Thousands gather in Washington D.C. for Poor People's Campaign

WASHINGTON, June 18 (Xinhua) -- Thousands of Americans from across the nation gathered Saturday in downtown Washington D.C. for a rally to call attention to the living conditions of the low-income people, urging policymakers to do more to support those in the bottom.

The Mass Poor People's & Low-Wage Workers' Assembly and Moral March on Washington took place near the Capitol Hill, with protestors holding signs with messages such as "money for the poor not for war," "lift from the bottom everybody rises," "stop racism now," and "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."