Poverty Tour 2.0 with Tavis Smiley and Cornel West featuring Green Party members Councilman Brian Cummins and Presidential Candidate Jill Stein as well as Congress Representatives Marcy Kaptur, Dennis Kucinich, George C. Fraser and more

The first stop of The Poverty Tour 2.0 with Tavis Smiley and Cornel West in the Westfield Insurance Studio, Idea Center at Playhouse Square, Cleveland Ohio, USA, tookplace on September 26, 2012, in partnership with Public Radio International and WVIZ/PBS and 90.3 WCPN ideastream, Pacifica Network and Native Voice One 

The video below presents highlights from the first stop on The Poverty Tour 2.0 in Cleveland, OH with Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Cleveland City Councilman Brian Cummins, George C. Fraser, Chairman and CEO of FraserNet, Inc., SEIU Justice for Janitors organizers Laurie Couch and Sandra Ellington, Chris Cooper from Kent State University’s Ohio Employee Ownership Center, Green Clean Co-op worker-owner Mary Vel Vera, and Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein.

Video guide

• 00:00 - 23:17, entertainment by the House Band - Jeff Moyer, Kevin Richards, Joe Hunter, Ed Lemmers, Haris Evastovalis; and, introductory comments regarding the kick-off of Poverty Tour 2.0.
• 23:18 - 25:17, Official kick-off and introductions
• 25:18 - 29:27, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur
• 29:28 - 32:15, Councilman Brian Cummins
• 32:16 - 39:10, George C. Fraser
• 39:11 - 45:32, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur
• 45:33 - 46:47, Commercial Break, entertainment by the House Band
• 46:48 - 54:04 , George C. Fraser
• 54:05 - 58:12, Councilman Brian Cummins
• 58:13 - 1:05:18, Commercial Break, entertainment by the House Band
• 1:05:19 - 1:20:08, SEIU Justice for Janitors organizers Laurie Couch and Sandra Ellington
• 1:05:19 - 1:21:40, Commercial Break, entertainment by the House Band
• 1:21:41 - 1:41:55, Chris Cooper from Kent State University’s Ohio Employee Ownership Center, Green Clean Co-op worker-owner Mary Vel Vera
• 1:41:56 - 1:43:23, Commercial Break, entertainment by the House Band
• 1:43:24 - 1:58:13, Audience comments and Q & A
• 1:58:14 - 2:05:25 Commercial Break, entertainment by the House Band
• 2:05:26 - 2:17:05, David Johnson, Census Bureau Announcement on poverty
• 2:17:06 - 2:18:00, Commercial Break, entertainment by the House Band
• 2:18:01 - 2:33:06 Congressman Dennis Kucinich
• 2:33:07 - 2:36:57, Reverend Tom Gerstenlauer, Miller Avenue United Church
• 2:36:58 -  2:38:10 Commercial Break, entertainment by the House Band
• 2:38:11 -  2:56:08, Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein
• 2:56:09 - 3:03:47, Audience comments and Q & A and closing

(L-R) Tavis Smiley, Brian Cummins, Cornel West and George C. Fraser.

“In this nation I see tens of millions of its citizens, a substantial part of its whole population, who at this very moment are denied the greater part of what the very lowest standards of today call the necessities of life.” 

- Franklin D. Roosevelt