Episode 8 - Public Banking in California with PODER

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“If we change how the money flows, away from corporations who harm us, and towards what sustains us -- wow, that’s a game changer.” - Charlie Sciammas of PODER In this episode, Yuki Kidokoro, the Reinvest Project Director at Climate Justice Alliance, chats with organizers Charlie Sciammas and Reina Tello of People Organizing to Demand Environmental and Economic Rights (PODER) about public banking. What is public banking anyway? How does it build a better future for our communities? Join us for a fun and factual breakdown of this important idea, and learn how the public banking movement is spreading across California. “I saw public banking as a ray of hope -- Our money shouldn’t go towards terrorizing families and preventing them from having a home” - Reina Tello Links: Here’s a broad definition of the solidarity economy from the New Economy Coalition: https://neweconomy.net/solidarity-economy/ Learn about the Urban Action Learning Academy here: https://www.podersf.org/campaigns/working-together-economy-in-peoples-hands/urban-action-learning-academy/ Learn more about PODER here: https://www.podersf.org/about/ Learn more about PODER’s public banking effort as a Regenerative Economy Model Policy here: https://climatejusticealliance.org/modelpolicies/ Learn more about the California public banking efforts: Read about California’s Public Banking Act of 2019, California Assembly Bill 857, that empowers cities and regions to create their own banks: http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB857 Read a San Francisco Resolution urging Congress to Include Public Bank capitalization strategies in future Relief Bills (April, 2020): https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=8267623&GUID=92B7B99C-748D-46E3-B32D-B67DEEFD0304 Learn about public banking efforts across the U.S. https://www.publicbankinginstitute.org/legislation-local-groups-by-state/#CA Poder sf instagram and twitter: @PODERSF poder.sf