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Los Angeles Local Endorsements

Maria Brenes for School Board

María Brenes has dedicated her career to improving the schools in the Eastside of Los Angeles for the past two decades. As the Executive Director of InnerCity Struggle, María has worked with families and students to win campaigns that built new schools, raised graduation rates, and raised millions in resources to some of the poorest and neglected neighborhoods in Los Angeles. As a community organizer at heart, María will put the needs of students and families first. 

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Karen Bass for Mayor

Karen Bass is a proud daughter of Los Angeles. She was raised in the Venice/Fairfax area of Los Angeles.  In 1990, Karen founded Community Coalition, a community-based social justice organization in South L.A. that empowers the African-American and Latino community across generations to address substance abuse, poverty and crime in South Los Angeles. The organization has been recognized nationally for successful public policy campaigns that have won millions of dollars for the community. She is a leading figure on foster care, founding the Los Angeles-based National Foster Youth Institute, which advocates for the more than 400,000 foster youth in America.

Karen has represented Los Angeles in both Sacramento and Washington, DC for more than 14 years but has stayed rooted in the community at home. She served as Speaker during California’s greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression. For her leadership, Karen along with the 3 legislative leaders received the prestigious John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award.

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Hugo Soto-Martínez for City Council

Hugo Soto-Martínez has been a labor organizer with UNITE HERE! Local 11 for the past fifteen years. During this time, he organized with immigrant women to successfully win hotel workers healthcare and higher wages. A South Central native, Hugo grew up in an immigrant family of street vendors and believes in putting our families first over special interests. One of his priorities will be to build affordable and social housing as well as provide mental health services and addiction services to our unhoused residents. Hugo is a proven champion who will help to build a Los Angeles that cares for everyone.

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Kenneth Mejia for City Controller

Kenneth Mejia is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) who has dedicated the past seven years as a community advocate, fighting on behalf of unhoused communities and low-income families. As the founder of the community-service group “We Can Make a Difference – LA,” he helped to fundraise for tenants fighting rent increases and evictions. He also joined the LA Tenants Union where he helped to organize the largest rent strike in LA’s Westlake neighborhood after the landlord refused to repair uninhabitable conditions. Kenneth is a leader who will bring transparency to our City’s finances so that we can be armed with the financial knowledge to fight for the city we all deserve.

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powercaaction Power CA Action @powercaaction ·
23 Mar

At PowerCA Action we are in solidarity with essential school workers fighting for dignity and respect. 😤 @SEIULocal99 @UTLANow

Educators and school staff are the backbones of our communities. ✊🏽 PAY THEM THE FAIR WAGES THEY DESERVE. #LAUSDStrike

SEIU Local 99 @SEIULocal99

RT if you think our kids deserve quality schools and public school workers deserve a better living wage. 😌🫶

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powercaaction Power CA Action @powercaaction ·
10 Mar

Thank you @SenMariaEDurazo for championing #SB567 & Asm. Miguel Santiago. We are proud to endorse #SB567 and lend our support to the powerful coalition behind this! If passed #SB567 will protect #Californians from unjust evictions & exorbitant rent increases #KeepFamiliesHoused✊🏽

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calorganize 🐝 ACCE 🐝 @calorganize ·
8 Mar

In CA, a safe, affordable home is currently a privilege reserved for those who can afford our high housing costs.

#ACA10 would make adequate housing a constitutional HUMAN RIGHT- legally obligating gvmt to respect, protect, & fulfill that right. Join us!

https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article272866240.html

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aclu_calaction ACLU California Action @aclu_calaction ·
8 Mar

A safe, affordable home shouldn't just be a privilege for those who can afford California's sky-high housing costs. Housing should be a right guaranteed to every Californian, no matter your employment status or income level.

We must #PassACA10 now!
#HousingIsAHumanRight https://twitter.com/homeless_law/status/1633486212609581057

National Homelessness Law Center @homeless_law

A profit driven housing market will never build or preserve the permanently affordable housing units we need, leaving CA facing a future where low-wage & minimum-wage workers have nowhere to live, while tent encampments grow and more people are forced to live on the street. 13/20

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powercaaction Power CA Action @powercaaction ·
8 Mar

We are proud to be a co-sponsor amongst such powerful orgs to make housing a human right in California's constitution! Thank you to @MattHaneySF for introducing this critical measure & to @Calorganize @ACLU_CalAction @EndPovertyCA @homeless_law @HousingNowCA @AbundantHousing ✊🏽

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