Bruce Springsteen, a supporter of this movement for more than twenty years, made the following announcement to packed houses at his concerts in Philadelphia on August 8th, 9th, and 10th.

"Here tonight are my friends of twenty years from the Kensington Welfare Rights Union, a multi-racial group of poor people from Kensington fighting to end poverty.  Support their efforts.  They are doing a poor people's march for economic human rights from Mississippi to Washington DC.  The march will be arriving in Washington on August 23rd.  Join them on the 23rd as they march into DC."

Before Saturday's performance, KWRU members were able to meet briefly with Bruce backstage to discuss the current economic and political situation facing America, and the movement for Economic Human Rights.

Bruce also spoke on the war:

"The question of whether we were mislead into the war in Iraq isn't a liberal or conservative or Republican or Democratic question, it's an American one. Protecting the democracy that we ask our sons and daughters to die for is our responsibility and our trust. Demanding accountability from our leaders is our job as citizens. It's the American way. So may the truth will out."

Following the announcement, Springsteen played "My City of Ruins" and "Land of Hope and Dreams." An excerpt from "My City of Ruins:"

There's a blood red circle
on the cold dark ground
and the rain is falling down
The church doors blown open
I can hear the organ's song
But the congregation's gone

My city of ruins
My city of ruins

Now the sweet veils of mercy
drift through the evening trees
Young men on the corner
like scattered leaves
The bordered up windows
The hustlers and thieves
While my brother's down on his knees

We thank Bruce Springsteen and Landau management again for their decades of commitment to the struggle to end poverty, and for their dedication to being a voice of truth and justice in these times.