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Highroad Should big corporations have to pay the taxes they owe? by Jim Hightower

would trust a pack of coyotes to guard my little herd of lambs before I’d trust a pack of corporate hucksters to “reform” America’s tax code. Yet, Carl Icahn, a noted corporate predator, is fronting for CEOs of a small group of huge multinational conglomerates who’re demanding that Congress drastically slash the taxes they owe on foreign sales of their products. This “reform” would let them escape

paying most of the $600 billion in taxes that U.S. law assesses on some $2,600,000,000,000 in profits they’ve been hiding in foreign bank accounts. Three-fourths of these hidden profits belong to only 50 enormously profitable corporations. Putting the $600 billion they owe into America’s public treasury would fund a lot of education, infrastructure repair, green energy, social services, etc. that our people desperately need. But Icahn & Co. claim that forgiving this corporate tax debt “would allow companies to reinvest in the United States, creating thousands of jobs.” Notice that verb, “allow.” They could put this tax windfall into job-creating, U.S. investments — but the Icahners do not want Congress to require any sort of patriotic use of the money. Haven’t we seen this movie before? Ah, yes — it was in the 2008 Wall Street bailout. They said that if

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Washington rescued them, they would then invest in Main Street and in middle-class jobs. We did, they didn’t. Carl even asserts that the corporate elites are “completely justified” in leaving America if they aren’t given this tax boondoggle. After all, he says, CEOs “have a fiduciary duty to enhance value for their shareholders.” What a self-serving crock! Shareholders are not more important or more valuable than workers, consumers, and the common good. To help stop this giveaway to corporate elites, go to www.AmericansForTaxFairness.org. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly

danish plan How to unsettle settled science (and settled scientists) by Paul Danish

alk about getting hoist with your own petard. Australian climate scientists have succeeded in convincing the management of the country’s main research institution, The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), that human-induced climate change is settled science. Unfortunately, The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization happens to be their employer. And after reflecting on the news that the debate over climate change is over, Larry Marshall, the organization’s CEO, sent an e-mail to CSIRO’s climate science units saying, in so many words, “Cool! Since the science is settled, who needs you?” Climate models and measurements have now proven the existence of global climate change, Marshall wrote, and CSIRO’s focus going forward would now be “what do we do about it,” and “how can we find solutions for the climate we will be living with?” About 220 jobs in the oceans and atmosphere and the land and water units will be cut over the next two years. The ocean and atmosphere unit will lose 110 of its 130 scientists. John Church, an expert on sea-level rise who has spent 38 years with the unit, said, “the CSIRO is effectively saying ‘climate science is done and we’re moving on to adaptation and mitigation.” “My view is that there is inaccurate and misleading science in that statement — climate science is not done,” he added. He’s got a point there, but why is it, then, that for the last four or five years scads of climate scientists have been telling us that global warming is settled science — some even going so far as attempting to suppress the publication of work by climate skeptics. If you keep saying the discussion is over, it’s not unreasonable for your boss to decide it’s not worth paying you to keep talking. Anyway, within nanoseconds of Marshall’s e-mail, an outcry ensued. Quickly followed by an up-roar. And Boulder Weekly

then by a great perturbation in the force. As of Monday, Feb. 16 some 3,000 scientists from 60 countries had signed a petition to CSIRO saying, in so many words, “climate change is not — repeat not — settled science! What were you thinking, mate! P.S. There is no such thing as settled science!” Whatever else Marshall has accomplished, chances are he’s ended the use of the settled science narrative by climate researchers until the end of the next ice age. Good. The settled science trope is just another manifestation of political correctness, and one which is both intellectually dishonest and intellectually lazy at that. Marshall is right to pivot his institute’s research toward solving the problems of adaptation and mitigation instead of the current self-evidently unsuccessful strategy of trying to stampede the world into stopping the use of fossil fuels before proper alternatives have been developed. (Proper alternatives are those that work as well as fossil fuels, that are cost competitive with them, that don’t require people to make major lifestyle changes, and that governments don’t need to coerce people into adopting.) Personally, I think adaptation and mitigation are pretty good ways of dealing with existential threats. We’ve had a lot of success with them over the last couple hundred thousand years. They got us through the last ice age and shot us right up to the top of the food chain, which is more than can be said for carbon credits. Here’s an inconvenient little bit of settled reality: In the final analysis, combating climate change is discretionary. Adapting to climate change is mandatory. However, Marshall is wrong to dump his current climate science programs. Climate change may or may not be settled science, but it is not complete science. There are still a lot of questions that remain to be answered — involving time, place and manner, for instance. And a lot of those quessee DANISH PLAN Page 6

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At long last the text of the TransPacific Partnership (TPP) has been released, and it is worse than anyone thought. It sets up a private tribunal system that can overrule government policies and bypass domestic courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. Many safety valves and guarantees under consideration to protect the public and the environment from corporate excesses were unceremoniously ditched in a last minute frenzy to finalize the Agreement. Now, the TPP must be ratified by the 12 member states. This is where we can and must stop it. Recall that the TPP is a gigantic trade, investment and regulation agreement negotiated over six years in top secret with 600 corporate “advisers” in attendance. Only six of 30 articles are trade-related. Suggestions put forth by a handful of environmental, labor and public interest groups allowed to comment on the text were largely ignored. With the exception of a prohibition against trade in endangered flora and fauna, six of seven international environmental agreements the U.S. earlier pledged to honor are left without any enforcement mechanisms. Agreements such as the International Agreement on Regulation of Whaling, the Montreal Protocol limiting ozone destroying chemicals and the Convention on Marine Pollution are severely weakened by the TPP. Even though endangered species are afforded some protection, nations need only “commit to promote conservation and to combat the illegal take of, and illegal trade in, wild flora and fauna” (Article 20), an essentially unenforce-

able prescription. According to an extensive Sierra Club analysis the TPP will cripple nations’ ability to mitigate climate destruction. As for labor, the TPP deals all the top cards to employers. A country is only required to “discourage, through initiatives it considers appropriate, the importation of goods from other sources produced in whole or in part by forced or compulsory labour, including forced or compulsory child labour” (Article 19). And what about the public interest? Private “tribunals” will be empowered under the TPP to force countries, including the U.S., to change laws protecting the public and the environment or pay billions in “compensation” to corporations for lost or reduced profits. And that’s just the tip of a mountain of rights and privileges the TPP heaps on large multi-national corporations at the expense of workers, local business, communities, the environment and our democratic rights. TPP negotiators had intended to keep the text secret for four years after the treaty went into effect until unauthorized leaks and subsequent public pressure forced an earlier official release. As one official privy to the negotiations admitted, governments wanted extreme secrecy because they knew once people figured out what’s going on they would oppose it hands down. Now that the cat’s out of the bag, and a congressional vote is coming up, it’s imperative that people speak out. Although Congressman Polis says he is officially “undecided,” his every utterance has been favorable toward the see LETTERS Page 6

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tions have a direct bearing on what we should do about mitigating the consequences of a warming climate and how we go about adapting to it. If I were making climate policy, here are some I would like to know the answers to before I did anything rash: Is climate change going to produce winners and losers? If so, who are they; which countries will win and which lose? Will parts of the tropics become uninhabitable? Will parts of Canada, Alaska, Siberia, Greenland and Northern Europe become more habitable? Will the U.S. be a winner or a loser? Is global warming a bad thing or

a good thing? On balance, will a warmer world be a more habitable world or a less habitable one? Or is all climate change ipso facto bad? The current assumption seems to be all change is bad. I’d like to see that question addressed with some scientific rigor. CSIRO’s climatologists should not be sacked. But to the extent that they’ve been singing in the climatechange-is-settled-science amen choir they richly deserve to be slapped upside the head. Which Marshall has done. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly

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Asylum seekers fearing death at home find only prison and discrimination in the U.S. by Angela K. Evans seeking asylum, they are routinely being held in detention without parole until their cases can be heard in immigration court and more often than not, their asylum cases are being denied. Although ICE insists these determinations are made on a “case-by-case” basis, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released a memorandum stating that the agency classifies the BNP as an “undesignated terrorist organization” or a “tier III terrorist organization,” although the party is not listed on the U.S. Department of

by a caretaker government and then a period of military control until the Awami League gained control of parliament in the most recent 2014 elections, which the BNP boycotted. “In Bangladesh all power resides in the parliament. It’s a very unitary constitution,” says Jim Moriarty, the U.S. ambassador to Bangladesh from 20072012. “If you don’t control the parliament in Dhaka you don’t control anything in Bangladesh. Because of that, politics is viewed as a zero sum game for both parties. What happens is that

ered to be the most violent in the country’s history, with both the opposition BNP and ruling Awami League blaming the other party for the violence. our hundred and sixtySarkar joined the BNP in 2005 two. That’s how many when he was a university student and days Mishkat Sarkar has the party was running the country. For been in America. That’s a long time, he was not an active memhow many days he’s been ber, he says, and after graduating, he in immigration detention, including the started a small social organization with last 15 months in the U.S. Immigration a few friends, teaching kids who weren’t and Customs Enforcement (ICE) going to school how to read and write. Denver Contract Detention Facility in By 2013, Sarkar says Awami League Aurora. If you’re reading this after Feb. members were threatening his business, 18, it’s been longer. trying to force him to switch parties. Wikimedia Commons/Faisal Akram Sarkar left his home country of He refused. They broke into his Bangladesh on Sept. 2, 2014 after office and attacked his friends and experiencing months of physical and family, he says. Sarkar closed down political threats by those who he says the organization and started a small are members of the ruling Awami shop instead. He also became more League political party. He crossed 17 involved in politics. borders to get to the U.S., traveling When the BNP refused to particfrom South Asia to South America ipate in the January 2014 elections by plane, and the rest of the way by over disagreements about election bus, taxi, boat and on foot. He mechanisms, the Awami League once crossed the U.S. border on Nov. 13, again gained power, and Sarkar says 2014, and immediately claimed asythe BNP leaders asked him to recruit lum after which he was put in imminew members. gration detention where he has “So I think this is not a bad idea, remained ever since. I can help maybe,” he says. “So I talk I have spoken with Sarkar several to my people… I’m not a leader, I’m times by phone over the past two just helping.” months. His voice is often desponSarkar says on May 1, 2014, his dent, with apparent frustration and local BNP party office was burned sadness about his recent life. He calls while he was meeting with other me (as I have no access to contact members inside. “They put a gun on Street protests are a common political expression in Bangladesh, despite the fact they often him) from the Aurora facility. ICE my head and said, ‘There is no other turn violent. contracts with the publicly traded party [than the Awami League] that company, GEO Group, Inc., to run you can do anything with,’” he says. the for-profit private facility. The GEO State designated foreign terrorist orgaMembers of the group went to the when a party takes power the other Group receives approximately $160 of nizations list. However, human rights party does everything it can to discredit police but were refused help. “Because federal funds per day per detainee. activists, immigration lawyers and even in Bangladesh when you go to the the [ruling] party and, if possible, to Sarkar is not alone. As of Feb. 8, former U.S. diplomatic representatives police station and the first thing they force an early election so they can get there are 425 Bangladeshis being held question DHS’ terrorist designation for asked is what political party are you back in power more quickly.” in immigration detention across the with…” Sarkar says. “Because the govthe BNP, stating that it does not fully Because of this political process, country, according to ICE. Advocacy ernment controls everything.” appreciate or understand the political whichever party is not in power at any groups assert this number has been He was attacked again on June 1, situation in Bangladesh or the climate given time often calls for protests and 2014 and then again on Aug. 8, when steadily increasing over the last two these asylum seekers are fleeing. strikes, Moriarty explains. More often Awami League members ransacked his years due to continued political upheavSince the early 1990s, two main than not these protests turn violent, store, he says. They told him, “We give al in Bangladesh. The asylum seekers political parties — the Awami League regardless whether the Awami League you a chance and you still never leave are mainly members of the Bangladesh and the BNP — have fought for conor the BNP is calling for them. your party. We are going to kill you,” National Party (BNP), the second larg- trol of the Bangladeshi parliament. “It’s something that happens in Sarkar recalls. est political party in the country. And Each party has governed the country Bangladesh history, and it’s something So he ran. He jumped in the river, they are principally Muslim, as 90 perfor different time periods separated by that happens in other countries,” cent of Bangladesh’s population practic- stretches of caretaker governments or escaped to his friend’s house and called Moriarty says. es Islam. his parents, who told him not to come military control until the parties can The most recent clashes between But while more and more home because they had already been agree on fair elections. 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there looking for him. His father more individuals, whether orgawent to the police, but was again nized or not, which engages in, or refused help. So his father gathhas a subgroup which engages in a ered his passport and documents terrorist activity,” according to its and arranged for his son to leave website. In the case of the BNP, the country. DHS has argued that the BNP’s Sarkar traveled from past affiliation with groups who Bangladesh, through Qatar to have since engaged in terrorist Brazil and then Bolivia. There, one activities in Bangladesh is reason of his father’s friends helped him enough to give the party this tier start his journey north. He went to III designation. Peru, and then traveled through “When I was there, we defiColombia, where his bag with his nitely did not consider the BNP a passport and all his documents terrorist organization,” says former were stolen on a crowded bus. ambassador Moriarty. “I have not He walked through the jungles heard anything from within the of Panama. He was held in immiU.S. government that would lead gration in Costa Rica for three me to believe that they have The ICE Denver Contract Detention Facility in Aurora, days. He took a boat through changed that. I’m not sure whose operated by the privately held Florida-based Nicaragua and the rest of Central company The GEO Group, Inc. definition of terrorist organization America before arriving in Mexico. is being used here. ... And of He was held in Mexican immigracourse it’s a Muslim majority tion for 22 days, while they confirmed country. If you use the word terrorism cal party,” he says. He asked if they his identity by sending his paperwork would release him on parole so he could in Bangladesh as opposed to political to Washington D.C., he says. “I am not gather evidence for his case and find an violence, maybe that plays a role to a terrorist. I’m not a criminal. I’m a some degree.” attorney. His request was denied. Bangladeshi citizen. They confirmed,” Moriarty continues to travel to Sarkar has been to immigration he says. “Then they released me.” Bangladesh in his new role as executive court a total of 13 times, he says. He He made his way north, and on director for the Alliance of Bangladesh tried to defend himself the best he Workers Safety. In his travels, he has Nov. 13, 2014, Sarkar crossed the U.S./ could given his limited knowledge of Mexican border in El Paso. He immenot heard of anyone linking the BNP to the legal system here and the language diately claimed political asylum after terrorist activities in the country, and he barrier. On May 16, 2015, he appeared says the U.S. State Department continmore than two months of travel. He in court for the last time. This was the ues to issue visas to high-ranking BNP finally felt safe in the country he often first time the government attorney officials. heard praised for its human rights argued the BNP is a terrorist organiza“For me the disturbing thing is that record. tion and therefore Sarkar is not eligible if you use the standard of electoral or ICE officers interviewed him at the for asylum based on the Immigration political violence as being equivalent to border and he tried his best to explain and Nationality Act. terrorism you would have to ban several the situation back home. He was told Sarkar says he answered the judge’s of the major political parties in India, in they would hold him in detention until question the best he could. He denied Pakistan, in the Philippines, and I have all his asylum paperwork came through. any terrorist or violent activity. He “Soon,” they said. That was 15 months explained again the politics of his coun- not heard of that standard being applied in any of those cases. So what ago. try. The judge said he would have a am I missing?” Sarkar spent seven days in the decision in 10 days. Moriarty is not the only one asking detention center in Texas before being Fifteen days later Sarkar received a transferred to the El Paso County Jail, written decision from the judge. “I look this question. Immigration lawyers and advocates from more than a dozen where he was housed in the same cell as at my decision paper and see he organizations across the country subinmates charged with violent crimes. believed everything I submit. mitted a letter to DHS in October He spent three weeks constantly being Everything is credible. He believes I’ve asked about selling drugs, killing people been persecuted in Bangladesh, that I’ve 2015 asking the agency to reconsider the tier III terrorist designation status and raping women, he says. been tortured. That if I go back, I can of the BNP. “Mentally I have a lot of problems be tortured again,” he says. “The court “[DHS] is ignoring the context because I’m living with criminals in believes everything but only they deny that’s on the ground in Bangladesh of there, and I can’t sleep.” On Dec. 7, because they call [the BNP] a terrorist how a lot of the political parties operate 2014, he was transferred to the Aurora organization level 3. This is the reason and how the political process operates,” facility. they denied my asylum.” says Munmeeth Soni, attorney with the “When I arrived in the detention Sarkar says he never knew his party Public Law Center in Southern center, I was waiting for my interview, was considered a terrorist organization. California who is currently representing but they said they cannot find translator “This is a party three times they are in so they didn’t take an interview,” Sarkar power in Bangladesh and when they are Sarkar in his appeal. “It’s very different from the orderly conduct that exists says. “They send my case to direct in power they help and have good relahere on voting day. But it’s an exprescourt.” tions with the United States to [comsion of people’s power.” Sarkar filled out his own asylum bat] terrorism,” he says. “And how In Soni’s estimation, a terrorist despaperwork and represented himself in could we be a terrorist organization if ignation should be reserved for groups the court proceedings. “I explained on we don’t believe [we are]?” who “validly want to use and believe in my asylum form how I am a political DHS defines an undesignated tervictim and tortured by the main politirorist organization as “a group of two or using violence to achieve their aims,” Boulder Weekly

news she says, and not legitimate political Union (ACLU), National Immigration Challenging whether the Bangladesh parties. Project of the National Lawyer’s Guild Nationalist Party is a tier III terrorist But looking at it from DHS’ perand others also argue there is no eviorganization is a very complicated legal spective, the designation could be an dence the BNP has had any affiliation matter and they’re supposed to do that easy way to bar most of the Bangladeshi with any terrorist groups and the party on their own?” asylum seekers coming to the U.S., leaders routinely and publically There are hundreds of other given the recent history of domestic denounce any use of violence. They sent Bangladeshi appeal cases Shah and othterrorism that has caused many to fear the letter to leading officials at DHS, ers are currently defending, arguing Muslim immigrants. “I sort of get their ICE, the Executive Office of against the blanket use of the terrorist approach to all of this, the arguments Immigration Review (EOIR), which is designation as reason enough to treat they are making,” Soni says. these asylum seekers differAngela K. Evans “It’s a perfect storm where ently than other groups of you have domestic terrorism migrants. that’s happened here as well “The broad brush is that as in Europe that they are none of these people had to really able to capitalize on be detained in the first this. Bottom line, their role is place,” Shah says. “They to fight every person who should have been released. tries to enter and who is tryMany of these people had ing to apply for admission so evidence of who they were that when they can make an and they had places to stay. argument that effectively ... We don’t understand why forecloses relief for a group of these people were treated people who are showing up at differently than other folks.” our borders, in their minds, On a blustery day in that’s their job.” early January, I met with two DHS’ main argument for other Bangladeshi asylum the designation is the BNP’s seekers in the small second ties to Bangladesh’s third story office of the DRUM largest political party, the South Asia Organizing hyper conservative Jamaat-eCenter in New York City, Islami party, who the BNP which advocates on behalf of had a coalition government South Asian immigrants. with in the early 2000s. The Jahed Ahmed and Abdullah Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Aljobayer each told me their Bangladesh ( JMB) terrorist immigration stories via a organization branched off of translator. the Jamaat-e-Islami party and The stories are eerily claimed responsibility for similar to Sarkar’s despite simultaneously setting off 500 the fact that none of the bombs throughout the coun- Jahed Ahmed stands on a street corner in Queens, where he men knew each other previtry in 2005. ously. Ahmed wears a thick currently lives while he is appealing deportation. However, as the immigrascarf and leaves his jacket tion advocacy groups argue in on as we talk. He speaks their letter, and Moriarty confirms, the part of the Department of Justice, as with authority, despite being soft-sporuling BNP government actually well as the Executive Office of the ken in nature. Aljobayer still wears a cracked down on the JMB in 2005 and President. They have yet to be given a tracking anklet and has to appear at the 2006, arresting and prosecuting many response. Federal Plaza in downtown Manhattan JMB members. Moriarty confirms that The National Immigration Project about once a week to check in. At 21, the U.S. worked with the BNP when has also developed a public practice he’s less confident when the conversathey were in power on anti-terrorism advisory, which makes the arguments tion starts, answering my questions initiatives and that “the BNP governagainst DHS’ designation of the BNP with short responses. But as the converment went after them (the JMB) very for any asylum seeker to use. sation goes on, he becomes increasingly vigorously.” “The obstacles facing immigrants animated. Although Soni can understand the are incredible in immigration court,” A woman by the name of Kazi logic, the DHS’ arguments aren’t strong says Paromita Shah, associate director Fouzia translates for us. She is also enough to stand up in court, she says. of the National Immigration Project of from Bangladesh and has been in the “What’s more problematic is that the National Lawyer’s Guild. “These U.S. for a decade, working as a commuimmigration judges aren’t pushing back people have to in essence go in front of nity organizer at DRUM. Although she on them (DHS). If immigration courts an immigration judge and a prosecutor has no political affiliation back home, aren’t going to correct them where they by themselves in immigration court in a she has been accused of spreading proare so obviously wrong, then we have a language that they aren’t familiar and paganda against the Awami League and system where we don’t really have neureading documents that they cannot she says her family in Dhaka is often tral adjudication of these claims.” read. ... To be honest, immigration law harassed. 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around the country in detention and two minutes I could explain the answer. He asked himself what he would do facing deportation. After more than 11 But with 30 seconds it’s a problem. Yes visiting someone’s house. “When you months in detention, both Ahmed and is a problem, no is also a problem.” arrive, you knock and ask to come in, Aljobayer are out on parole following a Ahmed’s asylum case was denied, he you don’t just walk across the threshhunger strike at the El Paso Detention says, with a three-line explanation. old,” he says. center in October. “BNP is a third tier terrorist organizaSo Aljobayer asked for asylum. He Like Sarkar, Jahed Ahmed also tion. You are affiliated with BNP. So was also held at the El Paso facility, joined the BNP in 2005. He says he that is the reason why the judge decidapplied for asylum himself and like the joined because they built roads, hospied to deny your case.” others, was denied based on his affiliatals and schools in his village. His local Abdullah Aljobayer has also been tion with the BNP. representative was Saifur “After holding 11 months in Angela K. Evans Rahman, a key leader in the detention, I lost hope,” he says. BNP who worked with the “How can I even explain detenWorld Bank and other internation life? When I call my parents tional financial institutions. “I in Bangladesh, they cry and I’m was impressed by his leadership, crying here. Every single time, I’m and I think if I join BNP I would feeling that I’m not ever going to have lots of opportunity to conbe able to see them again. I don’t tribute to social development,” feel like talking or playing games. Ahmed says. I just wanted to stay in my barHe continued to work with rack all the time and sleep and be the BNP even after their last alone. ... term ended in 2006. In the coun“When I came and they put try’s 2008 elections, he was workme in detention it is the opposite ing at a voting center when side of America than I thought. I Awami League supporters beat have no choice, I have no rights him up so badly he couldn’t even to say something, or get parole. vote that day. For the next several People are treating me differently years Ahmed laid low and barely than others. It’s the exact opposite involved himself in politics. picture of America.” But when the Awami League It was at this point of depresregained power in 2014, the BNP sion and desperation that called for nationwide protests, Aljobayer and approximately 50 and Ahmed joined the crowds in other Bangladeshi asylum seekers the streets. During the demonbeing held in El Paso, including stration he witnessed the death of Ahmed, started a hunger strike. a good friend. “I brought him to After a few days of the hunger the hospital, I was a witness in strike, ICE put in for 11 of the the case. That’s why they target detainees to be transferred and me,” he says. “I was running a Ahmed was part of the group. But small business and they actually when they got to the front gate of targeted me and my shop. They the detention facility, the ICE actually come one day and officers simply released them. It Abdullah Aljobayer, in the DRUM office, reveals the destroy my shop. That’s the reawas the middle of the night in a tracking anklet he has worn since being released from immigration detention in late fall 2015. son why I have a lot of fear to strange country, in a strange city. stay in Bangladesh.” The men pooled their resources Ahmed too paid a human trafficker denied asylum and is currently appealand hired a taxi to take them to the and followed much of the same route ing his case. He joined the BNP simply nearby Muslim center, which was through South America as Sarkar, also because his entire family are registered closed. They were able to contact relalosing his passport and important docu- with the political party. He was beaten tives in New York who booked a hotel ments when a trafficker hid him and three times by Awami League supportroom for them. other immigrants underneath a tarp ers, he says. “I denied to join their party In the morning they were connected without their luggage. He also crossed so I feel scared and I flee my country.” with DRUM and eventually all 11 men the border at El Paso, and was taken to His parents were the ones who moved to New York. the El Paso Processing Center, a nearby decided to send him to America. Aljobayer wasn’t so lucky. He detention facility where he remained for “My father, my mother, even I see remained in the El Paso facility for sev11 months. in the media on the news that the eral more days. Eventually ICE brought He also argued his own asylum case, United States is a really good country in a local Bangladeshi consulate reprewhere he says it was very difficult to that follows human rights, they support sentative to negotiate with the hunger adequately explain his situation. “The other oppressed people,” he says. strikers — a Bangladeshi consulate repjudge gives me a really, really few He followed a similar route through resentative who technically represents moments to answer all the question. South America as Sarkar and Ahmed. the Awami League government in the Sometimes a judge asks me a questions When he reached the U.S. border, he U.S. and only gives me 30 seconds to debated between declaring himself and The consulate representative came answer,” he says. “I know yes or no is asking for asylum or trying to sneak into the barracks and pleaded with the not the answer. If they gave me one or into the country. remaining hunger strikers to eat. At Boulder Weekly

first, Aljobayer says, the representative was empathetic to their plight and appealed to their common language and culture. But as the day went on and the hunger strikers continued to refuse food, he became increasingly angry. Aljobayer started getting scared, thinking about the potential political repercussions. “If consulate is very angry with us and he leaves, he will have all our information and ICE will deport us, and this is a Bangladeshi consulate and they can give ICE our travel documents and we will be sent home,” he says. Eventually, the asylum seekers broke their hunger strike, the representative took photos of the men eating, which they published in a news release on the consulate website. Slowly, most of the hunger strikers were granted parole including Aljobayer, and many of them followed the previous group to New York. Queens to be exact, where there is a large South Asian community who have populated the area with restaurants, markets and businesses reminiscent of their home countries. The hunger strikers are appealing their denial of asylum and are awaiting decisions. But they are no longer in detention. When Sarkar and the 11 other Bangladeshi asylum seekers being detained in Aurora heard about the hunger strike in El Paso, as well as other hunger strikes at 10 different detention facilities across the country, they decided to join at the end of November. The first day of the hunger strike, Sarkar says ICE officers asked the group to explain the strike. “We explained how long we have been here but that we don’t know why we’ve been here that long,” he says. “We told them we came for protection. If they deport the people, then who takes the responsibility if the people go back and get killed by the political party? Who is going to take the responsibility?” After they shared their frustrations, Sarkar was taken to solitary confinement, made to walk with his hands up, like a criminal. He says the florescent lights were never turned off and officers came by every 10 to 15 minutes banging on the doors. After three of four days without food or sleep, Sarkar was taken to the medical unit. “All of these things make it… mentally I am not good,” he says. “I already go to psychotherapist one time but I cannot sleep all night. I am very much hopeless. Sometime my brain, my head isn’t working. I just sit See ASYLUM Page 14

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down and think why did I come here for help? I should have gone somewhere else.” Nothing has changed for Sarkar since the hunger strike. He is still in detention. He filed his appeal on June 7 and is still waiting to hear from the Board of Immigration Appeals. And his family continues to tell him he can’t return home without risking his life to Awami League supporters. A loud cheer erupts behind Sarkar as he begins to describe the depression that often overcomes him. He explains someone from Ghana is being released today after eight months in detention. Sarkar does not join the others cheering. He continues to describe his daily routine: 5 a.m. breakfast. 11 a.m. lunch. 5 p.m. dinner. In between meals he exercises or sits in front of the T.V., which is often on a Spanish channel he can’t understand. Maybe he’ll make some handicrafts to try and sell to buy extra food from the vending machine and make phone calls back home. And he’s also been given less and less work since the hunger strike ended. The desperation in his voice grows as he talks about his family back home and his father’s declining health. Sarkar says he often cries together with his family on the phone, and they constantly ask him questions about his case that he does not have answers to. But sometimes he’s so depressed he doesn’t even want to call his family. He often sits in his cell by himself, sleeping or trying to read the Koran in English. He prays by himself most days but Muslims from different ethnicities gather together on Friday for prayer. They are not allowed to invite an Imam to visit. On his better days, Sarkar talks about being released, about working with organizations to help people in the U.S. understand the political situation in Bangladesh, about speaking up for others still stuck in detention. He talks about working to help his family back home and living a peaceful life. But soon the desperation returns, the hopelessness returns. He begins talking in circles around the concept of justice, wondering if he’ll ever understand what it means, wondering if such a thing actually exists. He often says, “I don’t know what I’m going to do” in closing our conversations. But there is some hope. In July 2015, a New Jersey Immigration judge ruled that the BNP was not a terrorist organization after

reviewing the evidence herself in a case of a young Bangladeshi seeking asylum. The judge said the DHS claim that the political party is a terrorist organization is a “novel one.” She went on to say in her decision that “the record does not include any statement from an American governmental body suggesting that the BNP is a terrorist organization.” And on Feb. 9, James R. Clapper, director of National Security, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the Awami League’s “continuing efforts to undermine the political opposition in Bangladesh (the BNP) will probably provide openings for transnational terrorist groups to expand their presence in the country.” He said that despite the Awami League’s insistence that recent attacks throughout the country were conducted by the BNP in an effort to undermine their authority, ISIS has actually claimed responsibility for up to 11 attacks. This has put the Awami League on the defense and given further credence to the arguments made by members of the BNP seeking asylum and their lawyers. Given this, it remains unclear who is responsible for the tier III terrorist organization designation DHS has given the BNP, and no one from the agency has yet to respond to my repeated emails and calls. What is clear is that young politically minded Bangladeshis are fleeing the violence of their country and coming to the U.S. for safety. In response, the U.S. government is treating them differently than other groups of migrants and accusing them of terrorism based on their country of origin, political affiliation and presumably their religion. At a time when conservatives are calling for a ban on all Muslim immigrants, and the Democrats, including President Obama, are saying that such a ban would conflict with the constitution and the character of America, it appears that within the Department of Homeland Security the conservative position may have already been implemented. And for that, I’m left wondering the same thing as Sarkar. “I come here because I cannot have justice in my own country,” he says. “So I came here because I know here has the highest level of human rights, highest level of justice. I came here for help, but I cannot find any justice. I don’t know how long I need to look for justice.” Mishkat Sarkar is a pseudonym. Boulder Weekly

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t was 5 a.m. in Moscow when own work they were lying to Congress, former National Security Agency which happens to be a crime. But more (NSA) contractor Edward importantly, because they were lying Snowden began his conversation and withholding the true scope of their with the more than 2,000 people unauthorized and, subsequently who gathered at the University of declared, illegal mass surveillance of Colorado’s Macky Auditorium to hear the American people, Snowden realhim speak on Tuesday night, Feb. 16. ized our democracy was being threatSnowden spoke to the audience from ened at its very foundation. Russia by way of the Internet via “Consent is only consent if it is Google Hangouts, which allowed him informed,” he said. And he knew to make a rather Orwellian impression Americans were not informed. But he as a 10-foot-high talking head on a also said he knew something else: “The giant screen dangling above the main only way terrorism can win is if we stage. Sharing the stage in person and abandon our free and open society in in actual size was Joel Dyer fear of it.” Pulitzer PrizeYet, that’s winning journalist exactly what we did following and author Ron 9/11 and continSuskind, who ue to do to this moderated the day. And that is event though it why we are losing really needed no the war despite such intervention. our unparalleled Snowden military and knows what he intelligence capaneeds and wants bilities. to say and does so In a very telleloquently with seemingly great ing moment on conviction and Tuesday night, humility. Snowden showed If he is not an documents to American hero, back up his he most certainly description of a plays the role meeting between Edward Snowden appeared via Google accompanied by Pulitzer Prizeconvincingly. But Hangouts, then President winning journalist Ron Suskind at CU’s DisI suspect and George Bush, tinguished Speakers Board event on Feb. believe the eviVice President dence shows he isn’t acting. Dick Cheney and NSA Director Most of us know Snowden’s story Michael Hayden. The authorization by now. He was recruited by the CIA that had supposedly made it possible to right out of high school even before he collect the phone calls and Internet could graduate. He did a number of records of all Americans had expired. jobs for the CIA and NSA which utiThe U.S. Attorney General was refuslized his abundant computer skills and ing to reauthorize such surveillance which ultimately led to his having top- activity, noting that it was clearly secret clearance. He was living the unconstitutional. So Cheney and Bush good life with his girlfriend in Hawaii, asked Hayden if he would continue to making six figures a year as a contracspy on all of us despite lacking any tor for the NSA in what he called “par- authority to do so and despite knowing adise” when the wheels began to come it was therefore illegal. He agreed. off his life as the result of a crisis of One could argue that American conscience. democracy died in that room at that As he began to watch the congresmoment. An optimist might say it was sional testimony of his bosses — the only anesthetized and will one day directors and managers of the U.S. awaken, like maybe in November 2016. intelligence agencies — he became See SNOWDEN Page 61 concerned because he knew from his Boulder Weekly

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Ian McCluskey pulled together a group of three to recreate an earlier expedition of the Green and Colorado rivers.

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Paul Kuthe and his fiancée, Kate. Following behind them on two rafts, filming ahead of them from the shoreline, or capturing aerial drone footage of the landscape was a small, all-volunteer production team, including a couple of McCluskey’s friends The original French trio of Bernard de Colmont, Genevieve De Colmont and Antoine De Seyne. from Uncage the Soul Productions. McCluskey I decide that I have to follow their foot- says they faced all the challenges any steps down the river and learn how to crew filming in remote areas would face, kayak myself. So then I end up having a like keeping batteries powered and prokayak adventure, and the film is really tecting expensive cameras in very wet two adventures woven together, past and and sandy conditions. present.” “The cinematography is amazing,” In Voyagers Without Trace — which McCluskey says. “We always had the has been screened at a half a dozen film cameras out and ready for some beautifestivals nationwide and is set to debut ful moment. The camera team was up in Boulder at the Dairy Arts Center before dawn, ready to shoot and catch Feb. 24-27 — McCluskey forms his see VOYAGERS Page 22 own kayaking trio with kayaking expert February 18 , 2016 21

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first light, shooting all day long, shooting the sunset, shooting the stars at night, and so for 31 days I think we were averaging three or four hours of sleep a night.” In Voyagers, the past comes to life in footage from Bernard De Colmont’s 16 mm camera that he brought along during the original trio’s journey. According to McCluskey, the film moved from Bernard’s possession to Antoine’s and then to his son, Raymond De Seyne. It had gone unseen for 75 years, sitting on an attic shelf in De Seyne’s old country chateau in France. “And [Raymond] pulled it out, and he’s like, ‘Would you like to see this?’ And we’re like, ‘Yes,’” McCluskey says. “Forty to 50 percent of [Voyagers] is their original, color archival footage. And it’s beautiful. It’s really pretty footage ’cause it’s color, and they shot it before Hollywood had even started shooting the first Hollywood color movie.” Compared to the French trio’s journey, McCluskey’s trip took less than half the time as he traversed over modern day dams and reservoirs, including a couple stretches out of Lake Powell. According to the director, the differences between then and now are clear maps, roads, EMT helicopters, satellite phones and state-of-theart gear. The original trio sported inflatable life vests and American football helmets while riding in wood and canvas kayaks that wouldn’t make the entire journey in one piece. In comparison, the plastic hard-shelled kayaks of today are more reliable. “So we had it way, way easier than they had it,” McCluskey says. “We don’t make any pretense that we’re roughing it like they’re roughing it, but we did want to kind of touch that spirit of being in very remote places that they felt. ... But I still felt, to me, the consequences were still very scary. That adrenaline and that fear of being capsized and being underwater while your head goes knocking against rocks ... those rocks are just as real. Just because it seemed like a good idea at the time, it actually was a lot harder and a lot sort of above my ability. I wasn’t just making a film, I was facing a personal fear about drowning and about putting myself in danger, and I walked away with a lot of courage and a sense of accomplishment.” The crew’s search didn’t go in vain either as they would explore all the small towns the original trio passed through, meet a person who actually met the kayaking pioneers, come in contact with locals and archivists and stumble upon photos of the trio and original letters written by them. “Most importantly what we found were these deep and ancient canyons that were essentially completely unchanged since they paddled 75 years before us,” McCluskey says. “I think I took away a real deep respect for the trip that they had made. By reaching into the past to relate to them we can make those similar experiences part of our life in the present, and that is really like the definition and the meaning of legacy: an ordinary person like me can have an extraordinary journey like they did.” The journey didn’t end for McCluskey and crew at the end of the river, however. He traces the trio’s story back to France and the lives they lived at the beginning of WWII when the Nazis overtook Paris. Among the crew’s finds is not only the lineage and legacy the original trio left behind, but also one of the original kayaks, which was secured in an ancient fortress on a mountaintop. “On the literal level it’s a story of kayakers and sort of whitewater outdoor recreation, but really it’s more a story, just the spirit of adventure,” says McCluskey. “By them going somewhere they had never been and doing something they’d never done, it inspired me to do something I had never done and go to a place I had never been. Their legacy just keeps inspiring others.” Boulder Weekly

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ive theater requires a suspension of belief. The audience must take the real actor they see, and believe that he or she is the actual character on stage. For Phamaly Theater Company, there is an extra element for the audience to consider: the actors all have disabilities. Phamaly productions, then, are shaped through the unique lens of disability, seen in both the characters on stage and in the actors themselves. Phamaly’s current production of Fuddy Meers, now playing at the Aurora Fox Arts Center through Feb. 21 and showing later this month at the Arvada Center for the Arts, gives the audience a chance to see what it is like from the actor’s perspective, to be seen by people for their disability first and not for who they truly are. “The play asks us to wonder how it is that people are seeing us through funny mirrors [‘fuddy meers’],” says Bryce Alexander, artistic director of Phamaly. “Perhaps it is the mirror that really makes us look funny and not our true reflection. Maybe the stories we tell ourselves are just reflections, whether we are looking at ourselves through the funny mirror or looking at the world through one. Maybe it is all a matter of perspective. Maybe we can demonstrate to the audience that they are looking through a funny mirror at the actors, through the lens of disability.” The mission of Denver-based Phamaly Theater Company is to make the stage more accessible to performers with disabilities. It aims to inspire people to re-envision disability through professional theater. By challenging their own ideas of what is possible, they hope to affect the limits society sets for them and show just how arbitrary those boundaries really are. Fuddy Meers tells the story of an amnesiac who wakes up each morning with a blank slate on which her family must imprint a semblance of her context. One morning she is abducted by a limping, lisping man who claims that her family wants to kill her and then mayhem begins. Ultimately, the story proves that everything is not what it appears to be and warns that you should be careful what you wish for. The blank slate offered by the main character’s amnesia carries a sense of unlimited possibility, but it also comes with a cost — the cost of her identity. In losing her memory of the people, experiences and ideas that compose her, she also loses what makes her unique. It is common to talk about disability as something lost — the annotation of the word is “not capable,” as if people with disabilities are somehow less than those who can. While most of the actors would never discount their own experience by hoping for a fresh start, the temptation to wish that for them lingers, especially when witnessing their experience of pain or exclusion. “You would be amazed how many of our actors

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have been stopped on the street for someone to pray for them to get better,” Alexander says. “But not one time, as a part of a script or as what an actor is thinking, does an actor wish that he could wake up tomorrow and not have to deal with this [disability].” And then there is the role of Gerdie, played by Lucy Roucis, who speaks a language all her own. Roucis is an established actor with a degree, an impressive resume and more than 22 years with the company. She has had Parkinson’s disease for 29 years and as the years go on, her tremors increase and it becomes more difficult for her to speak. “Gerdie has a problem communicating because she had a stroke,” Roucis says. “And just about any array of problems can happen with a stroke, so the fact that my

disabilities and potentials differently,” Alexander says. “It means our volunteers, it means our staff, it means our designers, it means the professional theater community, who before Phamaly didn’t have a lot of experience with disability. By asking them to re-envision their own understanding of disability and theater the mission becomes all-encompassing, which is what makes Phamaly so powerful.” Founded in the late ’80s when few people in the theater world were willing to entertain the idea that theater and disability could co-exist, Phamaly once dreamed of a world in which their company could be evaluated just like any other, to celebrate when they earned it and get slammed when they didn’t. Crucial to getting there was the willingness of critics to hold Phamaly productions accountable to the established standards that they held for other companies. Alexander says the company’s current success wouldn’t have been possible without local critics who judged them without the bias of disability. In many ways, Phamaly achieved the goal they set out to pursue as they tour around the state, nation and world, accumulate awards and win lucrative grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. But just as the company reached its goals, the members realized that the very same goals were evasive and success is not as simple as once imagined. As it turns out, it isn’t about meeting the standard — it’s about changing it. No longer interested in being measured by the standard it once pursued, Phamaly set its sights on the audience’s experience of their productions and how their biases are evolving. It is difficult to measure that kind of progress, but the metrics that are available are encouraging. Patrons are coming back and bringing their friends. Donations to the nonprofit are up. Perhaps more important than the data is the sentiment behind it — the notes that people write, the feedback they give and the anecdotal

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by Sarah Haas movement is jerky and Parkinson’s-like doesn’t matter because it could have been the stroke, so I go ahead and let my Parkinson’s hang out.” With or without a disability, one of the greatest things that an artist could hope for is to be able to shed light on the human experience, its joys and its suffering. Roucis says that, because of her Parkinson’s, she has been able to do that in a profound way, working with the disease to find an artistic satisfaction that she never thought possible. She hopes that the next generation of Phamaly actors are confronting a whole new set of prejudices than the ones she helped to change in her career. “Our mission is to affect those people in our audiences, but it starts with our actors viewing their own

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stories the company hears about how the performances affect theatergoers’ lives. After a recent tour through local schools, Alexander recounts a teary phone call from a grateful mother. Her child, who is blind, typically has a hard time connecting with her peers. But after attending the Phamaly production, she wanted to go talk to her friends about herself and her disability for the first time in her life. “We are doing something that is not only relevant to the community but is having an impact,” Alexander says. “That is hard to measure, but our mission isn’t just about numbers. We are trying to produce something that evokes a different kind of response.” To do that, the company is sticking firm to its ON THE BILL: Fuddy Meeres, Aurora Fox Arts artistry, producing plays that offer satisfying artistic Center, Through Feb. 21, opportunity for its actors, directors and designers. Arvada Center for Arts and This strategy has led the company in a new direcHumanities, Feb. 26-28. tion toward shows that are personally meaningful, FS/MS like last fall’s production of Cabaret, which the actors #1loved for its ability to shed light on the experience of those with disabilities in Weimar, Germany. Cabaret is a musical about 1931 Germany as the Nazis were rising to power. Amid the swirling political revolutions is Fräulein Schneider, a business woman falling in love with an older Jewish man, who finds herself in circumstances out of her control, but is adamant in holding her own moral and physical ground. Roucis was cast in this role, but there were a lot of people who didn’t think she could do it, at least not anymore. Twenty-eight years into her diagnosis, her Parkinson’s disease was just too advanced, and it was only getting worse. She was told that her days of having speaking roles were over, and a critic even went so far as to say that Roucis’ shaking was a distraction. But after being shaky for most of her adult life, Roucis knew that she still had what it takes to be on stage. Being told that she couldn’t do it sparked a fire in Roucis. For Alexander, she offered an inspired and heartfelt performance that shed new light on Schneider’s character. Roucis thought she did pretty good herself: “I kicked butt. I did. I worked so hard.” In her last line in the play, Schneider famously vows to stick her ground and Roucis’ performance added new meaning to the resolve such determination requires: “All my life I have managed for myself, and it is too old a habit to change. I have battled alone, and I have survived. There was a war, and I survived. ... There was an inflation, billions of marks for one loaf of bread, but I survived! And if the Nazis come, I will survive. … For, in the end, what other choice have I? This is my world!” Living with Parkinson’s disease has its challenges, but so does living itself. “It’s just a different way to live,” Roucis says. “I didn’t want anybody to comment on my degeneration with Parkinson’s. I wished they would see how I am working with it. Every year my Parkinson’s changes and gets worse. I’d like to see people with disabilities cast in roles all over the medium, whether it’s for a role of a person with a disability or if they can open their minds to cast people with disabilities in roles that don’t necessarily call for someone with a disability. May the best actor win.” Boulder Weekly

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overtones Surround sound

Ars Nova Singers will perform pieces for 40 parts by Peter Alexander

n the history of European choral music, there are two The spatial basis of the music is especially interesting in major works that were composed for 40 different voice the case of the Tallis, which may have been performed at parts. Nonsuch Palace, an extravagant building project that was Yes, that’s four-zero, 40 parts, which is really a lot, started by Henry VIII, completed after his death and later and the size alone has made these Brobdingnagian destroyed. Nonsuch included an octagonal banquet hall with works well known. For the same reason, they are not often eight balconies above the main floor that would have been heard live, but both will be performed on the same concert by ideal for the eight separate choirs. Boulder’s Ars Nova Singers and director Thomas Edward “We will perform both of these pieces in almost a comMorgan. plete circle, surrounding the audience,” Morgan says. “It is Titled “Renaissance Retrospective,” the concert will be very much a surround sound experience, and that’s so much a performed in Denver on Friday and in Boulder on Saturday. part of the construction of the pieces that it’s really critical to Both works were written in the 16th century, and indeed perform them that way.” one probably inspired the other. The first was Ecce beatam While both pieces have 40 separate parts, they are in lucem by Italian some ways quite difCourtesy of Ars Nova composer ferent. “Tallis relies Alessandro Striggio on the very initial from the 1560s. gesture that starts Shortly after it was with two voices and introduced in goes all the way England in that around the ensemble with each individual decade, it was folvoice entering sepalowed by the more rately,” Morgan says. famous Spem in “Striggio’s work in alium by English contrast starts with composer Thomas eight voices together, Tallis. Those two and the choirs are works serve as already laid out in bookends on the more of a multi-choir program, which presentation.” opens with Striggio and closes with This makes the Tallis, recalling the Tallis easier for lisorder in which they Ars Nova’s latest concert will feature 40-part pieces by Alessandro Striggio and teners to follow, Thomas Tallis. were written. because the separate In between, Ars lines are easier to Nova will perform music by Carlo hear, but harder for the singers, because ON THE BILL: Renaissance Gesualdo and Orazio Vecchi, Italian they have to count so carefully. The Retrospective: Music for Many Voices. 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 19, St. composers who were working a couple of Striggio, in contrast, is more of a massed Paul’s Lutheran Church, 1600 Grant decades after Striggio and Tallis. All the sound with less differentiation among St., Denver. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. music will be sung a capella. the parts, making it easier for the singers 20, St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder. Tickets: 1-800“This is a wonderful opportunity to to know where they are but a little hard838-3006, or online at hear [the Striggio and Tallis] pieces perer for listeners to follow. arsnovasingers.org/concerts/ formed live,” Morgan says. “It’s rare, Carlo Gesualdo is best known to hisespecially to hear both of them together.” torians for two things: the brutal murder To achieve the total of 40 voice parts, of his wife and her lover, and the compoboth pieces divide the choir into multiple groups. “Striggio sition of highly expressive madrigals that seem to anticipate the imagined the 40 parts probably as five eight-part choirs,” chromatic harmonic language of the late 19th century. He also Morgan explains. “The Tallis piece is a little different, for wrote a number of scared works, including a set of Responsoria eight five-part choirs.” (Responsories) for Holy Week, published in 1611. Several of In the late Renaissance period, the presence of multiple the Responsoria will be performed by Ars Nova. choirs always suggests that singers would be placed in differ“In many respects they are as harmonically adventurous as ent spaces around a church or performance area, and that the madrigals,” Morgan says. “These are a little more stately, seems to be the case for both works. “It’s clear in the conI would say, because they were written for the church. They struction of the pieces that the composers were thinking are very expressive, but a little more formal. about how the sound moves in a room,” Morgan says. “That’s “Over the course of our history we’ve performed all of the not something that we get again until the 20th century.” Responsoria. It’s music that I find particularly appealing, both This practice is connected to St. Mark’s Basilica in because of their musical content, with really imaginative harVenice, where the presence of multiple choir lofts gave commonic constructions that Gesualdo gets into, but also because posers the opportunity to have music coming from various they’re so expressive. directions. But “this is really another level beyond that,” “I don’t think there’s anything quite like it in the reperMorgan says. toire.” Boulder Weekly

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arts & culture Don’t judge a musical by its title

‘A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder’ is a fun, jaunty tale by Amanda Moutinho

here’s a special place in hell Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal, but not sprinting — show that is easy reserved for musicals with Gentleman’s Guide is an original creto follow and keeps you on your toes. long titles. Hardly do they ation that’s refreshingly void of any The bulk of the musical happens in roll off the tongue, but franchise grip. It’s what you’d describe the first act, which was an applauded instead tumble awkwardly as a good ol’ fashioned musical, not choice. It allowed room for the second out of your mouth: You’re a Good Man, necessarily political, controversial or act to breathe and take its time, making Charlie Brown; A Funny Thing experimental, but instead filled with it even funnier than the first act — a Joan Marcus Happened on the Way to the tough task to accomplish. Forum; How to Succeed in Business The musical was supWithout Really Trying; I Love plied with a brilliant cast. You, You’re Perfect, Now Change. Touring companies are usuIt’s exhausting even getting ally top-notch substitutes for through the name. the Great White Way, but And along comes a new this touring cast was superb. member of the club: A Talent overflowed off the Gentleman’s Guide to Love & stage and every note was Murder. But while its title is exceptional. There were no laborious, the show is anything duds in sight, and every but. actor infused his or her Winner of four Tonys, character with charm and including best musical of 2014, personality. A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Kevin Massey, who Murder is a jaunty tale that played our fateful hero Kristen Beth Williams, Kevin Massey reminds us how pleasant theater Morty, packed an expert and Adrienne Eller deliver homerun can be. Now playing at the Buell punch. He plays a truly performances in A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder. Theatre through Feb. 28, the rotten character who lies, musical follows Montague cheats and murders, but “Monty” Navarro. Monty finds does it with such boyish out he’s a member of the prestigious, toe-tapping tunes, amusing gags, a charisma that you can’t help but love and rich, D’Ysquith family and is ninth well-designed set and a talented cast. him. In a musical filled with extravain line to inherit the earldom of The musical greatly benefitted from gantly odd characters, Massey’s Highhurst. Monty knows what he has its structure. If you stop by the straight man didn’t get overshadowed to do, and in a series of Clue-style Gentleman’s Guide Wikipedia page, but instead was every bit as fun to deaths, Monty takes down his family you’ll see just how much plot they fit in watch as everyone else. His two leadwithout even flinching. two hours and 20 minutes by reading a ing ladies, Kristen Beth Williams Set in the early 1900s, the musical detailed synopsis of the show (2,400 (Sibella) and Adrienne Eller takes a notoriously heavy time period words long, three times the length of (Phoebe), had impressive pipes and and makes it a silly backdrop for its this review and longer than the Les were also equally entertaining. shenanigans, filled with sharp, quick Miserables Wikipedia synopsis). But this And of course, it’s impossible to not wit that’s always playful and lightis where Gentleman’s Guide succeeds: give John Rapson a well-deserved hearted. Based on the 1907 novel Israel efficient storytelling. It’s a fast-paced — shout-out for playing the entire

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D’Ysquith clan — nine characters in all. Rapson was consistently hilarious, and it’s a stunning feat to watch him exit stage as one character, usually after being violently murdered, only to return a few seconds later as someone completely different. A highlight was the loud-mouthed, last-in-succession Lord Adalbert, who was brilliantly matched with Lady Eugenia (played by Kristen Mengelkoch) as the squabbling old couple that despise each other the way only husband and wife can. The show was rounded out with a playground-like set that was constantly changing and moving and filled with lush backdrops. And it’s no surprise Linda Cho took home the Tony for best costume design as Gentleman’s Guide features a never-ending parade of beautiful attire. The only downfall of the musical is the music itself. The songs are funny and perfectly lovely to listen to during the show, but it’s not a soundtrack that begs you to pour over every song. Songs sort of blended together and nothing pops out. This can be a problem for musicals, but with a strong storyline and interesting characters, it wasn’t a complete detriment. That being said, the show really could benefit from at least one show-stopping song — it had the talent to provide one, but no follow through. In the end, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder is a fun nod to the Golden Age of musicals that came before it. And who could have thought murder could be so delightful?

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Colin Kelly. 6:30 p.m. Cafe Aion, 1235 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-993-8131.

Bluegrass Jam. 7 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-339-0767. Boulder Swing Collective. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

DJ Done. 9 p.m. Breaker’s Grill, 380 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-3839.

Brazil Night With Members Of Ginga. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

G. Sauce, Special Sauce, Ripe. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Casey Russells Souls Shack. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

George Nelson Trio. 9 p.m. License No. 1, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.

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7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 19, 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday Feb. 20, Old Main Theatre, 1600 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303492-6329. In 1996, Eve Ensler started a revolution with a powerfully political tool: the vagina. Her play The Vagina Monologues started off as a one-woman show lamenting vaginal woes and triumphs, but since has grown to feature a full cast of women and has been performed all over the world. From gynecologist visits to war-torn countries to relationships to the C-word, the monologues cover a wide range of topics about this particular genitalia. This weekend, check out the University of Colorado’s annual performance, where all proceeds go to iEmpathize, a nonprofit combating crimes against children.

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Guest Recital: Hal Galper Trio. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig Building at CU Boulder, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-1411.

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8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 19, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. The impact of legal marijuana has been felt throughout Colorado. It’s that impact that is the subject of new documentary Rolling Papers. The film takes a look at the novelties of legalization through the lens of The Denver Post, by exploring the dynamics of the newspaper biz and the marijuana industry. It follows Ricardo Baca, editor of the Post’s The Cannabist, as he’s tasked with aggregating content for and about this new market. The Boulder Theater screening will feature a Q&A with Baca and will be moderated by Jake Browne.

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Complete Unknowns. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

King Cardinal. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Ladies Night with Under Two Tables. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Miles Wide. 7:30 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970-259-3555. The Nice Work Jazz Combo. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Open Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. see EVENTS Page 34

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Bonnie Lowdermilk 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 18, Treppedas Italian Ristorante, 300 Second Ave., Niwot, 303-652-1606.

If you’re itchin’ for a night of jazz tunes, look no further than local musician Bonnie Lowdermilk. Feb. 18, Lowdermilk takes the stage at Treppedas alongside Gary Sloan on bass and Jill Frederickson on drums. Lowermilk’s been playing music since she was 6 years old, and she has had a successful career playing cities around the U.S. and Europe. She’ll be playing music from throughout her career and her latest album, Borderless Crossings. Plus, she’ll fill out the night with some classic favorites. The hoppy jazz sounds matched with Lowdermilk’s silky vocals will make for a fine night of music.

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