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State legislation prompts San Diego to explore creating a city-owned ‘public bank’

San Diego Union-Tribune – February 2, 2020. The San Diego Union-Tribune talks with Jeff Olson with Public Bank SD and the California Public Banking Alliance on the next steps for a San Diego Public Bank. SAN DIEGO — New state legislation allowing cities to establish government-run “public banks” has prompted San Diego officials to begin exploring the idea, including four City Council […]

Voices of the California Progressive Alliance

SF Bay View – January 17, 2020. About 500 people gathered in the Pauley Ballroom on the University of California-Berkeley’s campus for the second annual meeting of the California Progressive Alliance (CPA) on Jan. 12. Trinity Tran of the California Public Banking Alliance spoke to Diana Cabcabin: “Public banking is an idea that we introduced into the […]

Next City: 19 Best Solutions of 2019

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 857, which creates a legal pathway for public banks owned by city […]

Trinity Tran and Sushil Jacob on How Community Organizing Can Advance Public Bank Legislation

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 webinar series. Continue on NextCity.

Could California’s Public Banks Finance a Statewide Green New Deal?

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 drilling activities that involved steam injection […]

California ‘Experiments’ with Postal Banking

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 represents 330,000 members, employees and retirees of the […]

THE PEOPLE V WALL STREET: CALIFORNIA’S PUBLIC BANKING SHAKE-UP

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 time in 100 years, a people-powered coalition overcame the stiff opposition of the banking lobby to […]

Finance Can Be Something That Helps Rather Than Harms Our Communities

FAIR’s Janine Jackson interviews Trinity Tran on AB 857. The October 2 Fresno Bee reported that California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law allowing cities in California to start their own public banks, to make it easier to fund projects in the public interest. Atypically for such a story, the Bee led with opponents’ argument that “such ventures are […]

PRESS ROUNDUP! Public banks are officially law in California! Read our latest press on AB 857.

“How a Public Bank Could Help Free S.F’s Money From Wall Street,” by Ida Mojadad in SF Weekly, October 16, 2019 “California Just Legalized Public Banks But Can They Work?,” by Mario Koran, October 15, 2019 “Trinity Tran on Public Banking,” on FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting), October 11, 2019 “California Governor Signs Bill […]

California’s More Than Dreamin’ about Public Banks

Oscar Perry Abello of NextCity talks with Sushil Jacob and Trinity Tran with the California Public Banking Alliance, Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia and Kat Taylor with Beneficial Bank on AB 857, the historic bill that will “set in motion massive structural economic change” in California and could change the future of finance! A bill […]

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