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*Student and mother will challenge billionaire Bloomberg for mayor*
*Socialist will announce her campaign at May 23 conference in Harlem*

Frances Villar, a 26-year-old mother of two and City University of New York
student, will challenge New York City’s richest man in the 2009 New York
City mayoral race. Villar will run on the Socialism and Liberation ticket.

"In the middle of the worst economic crisis our country has seen in decades,
New York City deserves a candidate that speaks in the name of poor and
working people, not for the billionaires,” Villar announced.

“My campaign will put the issues of unemployment, evictions, education and
police brutality as the first order of business for the city to tackle—not
the interests of the banks and billionaires,” she continued. “We live in the
richest city in the country, but you would never know it by walking through
the communities where most of us live.”

Villar is a student leader who has worked tirelessly against the city's and
state’s efforts to make CUNY students pay for the budget crisis. She is the
president of her building’s tenants association. She has organized against
the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and against the occupation of
Palestine.

The Party for Socialism and Liberation was formed in 2004. The PSL fielded
presidential candidates Gloria La Riva and Eugene Puryear in the 2008
elections, and were on the ballot in 12 states, including New York.

Villar will formally announce her campaign at a Saturday, May 23 PSL Public
Conference under the banner, “Billionaires, your time is up—and we don’t
just mean Bloomberg.”