LA budget season is here, and the Public Bank LA coalition showed up at the UCLA Worker Center Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez, Los Angeles Controller Kenneth Mejia, and community leaders from BLM, RepresentLA, LA Forward, IDEPSCA, to demand a 2026 City budget that matches the people’s priorities, including immigration services, care-first budget investments, and prioritizing the public bank plan.
Inclusive Action for the City and Public Bank Los Angeles Coalition’s Luz Castro put it powerfully: “Investing in a public bank is immigrant justice. With federal attacks on sanctuary cities escalating, a public bank helps protect local resources and put public dollars to work here at home, supporting entrepreneurs with fair loans and financing and investing in community stability, not systems that criminalize and harm our neighbors.”
