CNA/NNOC is a professional association representing 100,000 registered nurses across the country and has been the leading organization in the fight for California Guaranteed Healthcare For All (CalCare). Our campaign stands in total solidarity with the workers of CNA/NNOC as they battle the for-profit healthcare system and fight to make healthcare a human right.

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GSWOC-UAW is an organization of Graduate Student Workers (GSWs) at USC who have recently won a historic battle to unionize and represent their workplace.

”USC Graduate Student Workers are proud to stand with our union siblings in UAW Region 6 in supporting Lalo Vargas for City Council District 14. With over 400 Graduate Student workers employed at the USC Health Sciences Campus in City Council District 14, Lalo’s grassroots campaign presents an exciting opportunity to expand workers’ rights and living conditions in our district.” - GSWOC-UAW

UAW 2865 is a union that represents all 36,000+ Academic Student Employees—Teaching Assistants, Graduate Student Researchers, Graduate Student Instructors, Tutors, and Readers—across the University of California system.

“As a fellow worker, Lalo stands above all other candidates in his resolve to transform Los Angeles into a city for working families and not the rich. The workers of UAW Region 6, who in the past few years have lead some of the most important labor struggles in California, are proud to endorse Lalo and have his back in one of the most important elections facing Los Angeles this year.” - Rafael Jamie, President of UAW 2865

The Party for Socialism and Liberation believes that the only solution to the deepening crisis of capitalism is the socialist transformation of society. Driven by an insatiable appetite for ever greater profits regardless of social cost, capitalism is on a collision course with the people of the world and the planet itself. Imperialist war; deepening unemployment and poverty; deteriorating health care, housing and education; racism; discrimination and violence based on gender and sexual orientation; environmental destruction—all are inevitable products of the capitalist system itself.

The Peace and Freedom Party is the only socialist political party qualified to appear on the California ballot. Over 130,000 voters across California have registered with the Peace and Freedom party in rejection of the two corporate parties.

Fuerza y Unión Asociación de Inquilinos is a tenants association that fought and organized against their slumlord who did not repair the property in over 20 years. Tenants won the needed repairs and a reduction in their rent.

Presidential Candidate of the Party for Socialism and Liberation
Claudia De la Cruz is a mother, popular educator and theologian born in the South Bronx who has spent her life organizing for justice for working people at home and to end U.S. empire abroad.

”Just like our campaign, Lalo is fighting a corrupt political machine that serves the rich. His campaign shares our values to establish housing as a human right, to end police terror and the war on Black America, to deal with climate change head on and to save the planet by ending capitalism.”

Vice Presidential Candidate of the Party for Socialism and Liberation
Karina Garcia is a Chicana organizer, popular educator and mother who has spent her entire adult life fighting for the rights of immigrant workers, women and the whole working class.

”As we have always said, our fight is about more than one election or one campaign. We need to build an independent political organization made up of working class fighters across the country if we want to stand a chance at winning in the fight for socialism. Lalo’s campaign for City Council is an extension of this socialist project and of the Party for Socialism and Liberation in Los Angeles.”

A Founding Member of Union de Vecinos

Elizabeth and Lalo have worked closely with her in organizing buildings across LA against landlord abuse and negligence.

In 1996, Elizabeth co-founded Union de Vecinos through the struggle to defend the Pico-Aliso projects from demolish from the Housing Authority of LA. 25+ years later, Elizabeth and UDV are still in the fight against gentrification and remain integral to the Boyle Heights community.

"I have been organizing in the housing movement for 30 years and personally work with Lalo. I am impressed with his commitment and dedication to ensuring that tenants stay in their homes and neighborhoods. He works for tenants and stands up to landlords who are more interested in prioritizing their business instead of ensuring tenants have a stable home."

Executive Director Emeritus of the National Lawyers Guild LA

Jim Lafferty is a longtime defender of civil rights and he has served as a national leader of various anti-war coalitions, including the National Peace Action Coalition, the anti-Vietnam War coalition that organized the largest protests during that war; the National Coalition for Peace in the Middle East; and the National Campaign to End U.S. Intervention in the Philippines.

“As a socialist, a proven champion of his students, the unhoused, and all of the hard working people of the 14th District, Eduardo "Lalo" Vargas is the district's best hope for a more decent and more economically just future. Don't be fooled into voting for candidates who seek to divide us, not unite us; who care more about their campaign contributions from landlords and corporate big-wigs than they do about the needs of those they are supposed to represent... I believe in Lalo!”