Global Citizen 2019 Kicks Off in NYC

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The 2019 Global Citizen Festival kicks off this weekend in Central Park. The organization behind the massive concert wants to end extreme poverty by 2030 — and it has already touched 254 million lives.

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00:00I'm hopeful because there are so many amazing people willing to stand up and take action.

00:04This month, 25 million people around the world are taking action this very month.

00:28It is a massive movement.

00:30We actually hold the power to effect change in our lives daily,

00:34but as a local family as well.

00:36We just felt like an amazing direct way of using what we do to help everyone use their own voice.

00:45This concert is going to be the moment where we look up and realize this is the day things change.

00:58Extreme poverty is a 350 billion dollar a year challenge.

01:08It's not going to be solved through black tie gala dinners or just goodwill.

01:12It's not going to be solved through traditional charity.

01:14We need systemic change.

01:16We need governments.

01:17We need philanthropists.

01:18We need businesses to step up like never before.

01:32Well the stakes are so high in 2020 because progress towards the eradication of extreme

01:36poverty has slowed.

01:38We have actually seen some parts of the world where poverty is now on the rise again.

01:42That's why Global Goal Live is going to unite the planet at this critical moment to achieve

01:47something unlike anything we've ever seen before.

01:50To unite the planet to help end extreme poverty and achieve the United Nations Global Goals.

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