Meet Carlos Alvarez

Seeking the Peace and Freedom Party nomination for Governor of California

Carlos Alvarez, 23, is seeking the Peace and Freedom Party's 2010 nomination for governor of California. He is a grocery worker at Vons/Pavillions, and a member of United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 770, in Los Angeles. He is also a member of PFP and the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

Meet Gloria La Riva

Seeking PFP nomination for House of Representatives (Calif., Congressional District 8)

Pelosi has consistently supported the funding of the multi- trillion dollar bank bailouts, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and the bloated Pentagon budget, the vicious suppression of the Palestinian people and many other reactionary policies.

La Riva on the other hand has been a key organizer of many mass demonstrations and other actions opposing the wars and occupation in Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine. She is coordinator of the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five, and has worked for decades to end U.S. hostility toward Cuba.

La Riva has been active in the struggle for immigrant rights, organizing for and speaking at many mass marches in California over the past 25 years. In the early 1990s, she was the initiator of the Farmworkers Emergency Relief campaign, following a disastrous freeze that left tens of thousands of Central Valley agricultural workers with no income.

Meet Marylou Cabral

Seeking the Peace and Freedom Party's nomination for California Secretary of State

Marylou Cabral, 23, is seeking the Peace and Freedom Party’s nomination for California Secretary of State. Cabral is a student at California State University Long Beach, where she is studying to be a public school art teacher. She was the main organizer of the largest CSULB campus protest against the Iraq war in 2007, and is currently involved in campus campaigns to stop budget cuts and tuition hikes.

As a volunteer organizer with the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism), she traveled to Washington, D.C., on Sept. 15, 2007, and spoke to 100,000 people at an anti-war protest in front of the White House. She also helped build a march of over 10,000 in Washington against the U.S.-Israeli war on Gaza in 2009. She has led protests of thousands in Los Angeles from 2007-09.

In 2008, Cabral ran as a socialist candidate for Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, District 4. Cabral won 23,703 votes--about 18 percent--in the 4th District with a campaign that focused on fighting racist police brutality. She is a member of Peace and Freedom Party and the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

Meet Stevie Merino

PSL candidate for Mayor of Long Beach, California

Stevie Danielle Merino, 21, is the Party for Socialism and Liberation's Candidate for Mayor of Long Beach, Calif. She is a life-long resident of the South Bay area and member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
 
Stevie is an anti-war activist and leader of the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism). She has helped bring tens of thousands of people to the streets to stop U.S. wars abroad, to fight California’s bigoted Prop. 8, and to demand an end to tuition hikes for students. She is a founder of Students Fight Back, which led statewide protests against budget cuts and tuition hikes in 2009.
 
Stevie is a seasoned community organizer for immigrant rights, and for HIV/AIDS funding. She is a retail worker and a Cerritos college student.