My campaign is different from other candidates because I am a socialist. As a 22-year-old community activist and a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, I have a socialist perspective. I believe that the vast wealth of society should be enjoyed by the people who create it—the people who work for a living each day. With all the failures of the current profit system, if there was ever a time to discuss socialism, that time is NOW. There should not be exploitation and inequality.

My campaign calls for every person in Los Angeles to have a job, food, decent housing, access to free, quality healthcare and education, and a clean environment. Every worker should have the right to be in a union. The minimum wage should be 15 dollars per hour. I believe these are not privileges, but fundamental human rights. As mayor, I would fight tooth and nail to make these demands a reality.

My campaign believes that everyone in the city of Los Angeles should have adequate shelter. I demand an immediate end to all foreclosures and evictions. No one should be homeless, while luxury lofts sit empty downtown.

Incumbent Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has only helped increase the wealth of big business, while telling workers to accept cuts. He has endlessly funded the LAPD, despite its rampant and racist police brutality targeting communities of color. My campaign is a vehicle for working-class people to fight back. Here are some of my campaign's demands.

FIGHTING L.A.'s CORPORATE BOSSES

• Full employment—no layoffs. Create good, high paying jobs for all. Job training for youth & unemployed.
• No cutbacks for social services. No layoffs for city workers.
• Housing is a right for all—Immediate moratorium on all foreclosures & evictions. Stop gentrification & build affordable housing now.
• Free, high quality education from pre-school through college for everyone.
• Free, quality healthcare for all L.A. residents.
• Raise L.A.’s minimum wage to $15/hour.
• Stop union-busting, expand the right to organize & card-check recognition.
• Stop environmental destruction—Make the polluters pay.
• Steep taxes on all big banks, corporations and developers.

EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ALL: NO TO RACISM & BIGOTRY 

• Stop racist police brutality and mass incarceration.
• Community control over the police. Create an all-civilian elected board.
• Full rights for all immigrants. Make Los Angeles a sanctuary city!
• Repeal all anti-gang injunctions that criminalize young people of color.
• Defend women’s reproductive rights. Free abortion on demand for all.
• Invalidate Prop. 8. Legalize same-sex marriage & LGBT equality now.
• Full equality for disabled people.
• Lower the voting age to 16-years-old.

SOCIALISM--NOT EXPLOITATION

• End the rule of billionaires & militarists—fight for workers democracy.
• We need an economy based on people’s needs, not making the rich richer.