@capublicbanking.bsky.social
Coalition of 10 cities/regions advancing socially & environmentally responsible Public Banks and a fee-free banking option through CalAccount. 🌿🌎 capublicbanking.org
Check out our December newsletter: public banking is moving from theory to practice. From our coast-to-coast webinar with Senator Warren to wins in LA, SF, the North Coast, momentum is growing for public control over public money. 🏦🌱
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Public Banking Coast to Coast brought in people from 39 states to talk about how public banks lower costs, keep dollars local & fund what communities need.
Watch the recording: youtu.be/nUQM4uVb6sA
Q&A + resources: capublicbanking.com/thanks-for-j...
Public banking goes global! 🇬🇧 Max Nichols at the London School of Economics hosted a student watch party for our Coast to Coast public banking webinar. In a city shaped by austerity & extraction, public banks just make sense.
25.11.2025 16:56 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Stay tuned for Senator Warren’s full message, the complete event recording, answers to over 100 questions from the Q&A, and all the resources shared during the event!
21.11.2025 18:24 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0People from 39 states, plus supporters tuning in from around the world, joined our Public Banking Coast to Coast webinar!
Senator Elizabeth Warren talked about how public banks can provide low-cost lending for housing and infrastructure, create jobs & strengthen our communities.
Special thanks to our Public Banking panelists who broke down the impact & what’s ahead: Trinity Tran @trinitytran.bsky.social, Dey Del Rio @neweconomyproject.bsky.social, Dr. @terrifriedline.bsky.social, Linda Levy, Rei Fielder & moderator David Cobb, @democracycollab.bsky.social
21.11.2025 18:18 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Debbie Notkin with Public Bank East Bay and Rick Girling with SF Public Bank Coalition at the Next System Teach-In at Cal Poly Humboldt breaking down the basics for North Coast organizers. 📚
19.11.2025 16:22 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
TOMORROW! Join us for a powerful convo w/ movement leaders from CA, NY & MA! With federal volatility, now's the moment to create city & state banks to recapture billions of public dollars siphoned out of our communities & reinvest them into public good. bit.ly/PBC2C
18.11.2025 22:36 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
As federal funding for states shrink, people are taking back control, building public banks owned by communities.
Join a national conversation with movement leaders + Senator Elizabeth Warren to reclaim local funds for housing, climate & more!
Nov 19, 12 PM PT/3PM ET
bit.ly/PBC2C
Supervisor Jackie Fielder is asking the board to approve a resolution calling on the city treasurer to move forward to create a municipal green bank for San Francisco!
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Our team came together to ground in our next steps to build the LA Public Bank! From living room strategy sessions to Zoom to City Hall, we’ve gone from an idea with no blueprint to a movement reshaping how cities think about money & power. Next, we build! 🔥
27.10.2025 17:41 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
New Fresno Bee op-ed! Public banking in Fresno could protect jobs and services. | The Urban Institute ranked Fresno city/county 97th/98th of the 100 largest for small-biz lending. A public bank can help. Read: www.fresnobee.com/opinion/read...
20.10.2025 22:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Unanimous! The public bank motion cleared the Budget & Finance Committee.Thanks to Chair Yaroslavsky, Members Hernandez, Blumenfield, Hutt & CM McOsker. With budget pressures rising, a public bank can cut borrowing costs, keep dollars local & add new revenue tools. 🏦♻️
09.10.2025 01:01 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🚨Breaking: New Poll Shows 2 in 3 likely SF voters support starting a San Francisco Public Bank!
Read the story www.kqed.org/news/1205885...
Our October update is live! Fresno’s first public banking listening session, East Bay community gathering, LA’s motion moving forward at City Hall, plus a North Coast teach-in next month. Catch the highlights & what’s next for CPBA -- read our newsletter here! 🏦🌿
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This comes one day after massive disruptions to BART, including a 4-hour systemwide shutdown. A state public bank that's not solely controlled by the Governor's office sounds like a pretty good idea around now.
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Read "CA Needs A State Public Bank" by CPBA: @trinitytran.bsky.social, @sylviachi.bsky.social, Rick Girling and Brett Garrett.
bit.ly/CApublicbank
🚨 California Needs a State Public Bank!
Federal cuts are slashing housing, climate & small biz programs. Nearly 40M Californians impacted! A State Bank keeps our money working in CA, lowering costs, protecting funds & expanding credit. Read our latest: bit.ly/CApublicbank
Coalition leaders @acceaction.bsky.social & allies at City Hall urging Councilmembers Yaroslavsky & Padilla: agendize the public bank motion and direct CAO to close the funding gap. Every week of delay is capital our communities don’t see--keep LA dollars here for housing, small biz, clean energy.
20.08.2025 00:28 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Our banks shouldn’t punish us for being poor.
Over the past several years we’ve joined @capublicbanking.bsky.social and allies and to create the first statewide fee-free public banking option in America.
Big banks have failed our communities; it’s time for something better. Check out Demos' "Public Banks for Racial Equity" brief covering our trailblazing work in California!
www.demos.org/policy-brief...
Huge thanks to @terrifriedline.bsky.social and the UMich team, @demosorg.bsky.social Beneficial State Foundation, and Small Business Majority.
14.07.2025 20:37 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
New brief out now! “Public Banking in California: Learning from the Bank of North Dakota” breaks down how a century-old public bank helped ND support small biz, housing & weather economic downturns... and what CA can do better.
Read: poverty.umich.edu/publications...
California just approved $1M in funding to keep #CalAccount moving forward, bringing no-fee, state-backed accounts to millions sidelined by the financial system! No overdraft fees or junk charges. Just real access for working families.
03.07.2025 18:35 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Our team and the CalAccount Community Coalition at the State Capitol with hundreds of fast food workers fighting for fee-free bank accounts! 💪🏽🏦
@cafastfoodunion.bsky.social
Today we took another step towards implementing a fee-free public option for basic financial transactions for all Californians!
03.07.2025 01:05 — 👍 182 🔁 32 💬 4 📌 0WHO WANTS SOME GOOD LEGISLATIVE NEWS!!! 😭 😭
03.07.2025 01:50 — 👍 237 🔁 53 💬 3 📌 0the predatory pay day lending business is sad right now. lol.
props to everyone who made this state public banking option a reality!
🚨BREAKING: California State Budget includes $1M for CalAccount! The Legislature will move forward with implementing a first-in-the-nation fee-free public banking option for millions of unbanked & underbanked Californians.
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Big day at LA City Hall! @acceaction.bsky.social, SAJE, KIWA, Movement Legal, Inquilinos Unidos pushed the Council to fully fund the Public Bank plan. It's time to build a city that invests in us! 🏡🏦
27.06.2025 23:28 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
