Public Bank Funds Police in Repression of Standing Rock
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Capitalist News Interpreted /
15 Nov 2016
For many of us who support worker cooperatives, The Bank of North Dakota, the nation’s only public bank, is held up as a model for how banking should be. Well, this article should take the bloom off the rose. We don’t conclude that public banking doesn’t work. We simply see this as another example of how capitalist interests can override even the best of institutions.
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Barbara
Barbara MacLean has worked as an academic and career counselor at California State University, East Bay (CSUEB), Merritt and West Valley Colleges and as a career counselor and manager of the Oakland One Stop Career Center, a public career and jobs center in partnership with EDD. She is a co-founder and editor of Planning Beyond Capitalism.