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 In 2005 a food crisis hit Niger. Out of a population of 12 million, 3.6 million went hungry and 800,000 children faced starvation. But activists in Niger claim that the famine was not caused by drought. "This is a structural famine. A permanent famine,"says journalist Moussa Tchangari. "It was caused by 20 years of structural adjustment programs."
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 Sadr City is a small neighborhood in Baghdad that holds half the city's population. It was the Northern epicenter of the two Shi'a intifadahs against Saddam's regime, and is now the stronghold of Moqtada Al Sadr's Mehdi Army. A Big Noise camera spent a summer in Sadr City and brought back these video images.
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Report from the Sept. 20 Rally Jena became a nationwide symbol for racism in the criminal justice system when six black students faced life sentences on attempted murder charges after a schoolyard fight that injured a white student. Outcry around the case grew when it was revealed that the fight occurred in the context of rising racial tensions at the school, where nooses were found hanging from a tree in the schoolyard after black students attempted to sit in the traditionally all-white area. When the first defendant was found guilty of second-degree battery and conspiracy by an all-white jury, A massive protest was planned to coincide with his sentencing hearing. The case has become a symbol of racial bias in criminal justice system around the country. The original reports for Democracy Now! are Included in the DVD compilation Dispatches Vol. 2. For a more in-depth look at the case, watch our half-hour film The Jena 6.
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