POC12-173

Alternative banking models – public banks, worker cooperative banks, and progressive banking practices

Speakers: Marc Armstrong, Public Banking Institute; Susan Harman, Public Banking Institute; Mike Leung, The Worker Coop Credit Union; Esther Park, RSF Social Finance

This presentation is a discussion of how Wall Street private bankers control the amount of money in circulation and how alternative banking models can be used to fund loans for homeowners, students, entrepreneurs, and businesses on Main Street.

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$10.00

$10.00

BALLE10-314

BALLE Businesses Reinventing Growth

Speakers: Judy Wicks, Paul Saginaw, Dr. Mark Albion

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$15.00

$15.00

POC12-131

Campaign finance reform – the single most important campaign

Speakers: Mark McLeod, Sustainable Business Alliance of Oakland/Berkeley; State Senator Loni Hancock; Moderator: Winston Burton, Economic Development Director, Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency (BOSS)

Over the last third of a century, wealth has become increasingly concentrated in the hands of the 1% of the population that is wealthiest. Well over 40% of the nation’s resources are controlled by that top 1% and the companies they control. Not surprisingly, the 1% of the population that is wealthiest is also the 1% of the population that has political power proportionate to its wealth. This session explores several questions in order to shed light on these disturbing trends as well as discuss strategies to overcome them.

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$10.00

$10.00

BALLE10-214

Foundations for Credit & Finance in a Local Living Economy

Speakers: Derek Huntington, Tom Greco, Jenny Kassan

MP3

$12.00

$12.00

POC12-162

Alternative workplace models – saving money, energy, and promoting creativity and collaboration

Speakers: Matthew Bauer, BetterWorld Telecom; (Invited) Ian Gover, Better Workplace

Roughly 3% of the U.S. workforce telecommutes a majority of the time today, if that number was 50% of those who can, we would cut our carbon emissions in ½, while saving 453 million barrels of oil, reduce 2.1 billion hours wasted in traffic. This session explores the many ways that companies and individuals can bring themselves up to speed with the knowledge worker/broadband economy wave, especially here in the uber connected Bay Area.

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$10.00

$10.00

POC12-133

Laughter Against the Machine: a documentary film preview and discussion

Speakers: Comedy Troupe: W. Kamau Bell and Nato Green

Comedians W. Kamau Bell, Nato Green and Janine Brito, are Laughter Against the Machine; a unique kind of comedy troupe where the audience expects to be challenged, to laugh, and think at the same time. It’s an issue-oriented, no-holds-bar show with no preconceived expectations, no party lines, and certainly no cheerleading – because they have beef with everybody, including themselves. Like Doctors without Borders, armed with jokes instead of penicillin, Laughter Against the Machine is a comedic peacekeeping mission to bring humor to those who need it most.

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$10.00

$10.00

Subtotal

$67.00