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- Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist“The opportunism of the Democrats made these students and their pain easy targets.”
- Glen Ford , BAR executive editor“In the absence of a renewed, grassroots street offensive against the armed occupation of Black communities, there will be no relief from the daily slaughter.”
- Raymond Nat Turner , BAR poet-in-residenceNuclear bully’s roaring for war Thru the mouth of its dinosaur— At war ever since its bloody birth Now, threatening the entire earth!
- Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist“Business should not go on as usual when the police act as the 21st century slave patrol.”
- Ann Garrison , BAR contributor“Of course we support the cause of protecting lives, but there is an exceptionalism to believing it only applies to American lives and especially white lives.”