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San Francisco Public Press & KSFP, Mel Baker
Why public bank advocates want to pull SF's money out of Wall Street
30 minutes Posted Jan 17, 2020 at 11:58 pm.
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For years, advocates in San Francisco have pushed for the city to create its own bank, to divest from enterprises like oil pipelines and for-profit prisons, or to fund urgent needs, like affordable housing development. Jackie Fielder, co-founder of the SF Public Bank Coalition, lays out the details of how such a bank would be formed and what steps are being taken toward creating one.