March 2nd: Poor Peoples Campaign Mass Mobilization in Harrisburg
On Saturday March 2nd the Poor People’s Campaign will hold simultaneous mass poor people’s and low wage worker statehouse assemblies at State Capitals across the country in more than 30 states including here in Pennsylvania.
800 people are dying from poverty every day in the U.S. Poverty is the 4th leading cause of deathin the U.S.
The 140 million people in this country who are poor and low income are a sleeping giant. Our job is to wake them up! We have to take action together in order to do this and this mobilization is part of that.
This is part of an arc of activity between now and the election that leads up to it and contains the following parts:
Monday February 5th - meeting with state elected leadership of both parties to announce 40 weeks of action leading to the election.
Monday February 19th - press conferences to announce statehouse actions.
Saturday March 2nd - mass assemblies.
Monday March 4th - demand delivery to elected officials in statehouse.