The director of the Black Alliance for Peace, Ajamu Baraka, said it is vitally important to give voice to Black Americans’ historical opposition to US military adventures abroad. A Black peace movement is necessary, “so we can determine our friends from our enemies, so we don’t allow our young people to be marched off to fight for the interests of the 1% against other poor and oppressed people around the world,” said Baraka, the Green Party 2016 vice presidential candidate and an editor and columnist for Black Agenda Report.