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BARBER: "Yeah. You know, one of the terrible things is that Donald Trump and McConnell and those following them are really committing crimes against humanity. This is tremendously immoral, and we've not had any time of national mourning and among those that are organizing today in the 25 states and District of Columbia, is that young girl of 19-years old named Olivia from Mississippi, she's lost 11 family members --11 family members from Coronavirus and she’s going to be leading one of the caravans in Mississippi. And we’re calling them caravans of remembrance and caravans of mourning so we can’t forget these deaths and just move past them like nothing has happened and then we must in their name demand comprehensive Covid relief and a smooth transition and then a moral agenda going forward. We are talking about 257,000 deaths, we only make up 4 percent of the global population. We have 20 percent of the deaths. We’re talking about one out of every four people are working — or either unemployed or working at poverty wages. We're talking about 100 million people who are food insecure and we're talking about the fact that 210,000 of these deaths could have possibly been avoided. So what we’re going to do is have this national moral Monday caravans and remembrance and mourning, but also to say that those of us who are living, we have a responsibility now in the name of those who have died so needlessly to fight for change in this moment."