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A visitor to the Bread & Puppet Museum will find a vast array of masks, sculptures, paintings and puppets from inches to yards tall images of vulnerable humanity. Across half a century of the theater s work these figures, and those who oppress them, have been the pervasive characters of Peter Schumann's concern, present in hundreds of forms, the background and face of his universe. But recently, the background has arisen, and broken into the foreground as refugees created by US-spawned chaos, the truly wretched of the earth, have desperately crossed borders seeking safety and a temporary home. The consequences, along with climate mayhem, will define our 21st century. Peter Schuman, himself once a refugee, has compressed his analysis and his rage into this little book.