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-- Dick Gregory;
-- Jack Healey, Human Rights Action Center's founder and director;
-- Jack Heyman of San Francisco's International Longshore and Warehouse Union, who refused to unload ships with South African goods in the 1980s;
-- Selma James, widow of famed author/historian/essayist CLR James, one of his notable books titled, "The Black Jacobins" about Haiti's liberating revolution;
-- Massachusetts State Representative Byron Rushing;
-- Women of Color/Global Women's Strike's Margaret Prescod; and
-- civil rights attorney Walter Riley, Haiti Emergency Relief Fund (HERF) chairman and John George Democratic Club co-chair.
Their letter in part read:
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