{"id":98875,"date":"2021-10-28T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T10:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionnc.org\/?p=98875"},"modified":"2024-05-13T11:24:56","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T11:24:56","slug":"activists-demand-greater-public-accountability-from-richmond-federal-reserve-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionnc.org\/es\/activists-demand-greater-public-accountability-from-richmond-federal-reserve-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udcf0 Activists demand greater public accountability from Richmond Federal Reserve Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Greater Accountability from Richmond Federal Reserve Bank<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The streets of Richmond&#8217;s financial district echoed with calls for accountability last week as activists gathered outside the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond to call for better transparency and representation following a series of scandals among the nation&#8217;s banking leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Among the speeches and chants from those present at the Oct. 19 rally, which included members of SPACEs in Action and Action NC, was a demand that the Richmond Federal Reserve establish a better process to select its board of direc- tors and presidents that ensures greater public involvement and a more diverse leadership.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is of urgent importance that the public members of the board actually represent the public,&#8221; said Apryl Lewis of Action NC. &#8220;We are here to demand representation for our community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>SPACEs in Action and Action NC are part of the Center for Popular Democracy&#8217;s national Fed Up Campaign, which has been working to ensure the Federal Reserve&#8217;s actions are in the economic interests of all in the country, from full employment for working families to increasing wages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more:<\/strong> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/richmondfreepress.com\/news\/2021\/oct\/28\/activists-demand-greater-public-accountability-ric\/\">https:\/\/richmondfreepress.com\/news\/2021\/oct\/28\/activists-demand-greater-public-accountability-ric\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greater Accountability from Richmond Federal Reserve Bank The streets of Richmond&#8217;s financial district echoed with calls for accountability last week as activists gathered outside the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionnc.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionnc.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionnc.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionnc.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionnc.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98875"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/actionnc.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98922,"href":"https:\/\/actionnc.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98875\/revisions\/98922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionnc.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionnc.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionnc.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}