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Re-rooting discussions of globalization, gender, identity and technology in the world of the one percent; the one at the top and the one at the bottom. Written and recorded between Senegal, Reunion Island, Paris, Haiti, and New Orleans and New York, \u003ci\u003eMartyrLoserKing\u003c\/i\u003e is a multimedia project that engages the digital dialogue between the 1st and 3rd Worlds, and the global street sounds that yoke the two. 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