

MOVEMENT FOR A PEOPLE’S PARTY
PEOPLE’S CONVENTION
2020
August 30
4 PM Eastern, 1 PM pacific

MOVEMENT FOR A PEOPLE’S PARTY
PEOPLE’S CONVENTION
2020
August 30
4 PM Eastern, 1 PM pacific


free of corporate money and influence.
MOVEMENT FOR A PEOPLE’S PARTY
PEOPLE’S CONVENTION
2020
August 30
4 PM Eastern, 1 PM pacific

THE TIME IS NOW
For far too long we have watched both corporate-funded political parties pillage and devastate our country, our communities, and our families.
Now it is time for us to ask: What kind of world do we want to build from the ashes of this pandemic and economic depression?
One week after the Democratic and Republican national conventions, people from all walks of life will come together to discuss the state of the nation and plans to form a major new political party in America. A party free of corporate money and influence. A people’s party.
Join us on Sunday, August 30, from 4-7 pm Eastern Time for The People’s Convention.
The Convention will be digital and broadcast live to YouTube, Facebook and Twitter pages with millions of subscribers and followers. Sign up for more information and updates.

Convention Speakers

Dr. Cornel West
Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. Author of 20 books and commentator on CNN. Bernie 2020 surrogate and co-host of the Tight Rope Podcast

Sen. Nina Turner
National co-chair of the Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign. Host of the Hello Somebody Podcast. Former President of Our Revolution. Served Ohio in the state senate and Cleveland in the city council. Former professor of African American history

Marianne Williamson
Author, spiritual leader, activist, Democratic presidential candidate in 2020. Has written 13 books and multiple NYT bestsellers. Co-founder of the Peace Alliance.

Sen. Mike Gravel
Former U.S. Senator from Alaska. Democratic Presidential Candidate in 2020 and 2008. Read the Pentagon Papers into the public record. Founder of The National Citizens Initiative for Democracy, for direct democracy in America.

Danny Glover
Award-winning actor and humanitarian. UNICEF Ambassador. Former Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Development Program. Recipient of multiple NAACP awards and Emmy nominations. Supporter of many unions, including postal unions. Bernie 2020 surrogate.

Gov. Jesse Ventura
Former governor of Minnesota and host of The World According to Jesse

Chris Hedges
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, former foreign correspondent, Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief at the New York Times. Author of several best-selling books, writes for many national publications, and is host of the Emmy Award–winning RT America show On Contact.

Jimmy Dore
Stand up comedian and Host of The Jimmy Dore Show. A leading U.S. media critic and host of several Comedy Central Specials. Author of the best seller, “Your Country Is Just Not That Into You.”

Ryan Knight

Amaya Wangeshi
National student coordinator with Students for a People’s Party. Founder of Beyond Bernie and a founding director of Our Time, Our Revolution’s student organization. YDSA member and former volunteer national high school director with Bernie 2020

Chase Iron Eyes
Co-Founder, Last Real Indians

Nick Brana
Founder and national coordinator with MPP. The former national political outreach coordinator with Bernie 2016. A founding staffer and former electoral manager with Our Revolution

Chris Smalls
Led a nationally-reported walk out from a Staten Island Amazon warehouse after management forced employees to work during a coronavirus outbreak at the warehouse. Founded The Congress of Essential Workers.

Eleanor Goldfield

Tim Black
Host of The Tim Black Show

Eynelys García
Vice Chair of Our Revolution Los Angeles. Candidate for Palmdale City Council and former Special Projects Director for Cenk Uygur’s Congressional Campaign. Proud Cuban-American in California

Graham Elwood
Comedian and host of the Political Vigilante

Ron Placone
Comedian and host of Get Your News On With Ron

Medea Benjamin
Co-founder of CODEPINK

Niko House
Host of Mi Casa Es Su Casa

Omar Fernandez
President of the American Postal Workers Union of Vermont, which has endorsed MPP. Executive Council Member of the Vermont AFL-CIO

Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap
National Director of Move to Amend, President of the Board of Directors of Democracy Unlimited, and a Local Democracy Fellow for the Liberty Tree Foundation.

Lee Camp
Comedian and host of Redacted Tonight

Dr. Peter Kalmus
Climate scientist, author and former Bernie 2020 surrogate. Got his PhD in physics from Columbia University and received NASA’s Early Career Public Achievement Medal.

Jamarl Thomas
Host of The Progress Soapbox

Maebe A Girl
Silver Lake Neighborhood Councilwoman. First drag queen elected to public office in the U.S.

Scott Santens
Editor of Basic Income Today. One of the foremost writers and thinkers on the merits of an unconditional basic income. Written for many publications including the Huffington Post, Politico and the Boston Globe. Appeared on countless TV news shows and podcasts.

Jerry Perez
Field Director with Our Revolution Los Angeles and West Coast Regional Coordinator with MPP. Served six years in the U.S. Marine Corps with combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. Veterans for a People’s Party. Formerly a field director with Justice Democrats.

Hanieh Jodat
National Bernie Delegate. Co-Founder of Muslim Delegates & Allies. Founding member of Women’s March LA. Former fundraising coordinator for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) USA and Australia. Fundraising coordinator for Oxfam America in LA.

Cheng-Sim Lim
National Bernie Delegate. Film curator, immigrant, and Medicare for All activist. She serves on the Board of Healthcare for All – Los Angeles Chapter, and is a member of Progressive Asian Network for Action (PANA) and DSA-LA.

Massey Branscomb
Board member of the Humanity First Movement. Basic income activist, entrepreneur, published scientist

Isiah James
Former candidate for U.S. House in New York’s 9th Congressional District. Housing rights organizer and a criminal justice advocate. Combat veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Lauren Ashcraft
Lauren Ashcraft is a former grassroots candidate for Congress in NY-12, steering committee member for the Justice For All Coalition, planner of the Women’s March on NYC, advocate for MMT, and a standup comedian.
Convention Speakers

Dr. Cornel West
A prominent and provocative democratic intellectual. Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. Author of 20 books and commentator on CNN. Bernie 2020 surrogate and co-host of the Tight Rope Podcast.

Sen. Nina Turner
National co-chair of the Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign. Host of the Hello Somebody Podcast. Former President of Our Revolution. Served Ohio in the state senate and Cleveland in the city council. Former professor of African American history.

Marianne Williamson
Author, spiritual leader, activist, Democratic presidential candidate in 2020. Has written 13 books and multiple NYT bestsellers. Co-founder of the Peace Alliance.

Mike Gravel
Former U.S. Senator from Alaska. Democratic Presidential Candidate in 2020 and 2008. Read the Pentagon Papers into the public record. Founder of The National Citizens Initiative for Democracy, for direct democracy in America.

Danny Glover

Gov. Jesse Ventura
Former governor of Minnesota and host of The World According to Jesse

Chris Hedges
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, former foreign correspondent, Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief at the New York Times. Author of several best-selling books, writes for many national publications, and is host of the Emmy Award–winning RT America show On Contact.

Jimmy Dore
Stand up comedian and Host of The Jimmy Dore Show. A leading U.S. media critic and host of several Comedy Central Specials. Author of the best seller, “Your Country Is Just Not That Into You.”

Ryan Knight

Amaya Wangeshi
National student coordinator with Students for a People’s Party. Founder of Beyond Bernie and a founding director of Our Time, Our Revolution’s student organization. Former National High School Director with Bernie 2020.

Chase Iron Eyes
Co-Founder, Last Real Indians

Nick Brana
Founder and national coordinator with MPP. The former national political outreach coordinator with Bernie 2016. A founding staffer and former electoral manager with Our Revolution.

Chris Smalls
Led a nationally-reported walk out from a Staten Island Amazon warehouse after management forced employees to work during a coronavirus outbreak at the warehouse. Founded The Congress of Essential Workers.

Eleanor Goldfield

Tim Black
Host of The Tim Black Show

Eynelys Vinson
Vice Chair of Our Revolution Los Angeles. Candidate for Palmdale City Council and former Special Projects Director for Cenk Uygur’s Congressional Campaign. Proud Cuban-American in California.

Graham Elwood
Comedian and host of the Political Vigilante

Ron Placone
Comedian and host of Get Your News On With Ron

Medea Benjamin
Co-founder of CODEPINK

Niko House
Host of Mi Casa Es Su Casa

Omar Fernandez
President of the American Postal Workers Union of Vermont, which has endorsed MPP. Executive Council Member of the Vermont AFL-CIO.

Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap
Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap is National Director of Move to Amend, President of the Board of Directors of Democracy Unlimited, and a Local Democracy Fellow for the Liberty Tree Foundation.

Lee Camp
Comedian and host of Redacted Tonight

Dr. Peter Kalmus
Climate scientist with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Labratory. Author and former Bernie 2020 surrogate. Got his PhD in physics from Columbia University.

Jamarl Thomas
Host of The Progress Soapbox

Maebe A Girl
Silver Lake Neighborhood Councilwoman. First drag queen elected to public office in the U.S.

Scott Santens

Jerry Perez
Field Director with Our Revolution Los Angeles and West Coast Regional Coordinator with MPP. Served six years in the U.S. Marine Corps with combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. Veterans for a People’s Party. Formerly a field director with Justice Democrats.

Hanieh Jodat
National Bernie Delegate. Co-Founder of Muslim Delegates & Allies. Founding member of Women’s March LA. Former fundraising coordinator for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) USA and Australia. Fundraising coordinator for Oxfam America in LA.

Cheng-Sim Lim
National Bernie Delegate 2020. Film curator, immigrant, and Medicare for All activist. She serves on the Board of Healthcare for All – Los Angeles Chapter, and is a member of Progressive Asian Network for Action (PANA) and DSA-LA.

Massey Branscomb
Board member of the Humanity First Movement. Basic income activist, entrepreneur, published scientist

Isiah James

Lauren Ashcraft
Be Heard!
Do You Want a Chance to Tell Your Story During the People’s Convention?
Agenda
The Convention will feature live speakers, recorded video montages and presentations, and a regional organizing breakout session.
We will broadcast video compilations of hundreds of people across the country sharing why they need a people’s party and how they are organizing to bring it to life.
At the conclusion of the Convention we will hold a historic vote on forming a major new corporate-free political party in America.
Four years from now, at the People’s Convention of 2024, when The People’s Party stands poised to sweep Congress and the White House, we will look back and celebrate this gathering as the moment that our country turned the page on the Second Gilded Age. The moment that we took fate into our own hands. The moment that we gave rise to a new progressive era.
Media
MPP Media Releases
August 7
Sen. Nina Turner & Dr. Cornel West to
Keynote the People’s Convention
August 19
Marianne Williamson & Sen. Mike Gravel
Will Speak at the People’s Convention
Danny Glover and Chris Hedges to
Speak at The People’s Convention
August 28
Gov. Jesse Ventura and Renowned
Comedians will Speak at People’s Convention
People’s Convention Scores a Hit!
Media
August 19 – Politico
Marianne Williamson is back —
to talk about forming a third party
August 26 – Between The Lines
Sanders’ Supporters Building a New Progressive People’s Party
August 27 – The Hill
Cornel West on the forthcoming ‘People’s Convention’
August 28 – KYW News Radio
New ‘people’s party’ emerging from disappointed left to host inaugural convention
August 29 – The Guardian
‘DemExit’: virtual convention aims to create US leftwing alternative
New People’s Party Rises Amid Grim Election Options
August 31 – The Rational National
People’s Party Convention Speakers Bring Hope In A Dark Time
August 31 – Pacifica Foundation
(Incl. KPFA-Bay Area, KPFT-Houston, WPFW-Washington DC, and WBAI-NYC)
August 31 – The Young Turks
Progressive Heroes Speak At People’s Party Convention
September 1 – Rising (The Hill)
People’s Party Convention HIGHLIGHTS, Is This The Way Forward For The Left?
September 3 – The Humanist Report
Progressives Call for a NEW People’s Party—Here’s How We Can Make It Happen
September 3 – Rising (The Hill)
Marianne Williamson: Why I Spoke At People’s Party Convention
September 4 – Redacted Tonight
The Truth About Movement For A People’s Party