Banking Without Wall Street
May 27, 2014
1333 H Street NW – 3rd floor
(Economic Policy Institute)
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8:30-9:00 am |
SIGN-IN & BREAKFAST | ||
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9:00 am |
WELCOME & OPENING REMARKS Lisa Donner Executive Director, Americans for Financial Reform |
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9:15-10:45 am |
EXPLORING POSTAL BANKINGDavid Williams Inspector General, US Postal ServiceMark Dimondstein President, American Postal Workers UnionLauren Saunders Managing Attorney, National Consumer Law CenterMehrsa Baradaran Associate Professor, University of Georgia Law SchoolHans Boon Managing Director, PostFinance International Development |
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10:45-11:00 am |
BREAK | ||
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11:00 am-12:30 |
CREDIT UNIONS AND COMMUNITY CONTROL OF WEALTHRandy Chambers President, Self Help Federal Credit Union, North CarolinaPaul Phillips President, Freedom First Federal Credit Union, Roanoke, VADeyanira Del Rio Board Chair, Lower East Side People’s Federal Credit Union; Co-Director, New Economy ProjectCarla Decker President & CEO, DC Government Employees Federal Credit UnionAllison Basile Organizer/volunteer with DMV for Credit Union Democracy |
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12:30-1:00 pm |
LUNCH BREAK | ||
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1:00-2:30 pm |
PUBLIC BANKING: POTENTIAL AND LESSONS LEARNED Sam Munger Senior Associate, Center on Wisconsin StrategyJason Collette Organizer, Alliance for a Just SocietyJared Gardner Campaigner for state banks and alternative finance initiativesGwendolyn Hallsmith Founder & Executive Director, Global Community InitiativesMarc Schneiberg Professor of Sociology, Reed College; Editor, Socio-Economic Review Karl Beitel
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2:30-2:45 pm |
BREAK | ||
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2:45-4:00 pm |
MUNICIPAL FINANCE: IS WALL STREET SERVING PUBLIC ENTITIES?Saqib Bhatti (moderator) Fellow, Nathan Cummings FoundationWallace Turbeville Senior Fellow, DemosRobert Pollin Distinguished Professor, U. Mass. Amherst, and Co-Director, Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)Thomas Adams Financial industry consultant, credit analyst, and attorney |
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4:00-5:00 pm |
ALTERNATIVE FINANCE AND THE MAIN STREET ECONOMYDavid ZuckermanResearch Associate, Democracy CollaborativeScott Trumbull Investment Officer, The Working WorldTamara Lothian Senior Visiting Scholar, Center on Globalization & Sustainable Development, Columbia University |
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5:00-5:45 pm |
SMALL-GROUP DISCUSSIONS | ||
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5:45-6:00 pm |
CLOSING |