January
2020
2
Next City — It’s a sunny August Saturday in Far Rockaway, and New York State Senator James Sanders Jr. could hardly be more in his element. He’s riding high, not only on his parade float leading the 3rd Annual Carnival in the Rockaways, but also in his relatively new position as chair of the NY State Senate Committee on Banks.
December
2019
10
New York Daily News — New Yorkers can bank on these companies to do the wrong thing, advocates say.
The six “Worst Banks of 2019” got awards for bad behavior during an inaugural shaming ceremony held Tuesday by a coalition pushing for the creation of a New York City public bank.
December
2019
10
El diario — El martes se celebró una ceremonia para premiar a los “peores bancos” de Nueva York. No fue una fiesta sino el escenario en el que una docena de grupos comunitarios volvieron a insistir en la necesidad de que se cree un banco municipal en el que se deposite el dinero de la ciudad y a la vez se invierta en necesidades de los ciudadanos.
September
2019
12
Public Bank NYC announced today that it has received a three-year, $276,000 grant from the Scherman Foundation’s Katharine S. and Axel G. Rosin Fund. The award supports the coalition’s campaign for a municipal public bank in New York City, and represents the first major grant that Public Bank NYC has received for its members since its launch in summer 2018.
September
2019
11
A look inside recent community meetings on public banking in the Bronx, Queens, and Brooklyn.
July
2019
26
Although public banking is an unfamiliar concept to many here in the United States – there’s only one notable example, the Bank of North Dakota – public banks are common throughout the world.
June
2019
26
Fast Company — For the latter half of 2016, the Standing Rock Sioux and activist allies from all over the country camped out in North Dakota to protest the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, which was likely to harm their native lands through an invasive engineering process and inevitable oil spills.
May
2019
24
Today, members of the Public Bank NYC coalition rallied at a meeting of the NYC Banking Commission to call on the City of New York to divest from banks that harm New Yorkers and NYC neighborhoods, and to invest in communities through a public bank.
May
2019
1
WBAI Living for the City — Our Andy Morrison and New York Communities for Change’s Jamie Tyberg speak with host Michael G. Haskins about the Public Bank NYC campaign.
April
2019
10
In These Times — Wall Street bankers in expensive suits stopped and snickered on their lunch breaks June 5, 2018, as an eclectic group of New Yorkers with megaphones and banners called them out for investing in socially destructive industries—including private prisons, predatory lending, weapons manufacturing and, of course, fossil fuels.