Migrant & Refugee Emergency: Time to choose which side of history we want to be on

Links to the 2 videos I made during the Turkey EU border crisis:

1 Turkey EU Border Crisis - International Law Breaking down

- https://youtu.be/N9_5zPZVH4Y

2 How we talk about the Covid threat displaced people face - Response to BBC Newsnight

- https://youtu.be/jk-gaBoglp4

Sources & links:

Oxfam (citing UNHCR data) An unequal responsibility: which countries take in the most refugees?

- https://www.oxfam.org/en/unequal-resp...

UNHCR call out the U.K. - https://www.unhcr.org/refugeebrief/th... International

Observatory for Human Rights “UK asylum laws edge towards murky waters”

- https://observatoryihr.org/news/uk-as... Documentary:

The Spiders Web: Britain’s Second Empire

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np_yl...

Books*

Tropics of Chaos by Christian Parenti

- How climate change is contributing to and exacerbating conflict

Enviromedics by J Lemery MP & Paul Auerbach MD

- Effect of climate change and other environmental issues eg.pollution on human health.

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney

- How the British Empire but also other European Colonial powers hobbled the economies of the countries they occupied in order to give themselves an unfair advantage.

Inglorious Empire: What The British Did To India by Shashi Tharoor

- Gives excellent insight into the impact of colonialism on every part of a nation.

*I have mentioned a few books and, first off, I do know that people with normal lives don’t have the time to be sitting still reading a book which is why I’m going to recommend audiobooks. I find them incredibly useful for other reasons but I also enjoy the benefit of being able to get on with whatever semi mindless task before me while, at the same time, listening to an audiobook, learning all sorts of new things. So I’m not sponsored by Audible or anything (and Amazon is evil) but I do believe audiobooks have the capacity to enrich people’s political awareness without costing them the time it would take to physically read the same material.

Maybe I’m getting carried away... Anyway, point is, all the books mentioned are available on Audible.