We March Against Dead End Parties

On July 15, 2024, the Poor People’s Army (also known as the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign) will march on the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee to challenge the corporate status quo. In the ensuing weeks, we'll continue marching nearly 100 miles to Chicago, culminating on August 19, 2024 with a rally confronting the Democratic National Convention. The march will stop in cities and towns, sharing a vision of empowered communities independent of these corporate political parties. The Poor People’s Army has been marching on RNC and DNC conventions for more than 20 years, a testament to the resilience of the marginalized. It is a powerful symbol of unity, and an organizing tool to bring pockets of revolutionaries together for ongoing collective action.

The Democratic and Republican parties serve corporate interests, necessitating this march to rise above their corrupt reign and declare them a #deadend.

We march against a system that serves only the privileged. We march for the right to truly live. Join us!

Despite extreme abundance, 37.9 million Americans live below the poverty line, and 100 million more can’t afford basic needs. The new generation faces diminished prospects in homeownership, family-building, and financial security. Climate change accelerates, threatening Earth's viability. Advanced technology offers innovation but raises job scarcity. As this changing system takes shape, the corporate elite safeguard their power, leaving the marginalized in uncertainty. The urgent need for system change is underscored by the World Economic Forum's projection of job disruption.
The Poor People’s Army March rallies against these oppressive forces, aiming to forge a united front from coast to coast, across the poorest states, city to prairie, demanding control over basic human necessities.
In defining poverty, we must understand that wealth and power is concentrating into fewer and fewer hands, leaving the rest of us poor, precarious, or destined to be poor in the future. This is why we march as “Poor People’s Army.” Late-stage capitalism is developing into a fascism favoring a privileged few while increasing surveillance, distraction, and repression for the masses. We fight against political suppression and racial, gender, and sexual violence - we are pushing for a nation that stands united, the oppressed at the bottom organizing against their oppressors at the top.
We march because poverty is violence, and the two-party system is guilty of crimes against humanity.
The Poor People’s Army March demands a dismantling of the system perpetuating suffering. The Poor People’s Army believes in radical system change, focusing on building the one power no one can control - people power.
The Corporate Elite, who have never cared for poor and working people, understand there will be fewer and fewer ways for people to keep themselves alive in the future. The World Economic Forum projects that almost a quarter of jobs worldwide will be disrupted by technology, automation, and disasters caused by a changing climate. Those corporate elite are planning for how to keep control of their power and wealth and these shifts occur. They know that drugs and distraction, militarized policies at home and abroad, and infighting and payoffs will keep us down. The corporate elite are fine with the fact synthetic opiates kill more Americans every year than the total number of Americans killed in the entire Vietnam war. They are fine that preventable homicides, suicides, and overdoses are skyrocketing among us. They are happy to plug us into virtual worlds, social media, and video games to keep us isolated and docile, or to train us to be drone killers of poor people in other countries. But more and more people see through the games and plans of the corporate elite.
We will unite people from coast to coast, cities to prairies, family farms to crumbling factory towns. Poor and working people in the U.S. need to wrestle control away from corporations and the rich, to plan and adapt to these changes in a way that benefits all humanity. We know the existing political parties, both Democrats and Republicans, are controlled by elite corporate powers, and will only lead poor and working people to a literal dead end. The time for dead end reforms, for compromise with uncaring oppressors, for debating with billionaires is over. We demand control over the basic necessities of life, and we will food, clothe, and house our people in the meantime by any means necessary.
They will continue to criminalize our actions to survive and our attempts to tell the truth. But we know that the conditions arising in society provide great chances within a generation to flip the script and flip the power dynamics in the U.S. and beyond.
If you believe the most advanced empire in the history of the world (the U.S.A.) should be transformed to a place of prosperity and peace for all people, then you should march with us. If you believe the abundance in this world should be used to take care of all people– not just the rich elite– then you should support our march.
If you understand that more and more jobs will disappear due to advancing technology and automation, with fewer jobs being created, then you should march with us. If you think it’s sick that the government gives millions in welfare for corporations and the rich, while the standard of living plummets for people in cities, towns, and the countryside, then you should march with us.
We will use these marches to highlight these issues, to challenge the corporate “Liberals” and “Conservatives,” chart a third path. We will show a glimpse of a future where we will make decisions to save humanity, and we will use these gatherings as a way to unite poor and working people into a force that can change this country from the bottom up.