Major Demonstration Planned in Jena to Protest Pending Charges Against Six Students
By DEMOCRACY NOW!
Thousands of people are expected to gather in Jena, Louisiana on Thursday to
protest the pending charges against six African American high school
students. Last week, a Louisiana appeals court threw out the conviction of
17-year-old Mychal Bell. Bell was supposed to have been sentenced for
attempted second-degree battery this Thursday. He has been jailed since
January, unable to meet his $90,000 bond. We speak with Lewis Scott.
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As the Iraq government expels Blackwater over the killing of 11 Iraqi
civilians, Jeremy Scahill, author of "Blackwater: The Rise of the World's
Most Powerful Mercenary Army," debates Doug Brooks, president of
International Peace Operations Association, a trade group for the private
security industry.
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