Stop Wall Street Bankrolling Pipelines and Prisons

By Marybeth Gardam
Women, Money & Democracy Committee

April 2022

Stop Wall Street bankrolling pipelines and prisons by advocating for a public bank!

Register for a 6-session workshop: Starting Friday, April 8 at 8 p.m. (EST), with five more Friday evenings (same time – 8 p.m. EST) on April 29, May 20, June 10, July 1, and July 22.

You'll love connecting with like-minded women activists to change the story and work towards a more equitable future. Bring a glass of wine, a cup of tea, a snack or dinner to go, and join women activists who harbor hopes and passions for local projects that matter and that just lack funding in their communities.

Do you want to protect a historic home or school, get better funding for your local public schools, arts programs, more affordable housing options, homeless programs with wrap-around services, public transportation, community gardens, or low-cost student loans? Do you want to STOP empowering the big Wall Street banks who invest in everything you loathe: extractive mining, fracking, pipelines, for-profit prisons, war and weapons contractors, and climate-denying lobbyists who push for more subsidies for fossil fuel profiteers?

Public banking could offer strong solutions.

Find out more about it, where it’s moving forward, what benefits it offers to communities of color, students, small businesses, and the planet. Then find out how YOU can start the dialogue in states and cities where it hasn’t been introduced yet, or how you can get it going again in states where it has stalled.

When women come together and talk about how to move a good idea forward, everyone benefits. Put your head together with ours, meet with experienced public banking organizers from around the country, and support other women working on projects close to their hearts, needed in their communities, and only lacking funding.

When one such woman in Arizona found out that her state was gutting its public education budget to the tune of $300 million, she investigated WHERE her state spends its money. She found that Arizona sends an average of $300 million out of the state each year to big Wall Street banks, just for interest payments on public money the banks hold for the state. If every state sends an average of $300 million to those big banks, no matter, they have so much power, influence to buy candidates and votes, and money to invest in projects that are against our values.

Don’t forget! Register today! There’s still room for you to join a Women’s Learning Circle on Public Banking, co-sponsored by the WILPF US Women, Money & Democracy Committee, the Public Banking Institute, An Economy of Our Own, and the California Public Banking Alliance. If you have any difficulty registering on Eventbrite, contact info@AnEconomyofOurOwn.org.