Unique Gathering of Business, Political and Grassroots Leaders to Focus on “Communities Creating Change”

Contact: Bruce Mirken, Greenlining Institute Media Relations Coordinator, 415-846-7758 (cell)

LOS ANGELES – A high-powered group of elected officials, business and grassroots leaders will headline The Greenlining Institute’s 19th annual Economic Summit, exploring how new alliances between the private sector, government and communities are creating sustainable change. Set for Friday, April 20, speakers will include Raj V. Date, deputy director of the recently-created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Mercury Insurance founder and Chairman George Joseph, California State Controller John Chiang, Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones, Youth Uprising CEO Olis Simmons, Facebook Director of External Affairs Susan Gonzalez and California Endowment President and CEO Robert Ross.

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California Watch
by: Corey G. Johnson

To stave off fraud and future Wall Street meltdowns, some reform advocates are pushing for government regulators to become more ethnically diverse.

In a study titled “Government That Looks Like America?,” The Greenlining Institute found that, for the most part, financial regulators in the U.S. don’t reflect the ethnic and racial makeup of the country’s population. The Greenlining Institute is a nonprofit organization that researches and advocates for improved policies in the areas of finance, health, energy and the environment.
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TR’s State Newswire

The Public Utilities Commission released a draft decision today approving an application filed by Cox California Telcom LLC seeking authorization from the commission so that it can move forward with its proposed internal company reorganization.

Last year, the company asked the PUC to approve a plan under which Cox will be transferred from CoxCom LLC to Cox CA pursuant to an internal corporate reorganization within the Cox network of companies. Upon completion of the reorganization, Cox CA will provide cable television and high speed Internet services in California.
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McClatchy Newspapers
by: Carla Saporta

TR’s State Newswire

Congress needs to clarify the FCC’s authority to enforce network neutrality requirements and the FCC needs to strengthen those requirements for wireless Internet access, or “millions of low-income Americans and communities of color” could be stuck in “online slow lanes” in a form of “Internet apartheid,” according to the Greenlining Institute.
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Huff Post
by:Preeti Vissa

The phrase “knowledge is power” dates back to at least the seventeenth century, and it’s as true today as it was then. But today, technology has become the essential portal to information, and information technology has potential to be a great social and economic equalizer — but only if we preserve today’s open Internet.

That is not by any means a sure thing.

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California Progress Report
by: Stephanie Chen and Chris Brown
Greenlining Institute

Californians know better than anyone that in today’s world technology is the essential portal to information, and the old line that knowledge is power is truer than ever.  Information technology has the potential to be a great social and economic equalizer – but only if we preserve today’s open Internet.

That is not by any means a sure thing, and a U.S. Senate bill that would go a long way toward solving the problem hasn’t made progress. California’s representatives in Washington have a mixed record at best.

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Unique Convening of “Youth Creating Change” to Focus on Leadership Development at Greenlining’s Annual Economic Summit

Contact: J.C. De Vera, Greenlining Institute Communications Fellow, (510) 898-2065; (408) 661-5356 (cell)

LOS ANGELES – At a time when elected officials seem increasingly paralyzed by the divisive politics of “no,” The Greenlining Institute’s 19th Annual Economic Summit will seek to shift the conversation back toward “yes.” A unique part of the Summit is the Youth Creating Change leadership symposium, where young leaders will gather to explore how they’re taking matters into their own hands, developing community-based solutions, and creating successful models across fields for holistic change. This minds-on, hands-on program will explore topics like art and activism, power mapping, online organizing, non-traditional fundraising, power and privilege in organizing settings, and coalition building.
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Unique Gathering of Business, Political and Grassroots Leaders to Focus on “Communities Creating Change”

Contact: Bruce Mirken, Greenlining Institute Media Relations Coordinator, 510-926-4022; 415-846-7758 (cell)

LOS ANGELES – At a time when elected officials seem increasingly paralyzed by the divisive politics of “no,” The Greenlining Institute’s annual Economic Summit will seek to shift the conversation back toward “yes,” exploring how new alliances of leaders from business, government and communities are creating sustainable change. Set for Friday, April 20, speakers will include California State Controller John Chiang, Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones, Youth Uprising CEO Olis Simmons, Facebook Director of External Affairs Susan Gonzalez, California Endowment President and CEO Robert Ross and Los Angeles City Councilmember Eric Garcetti.

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