports on California’s adoption of Assembly Bill...

NextCity, December 3, 2019: Watch guest presenters, Trinity Tran and Sushil Jacob of the California Public Banking Alliance, discuss how they organized citizens to help pass public banking legislation in California. This webinar is the second installment of our 2019 Solutions of the Year...

fter years of claiming to be a leader in climate action, California might be finally starting to step into its promised role — and it is bringing a secret weapon to the challenge. On November 19, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the state was placing a moratorium on new permits for oil...

Thank you American Postal Workers Union (APWU) for your support on the Public Banking Act. Postal banks and municipal public banks are complimentary efforts and we look forward to continuing our work on the financial revolution to build a banking system that works for all working people. APWU...

November 5, 2019. Glenn Daigon with Who.What.Why talks with Assemblymember David Chiu and the Alliance’s Trinity Tran. From successful legislating to overcoming the clout of big finance, California’s new public banking law is reverberating across the country. For only the second...

Nomi Prins leads a panel discussion on big banking featuring Sean Stone, Trinity Tran (California Public Banking  Alliance and Public Bank LA), and David Dayen. Watch on The Young Turks.

San Jose Inside talks to California Public Banking Alliance organizer Jake Tonkel with South Bay Progressive Alliance. Silicon Valley Bank opened in 1982 to serve startups shunned by big lenders, which saw the fledgling tech sector as innately risky. But Roger Smith and Bill Biggerstaff, the...

Legislation introduced Monday could lay down the foundations for the creation of public banks in California and provide an alternative to San Francisco’s use of profit-driven commercial banks. Currently there are no public banks in California, and no legal avenues to create one. But...