In Washington DC, the DC Public Banking Center, a sponsored project of Alliance for Democracy, is working to demonstrate broad popular support for a public bank in the city by petitioning residents, business owners, and other stakeholders. Organizers are directing the petition to the City Council. You can sign online here.
The Center is also organizing a Public Banking Forum at the Goethe Institut, 812 Seventh Street NW, Washington, DC, on October 21 from 5:30-9:30 p.m. Featured speakers include:
The Center is also organizing a Public Banking Forum at the Goethe Institut, 812 Seventh Street NW, Washington, DC, on October 21 from 5:30-9:30 p.m. Featured speakers include:
- Nomi Prins, former Wall Street banker now with Demos, author of All the Presidents’ Bankers
- Harold Myerson, Washington Post columnist and editor-at-large of The American Prospect magazine
- Gar Alperovitz, nationally known writer and speaker on alternative economics. His most recent book is entitled What Then Must We Do?
- Jessica Nembhard, Associate Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and author of Collective Courage, A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice
- Expert on public banking in Germany TBA
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