On Thursday July 15 members of the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign held a press conference at Madison Square Garden to report on their meeting with the NYPD on the status of the permit for the "March For Our Lives" Campaign members from around the country stated their support for the marhc and our right to protest for Economic Human Rights.

Speakers included: Cheri Honkala, National Spokesperson for the PPEHRC, Lucas Benitez, Coalition of the Immokalee Workers, Dennis Burns, United Workers Association, Baltimore, Reverend Noel Damico, Pastor for the United Church of Christ, catalyst for the University of the Poor's School of Theology, and Rabbi Michael Feinberg, Executive Director of the New York City Labor Religion Council

"Neither nine celebrities or the NYPD or Homeland Security are going to make poor people invisible on August 30th… We are going to be loud, we are going to be vocal, we are going to be peaceful, and we are going to be doing God's work."

Cheri Honkala, National Spokesperson for the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign

"We are here today and will be here again on the 30th of August… to make the voice of we the poor heard, because right now in this country we are creating two… very different societies. One society has everything it wants and needs, and another society that works and doesn't have anything… On the 30th of August we are going to march to demand human rights, civil rights, and economic rights for everyone, for all who live here in the United States, because we can't continue to live as we have in two societies. Only fighting together can we achieve this."

Lucas Benitez, Coalition of the Immokalee Workers

"We are getting slave labor conditions, and we have the right to equal pay for equal work… We want to make sure that we make the invisible, us, visible."

Dennis Burns, United Workers Association, Baltimore

"This March is about telling the truth… We see our congregations coming in from the highways and the byways and … it is time to say, 'Enough! This is wrong.' … This country needs to make sure it ensures the economic human rights of all its members… It's not just a matter of capacity, but of morality."

Reverend Noel Damico, Pastor for the United Church of Christ, catalyst for the University of the Poor's School of Theology