Publisher's Synopsis
From the front lines in Iraq, to the legal lynching in Jena, LA, to the growth of a new poor people's movement in the streets of Philadelphia and Nashville - Dispatches 02 takes you where the mainstream media cannot go. Features include 'The Ghost of Anbar': The US military is creating and funding Sunni militias in Iraq; 'The Jena 6': six black students face life in prison for a schoolyard fight; 'Homeless Power!': the rise of a new poor people's movement in America; 'Vulture Battle': on debt speculators who are taking millions from the world's poorest countries.