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- Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist“Questioners are ‘hoteps’ who are too woke to have fun.”
- Ann Garrison , BAR contributor“The people who are behind this are all groups who are strongly opposed to the corporate duopoly war party, and who have been working to revive the peace movement in the United States.”
- Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor“Americans—even ‘woke’ ones—don’t know jack about their own history: the violence, the terror on behalf of white supremacy is simply a bottomless pit.”
- Oliver Milman“Mere compliance with environmental permits should not negate civil rights concerns.”
- Mary F. Corey“The West becomes West South; the North is Up South; the Middle West is Mid South.”