WEDNESDAY! Author & Journalist Oscar Abello: Reclaiming Community Banking For a Just Economy

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Journalist & Author Oscar Perry Abello discusses Reclaiming Community Banking For a Just Economy Please come and see the presentation below of author-journalist Oscar Perry Abello about his new book The Banks We Deserve. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3rd AT 6:00 PM at Shop at Matter Book Store 2114 Market Street in Denver.  Mr. Abello did an outstanding job of investigation, interviews, and research for the book, highlighting the great importance or local public banks and credit unions for a strong and stable economy. Author Talk Oscar Perry Abello: The Banks We Deserve  Wednesday, Sept 3, 6-8 p.m., Matter Bookstore  We've never done anything big in this country without little banks, despite what big banks or big tech might want us to believe. Locally-owned, locally-controlled financial institutions have and continue to make key investments in communities that big banks were never designed to make.  But not every community has had the same opportunity to create their own local financial institutions. If we want to do big things like close racial disparities in wealth and income, build all the housing we need at prices people can actually afford, or transition to a clean energy future, we can't afford to sit around and wait for big banks to do it for us on their schedule. Let's start a conversation about how we can build and support local financial institutions to get it done on our schedules. Register here. You can use code NOBOOK to rsvp without buying a book.  Promoted by the Rocky Mountain Public Banking Insitute http://RMPBI.ORG   We have a Local Public Banking Draft Bill for Colorado! After more than 600 hours of research, analysis, discussion, debate, drafting, and editing, the Rocky Mountain Public Banking Institute and the Colorado Public Banking Coalition Steering Committee have completed two bills. The first is this Draft Bill to Authorize Local Public Banks.   In addition, the General Assembly’s Legislative Legal Services has issued an opinion that a local home rule city or county could establish its own public bank without state legislation if it confines its operations to its own community. Only Pitkin and Weld countries are home rule at this time, but our state bill to authorize local banks would enable all other counties. We also drafted a bill to create a state public bank. (link for state bank bill) Our twelve-member board of directors plans to engage in an all-day Strategic Planning session soon to decide what to focus on—local banks, a state bank, or both, and how to go about it to best achieve our goals. Please send us your thoughts on the matter. Thank you team!   Now we need your help to get public banks established in every city, county, and the state of Colorado.   The first step is to please sign the CPBC Letter in Support of Public Banking -- thank you!   Visit our NEW Website Please donate what you can $5, $10, $20, $50, $100 or more. Every penny will be used to get a foothold for public banks in Colorado. All the efforts of the Board & our volunteers are all unpaid. In fact, our 12 member board donate monthly to this effort. So we appreciate all the help we can get. Volunteering helps enormously. Click the START HERE button below to offer your skills for this crucial public banking effort in Colorado. V Donate to Rocky Mountain Public Banking Institute   "With your support and effort we will turn the tide." START HERE (2 minutes)

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