➡️ Watch LIVE JUNE 17 at 1PM: Poor People's Campaign Presidential Forum

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Scheduled for Jun 17, 2019
Watch live coverage of the Poor People’s Campaign Presidential Forum where 2020 candidates will be questioned directly from the nation’s poor. Hosted at Trinity University in Washington, candidates including former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Kamala Harris, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and others, will discuss solutions for systematic racism and poverty in the U.S.

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1. What's this about? Town Hall? Video? Any idea?

[demmiblue]

2. Thanks, Donkees. I have an extremely high regard for Reverend Barber.

2020 candidates to face questions from low-income Americans at forum

By Grace Segers

June 15, 2019 / 11:27 AM / CBS News

Ten Democratic presidential candidates will face questions from low-income Americans at a forum hosted by the Poor People's Campaign on Monday to discuss issues which directly affect 140 million poor and low-income people living in the United States.

The presidential forum will take place on the first day of a three-day "Poor People's Moral Action Congress" which will include a hearing before the House Budget Committee. The ten presidential candidates attending are former Vice President Joe Biden; Sens. Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren and Michael Bennet; former HUD Secretary Julián Castro; Rep. Eric Swalwell; Miramar Mayor Wayne Messam; Marianne Williamson and Andrew Yang.

Sanders and Warren in particular have focused their campaigns on combating economic inequality and the systematic disadvantages faced by low-income Americans.

The Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival is a revival of the campaign started by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and stalled by his assassination in 1968. The modern iteration of the campaign was created to tackle core issues including systemic racism, economic inequality, militarism, ecological devastation and Christian nationalism. It was founded by two progressive Christian leaders, Rev. Dr. William Barber II and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis.

"During the 2016 Presidential primaries and campaign, there were 26 televised debates, but not a single hour was devoted to how candidates would address America's poverty," Barber said in a statement announcing the forum. "Republicans talk about the economy, while Democrats speak of the middle class. Nobody talks about the poor. The Poor People's Campaign is organizing across lines created to divide us and we're forcing those in power to listen."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/2020-candidates-to-face-questions-from-low-income-americans-at-forum-poor-peoples-campaign/

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3. Sounds good.

[Donkees]

4. "This isn't about having candidates come and speak - but to listen to people of every race, creed...

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5. "This Is About the Moral Center" - Poor People's Campaign Presidential Forum

Published on Jun 16, 2019
June 16th, 2019 - Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II discusses the 2020 Presidential Candidate forum taking place at the Poor People's Congress in Washington, DC on Monday, June 17th.

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6. ''Hands down, best music of any presidential forum yet ... ''

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7. MSNBC just cut in to show Biden.

No further comment on that.

Will watch the rest later.