Baba Akili for State Assembly - Candidate Spotlight

Who will represent South Los Angeles in the California State Assembly? That’s a big question facing voters of the 57th Assembly District,  which includes  South Los Angeles, Southeast Los Angeles, West Adams, University Park, Florence, Watts, Downtown Los Angeles and Skid Row.

Greg "Baba" Akili is a longtime community, civil rights,  and labor organizer and a well-respected leader in Black Lives Matter movement in Los Angeles.  Akili, as he likes to be known, is a senior advisor to the Black Worker Center at UCLA and one of the leaders of Black Lives Matter Los Angeles. He has worked for the United Farm Workers, the Obama presidential campaign, and campaigns to protect voting rights and social security. I first met him in 2008 when he was training people –including me – to be organizers for the Obama campaign.

He has the endorsements of:

• Sen. Lola Smallwood Cuevas
• Assembly Member Buffy Wicks
• LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia
• Hon. Herb Wesson, Jr., 65th Speaker of the State Assembly
• Dr. Daniel Lee, Mayor of Culver City, retired
• Dolores Huerta, American Civil Rights leader
• Danny Glover, American Actor, Film Producer and Activist
• Dr. Cornel West, American philosopher and political activist
• Carl Douglas, Civil Rights Attorney
• Dr. Melina Abdullah, Civil Rights leader, BLMLA & BLM Grassroots

You can learn more about him at: https://akili4thepeople.com/

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