Public Banking 101

Public banking is where many divestment efforts converge. Divesting from prisons, pipelines, and fossil fuels has been a crucial tactic for movements advocating for the rights of incarcerated people, Indigenous people, Palestinians, and the 99-percent. RE-Investment via public banking has re-emerged as an avenue to fulfill to these calls for divestment. Here in San Francisco, people are pushing for a movement to divest our city taxpayer money from Wall Street, and reinvest that money in affordable housing, green energy infrastructure, schools and more. ZERO financial background to come learn how we can take $11 BILLION of SF taxpayer money out of Wall Street and reinvest it into Our Streets.