Victory for Democracy in Humboldt Co., CA

LibertyTreefdr.org reports: Tuesday was election day in northern California, and 55% of Humboldt County voters spoke clearly in adopting the language of Measure T:

"Only natural persons possess civil and political rights. Corporations are creations of state law and possess no legitimate civil or political rights . . . . The people of Humboldt County make the affirmative legislative finding that corporate contributions in elections are imminently undermining our democratic processes, and are denigrating rather than protecting First Amendment interests . . . . "

A California county has banned outside corporations from investing in local politics, and in the process, the people of that county have made their own constitutional ruling: Human beings, not corporations, possess constitutional rights.

Measure T was supported by the Humboldt Coalition for Community Rights, a coalition of community, activist, and labor groups. For information on the campaign, visit www.votelocalcontrol.org. You can also link to information at the Liberty Tree website.