[Occupymendocino] FW: [Fwd: On-line Petition for a Public Bank of Santa Rosa]

[John]

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From: agnes at mcn.org [mailto:agnes at mcn.org] 
Sent: Friday, June 2, 2017 4:15 PM
To: john at cypresshouse.com
Subject: [Fwd: On-line Petition for a Public Bank of Santa Rosa]

John, Please circulate this email to Occupy members. I've signed and
donated, see proof on my Facebook page.
Agnes

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Subject: On-line Petition for a Public Bank of Santa Rosa
From:    "Shelly" <info at shellybrowning.com>
Date:    Wed, May 24, 2017 12:21 pm
To:
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Dear Friends of Public Banking,
This weeks issue of The Nation included a story entitled "What if People
Owned the Banks Instead of Wall Street?"  The article explains how towns,
cities and states across the nation are  waking up to the promise of
public banking as an alternative to doing  business with the private
banks.

https://www.thenation.com/article/what-if-people-owned-the-banks-instead-of-
wall-street/
We  are calling on Santa Rosa to get on board with the public banking 
movement. The local North Coast Public Banking working group has 
generated an on-line petition requesting that the City of Santa Rosa  fund
a study to determine the economic impact of divesting from private  banks
and placing our public deposits in the city's own public bank.

We  encourage folks from outside of Santa Rosa to sign as well as we are 
advocating that a Public Bank of Santa Rosa could also serve surrounding 
towns and counties as an alternative to the Wall Street banks. Oakland  as
a charter city is way out in front on establishing a public bank and  just
last night the city of Richmond's City Council voted 6-1 in favor  of
supporting Oakland in their efforts. Berkeley, Davis and Alameda  County
are also looking to collaborating with a Public Bank of Oakland  in
response to demands to divest from Wall Street.

Conversely,  in the chartered city of Santa Rosa during a recent goal
setting  meeting, the City Council determined to suggest to the next
council that  is appointed 18 months from now, that they consider
establishing a  study session on public banking.

Please  sign and distribute this petition widely within your circles of
friends,  businesses, organizations and social media networks. This is
going to  take the village to succeed.

https://www.change.org/p/shelly-browning-establish-a-public-bank-of-santa-ro
sa
To our collective best,
Shelly Browning


"The tallest oak in the forest was once just a little nut that held its
ground." ~ Unknown