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| TOMORROW, APRIL 13 Vote Stevie Merino for Mayor of Long Beach! Send a Message: It’s Time to Put People’s Needs Before Profits! |
Tomorrow, April 13, Long Beach has a chance to break out of politics as usual and send a message to the corporations,
banks and their political managers that rule over us. Long Beach’s incumbent mayor, Bob Foster promises more of the same. More cuts, more layoffs, more homelessness, more police repression. Foster, a former private utility executive, will leave the oil companies and the greedy corporations in charge of Long Beach. He doesn’t offer any real program for working-class people.
Millions of people in this country are denied the right to vote due to their immigration status, age or past criminal charges. Millions more don’t vote, discouraged by a political system rigged against them. But if you can vote, and you are registered in Long Beach, we urge you to cast your vote for the PSL candidate Stevie Danielle Merino. She is a worker, a student and a passionate community organizer. She represents the program of the Party for Socialism and Liberation and speaks in the interests of workers and poor people. Vote socialist on April 13!
The PSL Stevie Merino campaign has been covered widely in all the Long Beach media (click here to read news coverage).
The campaign has been endorsed by the Green Party of Long Beach, the Peace and Freedom Party, and community groups such as AF3IRM/GABNet, KmB Pro-People Youth and Students Fight Back.
Join the movement, join the struggle!
Ten reasons to vote for Stevie Merino for Mayor of Long Beach
1. A vote for Stevie is a vote to PUT WORKING-CLASS PEOPLE, THE POOR AND STUDENTS FIRST.
2. A vote for Stevie is a vote to PUT THE CORPORATIONS AND BANKS AT THE BACK OF THE LINE.
3. A vote for Stevie is a vote to say EVERY PERSON HAS A RIGHT TO A UNION JOB WITH BENEFITS. Stevie demands a massive public works program to create jobs for thousands of unemployed people.
4. A vote for Stevie is a vote to say POLICE BRUTALITY MUST END. Stevie calls for community control over the police with an elected, all-civilian control board.
5. A vote for Stevie is a vote to say HOUSING, EDUCATION AND HEALTH CARE ARE RIGHTS FOR ALL. All apartment and home rents should be cut in half immediately. No one should be homeless while luxury condos sit empty.
6. A vote for Stevie is a vote to FIGHT THE CUTBACKS, TUITION HIKES AND LAYOFFS! Stevie demands high taxes on rich corporations in Long Beach to fund social services and education. She calls for the reinstatement of funding for cut programs to ensure working and poor people’s needs are met.
7. A vote for Stevie is a vote to TAKE THE POWER OUT OF THE HANDS OF THE BIG LANDLORDS.
8. A vote for Stevie sends a message: WE NEED A NEW KIND OF POLITICS. We are tired of being trapped by the corporate politicans who are controlled by the rich.
9. A vote for Stevie sends a message: WE NEED SOCIALISM! We need a system that puts people’s needs ahead of super-profits for a tiny few.
10. A vote for Stevie is a signal to the banks and corporate politicans: WE ARE READY TO STAND UP AND FIGHT FOR WHAT WE DESERVE!
On April 13, join us to build the movement we need for the society we deserve—a socialist society.
If you can volunteer to distribute thousands of campaign flyers on April 13 in Long Beach, click here to get involved. You can also contact the campaign at 562-225-8047 or [email protected].
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Stevie Merino, 21, is a life-long resident of the South Bay area and a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. She is a retail worker and student at Cerritos College. Merino is an activist and leader in the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism), a founding member of Students Fight Back, and a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. She has organized demonstrations of tens of thousands of people to fight for immigrant rights, LGBT rights, and against imperialist wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Merino is a socialist and is fighting to put the needs of the people before the profit of a few greedy bankers and corporations. |
