While many reject the idea of state secession as a fantasy of just a few, a new survey revealed that a majority of Californians feel they’d be happier if their state was no longer part of the United States.
Author: ICI
58% of Californians say they’d be better off if California peacefully seceded
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Democracy Deserts data cited in immigrant voting rights report
Our data was cited on page 34 of Immigrant Voting and the Movement for Inclusion in San Francisco, a joint publication of Chinese for Affirmative “Democracy Deserts data cited in immigrant voting rights report”
Democracy Deserts: California Cities (2017-2021 ACS data)
What if a city held an election, and less than half the adults who lived in that city were allowed to vote? Would you call that city a democracy?
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Connecting California: Gavin Newsom’s ‘Campaign for Democracy’ Has a Democracy Problem
Data on “democracy deserts” provided by C.C. Marin of the Independent California Institute show that more than 22.1% of voting-age adults in Los Angeles can’t vote. A quarter of voters in cities as different as Cupertino, Anaheim, and my mom’s hometown of Hawthorne are disenfranchised.
Vote NO on the Recall
In June 2010, Californians joined most of the rest of the democratic world by amending our constitution to require our elected officials to receive a majority of votes to “Vote NO on the Recall”
Press Release: California Independence Movement to hold itself to a higher standard
Carlsbad, CA: Independent California Institute, a 501(c)(3) think tank that studies California independence, today issued a set of basic standards (see https://ic.institute/cio-standards) that they invite all self-identified California independence (or “Calexit”) organizations to abide by.
The Independent Californian’s Voter Guide, Nov. 2020
It is more than fitting that this year’s election falls on November 3, California Independence Day, the day that, in 1836, the province of Alta “The Independent Californian’s Voter Guide, Nov. 2020”