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Our Revolution is proud to endorse Estuardo Mazariegos for Los Angeles City Council District 9. Estuardo has spent nearly two decades organizing alongside working families in South Los Angeles. Now, he’s running to take that fight to City Hall. A father, immigrant and longtime community organizer, Mazariegos came to Los Angeles as a child after his family fled political violence in Guatemala. Today, he serves as Co-Director of the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE), where he has helped turn neighborhood organizing into citywide victories for tenants and working families. His campaign points to a record that includes helping lead the fights for Los Angeles’ Tenant Anti-Harassment Ordinance and Resident Protection Ordinance and helping pass Measure ULA, which raises revenue for affordable housing and homelessness programs. That organizing background is at the heart of his campaign for City Council.

Bernie Sanders endorsed. County/local progressive candidate.

Estuardo Mazariegos is running for LA City Council District 9 to bring 20 years of organizing power to City Hall. As Co-Director of ACCE and a former janitorial organizer, he has already won major victories like the Tenant Anti-Harassment Ordinance and Measure ULA. Raised in South LA by union parents, Estuardo is fighting for housing justice, good jobs, and safe neighborhoods. He is running a corporate-free campaign to ensure government serves working families, not special interests.

DSA LA endorsed. Co-director of ACCE with two decades of organizing experience.

Co-director of Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) with two decades of organizing. Backed by DSA LA and Working Families Party. Opponent Jose Ugarte faces ethics violations.

Estuardo Mazariegos - Progressive candidate with a history in immigration advocacy for South LA's Latino population. Has the endorsement of Working Families and several progressive clubs across LA.

Courage California endorses Estuardo Mazariegos for City Council to keep Los Angeles on the right track for progress. Estuardo Mazariegos is a longtime community organizer, currently serving as co-director of the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE). He has led the fight for the Tenant Anti-Harassment Ordinance and the Resident Protection Ordinance, and helped pass Measure ULA.

Estuardo Mazariegos is the strongest choice in City Council District 9 for voters who want an unapologetic champion for tenants, immigrants, working families, and neighborhoods that City Hall has neglected for far too long. We recommend voting for Estuardo Mazariegos for Los Angeles City Council District 9.

Council District 9 is one of the youngest, poorest, and most heavily burdened districts in Los Angeles, stretching from the southern edge of Downtown through South Los Angeles communities that face housing insecurity, disinvestment, and environmental harms. With Curren Price termed out, this is the first open-seat race in the district since 2013, and it is a real chance to send someone to City Hall who is rooted in grassroots organizing instead of the insider culture that has repeatedly failed South L.A.

This is also a contest over what representation should look like in a district where residents are too often over-policed, under-served, and only remembered during election season. District 9 does not need another manager of decline or another politician promising ribbon cuttings while basic services fall apart; it needs a fighter.

Estuardo Mazariegos is a father, immigrant, and longtime community organizer who has spent nearly two decades working alongside low-income residents, tenants, undocumented families, and communities of color in Los Angeles. He is the co-director of ACCE Los Angeles, a grassroots organization that has been central to major fights for tenant protections, economic justice, and racial justice across the city.

Mazariegos’s story matters here because it is inseparable from the district he wants to represent. He came to the United States from Guatemala as a child, grew up in working-class neighborhoods in Los Angeles, studied labor and public administration at Cal State Dominguez Hills and Cal State L.A., and has said his family’s union jobs taught him how closely immigrant dignity is tied to worker organizing and collective power.

Unlike candidates who discover “equity” when they file paperwork for office, Mazariegos has made a career out of building power with people whom City Hall tends to ignore. That is exactly the kind of perspective District 9 needs.

Mazariegos is running on a platform centered on affordable homes, tenant protections, immigrant solidarity, and a city government that actually shows up for working people. He has pledged to expand social housing, enforce tenant protections, invest in neglected neighborhoods, and reject the influence of corporate PACs, real-estate developers, and police associations.

He has also drawn a sharp and welcome distinction on public safety. Mazariegos does not support increasing the size of LAPD, and he argues that safety means safe streets, functioning lights, responsive services, and neighborhoods that receive public investment rather than abandonment. That is a far more honest vision than the tired City Hall script that treats policing as the answer to every social failure.

On government reform, Mazariegos has recognized something many Angelenos feel every day: trust in City Hall has collapsed. He says District 9 has the lowest voter turnout in the city, links that disengagement to unanswered 311 calls and broken basic services, and supports ethics reforms, stronger conflict-of-interest rules, stricter outside-income disclosure, and efforts to close the revolving door between lobbyists and public office.

His opponent is Jose Ugarte, who’s a City Hall insider – a staffer for Curren Price and a longtime political consultant who would be another voice for the establishment.

Mazariegos is running as an organizer, and that matters. In a district battered by displacement, speculative development, and long-term neglect, the district needs a leader who has been in the trenches fighting for renters, immigrants, and low-income families before there was a title attached. On that test, Mazariegos is the clearest progressive choice in the race.

His coalition reflects that politics. He is backed by California Working Families Party, Initiate Justice Action, EAA Union, the National Union of Healthcare Workers, the teachers union, the environmental group LA League of Conservation Voters, LGBT groups like Stonewall Democrats, Controller Kenneth Mejia, and Councilwoman Eunisses Hernandez. UTLA has described him as a community and labor organizer committed to South Central who has partnered on affordable housing issues. He is also supported by movement organizations that know firsthand that he has spent years doing the work, not just talking about it.

Mazariegos’s record is not polished for elite comfort, and that is part of why he is compelling. He has been open about being justice-impacted and has argued that this creates a deeper connection with residents whose lives are shaped by the criminal legal system rather than protected by it. In a district where too many people know what it means to be targeted, discarded, or written off, that honesty is a strength, not a liability.

Endorsed. Community organizer focused on housing-first, anti-criminalization framework; opposes ICE cooperation; supports harm reduction.