A Forum on Creating a Public Bank for Oakland

Date:

Thursday, February 09, 2017

Time:

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Event Type:

Class/Workshop

Organizer/Author:

Friends of the Public Bank of Oakland

Location Details:

Oakland City Hall, Hearing Room 3, 14th & Broadway, Oakland, CA

The City of Oakland is planning a public forum on public banking in Hearing Room 3 of Oakland City Hall (14th and Broadway, downtown Oakland).

Presenters are:

Marc Armstrong, member, Federal Reserve Faster Payments Task Force, co-founder and past President of the Public Banking Institute, co-founder and President of Commonomics USA;
Jesse Arreguin, mayor of Berkeley, former Berkeley City Council member
Tom Sgouros, author of Checking the Banks: The Nuts and Bolts of Banking for People Who Want to Fix It (2014), Senior Policy Advisor to Rhode Island Treasurer; and
Nichoe Lichen, member of Santa Fe’s Brass Tacks Team (“public banking facts that stick”), Board Member of the Public Banking Institute; and
Henry Wykowski, past prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney’s Office  in Northern California, currently Harborside Health Center’s lead attorney, speaking on cannabis law as it relates to public banking.