FUNDAMENTAL VALUES - FREE MARKET ECONOMY

In  a Democratic society, the principles of individual liberties, equality,  and the right to participate in decision-making processes are highly  valued.  By promoting competition, entrepreneurship, innovation and  consumer choice, a free-market economy empowers the individual and provides them with the economic freedoms to autonomously pursue their  dreams of establishing their own business and/or their vocational  aspirations. This aligns with the Democratic ideals of giving people  the power to shape their own economic destinies and make choices based  on their own preference and/or needs. Some of our local and State  representative have been advocating for and implementing radical reforms  to help usher in a 'Solidarity Economy.'  The  core principles of a Solidarity Economy originated with Spanish  anarchist writer Felipe Alaiz around 1937 and seeks to dismantle the  free market economy alongside capitalism, while simultaneously implementing this undemocratic communist economy. Eureka resident and  self-proclaimed 'anarcho-communist', David Cobb has been successful in  lobbying for this local transition to this communist style economy.  David Cobb is the co-coordinator of the US Solidarity Economy Network  which according to Cobb, 'aims to globally restructure, undermine and overthrow the logic of capitalism through non reformist reforms.'  In  2018, Cobb said in an interview on KEET-PBS that the Solidarity Economy  Network's goal for our community was to 'create an experiment.' Unbeknownst to those who practice and celebrate Democratic values, Cobb  set off on his mission to create false narratives and lobby to further  his 'experiment' on our local community.  Through non-profit he founded  known as Cooperation Humboldt (recently name changed to Solidarity  Humboldt), Cobb has formed alliances with other like-minded non-profit  organizations such as the Ink People Center for the Arts.  For many  years now, the Ink People have been incubating, financing, housing and  providing cover for anarchist groups such as Humboldt Grassroots, who  promote and advocate for violent acts and rioting. Council-member Leslie  Castellano is the Executive Director of the Ink People, Cobb's good  friend and co-conspirator/organizer of the annual symposiums called  Artist Dismantling Capitalism. Cobb has been quoted saying that he  engages is Eureka's 'electoral politics for candidates and ballot  initiatives like rank choice voting.' Cobb recently partnered and lobbying for the Wiyot Tribe as their Advancement Manager who is spearheading their building of affordable housing in Eureka and the "Land Back Movement."   This national movement aims to return all land back to indigenous tribes  that last occupied any given territory.  This idea fails to recognize  or acknowledge that many tribes were emersed in territorial wars with  each other throughout history. This fact makes it very difficult to  identify what tribe should actually be the beneficiary of such an  agenda. CRDV will continue to educate, challenge and expose the truth  about these undemocratic puppet-masters implementing this anarcho-communistic agenda in our community.