Monday, July 18, Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland will be hosting the 2016 convention of the Republican Party for four days beginning Monday, July 18, 2016. Northeast Ohio is one of the most segregated regions in the country while its largest city, Cleveland, is one of the poorest. Cleveland will be holding a celebration for a political party that has distinguished itself over the past generation by rolling back the gains of the Civil Rights and anti-poverty movements of the past and has done everything in its power to defund and disempower residents of Cleveland and residents across the United States.

Cleveland is the city that launched the Welfare Rights Movement. In 1966, welfare recipients marched to Columbus demanding that they be treated like human beings by a system that had treated them as less than human for the crime of being poor. It is in this tradition that we call on all who care about justice to join us on the afternoon of July 18, 2016 to deliver a message to the Republicans gathering in Cleveland. Your membership status in the human race should not depend on the size of your income or where you stand in the corporate pecking order. Being human is not a commodity; it is a right.

We will march on the Quicken Loans Arena and the Cleveland Convention Center on July 18 and make it loud and clear:

No more complicity with the crime of poverty!

No more building your political career on the backs of the poor!

No more silence from those you have been stepped on!

We demand an end to poverty now!

Contact: endpovertynow2016@gmail.com or 216-651-2606

http://endpovertynow2016.org/index.html