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So you want to get rid of the cops? Here are some alternatives. By Paul Danish

o you want to get rid of the police, huh? So then what? Who are you going to call — what are you going to do — when the bad boys come for you? Well, here are seven alternative, time-tested, 100% police-free law enforcement options: Option 1: Raise the Hue and Cry. Dating back to the late 13th century in English law, raising the Hue and Cry means that anyone who witnesses a crime is required to yell, in so many words, “After the Rogue” and start pursuing the perp. Anyone who hears the witness is also required to raise the Hue and Cry and join the chase. Both the cry and the pursuit must be kept up from town to town and county to I

county until the criminal is caught and either delivered to the sheriff (if he surrenders) or killed on the spot (if he resists). Raising the cry and joining the pursuit was mandatory. Failure to do so made you accessory to the crime. It’s obviously a great way to deal with street crime in neighborhoods that don’t want cops around. And what could possibly go wrong? Option 2: Bring back outlawry. Today the term “outlaw” usually refers to any fugitive from justice. However the term originally referred to someone who had been stripped of the protection of the laws by a court and consigned to the status of being “outside of the law.” A person who was declared an outlaw could legally be beaten, robbed, tortured, killed, etc. by JUNE 11, 2020

anyone in the community. Outlawry is a great way to deal with known bad actors who commit crimes when there aren’t any witnesses around to raise the Hue and Cry in cop-free cities. An outlaw who attempted to commit a further crime (no matter how small) could be killed on the spot by the intended victim, or subsequently hunted down by the victim’s agents or independent bounty hunters. That should cut down on recidivism. It should also reduce the need for prisons. A lot of outlaws, maybe most, would either go into hiding, in effect incarcerating themselves, or assume new identities and attempt to lead law-abiding lives, in effect see DANISH PLAN Page 6

The other epidemic we must fight is white supremacy by Jodeen Olguín-Tayler

wenty years ago, as a senior at Boulder High School, I led a small collective of students in a walkout to protest the murder of Amadou Diallo by police in New York City. While at Casey Middle School, when the Klu Klux Klan marched along Pearl Street, I tip-toed downstairs to lock my sister’s bedroom door while she was sleeping after my friends told me she was too dark-skinned to be safe. This month, leaders across our Boulder community — and the world — have been protesting the ways black people are killed by police brutality. We join these protests knowing that black people have been dying from racial inequality in health care, the disproportionate vulnerability to the coronavirus and suffering unequal economic impacts from the COVID-19 crisis. These are not accidents. These are all symptoms of another deadly illness. These violent symptoms point to an illness that has gripped this country since its birth and has been embedded into its very DNA. The murders of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor this past spring, and of George Floyd and Tony McDade the last week of May are painfully visible manifestations of this epidemic. This illness is all around us — impacting us differently, yet none of us are free from it. We need to see all these symptoms as parts of the same sickness: white supremacy. What many of us protesting are asking is that we don’t ignore the

sickness that choked George’s breath from his body, nor deny the illness that allowed three other officers to stand by, watching. We need action against the contagion released with the tweets of public officials escalating the violence. And, if you are angry at these actions, please also grieve about the silence of neighbors and family — because that, too, test positive. As a Chicana woman, I’m painfully familiar with both the brutal racism enacted on my people, and the policing of white identity that results in a more privileged position for those — like myself — who are people of color with light-colored skin. My tias and primos in New Mexico and my brothers in Sao Paulo, Brasil tell me that a COVID vaccine may help those with money and proximity to whiteness, yet together we bear the suffocating experience that this, too, will be unequally distributed in our majority black- and brown communities. I tested positive for COVID-19 in March, and felt the panic that grips you when your lungs are starved from oxygen. I now fear for my Chicano-Korean son, as attacks on Asian-American communities escalate because of the racists who labeled coronavirus a “Chinese virus.” As white men with guns — cheered on by their president — demand business as usual in the face of over 66% of coronavirus deaths being suffered by people of color, it

We cannot support a return to a “great America” that

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reforming themselves. Either alternative is acceptable. Importantly, outlawry is not a return to vigilante justice. Vigilantes were self-appointed posse, judges, juries and executioners. But with outlawry, an offender would be declared an outlaw through a legal process, and, equally important, members of the community who choose to act against the outlaw would be acting with full sanction of the law, not acting outside it like vigilantes. Still, speaking of vigilantes... Option 3: Form committees of public safety and vigilance. A dictionary definition (Oxford English in this case) of a “vigilance committee” is “a self-appointed committee for the maintenance of justice and order in an imperfectly organized community.” Like a community without a police department. Like Minneapolis, maybe. Vigilance committees were formed in a number of frontier communities, including San Francisco in 1856. Think of them as an early example of community policing. What could possibly go wrong? Well, in 1966 a book came out about the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance. It was titled, San Francisco’s Reign of Terror. Option 4: Hire private security. There are plenty of private security companies around, but if you are a group of merchants threatened by mobs of excitable boys who want to loot and burn your businesses in a police-free city, you might want to hire a firm with a lot of hands-on experience in counter-insurgency, I mean private-sector community policing. The company formerly known as Blackwater Security comes to mind. Its superbly trained agents know how to stop trouble before I

it begins. And what could possibly go wrong? OK, there were those pesky incidents in Baghdad when someone looked cock-eyed at a Blackwaterguarded convoy and a misunderstanding involving live ammunition ensued. OK, they over-reacted. But when your city is in flames and there aren’t any cops around, you might consider that a feature, not a bug. Option 5: Make an arrangement with the mafia. The mafia has been in the protection racket, I mean business, for decades. It’s pretty good at what it does. However it doesn’t provide onsite security during a riot to prevent looting. Hunting down the looters after the riot and blowing their knee-caps off is more its style. And if your local godfather needs a favor from you, you better do it. Or else. Option 6: Support your local warlord. Power hates a vacuum, and if you get rid of your local police, someone, usually someone with a militia, is going to take over and provide a full range of security services — to those who play ball with them and pay their, uh, tithings. Some police-free cities have had several competing warlords at the same time. It happens all the time in the developing world. Option 7: Embrace self-defense. And the suck. When you’ve gotten rid of the police — and you suddenly realize that we are not all in this together — your last line of defense is self-defense. Buy a gun. And learn to sleep with one eye open. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

Unaccompanied minors

While most of our attention is focused on COVID-19’s impact on our own families, we also have an opportunity to remember those less fortunate in overcrowded facilities. Thousands of unaccompanied children are in the care and custody of the Office for Refugee Resettlement (ORR) (Re: “Federal judge orders ORR and ICE to release minors with ‘greater speed,’” News, April 30, 2020). We must ask ourselves, why does the U.S. government allow children to remain in crowded ORR facilities, especially during a pandemic? Can you imagine any U.S. American child sitting in a foreign detention center until they can be resettled during this health crisis? We would not stand for this if it happened to our own children. We are responsible for their safety and wellbeing. We would not be deterred to take action. In our own country, many government leaders have taken measures to ensure the safety of our children. Steps are in place to keep them safe. Yet, facilities continue to hold unaccompanied minors. At least 59 children held in ORR detention facilities have tested positive for

COVID-19 out of approximately 2,100 unaccompanied minors throughout the country. We, as the voice for all children, must speak to protect children everywhere. We should not be deterred. One facility in Colorado united unaccompanied children to parents, family members or sponsors. All facilities should follow suit immediately. Voice this issue among your family and circle. Help spread awareness. All children from the ORR detention centers should be released so they may be protected and kept safe from further spread of coronavirus amongst themselves, employees and employee’s families. All people deserve humane treatment. Join me and Save the Children Action Network in contacting your policymakers and the Trump administration, urging ORR to release children and pregnant women, from detention settings and state-run facilities where there is risk of a coronavirus outbreak. Children, and all people, deserve humane protections from COVID19. Deborah Young/Longmont, and executive director of Empowering Communities Globally

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is all too clear that white supremacy is both business as usual and a violent epidemic attacking us. As our black sisters and brothers suffer on both the frontlines of police brutality, while bearing the refusal of health care systems to value black lives, and an economic system built on the enslavement and elimination of black and brown bodies, we know there will be no vaccine for white supremacy. And any inequitable “fix” will keep the system of white supremacy firmly in place, failing to transform and heal the systems that privilege white bodies and white lives. Neither a vaccine for the coronavirus nor defunding the police — both of which are imperatives — will cure this other sickness. Without deeper transformation, white supremBOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

acy will continue to unleash violence against black people and other people of color, and continue infecting and diminishing the humanity of white people who remain complicit. There are no bystanders in this pandemic. It privileges some, yet infects us all. We cannot support a return to a “great America” that never was. We — all of us — desperately need a new normal... one that enables a shared future. To get there, we must work towards the individual, organizational, societal and structural transformations necessary to ensure an equitable future for all people. Jodeen Olguín-Tayler is a Boulder resident and parent. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. I

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BVSD updates its discipline policy and looks at ending its relationship with police departments

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n one of the first moves following the death of George Floyd at the hands of police officers in late May, Minneapolis public schools moved to cut ties with law enforcement on June 2. Supported by thousands of letters from students and endorsed by the teachers’ union, the school board unanimously passed a resolution that ends the district’s contract with the Minneapolis police department to provide school resource officers (SROs), a growing field of law enforcement around the country.

What started in Minneapolis has sparked similar conversations in school districts nationwide, including here in Boulder County. But the idea of removing police from schools is not unique to this moment. It’s been a topic of discussion for years as the presence of SROs in schools has grown since the turn of the century, largely prompted by the Columbine High School shooting and subsequent high-profile mass school shootings. “Although this just now is coming to the mainstream white consciousness, this work (to create policefree schools or to decrease the emphasis of policing in schools) has been going on in terms of organizers and advocacy groups for decades,” says Kathryn Wiley, a 8

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research associate working on issues of school discipline at the University of Denver and member of the NAACP Boulder County. There are roughly 46,000 SROs in American schools and organizations like the Advancement Project, the Alliance for Educational Justice and the ACLU have years of research showing that police presence disrupts learning environments for students of color particularly, but also LGBTQIA students and those with disabilities. These reports show that black and brown students are routinely and disproportionately impacted by policing in schools, leading to what many have called the school-to-prison pipeline. In many ways, schools have become the first point of entry black and brown students have with the criminal justice system, and an early indicator of the racial disparities that have become inherent in the American experience. It’s why the NAACP Boulder County Branch is calling on the Boulder Valley School District (BVSD) to discontinue its relationships with area law enforcement, which provide — and pay for — 10 SROs in area middle and high schools. But the discussion comes in the context of disproportionate discipline, something the school district, along with the NAACP and other groups like Engaged Latino Parents Advancing Student Outcomes (ELPASO), have been looking to address for almost two years. That work has shown that within BVSD, students of color, particularly Latino students, are consistently disciplined at much higher rates than white students. “Despite the progressive mentality of the Boulder community, the rates of racial disparities and discipline are comparable to national numbers,” Wiley says. “So that tells us that we’ve got some work to do.” According to data provided by the NAACP and culled from the Colorado Department of Education, black and Latino students are disciplined disproportionate to their representation in the overall population. Over three school years from 2016 to 2019, black students were disciplined at a higher rate (252%) proportionate to their population (1%) in the schools. Hispanic or Latino students were disciplined 172% more and American Indian or Alaskan Native students 165% more than is proportionate. Although data for English Language Learners, students with disabilities and those in special education was only available for the 2018-19 school year, those groups were also disciplined at a higher rate proportionate to their population. Also, despite significantly lower population in schools, referral of black students to law enforcement is 3.6 times that of white students. For Latino students, it’s 2.7 times that of white students. For in-school susI

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discipline policies on June 9, which haven’t been revised in almost 40 years, according to Superintendent Ron Anderson. The update is intended to streamline the reporting process for discipline incidents as well as make it uniform across the district, as it has historically been left up to individual schools. “In our school system, we’ve had a long history of site-based management and in some ways that can work really well, but it works not well when you’re trying to make sure that you’re treating kids fairly and you’re all looking at the same types of infractions and supports for kids,” Anderson says. “The new discipline policies will get everybody on the same page. It’ll give us a clear sense of what data is being entered into our systems. And then it’ll give us an opportunity to reflect and react and to adjust policy over time to improve it. I don’t know that what we’ve done is perfect, but I think it’s a great first step.” Johnson says that having clearer, more narrow guidelines in place can help address some of the discipline disparities, and it’s also an attempt to remove as many instances of subjectively as possible. “I would say that there was nothing about the previous policies that were inherently discriminatory on paper,” she says. “It’s just that they left too much up to individual schools and individual teachers and administrators to implement. And that’s where our own unconscious biases get into some bad places.” But it’s not just about changing the discipline disparities, Wiley says. It’s about redirecting efforts away from

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“Ideally that treatment, those services, whatever their needs are, whether it’s behavioral health or substance use, those would be provided at the school or community level without the involvement of the justice system,” he says. He does, however, point to benefits of having SROs in schools, such as referrals to his office that include cases of sexual abuse of a child by a parent, physical abuse by a teacher and hate crimes. The ways SROs prevent and report major crimes is one of the main reasons Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle is in favor of keeping SROs in schools, in addition to the huge liability and concern of school shootings. (Currently, there is one Sheriff Department SRO in BVSD, and others within St. Vrain Valley School District.) While Pelle sees the benefits of SROs, he says, his force will abide by whatever the community decides. “We police by consent,” Pelle says. “So whatever, ultimately, the school board and the superintendent and the parents decide they want us to do, we’ll do it.” Still, more could be done to reduce juvenile interaction with law enforcement, Dougherty says, and it’s something his office has been working with school districts on with restorative justice initiatives. These efforts have significantly decreased juvenile detention rates, lengths of stay and probation, as well as eliminated any sort of incarceration for truancy, he says. More than 50% of juveniles coming through the system have been diverted from court and have their cases dismissed with no affect to their record moving forward, Dougherty says. And the number of truancy court hearings in Boulder County has decreased 88% since 2016. However, Dougherty says there is a real need to better understand the data surrounding the intersection of race, ethnicity, gender and socioeconomic status with discipline in schools, law enforcement and the criminal justice system, “in order to recognize and address any disparity.” What’s missing in a lot of the conversation around police involvement in schools, Dougherty says, is the issue of reducing gun violence and school shootings. The removal of SROs could also reignite the conversation around arming teachers. Although he admits, “We’re not going BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

to solve it all at once, obviously. And I don’t want to hold one area of need to progress for another.” Johnson, from the NAACP, says there are still many unanswered questions about how SROs operate in schools. To date, she hasn’t seen any information on how complaints are handled, clear job descriptions and oversight policies with the law enforcement agencies or what sort of training the officers must go through. Nationally, there isn’t any standardization of SRO programs, which also presents problems with determining their effectiveness, says Mo Canady, executive director of the National Association of School Resource Officers. “It’s a state-by-state, region-byregion, city-by-city issue,” he says. “And so what you might have in one city or area being called an SRO program is not even close by definition because they’re not carefully selecting officers, they’re not specifically training them.” For starters, he says, SROs shouldn’t be involved in school discipline at all. Their main job is protecting the student body from outside threat, as well as educating kids about law-related topics and providing informal support to school nurses and mental health workers based on their experiences. But Canady attributes increased safety in schools over the last several decades to the rise of SROs on school campuses. He also points out juvenile arrests have plummeted over the same time period, something he credits to de-escalation tactics and reduction in arrests in schools for things that kids would be arrested for “on the streets.” Wiley disagrees, however. She says that there is little evidence that SROs make schools safer from both school shootings or violence in general. “And they definitely make schools unsafe for black and Latino students because of racial profiling in arrests,” she says. “Adding SROs can increase adverse outcomes for kids, and it doesn’t buy us more safety.” There’s also the issue of allocation of resources. Unlike some other school districts, for example in Denver and Minneapolis, BVSD does not fund SROs. Rather they are provided by the local law enforcement agencies, and removing them from schools will not necessarily mean any cost-savings or funds that can be redirected for the district. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

“None of that changes the fact that just because something is free, it doesn’t mean that it’s good, or that it’s the right thing,” says school board member Lisa Sweeney-Miran, who is in favor of the proposal to remove SROs. “And no amount of sort of budget-friendly impact is going to turn police officers into social workers or mental health professionals.” The funds currently allocated for SROs at the city and county level could, however, go toward other initiatives with the school district, Johnson posits, as local jurisdictions already provide other services like public and mental health support, after-school enrichment activities and more to the district. The City of Boulder, for example, has budgeted $747,169 to SROs for fiscal year 2020, up more than $25,000 from the year before. (Boulder Police Department did not respond to requests for comment before press time.) “If we have the opportunity to look at the big picture of what kids truly need and how we can best provide for those needs, we’re hoping we can shift the role of law enforcement in serving those needs and move to addressing the needs more appropriately with the right people with the right training,” Johnson says. “Whether we get SROs removed or not, I think that at the very least we are moving the discussion forward about the role of law enforcement in BVSD and what’s going on in terms of discipline, especially with our black and Latino students.” The process for deciding about the future of SROs within BVSD is yet to be determined in a lot of ways. The school board is scheduled to have a public discussion about SROs within the district at the June 23 board meeting, with the hopes of laying out a clearer time line and engaging more of the community in the conversation. “I think a lot of people’s biggest worry when a tragedy like the killing of George Floyd happens is that it goes away and there’s no change,” Superintendent Anderson says. “And I think that I’m encouraged by the energy around equity in our community, that we know and understand that whether academically or through discipline that we have disproportionality issues ... but it’s going to take our entire community owning that, understanding that and joining the conversation.” I

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t’s almost summer, which means those of us who live along the Front Range ought to prepare for high ozone days. On May 28, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment issued the year’s first “ozone action day alert” — that is, it was hot and sunny, culminating in ozone concentrations reaching levels that are unsafe for sensitive groups. Any hope that stay-at-home orders during the pandemic might quell the release of volatile organic compounds, which contribute to ground-level ozone creation, should be tempered, according to Collin Tomb, air and climate team lead at Boulder County Public Health. “While we did see an improvement to air quality from reduced commuter traffic during the stayat-home order,” Tomb said in a statement, “the move to some people returning to the office may make those improvements short-lived. Air pollut-

ants from vehicles, together with those associated with the extraction, burning and manufacturing of fossil fuels, are the cause of our especially high ozone.” Boulder County recently received an “F” grade from the American Lung Association for its high levels of ozone. According to Boulder County, “Breathing ground-level ozone can cause symptoms such as coughing, throat irritation, pain, burning, tightness or discomfort in the chest, and wheezing or shortness of breath. Long-term exposure to ozone causes more frequent and severe asthma attacks, increased hospitalizations, and higher rates of illness and death.” If you’re concerned about how state and local officials are addressing ozone pollution, submit comments ahead of the June 18 Colorado Air Quality Control Commission meeting by emailing cdphe.aqcc-comments@state.co.us. GILLFOTO/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Goodbye, environmental protections THE TRUMP administration has dealt another blow to key environmental protections in the U.S.

n June 4, President Trump signed an executive order that allows federal agencies to assert “emergency” powers to expedite the construction of environmentally damaging pipeline, highway and other infrastructure projects without environmental review. The order allows companies and regulators to skirt key environmental review procedures outlined in the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to push projects through, using a provision in NEPA that allows for such conduct during national emergencies. The administration has been chipping away at NEPA and other environmental protections, drawing the ire of environmentalists, concerned citizens and communities that will be most affected by the rollbacks. 12

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“A public health crisis is not an excuse to drill, mine and pave our public lands, and the American people won’t fall for it,” said Center for Western Priorities Policy Director Jesse Prentice-Dunn in a statement. “This order will almost certainly increase environmental injustice across America. Pipelines, highways and mines have significant impacts on communities, particularly communities of color. This executive order will limit or eliminate the ability of those communities to have input on projects that put the health of children and seniors at risk.” Susan Jane Brown, the wildlands program director with the Western Environmental Law Center, Added bluntly: “This recent executive action cements the Trump administration’s legacy as the most callous and brutal regime in modern times.”

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annabis grown in Boulder County greenhouses use about 30% less energy than plants grown in indoor facilities, according to a new assessment released by Boulder County’s Cannabis Energy Impact Offset Fund and Energy Resources Solutions. The report provided recommendations for CANNABIS TOURS/ cannabis WIKIMEDIA COMMONS growers in Boulder County to reduce costs, lower carbon footprints and maximize production. Some key findings from the report: While indoor grow facilities are more electricity-intensive due to their reliance on artificial lighting, greenhouse-grown cannabis actually requires more fuel due to lower yields in the greenhouses. Still, greenhouse facilities are 70% more productive than indoor grow sites, when considering productivity through the lens of how much carbon dioxide is emitted to produce a gram of product. Research done locally like this will help Boulder County producers keep up with market trends nationwide, as more states legalize marijuana. “As the cannabis industry matures and nationwide market competition increases, it will be imperative for Boulder County cannabis cultivators to make data-driven decisions that lead to energy savings while maintaining or increasing their productivity levels,” said Dave Hatchimonji, energy efficiency program manager at Boulder County, in a statement. This “report should give these organizations a foot up on their peers, while addressing Boulder County’s need to lower the carbon emissions for this energy-intensive industry.” BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

The world’s largest garbage dump

CU researchers propose an orbital-use tax to help clean up space

by Angela K. Evans

t any given point in time there are hundreds of thousands of particles of debris — approximately 6,000 tons — circulating the planet in low-Earth orbit. In what NASA calls “the world’s largest garbage dump,” objects like old satellites and rocket bodies, as well as small items like nuts and bolts, tools astronauts lose on space walks and even paint flecks orbit the Earth at speeds up to 18,000 miles per hour, or seven times faster than a bullet. “Something going that fast, even if it’s the size of a paint fleck, if it hits an active satellite it can do a lot of damage,” says Akhil Rao, co-author of a new paper out of CU-Boulder that proposes an orbital-use tax as a way to mitigate the space junk problem. “And that damage to those satellites can create more pieces of debris that are also moving very, very fast. That can cause a lot more damage and you get this dynamic where collisions beget collisions because they create fragments that cause more collisions and on and on and on.” Space debris has long been a problem (NASA developed its Orbital Debris Program in 1979) but it’s of growing concern as the commercial space industry rapidly expands. Sending more material into space presents a potential tragedy of the commons scenario, an economic situation wherein individual consumers in a sharedresource industry act in their own selfinterest without regard for the common good, which ultimately leads to overconsumption and depletion of a resource. For other natural resources, this often means a decline in supply, like overfishing or deforestation from logging and come with significant environmental impacts. But for space it BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

means more debris in orbit causing potentially dangerous and even lifethreatening collisions. There have been few notable collisions between spacecraft and space junk (with the exception of a 2009 crash between an active U.S. communications satellite and a derelict Russian one.) But the idea behind the researcher’s paper, published May 26 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is to create incentives that prevent overcrowding of space instead of waiting to address the problem retroactively. “We have this chance to get out ahead, which in the different areas of environmental economics where we study this kind of problem, is a pretty rare thing. Usually you’re coming in and cleaning up,” says Matthew Burgess, another author of the study and an assistant professor in environmental studies and an affiliated faculty member in economics at CU. “The proposal is to put it in a tax as soon as possible to address that so that when the industry grows, it grows in a way that prioritizes sustainability from the get-go.” Similar to a carbon tax, the researchers propose an annual fee that would increase incrementally (about 14% each year), which should only allow satellites to be in space, “if their value justifies their collision risk,” I

Burgess says. “You’re going to stop as soon as the industry gets so big that more satellites aren’t generating more value than the risk that they impose.” The researchers say such a tax could be fostered by an international body like the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space or the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee, or it could be developed through an industry consortium like the Satellite Industry Association. It doesn’t really matter who takes charge, as long as countries agree to charge the same tax. And they can administer it separately, using the funds for whatever they see fit. Such a fee would quadruple the value of the satellite industry — from $600 billion, if things remained the same, to around $3 trillion — by 2040, a key point the researchers highlight. “Ultimately you need people [in the industry] to come to the table recognizing that this would be in their best interest,” Rao says. The alternative is cleaning up the space junk, which comes with its own set of costs and technological challenges. And while cleaning up current orbital debris will help, it still doesn’t solve the problem of overlaunching, something that the orbital-use fees could do, the researchers say. If nothing is done, eventually space debris will fall back down to Earth on its own. But, depending on where in space its orbiting, this could take anywhere from a few months to centuries, posing a risk for future rocket launches and space use. “As long as it’s up there, it’s a hazard,” Rao says. JUNE 11, 2020

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or feminine behaviors. Gender is socially constructed, built around what societies have deemed normal behavior for boys and girls. But biological sex is expressed in shades of grey as well. Anne Fausto-Sterling, a professor of biology and gender studies at Brown University, argues there are at least five sexes based on scientific research around the occurrence of extra chromosomes. “Sexual expression relies on a complex process of gene mutation and any slight differentiation can affect hormone production, physiological function or physical traits,” Lauren Heskin wrote for Image on June 8. “Female genes may express female organs but also create typically ‘male’ elements, like high levels of testosterone, while still being able to complete all of the ‘female’ tasks, like becoming pregnant.” Sowers see trans-exclusionary people like Rowling as “anti-science.” “They’re very much reactionary,” she says. “I would place them in the same box as climate deniers and flat Earthers: You could point the science out to them, you could bring textbooks, and they’ll still tell you you’re wrong.” But Rowling’s comments aren’t just detrimental to trans civil rights, they’re detrimental to the civil rights movement as a whole, and specifically to the platform of Black Lives Matter (BLM), which was founded by three black women, two of whom identify as queer. “As organizers who work with everyday people, BLM members see and understand significant gaps in movement spaces and leadership,” the BLM website says in a statement about the origins of the movement. “Black liberation movements in this country have created room, space, and leadership mostly for Black heterosexual, cisgender men — leaving women, queer and transgender people, and others either out of the movement or in the background to move the work forward with little or no recognition. As a network, we have always recognized the need to center the leadership of women and queer and trans people. To maximize our movement muscle, and to be intentional about not replicating harmful practices that excluded so many in past movements for liberation, we made a commitment to placing those at the margins closer to the center.” The BLM movement has taken center stage in the U.K. in much the same way it has in the U.S., with protesters taking to the streets to demand police force reforms

When J.K. Rowling excludes transgender women from her feminism, she not only violates science, she disregards the main objective of the Black Lives Matter movement

by Caitlin Rockett

“gender-critical,” using rare cases of violence or abuse perpetrated by trans women to claim that all trans women are threatening, especially to cisgender (one who identifies with the gender assigned at their birth) women and children. “This supposed concern for cis women and children has become the primary method for radicalizing gendercritical feminists, similar to how Islamophobes play up threats of gang rape of white women by Muslim men, or white supremacists have historically painted black men as sexual threats to justify segregation,” Katelyn Burns, a transgender woman and political reporter for Vox, wrote for the website in 2019. “Defending the purity of white womanhood has always been a significant axis of common bigotries, and gender-critical feminism operates in the same fashion. With ‘stranger danger’ drilled into the heads of women and girls from a young age, antitrans feminists can easily paint ‘the other’ as a constant sexual threat — despite the fact that studies have repeatedly shown that women are most likely to be sexually assaulted by someone they already know.” And despite the fact that research has shown nearly half of all trans women have been victims of sexual assault in their lives. Marie Sowers, a transgender woman in Boulder, thinks Rowling is “part of that old guard where she’s conflating sex and gender.” Biological sex — the physical expression of genitals — is different from gender, the expression of masculine JUNE 11, 2020

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Boulder’s Local Music Shop Since 1971 that will end racial profiling. In the U.S., research by the Human Rights Campaign has found 34% of black trans women face housing insecurity compared to 9% of non-black trans people. The National Center for Transgender Equality reports 21% of transgender women have been incarcerated at some point in their lives. Black, Latinx and mixed race transgender women are more likely to report experiences of victimization while incarcerated. This year, at least 12 transgender or gender non-conforming people were fatally shot or killed by other violent means in the United States. On June 1, Iyanna Dior, a black transgender woman, was beaten by a crowd of men at a gas station in Minneapolis as uprisings broke out in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd. Dior survived, but the attack came only days after Tony McDade, a black trans man, was fatally shot by police in Tallahassee, Florida. “This is the time for our progress to be intersectional and intergenerational; if not all of us, then none of us,” Tiq Milan, a writer, activist, public speaker and black transgender man, wrote for NBC on June 9. “All black people deserve to be heard and be seen in this movement, and the black identity of LGBTQ people isn’t exclusive of our trans and queerness. There can be no hierarchy created to determine which black lives are more valuable than others. All systemic violence and discrimination against black people have to be examined.” Writer and feminist activist Viv Smythe, who (unintentionally) coined the term TERF in the late aughts, notes the similarities between trans-exclusionary feminism and black racism in a 2018 column for The Guardian: “Much of the factional divide [in feminism] comes down to yet another gatekeeping argument about purity in feminism, perennial since the women’s suffrage movement, and this one has uncomfortable echoes of Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s arguments against extending voting rights to black men. Various ‘waves’ of feminism developed as schisms arose regarding which directions were the truest or most effective ways to liberate women from sexist oppression. Those (and new) divisions will always be part of any movement focused on social change, because each step of progress sees further layers of injustice uncovered.” As the world — the white world — responds to systemic black racism, it exposes an even uglier system in place for black trans people. “We ... have to be vulnerable enough BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

to confront the ways in which transphobia within black community sets the stage for violence and trauma,” Milan writes. “Too often transgender people have been silenced when it comes to conversations about our lived experience with statesanctioned violence, policing and racism. The time to approach social justice in broader, more honest terms is now.” When Rowling conflates sex with gender, when she claims that her own story is erased when trans women are considered women, she is narrowing the approach to social justice. “To advocate for the rights of trans people is not to advocate against the rights of anyone else,” Andrea Gibson, a nonbinary poet and activist in Boulder, wrote in an email to Boulder Weekly. “The idea that the unending feminist fight for the rights of women is in anyway at odds with trans liberation is false. They are movements deeply dependent on each other to thrive. I would say they are the same movement. “For me, the most heartbreaking aspect of J.K. Rowling’s Twitter rant was that it was not an accident of ignorance,” Gibson added. “Her words were precise, thought-out, targeted statements of bigotry, framed as feminism. Her intention, it seemed, was to deny and erase the lived experiences of some of the most marginalized people in the world. And she did this in the middle of Pride Month. No one with that much power lacks an understanding of how far-reaching her power is. My whole being aches for the already at-risk trans and non-binary youth who read what she expressed and might right now be questioning the validity of their lives.” In a blog post for The Trevor Project, Harry Potter himself, the actor Daniel Radcliffe, made it clear that he didn’t stand with Rowling’s comments either. “Transgender women are women,” he wrote. “Any statement to the contrary erases the identity and dignity of transgender people and goes against all advice given by professional health care associations who have far more expertise on this subject matter than either Jo [Rowling] or I.” As for Sowers, she says it’s impossible to read Rowling’s work uncritically now, noting other problematic aspects of the Harry Potter series, too many and too nuanced to note here (think: Dobby, pure blood, one Asian character named Cho Chang, Gringots bankers). And if you’re looking for a series to read with your children this summer, Sowers recommends Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson series: “Hands down.” I

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Louisville Rising. 6 p.m. Friday, June 12 (and following Fridays through July 31), louisvillerising.org. Each Friday night from June 12 through the end of July, a band will perform live at The Louisville Underground and the performance will be live-streamed directly to your home. The project encourages folks to order cocktails and dinner from local restaurants, sit on their front porch, and celebrate the strength of our community together. On June 12, enjoy jams from Home Groove Band, with performances in following weeks by Chain Station (bluegrass), Face (a capella), Hazel Miller & The Collective (jazz/soul) and more. While the event is free, Louisville Rising asks those who can to make a donation. The money raised will go directly to small local businesses.

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lic Library. 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 16 (and Thursday, July 16 at 3 p.m.), facebook.com/ events/boulder-public-library. Explore the world of henna and celebrate various fandoms in this free workshop. Learn henna basics combined with design tips and instruction for creating fun pop culture-inspired designs, everything from Harry Potter to Studio Ghibli, narwhals and unicats. FREQUENT FLYERS For teens, grades six-12. Registration necessary. Once you’ve registered, pick up your henna kit at the Main Library by June 13 (Monday-Tuesday and Thursday-Saturday between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., or Wednesdays from 2-7 p.m.)

NELLIE MARIE CLAY — presented by Little Tree Concert Series. 6:30 p.m. Saturday, June 13, littletreeacoustic.com. Oklahoma-based singer-songwriter Nellie Marie Clay is making her Little Tree concert a fundraiser for the Greenwood Cultural Center

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presented by Buntport Theater. 7 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, June 1127, with additional dates/times likely to be added. Parking lot of Buntport Theater, 717 Lipan St., Denver, 720946-1388, stuff@buntport.com. The drive-in’s not just for movies anymore. Denver’s Buntport Theater launches its mini drive-in theater experience, The Grasshoppers, on June 11, offering stircrazy theater lovers a socially distanced live performance. Clocking in at just 35 minutes, The Grasshoppers offers a comical twist on a nature documentary that finds parallels with our current-day trials and tribula-

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tions. The action will take place from the Buntport parking lot, where patrons will be able to watch from the safety of their cars. While the show requires a vehicle and a smartphone, Buntport will provide alternatives for anyone without a smartphone. The original story was inspired by a historical swarm of locusts that infested the Rocky Mountain region beginning in 1875. In August, the live show will get a video companion piece made in collaboration with Fannypack Films and Adam Stone as a part of the 3x3 Projects initiative.

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Arts Center. 6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 18, thedairy.org. With the inimitable “Gender Illusion Technician” Mrs. Eda Bagel at the helm, the Dairy is set to host its first Virtual Vacation Variety Show, featuring entertainment from Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance, Stories on Stage, Boulder comedian John Novosad, and the rockabilly sounds of Kerry Pastine and the Crime Scene. All tickets ($25 for a household) and donations from this event will directly support the Dairy’s COVID-19 Relief Fund. The Dairy has partnered with McDevitt Taco Supply and River and Woods to provide ticket buyers a curated take-out meal just for this evening, including kalua pork, teriyaki salmon and sweet potato tortas.

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By Caitlin Rockett ‘BLACK TREASURE,’ BY ZARA MCFARLANE

BRITISH JAZZ SINGER Zara McFarlane explores her Jamaican heritage in this pulsating track that blends Jamaican folk traditions with the futuristics beats of London-based producers Kawake Bass and Wu-Lu. McFarlane wastes no time calling out European colonization: “First you see something you like / An X that marks the spot / On a quest to find / What you have not got ... You tell me that I’m lost / How can that be when you cross the world to find me? / I will not be a reflection of your reality.” By the end McFarlane celebrates: “Yes I’m black treasure / Yes I’m made of precious stones.”

‘FIRE IS COMING,’ BY FLYING LOTUS, DAVID LYNCH FLYING LOTUS (Steven Ellison) released a deluxe version of his 2019 album Flamagra in May of this year, giving us a chance to revisit FlyLo’s sixth studio album. David Lynch narrates this spoken word track that morphs from menacing to foot-stomping in under three-and-a-half minutes. Ellison’s penchant for free jazz and shuffling percussion is built in: his great aunt was the late, great jazz pianist Alice Coltrane and his grandmother was singer-songwriter Marilyn McLeod.

‘NEBBIA,’ BY YO-YO MA, STUART DUNCAN, EDGAR MEYER, CHRIS THILE THIS TRACK COMES as a follow-up to the Grammy-winning The Goat Rodeo Sessions, with cellist Yo-Yo Ma, multi-hyphenate string player Stuart Duncan, bassist Edgar Meyer and

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mandolinist Chris Thile. The new album — Not Our First Goat Rodeo — is named after an aviation term for a situation in which myriad things must go right to avoid disaster. Nebbia is an Italian word for a thick fog or a haze. You move in and out of the fog as the track progresses, but you never feel lost. These musicians — like trained fighter pilots — know exactly where they are going.

‘HOPE SHE’LL BE HAPPIER,’ BY NICK MULVEY Bill Withers would love this elaborately picked version of his 1971 song “Hope She’ll Be Happier.” In Nick Mulvey’s hands the track becomes darker, building to an ominous fever pitch by the end. Where Withers’ track is gospel-tinged, Mulvey’s leans into progressive folk. Both versions reflect the narrator’s deep pain and introspection, but Mulvey’s noir track amps up the remorse all the way to 10.

‘CHAPTER,’ BY PENGUIN CAFE NPR’S BOB BOILEN has called Penguin Cafe’s music “a universal dream state,” built on the foundations of music from around the world, and on the dreams of band leader Arthur Jeffes’ late father, Simon (who led an outfit called Penguin Cafe Orchestra prior to his death in 1997). This track, from Penguin Cafe’s 2019 album, Handfuls of Night, is inspired by The Terra Nova Expedition, officially the British Antarctic Expedition, led by Robert Falcon Scott. In 2005, Arthur Jeffes scored a BBC documentary about the expedition. Frantic strings and scattershot hand percussion open this track in true cinematic fashion, evoking images of dog sleds crossing a vast tundra. see EVENTS Page 20

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EVENTS from Page 19

“The paradox of education is precisely this — that as one begins to become conscious, one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.” — James Baldwin, “A Talk to Teachers,” 1963. Here are a few podcasts to continue your education and deepen your examination.

‘UNLOCKING US WITH BRENÉ BROWN’ — IBRAM S. KENDI ON HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST.

IBRAM X. KENDI, the bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist, and the director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University, discusses racial disparities and the policies that have enshrined these disparities since Reconstruction. “Americans have long been trained to see the deficiencies of people rather than policy,” Kendi writes in his book. “It’s a pretty easy mistake to make: People are in our faces. Policies are distant. We are particularly poor at seeing the policies lurking behind the struggles of people.” It’s inadequate to merely not be racist, Kendi says: we must be anti-racist, willing to confront our inherent biases and dismantle racial inequality from within and without. — CR

‘GOOD ANCESTOR,’ EP. 023 — KIMBERLEY SEALS ALLERS ON BIRTH WITHOUT BIAS.

THE HOST OF THE Good Ancestor podcast, Layla F. Saad, is an East African, Arab, British, black, Muslim woman who was born and grew up in the West, and lives in the Middle East. The intersectionality of her identities has driven Saad to explore “one burning question: How can I become a good ancestor? How can I create a legacy of healing and liberation for those who are here in this lifetime and those who will come after I’m gone?” Saad’s podcast gives voice to change-makers and culture-shapers who are exploring anti-racism, personal transformation and social justice. In this episode, Saad speaks with journalist Kimberley Seals Allers, who has researched — and experienced first-hand — the socio-cultural and racial disparities of birth, breastfeeding and motherhood in America. — CR

‘THE DAILY’ — THE SUNDAY READ (JUNE 7, 2020): ‘THE CONDITION OF BLACK LIFE IS ONE OF MOURNING.’

CLAUDIA RANKINE IS A Jamaican-born American poet, playwright, educator and multimedia artist. In this essay for the New York Times, Rankine reflects on the reality of repetition in the systems of institutionalized racism, from Emmett Till to Michael Brown, from those who died in the hulls of slave ships to those who died at the hands of law enforcement: “The Black Lives Matter movement can be read as an attempt to keep mourning an open dynamic in our culture because black lives exist in a state of precariousness,” Rankin writes. “Mourning then bears both the vulnerability inherent in black lives and the instability regarding a future for those lives. Unlike earlier black-power movements that tried to fight or segregate for self-preservation, Black Lives Matter aligns with the dead, continues the mourning and refuses the forgetting in front of all of us. If the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil rights movement made demands that altered the course of American lives and backed up those demands with the willingness to give up your life in service of your civil rights, with Black Lives Matter, a more internalized change is being asked for: recognition.” — CR 18

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Home viewing Spike Lee

by Michael J. Casey

pike Lee’s latest film, Da 5 Bloods, will be available to all with a Netflix login on June 12. Delroy Lindo, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Clarke Peters and Norm Lewis are four aging Vietnam vets who head back to the jungle to reclaim the remains of their squad leader (played in the flashbacks by Chadwick Boseman) and the crate full of gold they found and buried for safekeeping. Despite the music featured in the trailer, nothing about Da 5 Bloods appears to be a cut-and-dried story of ’Nam. Lee isn’t that kind of director. He’s challenging, inventive, brash and electric — a true titan of the American independent scene decked in tortoiseshell glasses and Knickerbocker-coded blue and orange threads. A cinema without Lee is no cinema indeed; here are four more to celebrate the iconoclast from Brooklyn.

‘CHI-RAQ’ How do you get men to stop fighting, killing and

blowing each other up? How about withholding sex until peace is achieved? Adapting Aristophanes’ comedic play, Lysistrata, ChiRaq is a cinematic smorgasbord: Colorful, playful, kaleidoscopic, zany and moving. The movie is most entertaining when Samuel L. Jackson holds the stage, but Lee makes sure to ground entertainment in reality and loss. These deaths aren’t just another gangbanger gunned down in the street, or just one more coffin in the ground: It’s another empty chair at Christmas time, one more incomplete family photo at Mom’s birthday. Streaming on Amazon Prime.

‘BLACKKKLANSMAN’ Ron Stallworth (John David Washington)

is Colorado Springs’ first black police officer, and he’s a cardcarrying member of the Ku Klux Klan. How Stallworth came to be a KKK member is a laugh — most of BlackKklansman is — but the laughter isn’t without teeth. Stallworth is in real danger, and not because he’s an undercover cop, but because he’s black. The rest of the world is drunk on images of white superiority, and Lee knows it. One of the greatest tricks Lee pulls off in BlackKklansman is how he weaves the images of old Hollywood through contemporary conflict. Second verse same as the first. Streaming on DirecTV and HBO Max.

‘MALCOLM X’ If Denzel Washington only acted in one movie, and

that movie was Malcolm X, then Washington would still be one of the greatest actors of his generation. Washington fills every inch of the frame with explosive fury and words that cut like daggers. His “We didn’t land on Plymouth Rock. Plymouth Rock landed on us” is one of the rare times where the movie improves upon reality. Lee’s massive bio-pic runs nearly three and a half hours, and it flies. Streaming on Netflix.

‘DO THE RIGHT THING’ It’s a brief exchange, but it’s a big one: Da

Mayor: “Always do the right thing.” Mookie: “That’s it?” Da Mayor: “That’s it.” Mookie: “I got it; I’m gone.” Ninety minutes later, Radio Raheem is dead on the ground, choked to death by a racist cop, and Mookie throws a trashcan through Sal’s Pizzeria. Pandemonium breaks loose, and long-festering hate boils to the surface in Bed-Stuy. If Lee made the movie today, it would be too on the nose, too ripped from the headlines. But at 30 years old, the film feels more like a prophecy. It’s not. The violence, hatred and intolerance in Do the Right Thing is a tale as old as time, one that will never go out of style. For rent on all major platforms.

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BY DAN SAVAGE Hey, everybody: We had our first Savage Love Livestream event last Thursday night and I had such a blast! A huge crowd of Savage Love readers and Savage Lovecast listeners got together on Zoom for a live online Q&A that raised more than $14,000 for Northwest Harvest, an organization that supports food banks in my home state. I got more questions than I could answer in our allotted time and so I’m going to answer as many as I can squeeze into this week’s column. Here we go…

— and if you are someone who can be trusted — you could go Dutch. Q: My wife and I are lesbians who just found out we’re having a baby boy! We’re super excited but had some penis questions. My wife wants to circumcise our son because she says that if he’s uncircumcised he’ll get made fun of in the locker room. Does this happen? How often do boys look at each other’s dicks growing up?

A: The circumcision rate among newborn boys has been falling for decades and now only a little more than half of boys are circumcised at birth. So even if Q: Is it a red flag or sign of deeper boys were comparing their dicks in locker attachment or commitment issues if your rooms — and they’re not — your son long-term partner never tells you he loves won’t be alone. And for the record: the you? American Academy of Pediatrics doesn’t recommend the procedure ROMAN ROBINSON A: I’ve heard people and the supposed health describe relationships that benefits — a lower risk for were three months old as urinary tract infections and a “LTRs.” Assuming you’re lower risk for some sexually not one of those people — transmitted infections — assuming you’ve been with aren’t a convincing arguthis guy for more than a ment in favor of the routine year — and you’ve already circumcision of male infants. said “I love you” to him and And while the complication he hasn’t said it back, well, rate is low (1.5%), those that’s a bad sign. But I complications can range wouldn’t describe it as a from easily treatable infecred flag. Early warning signs for physical tions to “amputation of the glans,” “necroor emotional abuse are red flags; not sis of the penis” and “death.” Risking your hearing “I love you” from someone you’d son’s life and most important limb to like to hear that from does suck, I know spare him a moment’s awkwardness in a (because I’ve been there), but it’s not a locker room seems unreasonable to me sign that you’re in danger, girl. It’s also not — particularly since your son can’t conproof your partner has attachment or com- sent. mitment issues; he just might not be interested in attaching or committing to you. Q: Cis poly woman here. My quaranBut whatever the case might be, if you’re tine sexpod contains me and my two male unhappy being with someone who can’t partners. We’ll call them A and B. My partbring himself to say “I love you” then you ner B has another female partner that shouldn’t be with that person. we’ll call C. Since we’re already “connected” anyway, would it change anything for Q: Is there a safe way to date/be slut- me to have a threesome with B and C? ty now? Will there ever be again? I’m poly but live alone so I haven’t had sex in 12 A: If B is fucking C and then coming weeks. HELP! home and fucking you and then you’re running down the hall to A, then C is A: While health officials in most placessentially already in your sexpod. The es are urging all to only have sex with bigger your sexpod, the more people people we live with — mom and dad you’re in contact with, the greater your excepted — over in the Netherlands risk of contracting and/or spreading health officials are advising single and COVID-19. Ideally C would move in with horny Dutch people to find “sex buddies.” you and A and B if you’re all going to be One sex buddy per person, someone you fucking each other. But not having a can meet up with for sex, ideally someone threesome with B and C while B is out who isn’t interacting with too many other there fucking C won’t protect you and A people. If you can find someone you trust from whatever B might bring home from BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

Q: Gay black male from NYC here. Two months ago I lost my partner of 17 years to COVID-19. I have a pretty strong support system but it’s really hitting me really hard right now because my partner was very politically active and supportive of the struggles of black and brown people. I’ve been in therapy but any suggestions or resources for how to deal with such a loss in the midst of all this chaos? A: I’m so sorry for your loss — and I apologize for not spotting your question during the show. I’m glad you have a strong support system and that you’re working with a therapist. If you need more support, your therapist should be able to refer you to an online grief support group. And I’ll just add… grief isn’t something we “deal with” and then we’re done. It’s something we carry with us. And in my experience time doesn’t lighten the load. Still, the longer we walk with it, the stronger we get, and the lighter it feels. My heart goes out to you. Q: Long-time listener and magnum subscriber! We will keep this short: We are in a happy monogamish marriage and have heard one is not supposed to share toys under any circumstances. What are your thoughts on this? A: One shouldn’t share a toy one hasn’t cleaned — and one should make sure one’s toys aren’t made of porous materials that are hard or impossible to clean. But if one has, say, a silicone toy that can be run through a dishwasher, well, one can share that toy. A fluid-bonded couple can safely share toys during sex, of course, so long as toys aren’t going from assholes to vaginas between cleanings. You also shouldn’t put a dildo in your spouse and then stick it in your very special guest star. But if you obey those simple rules — clean toys, no assto-vag, no used toys in thirds or toys used by thirds in primaries — it’s safe to share your toys. OK, thank you again to everyone who bought a ticket to the Savage Love Livestream! All proceeds — every single cent raised — went to Northwest Harvest. If anyone reading this in a donating mood right now, you can donate to Northwest Harvest directly at northwestharvest.org/ donate. Send questions to mail@savagelove. net, follow Dan on Twitter @fakedansavage and visit ITMFA.org. JUNE 11, 2020

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ON THE BILL: ‘The King of Staten Island’ will be available On Demand starting June 12.

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anky, hulking and almost always stooped, Scott Carlin (Pete Davidson) is 24 years old, jobless, directionless, and living in the same Staten Island home he grew up in. Mom, Margie (Marisa Tomei), is an emergency room nurse, and though they’re not poor, there isn’t much of a safety net under them. Dad was an NYC firefighter, and he died in a collapsed building when Scott was 7. Dad died a hero; Scott is living like a loser. Emotional baggage, we got plenty. Scott’s friends aren’t any better off. The four of them are layabouts aspiring to be low-level criminals. Not exactly Scott’s bag: He wants to open a tattoo restaurant, Ruby Tattoosday. It’s a terrible idea, and everyone tells him so. Plus, Scott isn’t much of a tattoo artist to begin with. Not that it stops him from tattooing every inch of his and his friend’s torsos. When they decide they’ve had enough, Scott looks for another blank canvas to ink: A stray 9-year-old (Luke David Blumm) who happens to walk by. Cowritten and starring Davidson, The King of Staten Island feels a lot more like cinematic therapy than it does cinematic storytelling. The movie is dedicated to Davidson’s father, Scott Davidson, a New York firefighter who died responding to the attacks on 9/11. Davidson was 33. But the movie is also co-written and directed by Judd Apatow, the king of arrested adolescence, and there’s a lot of Staten Island that feels forced into the Apatow mold. Though Scott, who suffers from depression, ADHD and flirts with 20

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suicide, fits the mold better than previous incarnations. Ditto for Bill Burr, here playing Ray Bishop, another firefighter who ends up taking the role of a father figure, invoking more than a touch of Oedipal jealousy in Scott. Remember that stray 9-year-old? He’s Ray’s son, and Scott’s botched tattoo sets the movie’s plot in motion. Ray comes to Scott’s house to yell at him, finds Margie, yells at her instead and then comes back to ask her out. He’s got anger issues, but Margie hasn’t been with a man in almost two decades. Desperation triumphs, Margie and Ray start dating, and Scott is forced out. But with no money, no job prospects and no internal drive, Scott finds himself living at Ray’s firehouse through a series of plot machinations. The King of Staten Island is neither a good movie nor a bad one. It holds genuine sentiment in its heart, and is funny in parts, really funny, but it’s also tragically bloated. If it were 90 minutes, it would work. But at 136 minutes, The King of State Island is a long slog to an undramatic finish line. That might be the point. One of the movie’s subplots involves Scott’s onagain-off-again girlfriend, Kelsey (Bel Powley). She loves Scott, and she loves Staten Island, and she’s waiting for the day when both of them blossom with a Williamsburg-like renaissance. It’s a heavy-handed comparison, but The King of Staten Island gives you plenty of downtime to piece the two together. Which saves you the trouble from having to think about it afterward. BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: I was hiking under

BY ROB BREZSNY ARIES

MARCH 21-APRIL 19: During her 90 years on the planet,

actor and singer Marlene Dietrich reinvented herself numerous times. She had superb insight into the nature of shifting rhythms, and a knack for gauging the right moment to adapt and transform. Good timing, she said, came naturally to people like her, as well as for “aerialists, jugglers, diplomats, publicists, generals, prize-fighters, revolutionists, financiers and lovers.” I would add one further category to her list: the Aries tribe. Make maximum use of your talent in the coming weeks.

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20: Author and theologian Frederick

Buechner writes, “There is treasure buried in the field of every one of our days, even the bleakest or dullest, and it is our business to keep our eyes peeled for it.” In alignment with current astrological potentials, Taurus, I’ll name that as your key theme. More than usual, breakthroughs and revelations and catalysts are likely to be available to you in the midst of the daily slog — even when you’re feeling bored. Make it your business to be on high alert for them.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20: According to novelist Octavia E. Butler,

“Positive obsession is about not being able to stop just because you’re afraid and full of doubts.” That’s what I wish for you in the coming weeks, Gemini: positive obsession. It’s also what I expect! My analysis of the astrological omens suggests that you will have the pluck and craftiness necessary to veer away from murky, disturbing versions of obsession. Instead, you’ll embrace the exhilarating kind of obsession that buoys your spirit in moments of uncertainty. I foresee you making progress on your most important labor of love.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22: William Thomson, also known

as Lord Kelvin (1824-1907), was a Cancerian physicist and mathematician who contributed to the understanding of thermodynamics and other areas of scientific and engineering knowledge. Despite his considerable intelligence, however, he was myopic about the possibility that humans might one day fly through the air while seated inside of machines. In a 1902 interview — a year before the Wright Brothers’ breakthrough experiment — he declared, “No aeroplane will ever be successful.” I suspect you could be on the verge of passing through a Lord Kelvin phase, Cancerian. You may at times be highly insightful and at other times curiously mistaken. So I urge you to be humbly confident and confidently humble!

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22: Author Marianne Williamson tells

us, “Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.” And what exactly does it mean to “give up the stories of your past”? Here’s what I think: 1. Don’t assume that experiences you’ve had before will be repeated in the future. 2. Don’t assume that your ideas about the nature of your destiny will always be true. 3. Even good things that have happened before may be small and limited compared to the good things that could happen for you in the years to come. 4. Fully embrace the truth that the inherent nature of existence is endless transformation — which is why it’s right and natural for you to ceaselessly outgrow the old plot lines of your life story and embrace new ones.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: Philosopher and astrologer Marsilio

Ficino wrote, “Mortals ask God for good things every day, but they never pray that they may make good use of them.” I hope that in the coming weeks, you Virgos will disprove that cynical view of human beings. As I see it, you will be more likely than usual to actually receive the blessings you ask for. And I hope — in fact, I predict — that when you receive the blessings, you will then aggressively seek the help of God or Life or your deepest wisdom to make good use of them.

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a blue sky in a favorite natural location: the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, just north of San Francisco, where sublime vistas provide views of ocean and mountain. Although I was in a good mood, at one point I spied empty Budweiser cans amidst the wild jewelflowers. “What kind of nature-hater was so careless as to despoil this wonderland”? I fumed. For a few moments I was consumed with rage and forgot where I was. By the time I recovered my bearings, the bobcat and red-tailed hawk I’d previously been observing had disappeared. That made me sad. My anger was justified but wasteful, irrelevant and distracting. It caused me to lose touch with some glorious beauty. Don’t be like me in the coming days, Libra. Keep your eyes on the prize.

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OCT. 23-NOV. 21: “I have more memories than

if I were a thousand years old,” wrote poet Charles Baudelaire. Was he bragging or complaining? Did the weight of his past feel like a burden or did it exhilarate him and dynamize his creative powers? I’m hoping that in the coming weeks your explorations of your past will feel far more like the latter — a gift and blessing that helps you understand aspects of your history that have always been mysterious or murky.

SAGITTARIUS

NOV. 22-DEC. 21: According to my analysis of the

astrological omens, you’re primed to navigate your way through a sweetly gritty, tenderly transformative, epically meaningful turning point in the history of your relationship with your favorite collaborator or collaborators. If that sounds too intense, you could at least accomplish an interesting, stimulating, educational shift in the way you fit together with your best ally or allies. It’s up to you, Sagittarius. How much love and intimacy and synergy can you handle? I won’t judge you harshly if you’d prefer to seek the milder version of deepening right now. Besides, you’ll probably get a chance to go further later this year.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: Actor Emma Thompson tells us, “I wish I wouldn’t have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They’re kinder.” Adding to what she observes, I’ll say that for many people, their suffering has also made them smarter and more soulful and more compassionate. Not always, but often, it’s the pain they’ve suffered that has helped turn them into thoughtful companions who know how to nourish others. I urge you to make a special point to converse with people like this in the near future. In my estimation, you will benefit from intense doses of empathetic nurturing.

AQUARIUS

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California. Last spring, torrential rains there caused a “superbloom” of poppies. Millions of the golden-orange wildflowers covered many acres of Walker Canyon. They attracted another outbreak of beauty: thousands of painted lady butterflies, which came to visit. The magnificent explosion was so vast, it was visible from a satellite high above the earth. I wouldn’t be surprised if you’re experiencing a metaphorical superbloom of your own right now, Aquarius. I hope you will find constructive ways to channel that gorgeous fertility.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20: Lucumi is an Afro-American

religion with Yoruban roots. Its practitioners worship their ancestors, and seek regular contact and communion with them. According to Lucumi priestess Luisah Teish, “Sometimes the ancestors deem certain information so important that they send it to the subconscious mind without being consciously asked.” It’s my belief that all of us, whether or not we’re members of the Lucumi religion, can be in touch with the spirits of our ancestors if we would like to be — and receive useful guidance and insight from them. The coming weeks will be a time when you Pisceans are especially likely to enjoy this breakthrough. It’s more likely to happen if you have an intention to instigate it, but it may come to pass even if you don’t seek it.

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Consumption in the time of coronavirus How will customers react to COVID-related restrictions?

by Michael J. Casey

wisted Pine Brewing Company is open for business. So is Wild Provisions Beer Project, Uhl’s Brewing Co., Liquid Mechanics Brewing Company, Redgarden Restaurant and Brewery, Ska Street Brewsitllery, Cellar West Artisan Ales, Crystal Springs Brewing Company, Left Hand Brewing Company, Wibby ASHER BREWING Brewing... Well, technically, they’ve all been open in some capacity for a while, but now their doors are open, and you’re welcome to swing by, grab a beer — a little dinner if the mood suits you — sit down at a table and enjoy it as we used to in the before times. Well, kind of. There are rules: Customers must wear masks when entering, exiting and using the facilities. Tables are spaced six feet apart. Parties are capped at eight. No getting cozy with your neighbors, and so on. You know the drill by now. You might even know where the rules are laxer than other places. If you spent any time out and about, you know there is an uneven divide among consumers out there. Some wear masks; some don’t. Some follow the directional decals plastered to the floors; some don’t. Some allow for the

proper socially distanced amount of space, and some are like Jewish grandmothers at graduation. But that’s if you’re heading out in the first place. The state has capped dine-in seating to 50% capacity (or 50 patrons, whichever’s less), which seems like a good measurement of who wants to

come out and who wants to stay in. Those of you out there are out and damn proud of it. Those who aren’t probably won’t be coming out until a vaccine rolls around. Here’s the rub: Consumer spending accounts for 70% of U.S. economic activity (according to The Bureau of Economic Analysis). And if 70% seems high, here’s another stat to go with: According to the

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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 71% of all non-farm payroll employees work in the service sector. That’s the elephant in the room: America is a consumer-driven market hinging on “the customer’s always right” motto. A visit to the taproom circa June 2019 meant you could sit wherever you liked, stay as long as you wanted and talk to whoever would listen. If you couldn’t decide between a pint of pale, stout or sour, you could try all three before money was involved. And if the beer wasn’t to your liking, chances are they would pour you another one at no charge. The drinkers were in control. Those luxuries are in the past, but not the attitudes. And on top of all these rules, breweries are running with reduced staff (possibly at reduced wages). And they have to clean. Constantly. Nothing about this pandemic has been easy. Nor will getting out of it. Paying more for less isn’t what American consumers are used to, but it’s going to be a fact of life for the foreseeable future. What’s the answer? Be kind and be patient when you head out there. Everyone is trying to do the best they can with the hand they’ve been dealt.

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hat leverage will breweries have if a customer decides to ignore the rules? The Brewers Association’s June 5 industry communiqué, “Encouraging Staff and Customer Social Distancing Compliance,” boils down to head the problems off at the pass. Establish clear communication on what is and what is not acceptable behavior before customers even sit down. For a good example, head to Twisted Pine. They check you in at the host stand, scan your temperature, explain how to get to the bathrooms, how to order, hand you a bottle of hand sanitizer, and then escort you to your table. It’s effective and clear — which will be crucial over the next couple of months because the inverse could get ugly. As Dave Query of the Big Red F restaurant group put it in an email from May 18: “Telling an adult to ‘put your mask on’ is a different game. A Target employee had his arm broken last week by a customer for uttering those exact words. Lots of confrontations on the trails and sidewalks and supermarket aisles from the wearers and the non-wearers of masks. Put those opposing viewpoints in a more confined restaurant dining room, and you have the potential of all sorts of issues arising. Add alcohol, and it’s a mask party of the wrong kind.”

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OAK and Corrida’s Bryan Dayton on how his restaurants are preparing for the future

by Matt Cortina

ust when we think we’ve passed the worst of the commercial impacts of the coronavirus-related shutdowns, Walnut Restaurant Group, the owners of three of Boulder’s largest restaurants — The Med, Brasserie Ten Ten and Via Perla — announced they would permanently shut down operations. “That news was pretty shocking,” says Bryan Dayton owner of Boulder’s OAK at fourteenth and Corrida. But it could just be the first of several closures, he adds. “I know there are a lot of conversations behind closed doors of restaurateurs saying, ‘Hey, is there an exit strategy right now, and should we take it?’” OAK and Corrida are playing the game restaurants have to play in a post-COVID world — dipping a toe into the waters of reopening, hoping consumers come back and being creative with their offerings. “We’re just kind of chasing fool’s gold,” Dayton says. “We were already running with razor-thin margins at full occupancy. Now you’re telling me 50% occupancy... I think it’s going to be a really long road to see any kind of normal reality.” Dayton says he’s taking a holistic approach to reopening his group of restaurants (including Acord and BriDer in Denver). That is, he’s using one restaurant to implement a returning or new service, see what the reaction is, and then implement it at the other restaurants, using what his team has learned. To start, Corrida opened its rooftop patio on June 10 to reservation-only dining (though takeout is still available). The restaurant is offering picnic baskets — guests can choose one of three curated meals ahead of time to enjoy on the patio alongside drinks from a limited menu of cocktails, beer and wine. Picnic baskets include one with marinated olives, spiced nuts, cheeses and housemade Spanish olive oil bread ($30), and the “Baller” basket ($94), with wood-blistered sugar snap peas, royal red shrimp fideos (a dish with short, thin noodles), oakBOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

grilled wagyu top sirloin and olive oil bread. The same day, OAK opened the slim patio to eat pre-ordered takeout dishes like pork and cumin dumplings, miso tofu lettuce wraps, burgers and roast chicken. The key to success — if there’s going to be success — Dayton says, is being creative enough with regards to hospitality to make the experience fun and safe for diners. “How can we be creative now in hospitality in a non-hospitable world?” Dayton says. “How can we circumvent things and move things around and provide things through service that are fun? ... Talking through masks is awkward and different.” One bit of hope: Dayton says he and other restaurateurs have seen an influx of tourists in the early days of the reopening of in-house dining, a group which traditionally comprises a significant chunk of Pearl Street business revenue. But regardless of where the diners come from, the key to reopening and surviving in 2020, Dayton says, will be keeping an eye on what people want from a restaurant in this crazy time. “The biggest thing to figure out is consumer behavior and how do they feel, what are they looking for and are they safe and excited,” he says. Even with the reintroduction of limited in-house (or onpatio) dining, Dayton says, restaurants “are definitely not breaking even,” with many unable to pay rent and other bills. There’s also the concern of what fall may bring: We had an early spring on the Front Range, and early fall could cut outdoor dining by a couple weeks and severely limit revenue. The closing of The Med, et al. was shocking from the outside because those restaurants were popular, and had overcome obstacles in the past. And because restaurateurs are resilient and creatively overcome challenges. The question really is: How long can restaurateurs hang on until things return to normal? “Restaurateurs, we try to figure out these things,” Dayton says. “If there’s an industry that’ll figure it out, it’s ours.” I

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March, Blackbelly and Santo Owner/Chef Hosea Rosenberg and his wife, Lauren, found out their 3-year-old daughter, Sophie, had a rare degenerative disorder, multicentric carpotarsal osteolysis (MCTO). So they started a nonprofit, Sophie’s Neighborhood, with the goal of raising about $2 million to fund research for treating the disorder. On May 30, Sophie’s birthday, the Rosenbergs hosted their first silent auction, with dozens of gifts, experiences and lessons donated by local food and business folks, as well as pro athletes and celebrity chefs. In just one day, Sophie’s Neighborhood brought in $100,000. “It definitely gives us momentum, but we have a long fundraising journey ahead of us in order to reach our $2 million goal,” Lauren says. Part of the Rosenberg’s challenge is that they basically have to start from scratch to find a treatment or cure since MCTO is so rare. Lauren says in just the last few weeks, they’ve had some promising leads, including a proposal from a researcher in Australia who’s studied MCTO previously. More fundraisers are in the works, but one collaboration you might check out is one between Sophie’s Neighborhood and Boulder’s Gelato Boy, which released a special flavor (based on Sophie’s favorite foods: berries and graham crackers). All profits go to Sophie’s Neighborhood. I

New Mexico Dems hand anti-pot senators their walking papers By Paul Danish

his could be huge. Since at least 2016, the New Mexico legislature had repeatedly tried and failed to legalize recreational marijuana in the state. A big reason for the failures has been the actions of conservative Democrat State Senators. Last week New Mexico held its primary, and voters handed four of them their walking papers.

constitutional amendment onto the state’s ballot. Marijuana legalization in New Mexico has to pass through the state legislature. The legislature must either pass a marijuana legalization bill or put the bill on the state ballot. There is no other way it can happen. And thanks in large part to the maneuverings of the ousted senators, it wasn’t happening — despite the strong support of New Mexico’s Democratic Governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham. PUBLIC DOMAIN According to Marijuana Moment, the ousted Democrat pot prohibitionists include: Senate President Pro Tem Mary Kay Papen. She has repeatedly voted against marijuana reform, including a 2016 bill to put a proposed constitutional amendment to legalize pot on the state’s ballot. She was defeated by Carrie Hamblen, president of the Las Cruces Green Chamber of Commerce, of all people. (New Mexico has legal medical marijuana.) “I support the legalization of recreational marijuana as it can provide much needed jobs, can be regulated, and communities can benefit from the taxation,” she said. “Plus, by legalizing it, we can stop criminalizing people of color and focus more on incarcerating those with legitimate crimes.” Senate Finance Chairman John The soon-to-be ex-lawmakers include the Arthur Smith. He was beaten by retired special President Pro Tem of the Senate and three cureducation teacher Neomi Martinez-Parra. Smith’s rent or former committee chairmen who had used panel tabled a House-passed legalization bill last their positions to kill legalization bills in their com- year, effectively killing it. He also voted against mittees. They were all replaced by Democrat pro- the 2016 constitutional amendment. He said he gressives who explicitly favored recreational mari- wouldn’t support legalization “until the federal juana legalization during their campaigns. government steps up to the plate.” Martinez-Parra The New Mexico Constitution does not have a said the state needed to diversify its revenue, and provision allowing citizens to petition a law or marijuana legalization would help it do that. “We

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cannot rely on oil as the major source of revenue,” she said. “I support legalizing and taxing the sale of marijuana, as long as we have the right regulations in place to protect our children. Senator Clemente Sanchez. As chair of the Senate Corporations and Transportation Committee, he made a floor motion to specifically request that a legalization bill be referred to his panel in order to kill it. He was ousted by retired educator Pamela Cordova. “I support legalizing recreational marijuana, with strong regulation and taxation,” she said. “I believe our limited law enforcement resources can be better spent addressing more serious criminal behavior. New Mexico will benefit from the millions of dollars in tax revenue to our general fund at a time we most need it.” Senator Richard Martinez. While Martinez was chairman of the Judiciary Committee he voted to kill a legalization bill. He resigned the chairmanship after he was convicted of drunk driving last year, but stayed on the committee and voted to kill another legalization bill this year. He was decisively defeated by Leo Jaramillo, who said marijuana “should be legal for both medical and recreational purposes.” The extraction of the Reefer Madness Four from the legislature should give a huge boost to the prospects of legalizing marijuana next year, both because they were single-handedly killing bills and because it sends a message to other Democrat senators that opposing marijuana legalization can have electoral consequences. More broadly, it is a message to elected officials in both parties and other states that continued support of the pot prohibition and the war on drugs generally is an increasingly risky thing for a state legislator to do. That improves the prospects for legalization bills in states where the voters can’t do it themselves. Even red ones.

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