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- Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence(For Ferguson, Baltimore, Million Workers March, Arab Spring, Standing Rock, Occupy, Jackson Rising, Fight for Fifteen, Extinction Rebellion, #Me Too…)
- Shaun Ossei-OwusuWhen the dust settles, as in all U.S. disasters, there will be a tale to tell of who mattered and who was sacrificed.
- Erica CainesColonized people, with a horrific historical connection to both science and medicine in this country, must examine science in service of the state.
- Sarah LustbaderThe penal system remains a source of diseases that spread among prisoners at rates far exceeding those in the communities from which they came.
- Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum EditorThe necessary political demand is not that we make better, more humane prisons and jails, but that we abolish prisons and jails altogether.