A session by Assemblymember Yuh-Line Niou, Gregory Jost, Sarah Ludwig, Melissa Marquez, Sybil McPherson, Samantha Rini and Raquel Villagra
Assembly,
Banana Kelly Community Improvement Association,
New Economy Project,
Genesee Co-op Federal Credit Union,
DC 37,
Citizen Action NY and
About this session
As New York works to ensure a just recovery and post-COVID future, we must invest in infrastructure that supports Black, brown, and low-income communities that are building wealth, power, resiliency, and self-determination.
This workshop will address concrete actions that New York policymakers can and should take right now to lay critical groundwork for a future that is rooted in racial justice, cooperation, and ecological sustainability. These actions include establishing municipal public banks to invest in community needs, strengthening NY’s community-controlled financial institutions, supporting cooperative economics through worker-owned businesses and community-owned housing, and ending bank redlining and racial wealth extraction.