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Black farmers in the U.S. demand cash payments from government in massive rally
February 16th, 2010 | 
Author: From Common Dreams:
African-American farmers have staged a massive protest in Washington DC calling on the US government to deliver on cash payments promised to the group years ago.
In 1999, black farmers won a landmark case that granted them a billion-dollar compensation settlement on the grounds of racial discrimination by then US authorities.
But now the group says that tens of thousands of African-American farmers have not received the funds that they were promised.
Al Jazeera’s John Terrett reports from Washington DC:
Posted in community empowerment, Demonstration, ecology, Equality, sustainable living | 
Tags: African Americans, back farmers, common dreams, farming, rally, U.S., US Government, Washington DC | 
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