Actors to Perform ‘The People Speak’ at People’s Summit in Chicago, with Music Concert on June 20

[font color="navy"size="4"]CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–June 13, 2016. An all-star lineup of renown artists will join in a special performance of dramatic readings of U.S. history Saturday night June 20 in Chicago, a key highlight of the People’s Summit gathering of progressive and community leaders and activists to step up movement building in the aftermath of the enormous populist upsurge in the 2016 Presidential primary campaign.

The People Speak is a set of dramatic readings of selected testimonies—speeches, letters, poems, songs, petitions, and manifestos—of people throughout U.S. history who struggled against slavery, racism, war, oppression, and exploitation, and who articulated a vision for a better world. The People Speak was inspired by Howard Zinn’s legendary book A People’s History of the United States.

The People Speak will be performed at 8:30 p.m. June 20 in the Arie Crown Theater at McCormick Place in Chicago.[/font]

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[font color="green"size="4"]The special evening event is a part of the gathering June 17-29 that comes at a pivotal moment in 2016. Thousands are expected to join the three-day Summit, which is intended to step up the momentum and movement building associated with the populist moment and the broad grassroots organizing on progressive issues that has been underway with less media fanfare around the nation for years.[/font]

[font color="#990033"size="5"]The Summit will also bring together many of the leaders and organizations who have participated in the Bernie Sanders campaign, as well as other community leaders and activists who have worked for social, political, and economic change for years.[/font]

[font color="green"size="4"]Among the confirmed speakers and participants at the Summit are:

Naomi Klein, environmental/social activist, author, “This Changes Everything”
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, veteran, Meritorious Service Medal awardee
Rep. Raul Grijalva, co-chair Congressional Progressive Caucus
RoseAnn DeMoro, executive director, National Nurses United
Van Jones, CNN commentator/correspondent,President, co-Founder of Dream Corps, former White House green jobs advisor
Rev. William Barber, architect of the Moral Mondays Movement, President, Repairers of the Breach
Former Ohio State Sen. Nina Turner
Josh Fox, documentary filmmaker, showing his new film “How to Love Everything Climate Can’t Change”
Frances Fox Piven, author, activist[/font]

More details are available at http://www.thepeoplessummit.org or info@thepeoplessumit.org https://www.facebook.com/events/772454342884561/