Refugee Crisis

REFUGEE CRISIS

“No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark you only run for the border when you see the whole city running as well…”
From “home” by Warsan Shire

Topic 3

WHY THE REFUGEE CRISIS?

As of May 2022, there is a record 100 million people forcibly displaced worldwide, according to the UNHCR. And if that number doesn’t cause you to stop in your tracks…whew. War, conflict, natural disasters and persecution have all contributed to this crisis of staggering proportions. And most people have to flee for their lives with nothing but the clothes on their backs.

“This must serve as a wake-up call to resolve and prevent destructive conflicts, end persecution, and address the underlying causes that force innocent people to flee their homes.” - Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees

Refugee Crisis

RESOURCES

Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty

The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, Jeffrey D. Sachs

Runaway Inequality: An Activist's Guide to Economic Justice, Les Leopold

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, Jane Mayer

Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power, Noam Chomsky

Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few, Robert Reich

Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor, Kim Kelly

The One Percent

Enron

Inside Job

Inequality for All

Where to Invade Next

Capital in the 21st Century

The US has a ruling class – and Americans must stand up to it, by Bernie Sanders

Income Equality, Not Inequality, Is the Problem, by Phil Gramm and John Early

Transcript: Future of Work: The Challenge of Economic Inequality

US Income Inequality Rose to Record During Biden’s First Year, By Alexandre Tanzi

Poor People's Campaign

START

Inequality.org

Implicit Bias Test

*Disclaimer: Not all views shared in these resources are exactly the views of Mad Priest Coffee*

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Our name comes from the incredible novel “The Count of Monte Cristo” by Alexandre Dumas. In the story, Edmond Dantès was ready to give up and die in prison. Just then, the "Mad Priest" (or Abbe Faria) came on the scene and gave him a reason to hope again, along with the practical skills he needed to win at life. So the Mad Priest is a fictional character that embodies the fight for justice, freedom, and opportunity.

And as a company, we are striving to do just that. Instead of wrongly-accused fictional Frenchmen, we champion real-life people displaced by war, disaster, tragedy, gentrification, and incarceration. We are righteously indignant about racism & inequality in our country as well as the current unprecedented global refugee crisis. #GetMad

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