On Monday the 17th; Nine Democratic presidential candidates along with hundreds of activists including SAUSA board members from across the country gathered in Washington, DC at the Poor People’s Campaign that seeks to place the plight of America’s poor at the forefront of the 2020 presidential campaign.
The presidential candidates were former Vice President Joe Biden; Sens. Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Michael Bennet; Mayor Wayne Messam of Miramar, Florida; Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Cal); self-help author Marianne Williamson; and entrepreneur Andrew Yang.
Most of the 2020 candidates discussed how economic disparities are related to other issues, including restrictions on voting rights, a lack of affordable housing, and an insufficient minimum wage.
Policy discussions are meaningful, argues the Poor People’s Campaign, a clergy-led movement to revive a national conversation around poverty and systemic racism, voter suppression, more importantly, stressed that politicians often focus exclusively on addressing the needs of the middle class and the wealthy, ignoring the millions of Americans struggling to make ends meet.
SAUSA, as a US-based NGO, joined the movement to bring crucial issues such as poverty, equality, and human rights, more importantly, bring the world attention to the forgotten people of Western Sahara to the forefront of 2020.