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The People's Convention of 2020 was an online event billed as a political convention hosted by the Movement for a People's Party. It was held in the wake of the 2020 Democratic National Convention and 2020 Republican National Convention on August 30, 2020. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was held as a virtual event. The intent was to create a new American political party, stating that "Wall Street has two parties and the People have none."

The event was viewed live by over 400,000 people and was trending throughout its five-hour duration despite the concurrent 2020 NBA playoffs and the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards. 12,000 registered participants were able to vote using an app available on iOS and Android. By the end of the presentation, 99.4% had voted in favor of creating a new political party; the People's Party. After voting to create the party, an assumed result, a supplement at the end of the program was a group of localized organizers laying out a structure for building the party.

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Many of the proponents of this idea come from the online social media world. The event had been promoted under the hashtag #demexit as many were frustrated with the failure of the Democratic Party to address isues associated with the campaigns of Bernie Sanders. While many expressed frustration with the choices in the upcoming 2020 presidential election, the plan was to create alternatives to that in the future.

The convention was covered live on numerous social media platforms including Jimmy Dore's YouTube channel and replay is available. See the entire Video on YouTube.

The national coordinator of the movement is Nick Brana, who previously worked with the 2016 Bernie Sanders presidential campaign as the National Political Outreach Coordinator. Branna served as the Master of Ceremony of the event, introducing videos and each of the speakers. He also remarked how this convention was organized and publicized over the course of three weeks. He said it was saying "what should have been said" one and two weeks earlier (during the Republican and Democratic conventions).

Speakers at the convention were "representing the mosaic of America" and covered a wide range of topics with a common thread of unity.

Cheng-Sim Lim

• Cheng-Sim Lim is a Medicare for All advocate. She served as a Bernie delegate at the 2020 Democratic Convention and related her experience there.

(During the COVID-19 pandemic . . .) The Democratic Party couldn't acknowledge the need for Medicare for All. Then during the Democratic Convention, while a parade of Republicans got to speak on the broadcast, Bernie delegates would type in that we need Medicare for All and the Green New Deal found themselves blocked from posting the rest of the meeting. That's the level of pettiness the DNC went to silence any mention of Medicare for All.

Haneih Jodat

• Haneih Jodat is a coordinator for Oxfam and a leader of the Women's March Los Angeles. She served as a Bernie delegate at the 2020 Democratic Convention.

Now it is time to link the Black Lives Matter movement with the peace and justice movement, to shout demilitarize and defund the police but also defund the military . . . Not one of these conflicts can be justified under humanitarian purposes, yet each of the source of the enormous profit in the form of private military contracts for American and European corporations. Now it is the time to demand the end to state sanctioned violence targeting human beings for the color of their skin, be it those who cross our borders, refugees of US intervention in Latin and Central America or those who are not citizens of the United States born from Native American genocide in a country built on the branded backs of African slaves. Now it is time to declare an end to the failed and inhumane war on terror, repeal the authorization of US military failed and inhumane war -- military force that green-lights US aggression, anywhere, any time.

Graham Elwood

• Graham Elwood is a standup comedian and podcaster, host of "The Political Vigilante"

After watching the train wrecks of the Republican and Democratic Party conventions . . . Neither party offered anything. Neither party wants to defund the police. Neither party wants to address climate change. The Republicans don't think it exists. The Democrats, oh, we're going to green up our military. Yes, I'm sure the people in the Middle East will be ecstatic knowing they're getting bombed by rockets powered by biodiesel. It's ridiculous. None of them want medicare for all, get money out of politics, and we're constantly stuck with this lesser of two evils . . . Nowhere else in American society would anybody accept this.

Danny Glover

• Danny Glover is an actor, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador

We're voting for Biden today simply to get rid of Trump, and perhaps the idea of building a party, building a people people's party from the bottom up. I think it has to be from the bottom up to talk about, to support the issues and support the struggles of workers, unions, nurses, teachers, everything else. We have to really talk fundamentally about education and education as a constitutional right, quality education is a constitutional right. We have to really talk about so many different things that will lift up the platform, but we know all these issues reside in certainly creating the kind of party, creating the kind of will and building that kind of will that's necessary for us for the future to deal with climate change . . . We don't deal with the issue of foreign policy here. We're always confronted with regime change wherever it is in the world. A policy that has been consistent, administration after administration after administration. So (these are) the things we have to talk about.

Dr. Peter Kalmus

• Dr. Peter Kalmus is a climate scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

I am terrified of what I'm seeing coming down -- what's here right now and what's coming in the future with climate breakdown and ecological breakdown. We're all feeling it right now. We're feeling the wildfires in the west. We're feeling the hurricanes hammering the southeast. We're feeling the floods in the Midwest. We have climate migrants on the rise, ice sheets melting, ocean circulations that we count on for our weather shutting down. We have threats to our food system and our water system. And this is just at the very beginning of what we're going to experience over the next few years and decades . . . We basically need policies that would destroy the fossil fuel industry . . . going down to zero . . . The time for incremental change is completely over . . . We need a party. We need a political system that is not beholden to them, that is independent, that doesn't take corporate money and does what the people want and does what the planet needs and not what the corporations want. I just want to do science. I want to raise my family on a planet that's not burning.

Amaya Wangeshi

• Amaya Wangeshi was national high school director for the Bernie 2020 Campaign

We are so confident in what we believe in and we understand that it's not up for grabs. There's no place nor time for negotiation, for debates. We understand that our core ideals cannot and mustn't be sacrificed or compromised. This is something that I actually think adults, you need to learn from us. Be proud of what you believe in. Be proud of what is right and believe in it with all you have. Fight for it with all that you've got. On the left, as a collective, we need to be serious about consolidating, about centralizing, about having a united front because that is the only way we'll get through this together. One great individual is great, but two will always be greater. We must focus and heed the salience of accumulating government power both inside and outside of our government. We must be together. We must fight and we mustn't cower down. We mustn't go with what is normal, what we're used to, comfortable with. We only have a couple of chances to get this right. We are fighting for the very remnant of our humanity and it is up to us to take back our own power.

Chris Smalls

• Chris Smalls led a walkout of Amazon workers

To all the workers exploited during this time, we need you guys to take action if you're really representing the power of the people, if you're trying to represent a message to your constituents that stands in solidarity with the working-class people. Enough is enough. I think the younger generation, and myself included, are tired of the Democratic Party doing a lot of lip service and not enough action. So we're looking for a new way out and a third party may be the way to go. I believe this is the foundation and this coalition that we form here today with these speakers and stories will be the way of the future.

Omar Fernandez

• Omar Fernandez is president of the Vermont Postal Workers Union

In both sides, Republican and Democrats are both helping us. But not enough. There's too much excuses, too much of, well, we can't because this. We can't because this person hasn't jumped in and all that. That needs to stop. We need a third party because they have two parties already. The oligarchs and the corporations already have two parties that take care of them. We need a party to take care of us.

Lee Camp

• Lee Camp is a comedian, political commentator and host of Redacted Tonight. He submitted an excerpt from his comedy special

He's a fucking symptom not the cause of our problems. He's a symptom. He's a visual representation of how fucked up things have gotten. He's just a boil that has risen up and now we can all see it . . . We have the faux resistance. The McResistance. The Corporate Dems and the mainstream media and they're like "we're the resistance!" Oh really, you're going to stop the big banks from exploiting all of us? Well no, not really. we're the resistance! Oh, you're going to stand up to big Pharma so people can fucking afford their medication? No no no but otherwise we're the resistance! Are you going to stand up against private prisons and the fact that were imprisoning everybody in the god damned country? But we're the resistance! Oh, you are going to stop the wars around the world and killing innocent civilians? Well no, not that. Well then what the fuck are you resisting?

Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap

• Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap is National Director of Move to Amend

Move to amend is a grassroots movement to pass the "We the People" amendment to the U.S. Constitution to make sure that only human beings have constitutional rights and to make clear that the ability to exercise our First Amendment free speech rights and have influence over elections should have nothing to do with how much money you have . . . The People's party took the principles in their platform which is certainly more than can be said about the Republican Party which embraced Citizens United with glee and the Democratic Party who gives lip service to anti-corporate rule but who's leadership serves at the behest of their wealthy funders . . . Ending corporate rule is foundational to making real the promise of democracy; promise that has never fully been fulfilled in the United States and whose blessings are less attainable with every minute that the Republicans or Democratic Party hold power. Our constitution has been hijacked by corporations. Whenever a local community or state is able to organize its people to pass a law or measure to rein in corporate power whether over our food, our health, our safety, our wages, our environment, or our elections, giant corporations hold the ultimate trump card in that they can sue our government and in effect be we the people to get the force to strip away our efforts at self government over our economic institutions.

Chris Hedges

• Chris Hedges is a journalist, former New York Times Middle East Bureau Chief and an author. At the time of his speech, his latest book was America, the Farewell Tour.

There is only one choice in this election, and that is the consolidation of oligarchic power under Donald Trump, or the consolidation of oligarchic power under Joe Biden . . . The oligarchs with Trump or Biden will win again, and we will lose.”

Only one thing matters to the oligarchs, it is not democracy, it is not truth, it is not the consent of the governed, it is not income inequality, it is not the surveillance state, it is not endless war… it is the primacy of corporate power, which has extinguished our democracy and left most of the working class and the working poor in misery.

The institution of real change will only come by sustained acts of mass civil disobedience and mobilization . . . The longer we are fooled by the electoral burlesque, the more disempowered we will become. Video on YouTube

Lauren Ashcraft

• Lauren Ashcraft is a former congressional candidate and board member of the Women's March Alliance

We have to shatter the systems that oppress us and rebuild everything for all of us. We're in an abusive relationship with our two-party system. The Democratic Party plays good cop, while the Republican Party pays bad cop. What have we learned through all of these protests? All cops are bastards. We need a party that is built from truth telling, from the struggles of the working class, not a party that accepts money from industries that profit from our oppression.

Isiah James

• Isiah James is a U.S. Army veteran and community organizer and former congressional candidate

As many of you have seen, over these past few weeks and months, the plight of black people in America is something that really needs to be heard and taken seriously. We haven't been nearly as diligent as we must as a country in dealing with our 400 years sin; the sin of slavery, the sin of inequality, the sin of racial segregation in this country. Until we excise that tumor from the body, that's cancer's going to do nothing but linger. I'm here to talk today about our politics in this country. As many of you know, as I know, as anybody watching this knows, our politics is beyond broken. It is broken on both sides, Republican and Democrat. The audacity of both parties in this country to tell women when they can and cannot use their constitutional rights over their body. When I say that, its because Democrats spend more money on wars than Planned Parenthood. The audacity of both parties in this country to tell black people that you should go to jail for longer and I say that because Democrats also fund private prisons and the police state. The audacity of both parties in this country to say we cannot afford universal healthcare. Democrats and Republicans are both fund our war machine. Guess what? It is time for us, the people, to be audacious. It is time for us to stand up and make our voices heard.

Eleanor Goldfield

• Eleanor Goldfield is a poet, who targets communicating to the young adult demographic with her artkillingapathy.com website and co-hosts the "Common Censored" podcast with Lee Camp

Through a trembling hand, I can write poetry.

With aching arms, we can build.

Through tired eyes, we can see.

With the weak knees, we can fight.

In topping empires, we can rest.

In these cramped corners, we can make world.

We are historic.

We are futuristic.

We are placeholders for infinity.

We won't be here again, but we are here now.

in these strange days and in these strange ways.

You can stop us like you can stop a sunrise.

Seeds will grow and others will burn.

That fire inside is your ancestral guide.

Call on it now.

Jamarl Thomas

• Jamarl Thomas is a podcaster, the host of "The Progressive Soap Box"

Neither one of these parties are dealing with the real concerns of the populations. Both parties have realized that basically, because there's only two, both can be captured by corporate class. Both can have similar interests, powered by people who are putting money in their pockets, sliding their credit cards through their budget. This is our politics. We accept it. There is no way out in a political system. The only way out is to extricate yourself from the political party. Stand under the banner of policy. Do you realize that we drag Medicare for All over the burning corpses of 20 Democrats. All of them taking a shot, all of them doing whatever they can to poke holes in that policy and we win. 88% per cent support in the context of the party . . . If you can't get it over the finish line, with Biden, Pelosi, Schumer telling you to kick rocks . . . The only strategy is to leave. And to stand under the banner of policy and to make a demand.

Ron Placone

• Ron Placone is a comedian and podcaster, host of "Get Your News On with Ron"

This is by design. The Republicans are one of the greatest existential threats to mankind . . . The only way they are able to be this horrible is because of how ineffective the democrats are. And vice versa. They need each other. And that's bipartisanship . . . We are here to say it's time to end the duopoly. We are here to say it's not radical to demand the type of healthcare systems, the rest of the industrialized world takes for granted. It's not radical to say act bold on climate change and demand change now with a Green New Deal and it can't wait. It's not radical to say anybody working 40 hours a week at an honest job deserves a living wage. It's not radical to say we need to look out for the most vulnerable among us. It's not radical to say that education should be for everyone and not just for the elite. It's certainly not radical to say it is time to end the wars and end them now.

Maebe A. Girl

• Maebe A. Girl lays claim to being the first drag queen elected to public office and a former congressional candidate

I'm sure you have noticed that the two party system is not working for everybody. In fact, it's only working for corporate America and the wealthy elite. Big business does not care if you're a Democrat or Republican. Big business knows that leaders of both parties are working to enhance the corporate agenda rather than the agenda of the people . . . It's time to disband the functional two-party system that perpetuates greed and corporate influence in American politics. It's we, the people, that hold the power. And the elites are doing everything they can to make sure that we don't realize that. True progress for the people cannot be achieved until we form our own party. A party that finally serves the interest of real people like you and me.

Niko House

• Niko House is a podcaster hosting the Mi Casa es Su Casa (MCSC) Network

When asked who will I vote for? I say who it depends which one of them spoke up for the indigenous Americans at Standing Rock? And the answer is none of them. You tell me I can't vote for racist, right? Well then I can't vote for a segregationist either, right? Maybe I'll vote for the person who had a very strict anti-stance. Which one of those candidates and which one of those parties represent that? Out of curiosity, or any other choices that you're offering me declining money from the largest lobbying groups in the country? APAC. Which one of those of those candidates are speaking up about the open market slavery that we are seeing in Lybia as a result of one of those candidate's administration? Which one of those candidates, in a time of pandemic, are pushing for the most popular policy choice in the country? Medicare for all . . . Which one of those candidates, in a time of a pandemic, is pushing for the solutions that have already been made available overseas. Which one of those candidates deny corporate money and corporate payoffs? Video on YouTube

Massey Branscomb

• Massey Branscomb, Humanity First

If money is supposed to represent how much we have contribute to society, we can see that our ability to make an impact and do good grows exponentially with our resources. We owe it to our children to make sure that we all have that ability to grow.

We as a people must focus on who and what we are fighting for and fighting against. We are fighting against corruption; against greed; against an oligarchic society. We are fighting for good. A common morality to help others so they can help many more . . . America's great not because it's always been good but because we have always driven to be better.

Scott Santens

• Scott Santens is the editor of Basic Income Today and is a Basic income advocate

Extraordinary weather events are normal. 180,000 dead Americans and 1,000 more dying every day from coronavirus is normal. One million Americans newly applying for unemployment benefits every week is normal. Being killed by police as a black man is normal. Congressional gridlock is normal. The president eroding faith in our institutions is normal. What's become normal is not OK. None of this is OK. What we are doing in America isn't working. America is not working. It's time to draw a line . . . We can't just vote for different leaders. We have to change how we vote and voting has to exist upon the foundation of fundamental human rights. We all have a right to life. That is a fundamental human right. We have never truly recognized it. No one really has the right to life as long as someone else from a cold gated community can withhold what is needed to live. Within a monetary system of private property, money is oxygen. So we all have an unconditional right for enough money to live. That is why I believe is the most important structural change of all is an income for all. Or every American will work every month above the poverty line and never far below it. It's a structural change that removes barriers to others structural changes. It's a foundational floor for everything else we need to do. Video on YouTube

Jesse Ventura

• Jesse Ventura is the former Independent Governor of Minnesota

My history is I have always been third party. Full stop. I voted for John Anderson way back. I voted for third party politics constantly because I have seen the destruction and understand John Adams, one of the forefathers of the country, when he said: "When political parties take over; when they become so powerful, that will become the end of the United States as we know it." Don't you think we are kind of there right now?

Always remember what the late Jerry Garcia said "If you are made to pick the lesser of two evils. It means you are still picking evil."

Chase Iron Eyes

• Chase Iron Eyes is a former Congressional candidate, member of the Lakota People's Law Project, co-founder of The Last Real Indian

After we saw what happened with Bernie Sanders, the last time and this time, we are all sharing the same sense of existential dread. It's this or negative source clawing at us from within. Trying to instill its fear, doubt, and confusion . . . Those same forces, which robbed us of any real representation, will continue to oppress not only every working American but every working family . . . those (are the same) . . . who continued to instill in this world Abrahamic-based conflict and expect us to send our sons and our daughters to go die for their profit. As Governor Ventura was saying, it's never them who have to go die. I say this as a Native American, as an American Indian, on whom . . . American citizenship was imposed in 1924. We went and fought and died for this country . . . witness unarmed water protectors, unarmed protesters who are trying to defend all of our rights to free speech, our right to peaceably assemble, or rights to be free from illegal searches and seizures. We were trying to defend all of America's constitutional natural human and civil rights. Video on YouTube

Jimmy Dore

• Jimmy Dore is a comedian and podcaster, host of "The Jimmy Dore Show" It was Dore's 800,000 strong YouTube subscriber base and structure for weekly live streams that made the distribution of the convention possible

In November, Americans are going to decide if they are going to vote for a right-wing, racist, pathological liar or Donald Trump.

What the people's party is demanding is something radical. We are demanding policies the majority of Americans want.

We must work to become a majority party. Until we get there, we must be large enough, that any party that wants to win must form a coalition with us. Coalition. By which, they concede to our demands and not the other way around.

We need to have the courage to fight for the world we want. Video on YouTube

Medea Benjamin

• Medea Benjamin is the co-founder of the women's rights organization Code Pink

It's so wonderful to be among a group of people who understand why we need an alternative to the war parties; to the parties that kill and maim and displace millions of people around the world with no accountability, no remorse, and no lessons learned . . . These parties both have policies that are based on the same kind of racism, the same kind of immortality, that we see unleashed against black and brown people here at home. We desperately need for ourselves, and for those of victims . . . we need a party that is not in the clutches of the military-industrial complex of the military contractors. A party that can push our foreign policy in a radically new direction . . . save $1.3 trillion that both parties have allocated to "modernize" our nuclear weapons. We do not need more modern nuclear weapons, we need an end to nuclear weapons. Video on YouTube

Jerry Perez

• Jerry Perez is a Field Director for Our Revolution and a former U.S. Marine

I have been seeing a growing trend of fear, uncertainty, I have been seeing my people fighting against each other. Targeting each other . . . I have been seeing my people being divided and constantly attacking one another and this is not something I sacrificed my youth to make happen. I went to Iraq, I gave up some of the best years of my life to ensure that my people didn't have to suffer through tyranny. And I come back here and I see there is tyranny going on right now. What I see right now is that my people do not have representation. I see right now that the leadership of this nation does not give a damn about my people across the entirety of this nation. The only thing they care about is maintaining their power and ensuring that they stay on top of their money. That is their one and only priority . . . Right now I'm going to deliver unto you a message from veterans of the People's party. We solemnly swear that we will do everything within our ability to ensure that this party is formed and has the infrastructure necessary to openly go out throughout this nation and ensure that the American people have the representation that it needs to me prosperity Video on YouTube

Eynelys Vinson

• Eynelys Vinson

Were fighting for a better world and we demand change. For far too long Americans have been told that we cannot afford basic necessities such as healthcare and education. Meanwhile, our criminal and corrupt government has stolen our hard earned tax dollars to enrich themselves and the corporate elite billionaires that run our country. Today we take our country back. We will be founding a major new party to take on the corruption of the Democratic and Republican establishments and we will be creating a party that actually represents working-class and middle-class Americans. Not just corporate interests and billionaires.

As Latinos we've been shamed into silence. We are so grateful to be here that we don't speak up. And we are always scared of the persecution we see both in our brown and black communities. Today, our silence ends. You see, we are all Americans and it is our responsibility to fight for our country. To tear down the corrupt system that has oppressed us for so long and to build a future of equality that we can actually be proud of. Video on YouTube

Tim Black

• Tim Black is host of "The Tim Black Show" podcast

I wrote something down for this occasion . . . Got here just in time to do this. (reading note) Fuck Donald Trump. One more second. (My) memory is getting bad. (I'm) getting old man. (reading another note) Fuck Joe Biden. Why do we need a new party?

We need a new party because both parties suck Johnson. Both the Republican and Democratic Party have both failed black people since there's been black people. In fact, we weren't even black people before we were brought to America. So the entire existence of black people both parties have failed us tremendously. So that would be one good reason to start a new party . . . The Democratic Party pretends to like us. Pretends we're people that they want us to support like they have our backs meanwhile they don't have any policies that help our communities. They support policies that take resources out of our communities and all of it is lip service. Why do we support this party? Its because the Republican Party is even worse than that when it comes to black folks. I got into this political commentary thing because I think that black people need to get something for their vote. Very simple. LGBTQIA people need to get something for their vote. Working class white folks should get something for their vote. Video on YouTube

Ryan Knight

• Ryan Knight is a podcaster, host of "Amped Up" who heavily promoted the People's Convention on his Twitter feed in the weeks before the convention.

We find ourselves in a moment of great struggle. We are seeing the climate crisis ravage pur cities and towns. We are seeing a pandemic that has resulted in over 180,000 American deaths. We are seeing unarmed black people being murdered by the police. We are seeing an immoral and rigged economy where billionaires like Jeff Bezos make 13 billion dollars in a single day, while normal people struggling cannot make real wealth. And rather than meet this moment of great struggle with bold policies and solutions to move our nation forward, both corporate parties in Washington are doing what they do best; putting their corporate donors over the basic needs of the American people. And we need to be very clear some about this. Because one of the corporate parties likes to sedate us with platitudes of hope and change but make no mistake, they are bought and paid for by the same big corporations and oligarchs as at the other corporate party in Washington. Video on YouTube

Marianne Williamson

• Marianne Williamson is an author and was 2020 Presidential candidate

There is more truth telling at this convention, in my opinion, than there was at either Democratic or Republican convention. We kind of like . . . being raised in an alcoholic home where mommy or daddy are not saying the truth of what's really going on and that there is all this agitation in the air. That's what I feel like is going on in this country. We all know things are going on and they're not being discussed and that should be the purpose of political parties. They to be containers for truth telling as certain people see it.

We have reverted to aristocracy; it is now a corporate aristocracy. It is health insurance companies, it is big pharmaceutical companies, it is big oil, it is food companies . . . and of course, it is the military industrial complex. Video on YouTube

Cornel West

• Cornel West, Harvard professor and philosopher

(Referencing the 1963 March on Washington,) That next morning young brother Dr. Martin Luther King told America about a dream that he had, which was not the American dream, but a dream rooted in the American dream, and it has everything to do with the Movement for a People’s Party.” . . . We are living in a moment of massive imperial meltdown, spiritual breakdown, and we need prophetic fight-back. The People’s Party is a prophetic fightback. Video on YouTube

Nina Turner

• Nina Turner is a former Ohio State Senator, the Sanders 2020 co-chairman and the keynote speaker of the convention

You've got a variety here tonight of people who have different views on how to move this nation forward but what we do agree on, even if folks don't necessarily agree on what should happen in 2020, what we do agree on is that we are in a fight for their lives and for future generations and we fight up for what is just and what is good. Nobody is scripted here tonight. Nobody got a memo or whispered in the ear.

We don’t believe in the lies and the bribes and the contentment in a lousy peace . . . How can we have peace in moments like this, when over 90 million of our sisters and brothers are either uninsured or underinsured? . . . How can we have peace when on the streets of America right now, black lives have been reaching out, calling out the racism and the white supremacy and the bigotry of a system that was created for black lives to languish? . . . How can we have peace when you got a Congress that goes on recess while millions of people are facing evictions from their homes?

We need to slay the dragons of neofascism and neoliberalism.

We’re going to get that neo-fascist out of the White House, and we’re going to build a People’s Party and get to work.

What the people want is simple, they want an America as good as its promise. That is what the People's movement is all about. That is what this convention is all about. Video on YouTube

Mike Gravel, also a 2020 Presidential candidate was schedule to appear but could not make it

Platform

A video showing the potential party platform was shown. It said "We believe in:

• A 21st Century Economic Bill of Rights
• Strong unions and workplace democracy
• Rebuild and modernize our infrastructure
• A fair tax code and thriving small business
• Rein in Wall Street and create public banks
• Fair trade policies that benefit U.S. workers
• Universal basic income and a job guarantee
• Abolish money in politics and restore democracy
• Free, secure and transparent elections
• Ranked choice voting and proportional representation
• Defend civil liberties and end mass surveillance
• A wealth tax
• Respect human rights and human potential
• Medicare for all
• Free public college and cancelling student debt
• A swift pathway to citizenship
• Respect disability rights
• Protect the environment and defend biodiversity
• A green new deal
• Defend animal rights
• Sustainable agriculture
• Housing for all
• Restorative justice and ending mass incarceration
• Legalize marijuana
• Racial justice
• Equal rights for women
• LGBTQIA equality
• Honor indigenous rights and treaties
• Create a peaceful global community that benefits from technology
• End wars and invest at home
• Expand social security
• Harness the promise and mitigate the peril of accelerating technology
• Taking care of veterans"

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13. "Lauren Ashcraft Speech During Movement for a People's Party Convention". The Trickle Up.
14. "Isiah James Speech During Movement for a People's Party Convention". The Trickle Up.
15. "Eleanor Goldfield Speech During Movement for a People's Party Convention". The Trickle Up.
16. "Jamarl Thomas Speech During Movement for a People's Party Convention". The Trickle Up.
17. "Ron Placone Speech During Movement for a People's Party Convention". The Trickle Up.
18. "Maebe A. Girl Speech During Movement for a People's Party Convention". The Trickle Up.
19. "Massey Branscom Speech During Movement for a People's Party Convention". The Trickle Up.
20. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6u5xPJaW2s?t=13723

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