Excuse us while we ask Tavis one simple question. What in the hell is wrong with you? A future without poverty?
How about asking the company that advertises on your show to stop treating their employees like shit first? (Walmart). There are some people who will always be lazy and refuse to work, perhaps the rest of us should support them to realize Tavis’ dream?
We don’t get this dude. Just days before the presidential inauguration and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, broadcaster tavis smiley is bringing together a bipartisan dream team to discuss the creation of a national plan to cut poverty in half in 10 years and eradicate it in 25.
With the call for a national White House Conference on the Eradication of Poverty in America, Smiley and the panelists ask for a laser-like focus on the lives of 50 million Americans living in poverty on the brink of despair.
During this nationally televised conversation, “Vision for a New America: A Future Without Poverty,” panelists will also discuss proven solutions on how government officials can contain the wildfire of American poverty and will sign, together on stage, the online petition calling for the White House Conference.
“Vision for a New America” begins 6:30 p. m. , Thursday, January 17, 2013, at George Washington University, Lisner Auditorium, 730 21st St. NW, Washington, D. C. The event, sponsored in part by the Marguerite Casey Foundation and Opportunity Finance Network, is free and open to the public.
Doors open at 5 p. m. , and advance registration is required at www.afuturewithoutpoverty. com. “America is teetering on cliffs and bumping against ceilings,” says Smiley.
“This is no way to run a country. Together, we can devise a plan of attack to fight poverty in America. Ignoring this moral issue is an abomination.
“Confirmed and invited panelists include: Newt Gingrich , former Speaker of the House of Representatives; Michael Moore , Academy Award-winning documentary film director; Representative Marcia L. Fudge (D-OH), chair of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC); John D. Graham , dean, Indiana University School of Public & Environmental Affairs and author of America’s Poor and the Great Recession; Rose Ann DeMoro , executive director of National Nurses United; Jonathan Kozol , author of Fire in the A
