In France’s suburban ghettos, a struggle to be heard amid election noise

By Robert Marquand, Christian Science Monitor | 05/02/12 Inside the French suburbs, referred to here as « zones of banishment » or « the lost territories of France, » the 2012 presidential elections seemed like a good time to wake up the nation. In a small office in the suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois, a group of mostly Arab and African 20-somethings hit on…