Articles; Actions; Events for Monday 2/10 – Thursday 2/13 + Save the Dates (from Adrienne Fong)

Please hold ♥ Clark Sullivan ♥ and ♥ Mike Zint ♥ in your thoughts. Both remain hospitalized in the East Bay Please hold the family of Nia Wilson in your thoughts – The trial is currently underway in Oakland. Nia was killed on July 22, 2018 at the MacArthur BART Station, She was attacked by John Cowell. Please hold… Continue reading

Mexico’s President AMLO Shows How It’s Done

Posted on February 8, 2020 by Ellen Brown (ellenbrown.com) While U.S. advocates and local politicians struggle to get their first public banks chartered, Mexico’s new president has begun construction on 2,700 branches of a government-owned bank to be completed in 2021, when it will be the largest bank in the country. At a press conference… Continue reading

Federal representatives need to take action to solve the housing crisis

COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTOR Jan. 30, 2020 1:30 a.m. (SFExaminer.com) OPINION Members of Moms 4 Housing announced in January that a deal had been reached for a land trust to purchase the home they had occupied since November from Wedgewood LLC. (Photo Courtesy Brooke Anderson @movementphotog) By Shahid Buttar This month in… Continue reading

AB 857: The crucial first step toward giving control of City’s money back to the people

BY IAN FIRSTENBERG – JANUARY 30, 2020 (eltecolote.org) It has been over a decade since the financial markets crashed in 2008, spurring foreclosure of homes, job loss for millions and economic destitution for many. The effects of this crisis are still being felt by working Americans, but for Wall Street these effects… Continue reading

Articles ~ Actions ~ Events for Friday, February 7 – Monday, February 10 (from Adrienne Fong)

Please hold ♥ Clark Sullivan ♥ and ♥ Mike Zint ♥ in your thoughts. Both are hospitalized in the East Bay. Am not back posting on a regular basis. – Please post events on Indybay: https://www.indybay.org/calendar/?page_id=12     Thank you to all who are – See Indybay for other events. ACCESSIBILITY: Please include Accessibility Information on events!  ARTICLES: A. How long must S.F. wait to… Continue reading

IMF acknowledges that banks create money out of the blue

IMF acknowledges that banks create money out of the blue

(PublicBankingInstitute.org)  In late December, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) published a working paper entitled Money Creation in Fiat and Digital Currency Systems confirming what the Bank of England admitted in 2014 and PBI Chair Ellen Brown has been arguing for over a decade: banks create new money when they make loans. The IMF… Continue reading

Iowa Wasn’t a Technology Failure. It Was a Failure of Democratic Values.

February 04, 2020 by Common Dreams This kind of behavior undercuts the Democratic Party politically. To put it in today’s corporatized vocabulary, “democracy” is the party’’s brand—and lately they’ve been trashing it. by Richard Eskow  36 Comments Troy Price, Chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party, addresses the media about the delayed… Continue reading