The Poor People’s Campaign

A few posts ago I lamented that no Democratic candidate for the 2020 presidential election had mentioned poverty or how to help people who are poor. I'm glad to say that that is going to change ...

Biden, Sanders and 8 other hopefuls to attend ‘Poor People’s’ forum

"The Poor People’s Campaign” next week is holding what the social justice group says is the largest 2020 presidential forum so far where candidates take questions, and front-runner Joe Biden has agreed to appear.

Sens. Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris and Michael Bennet, as well as Rep. Eric Swalwell, Julián Castro, Andrew Yang, Marianne Williamson and Wayne Messam, have also said they'll be at the June 17 event in Washington, according to the the organization.

The event has the potential be an adversarial setting for the 2020 candidates. Rev. William Barber, who co-leads the organization with Rev. Liz Theoharis, said the presidential candidates will take questions directly from them and low-income activists ...

The event will be shown on MSNBC.

Here's more from The New Yorker: William Barber Takes on Poverty and Race in the Age of Trump

And here is a C-SPAN video of the Rev. William Barber's speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention ...