'People's State Of The Union' Headlined By Mark Ruffalo

NEW YORK, NY — Celebrities including Mark Ruffalo, Kathy Najimy and John Leguizamo helped deliver “The People’s State of the Union” in New York City on Monday, held in response to President Donald Trump’s planned first State of the Union address on Tuesday.

The event was held in Manhattan at The Town Hall, a historic building founded as a meeting spot for suffragists nearly a century ago.

Ruffalo said Trump's election has created the mother of all movements — something he likened to a "silver lining."

Cynthia Nixon, Michael Moore, Rosie Perez and Democratic New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio also spoke at the event.

"Our democracy is under attack, and we Americans need to cherish and to fight for it!" Nixon said.

Moore called for removing and replacing the system and culture that resulted in Trump's election in the first place.

“He did not just fall out of the sky and land in Queens," Moore said. "He is the result of a decades-long corporate takeover of our democracy and of us, never correcting the three orignal sins of America: A nation founded on genocide, built on the backs of slaves, and maintained by the subjugation of women.”

Andra Day and Common sang their Grammy- and Oscar-nominated song “Stand Up for Something” from the film “Marshall.”

Hosts of the event included unions, organizers of the Women’s March and Planned Parenthood.

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