Poor People’s Army Feature on Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan
PRESS FROM AUGUST 20 & 21…
https://48hills.org/2024/08/scenes-from-the-poor-peoples-march-in-chicago/
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/08/dnc-democratic-convention-protest-gaza-chicago-police/
https://kpfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/GARRISON-on-DNC-POOR-PEOPLES-PROTEST.mp3
https://www.wortfm.org/dnc-2024-day-two/
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/pictures/dnc-in-chicago-brings-protests-clashes/18/
PRESS FROM AUGUST 19…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7xzgzbxT3w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dIL-U3ogqI
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/19/democratic-national-convention-maps-chicago/
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-dnc-poor-peoples-march/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D97G1IjNprc
https://crooked.com/podcast/the-dnc-protests-you-should-know-about/
https://thetriibe.com/2024/08/heres-what-organizers-are-demanding-from-the-democratic-party/
Internationally Recognized Group Reaches Illinois On 90-Mile March
LAKE COUNTY, Ill. - Poor People’s Army, a group of self-organized poor and homeless people with a 30-year history, is marching from Milwaukee to Chicago to protest at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) on August 19. After a week of marching, the group reached the state border of Illinois; 47 miles from the starting point. The two-week march is meant to highlight people in the U.S. experiencing poverty and basic human rights violations such as lack of housing, health care and access to food, connecting these issues with the struggles that poor people face internationally. Read more…
Some Liberals Urging “Don’t Protest” in Chicago; PPA says “The Last Thing we Have is our Voice!”
Two college professors who studied and lived in the 1960s recently published an opinion piece in The Los Angeles Times urging dissidents not to protest at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. They are a stark example of uber-liberals suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome
Cheri Honkala, an advocate for decades for the poor and homeless in the streets of Philadelphia, plans to lead the Poor People’s Army in a march to the steps of the United Center on the convention’s opening day. If she is “radical fringe,” then so am I. Read more…
March to the Democratic National Convention
RACINE, Wis. - Members of the Poor People’s Army march through Racine on the fourth day of their trek to Chicago. The national human rights group plans to reach Chicago in time to rally at the Democratic National Convention (DNC), which is scheduled to begin on August 19. The group has been marching on DNC and Republican National Convention (RNC) events for more than 20 years. Read more…
Chicago Authorities Want a “Conversation” with the Poor People’s Army about the DNC 2024
The Poor People’s Army has a permit to march to the steps of the Democratic National Convention in August, but now Chicago authorities want to have a “conversation” with them.
I spoke to Cheri Honkala of the Poor People's Army , also known as the Poor People's Campaign for Economic Human Rights. Read more…
Voices of the Unhoused: Poor People's Army Sets Up Encampment Near RNC to Protest GOP Policies
Democracy Now! | 7.15.24
'Poor People's Army' Rally at the RNC
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2024 RNC: Youth with Poor People's Army March at King Park
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