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SLIGHTLY OFF CENTER DENNIS HINKAMP Words matter.

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ENVIRONEWS AMY BRUNVAND

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IN PRAISE OF INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM SERGIO ARELLANO

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MORE CARS, LESS POLLUTION ASHLEY MILLER Tier 3 vehicles and fuel will lower emissions in Utah.

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AT HOME WITH JOHN DEJONG PHOTOS/EMMA RYDER, TEXT/ALICE TOLER John deJong’s lair.

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THE “RIGHTS OF NATURE” MOVEMENT WILL FALK The Colorado River “personhood” lawsuit seeks legal rights for nature.

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CATALYST PARTY AT THE STATE ROOM SOPHIE SILVERSTONE Revel with a cause.

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EXPLORING UTAH’S REDROCK DESERT THROUGH POETRY OF PLACE AMY BRUNVAND Poetry matters because it offers an alternative reality–it refuses the logical, reductionist, materialist aspects of industrial culture.

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS

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BRIEFLY NOTED

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YOGA CHARLOTTE BELL The teacher-student relationship: When to call the teacher out.

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PLAYWRIGHT’S PERSPECTIVE ERIC SAMUELSEN The Ice Front: Norwegian Nazi Resistance has lessons for modern times.

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METAPHORS SUZANNE WAGNER November requires your total and complete attention to detail.

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URBAN ALMANAC DIANE OLSON, ANNA ZUMWALT & GRETA DEJONG Information and inspiration for each day of the month.

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Words matter

“Famous last Snapchats” — not likely

BY DENNIS HINKAMP

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flirt with photography, but I'm committed to words.

On any given day I have a harem of cameras in my car. I have cameras on drones, one for underwater, two for video in case the first one fails. I have one that shoots 360 degrees, another that shoots infrared and of course don’t forget that every phone and pad/tablet thing you own has one or two cameras. I think the new iPhone will have 12 cameras and an endoscope. I have yet to get a dashboard camera, but I am looking into it.

My lenses are the pretty bobbles that adorn my vixens. There’s a macro for insects, a telephoto for birds and deer, an 85 mm for portraits, a fish eye for close ups, a 24105mm for interviews and a pancake 25mm for walking around. I don’t really need all of these. The reason you have a harem is for variety, not necessity.

I only need a notepad and scraps of paper to jot down words I don’t want to forget, but I need my brothel of cameras just in case the perfect sunset, Big Foot or real crime jumps out in front of me. I guess I have always had FOMO but the fear is of missing an image or thought rather than a personal exploit.

Though I agree with the cliché that a picture is worth a thousand words, I have to ask “which thousand words and who wrote them?” Photos can serve the same purpose on the outside of Hallmark cards as the words on the inside; some people need professional help expressing their feelings or capturing a moment.

Being married to words and having cameras as mistresses assures that almost everything I see or read simultaneously interests and annoys me. This is good for creatively though bad for sleep.

For instance, stock photography

makes my brain simmer.

“Why yes, that attractive dentist, who is really an actor between gigs, appears to be working not only in Utah but seven other states simultaneously. How statistically odd is that?” I think. That sunset promoting tourism in Wyoming was actually shot in Idaho. What’s a few hundred miles? However, if I confused Twin Falls, Idaho with Powell, Wyoming in a written piece I would probably get fired or at least laughed at largely.

On the word side, “further” and “farther,” “more than” and “over” even on fast food signs can drive me off the side of the road. And don’t get me started on you’re, your and yore. These are just gross syntactical annoyances; the real brain graters are the trendy words. In no particular order: drill down, deep dive, unpack, at the end of the day, let’s do this, tiny home, that would be great, push back, take it to the next level, dog whistle, lean in and elevator speech are among the current most annoying.

In my last column I discussed the banality and escalation of people saying “have a nice, good, great, fantastic, ebullient,” etc. day.

At least if you said something like “have a day like no other” you would be technically correct. Having a nice day is unverifiable.

I’m not sure if the future will bring famous last Snapchats, but “famous last words” still has a better, more mysterious ring to it. Of course most of us will not have the time to compose our last words so I’m going to be preemptive and choose this quotation from the play and movie Talk Radio:

“Sticks and stones can break your bones, but words cause serious damage.” ◆ Dennis Hinkamp urges you to express yourself, whether it is in words or photos.

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BY AMY BRUNVAND At a material level, life cannot exist without death: recycling of organic matter in the biosphere makes it about two hundred times more productive than it would otherwise be.

– Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st Century Beastiary

Bishop attacks Antiquities Act Congressman Rob Bishop (R-UT-1) has launched an attack against the Antiquities Act of 1906 which is part of the conservation legacy of president Theodore Roosevelt.

The Antiquities Act allows presidents to create national monuments on federal public lands without approval from the U.S. Congress and it was originally passed to enable quick action in response to looting of Native

Historically, if Bishop’s law had been in effect, most of Utah’s national parks and monuments would never have been created including Arches National Park, Bears Ears National Monument, Bryce Canyon National Park, Capitol Reef National Park, Dinosaur Na-

Historically, if Bishop’s law had been in effect, most of Utah’s national parks and monuments would never have been created including Arches National Park, Bears Ears National Monument, Bryce Canyon National Park, Capitol Reef National Park, Dinosaur National Monument and Zion National Park.

American artifacts.

Bishop’s bill to alter the Antiquities Act is cynically titled “The National Monument Creation and Protection Act,” even though it is a horror show of anti-monument rules.

The legislation would severely limit the size of new national monuments and forbid creating several monuments within 50 miles of each other. It would require county and state government approval to designate national monuments, and give private landowners veto power if they own property adjacent to proposed monuments. It would also change the rules to allow sitting presidents to shrink existing monuments so that President Trump could shrink Utah’s Bears Ears and Escalante Grand Staircase National Monuments without needing congress to vote.

tional Monument and Zion National Park. It’s hard to imagine Utah without these places.

The Antiquities Act has been essential in shaping the landscape of the entire American West.

Bishop’s attack on public lands is part of a national Republican Party agenda to privatize America’s public lands. The 2016 Republican Platform calls for undermining the Antiquities Act as part of an agenda to transfer owner-

Tavaputs Plateau. Photo: EcoFlight • Audubon Society

ship of public lands to state government.

U.S. Oil Sands goes bankrupt The first tar sands strip mine in the United States has run out of money, leaving behind a 100-acre open pit and the 40-mile Seep Ridge “road to nowhere” paved at taxpayer expense at a cost of $86.5 million.

In September, U.S. Oil Sands Inc. (a misleadingly named Canadian company) suddenly announced that they had gone into receivership, meaning they no longer have enough money to pay financial obligations.

Western Resource Advocates calls oil shale and tar sands “the most polluting fuels on the planet.” The mining process, similar to mountaintop removal in the Appalachian Mountains, involves stripping away plants and soil, crushing rock, and cooking it with chemicals to extract oil. The landscape and ecosystem are destroyed and replaced with organically dead material that the company calls “clean sand.”

Despite the industrial ecocide taking place in Canadian tar sands, the Bush administration made a push to open U.S. public lands to oil shale and tar sands leasing. The State of Utah played along, offering incentives to promote so-called “unconventional fuel” development including low royalty payments, tax incentives, and leases on State and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA) lands in order to help mining operations avoid federal environmental regulations.

In 2012, U.S. Oil Sands dug a test pit on land leased from SITLA at PR Springs in the Book Cliffs and the company holds leases for the potential development of strip mines on 32,000 acres of SITLA property in the Uinta Basin. For the past six years, protesters with Utah Tar Sands Resistance have been holding a vigil at PR Spring to bear witness to the sacrifice of Utah’s environment.

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Anti-environmental Utahn to drive BLM policy Utah politico Brian Steed has been appointed as BLM Deputy Director of Programs and Policy.

Steed was chief of staff to Representative Chris Stewart (R-Ut-2) since 2013. Prior to that, he was a political science and economics Instructor at Utah State University where he co-authored a number of papers opposing national monument designation and wilderness conservation.

BLM cancels sage grouse study The Trump administration has canceled an environmental impact study of sage grouse habitat in six western states including Utah. The study, which began in 2015, designated a 10-millionacre Sagebrush Focal Area in order to study the impacts of resource extraction on sagebrush ecosystems.

Acting BLM director Mike Nedd says, “The proposal to withdraw 10 million acres to prevent 10,000 from potential mineral development was a complete overreach.” Of course, without the study it is impossible to know which acres are essential sage grouse habitat since mineral leasing will resume in the entire area.

SLC bike trails expand Crisp fall weather makes this a great time to get out and explore some new additions to Salt Lake City’s non-motorized trail system.

A new segment of Parley’s Trail opened in October, linking Tanner Park to 1700 East along the I-80 freeway corridor. With this new segment in place, the trail extends east/west along the S-Line and through Sugar House Park to connect the Jordan River Trail and the Bonneville Shoreline Trail.

A long-planned Sego Lily Plaza artwork is under construction in

Sugar House Park near the 1300 East underpass. The giant sego lily, designed by artist Patricia Johanson, is a sculpture designed for flood control to direct runoff under 1300 East and into Parley’s Creek. (Due to this construction, the bike underpass tunnel is currently closed, blocking access to Sugar House Park.)

At 200 South and North Temple, Salt Lake City is constructing a bridge over the railroad tracks in order to connect segments of the 45-mile Jordan River Trail that runs from Utah Lake to Great Salt Lake marshes.

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Bears Ears dance a triumph Congratulations to Repertory Dance Theatre (RDT) In October, RDT presented a new work to celebrate Utah’s newest national monument (if we can keep it).

“Dancing the Bears Ears,” a world-premiere by choreographer Zvi Gotheiner, got rave reviews from both dancers and environmentalists. The rhythmic movement, set against multimedia images of the Bears Ears region conveyed a profound spiritual and emotional response to an extraordinary landscape. With the new National Monument under political attack, this unabashed celebration was a healing balm for the community. This work of art came at exactly the right time, and I hope it will be performed again in the near future.

“Kindness is my religion”

-Dalai Lama

U of U moves toward clean energy The University of Utah has signed a contract for clean energy that will reduce the university’s total carbon emissions by 25%. The purchase agreement with Cyrq Energy will provide 20 megawatts of geothermal energy and 10 megawatts of solar energy to the university for the next 25 years.

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ESSAY WINNER

November 2017

In praise of independent journalism

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ach year the McCarthey Family Foundation trustees (whose great-grandfather purchased The Salt Lake Tribune in 1901) host a lecture series honoring the family’s commitment to cultivating a “lasting legacy for an independent press.” Recognizing the vital role an independent press plays in a democracy, the Series sponsors public lectures by and concerning journalists who have demonstrated the highest level of courageous, thoughtful and unbiased reporting.

This year’s speaker, New Yorker editor and Pulitzer Prize winner David Remnick, packed the Rowland Hall field house on October 28. Remnick spoke on the coarsening effect of the current Administration on culture, the state of common dialogue and the imperative to be morally brave.

Remnick also announced the winner of an essay contest for college students sponsored by the McCarthey Family Foundation. The assignment was to reflect on the words of Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee who oversaw the publication of Woodward and Bernstein’s stories documenting the Watergate scandal: “As long as a journalist tells the truth, in conscience and fairness, it is not his job to worry about consequences. The truth is never as dangerous as a lie in the long run. I truly believe the truth sets men free.” (1973) Here is the winning essay, written by Sergio Arellano.

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e are living in this strange time where trust is more important than truth.” It was during the middle of Hasan Minhaj’s speech at this year’s Correspondents’ Dinner that these words silenced an audience that included journalists and celebrities, but not the president. His absence sent a clear message, which would have easily been the biggest take-away of the night, were it not for the presence or two men: Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.

Minhaj’s words are the zeitgeist of journalism today. Preserving freedom of speech and accurate reporting have always been a challenge for journalism, but that challenge has never been greater than

it is in the internet era. Today, a single tweet can deny the research of the entire scientific community, it can shape racial relations—it can win presidential elections. Information, true or not, is so readily available now that the press has to vehemently fight for its audience’s attention.

This fight for attention combined with the overly saturated online press has generated a distrust in the mainstream media like never before. At the height of the Watergate scandal, polls put public distrust of the media over 40%. Today, the latest Harvard-Harris poll showed 65% of voters believe that the mainstream media has a lot of “fake news,” and 84% of voters said it is hard to know what news to believe online. People do not necessarily believe what

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is true anymore, they believe those they trust.

It is for this very reason that the words of Ben Bradlee have never been more relevant. It is in the truth, and the rejection of lies, that men can really be free. It is journalists that have to spearhead the fight against lies, for the news outlets and for society at large.

Society needs to be able to identify truth and categorically call out lies and liars. For example, the inclusion of Sean Spicer in the Emmys ceremony and his selection as a Harvard visiting fellow ha been criticized as the shameful embrace of a liar.

The Emmys as a media outlet and Harvard as an institution that seek truth are actively engaging in this celebration of fame over virtue, because these moves are guaranteed to seize attention from their audiences. These are signs of a society that is becoming numb to

lies, and this is the true challenge of modern journalism.

The absence of the president at the dinner that celebrates freedom of speech in America is a clear sign that journalism has to fight harder than ever.

Minhaj ended his speech thanking Woodward and Bernstein, the two men that started the Watergate story, for inspiring a generation of journalists. Their presence in the ceremony that the president did not attend symbolized the fight for truth in the era of misinformation. This fight is extremely important, because in the words of Woodward: “The truth does emerge. It takes forever sometimes, but it does emerge, and (…) any relaxation by the press will be extremely costly to democracy.” ◆

Today, a single tweet can deny the research of the entire scientific community.

UPDATE: Plan-B Theatre’s run of The Ice Front (page 39) is completely sold out. However, a prepaid wait list will form in the Rose Wagner box office one hour before show time. You must be there, in person, to get on the wait list. Then check back five minutes before show time.

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Sergio Arellano is a student in the Horne School of Music, Snow College in Ephraim, Utah.

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More cars, less pollution Despite more drivers on the road, Tier 3 vehicles and fuel standards will lower emissions in Utah

BY ASHLEY MILLER

new fuel New federal standards (called Tier 3) for new cars and gas are now in effect, called Tier 3 (Tier 2 standards ran from 2009 through last year).

For vehicles, the new standards mean that cars are about 80% cleaner than the Tier 2 standard.

Tier 3 vehicles are arriving in Utah’s dealership lots. This is good news for our air quality. As people replace older, dirtier models with cleaner cars, fewer emissions will enter our airshed.

In a perfect world we would have workable mass transit options and electric vehicles that run on renewable energy. But until combustion engines are truly a thing of the past, we can look forward to having Tier 3 fuels in our gas pumps (till 2025, when Tier 4 fuels will be introduced), to help reduce vehicle emissions.

It’s all about the sulfur

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f you’re concerned about the Salt Lake Valley’s air quality, you probably know that vehicle emissions make up about half of our air pollution. And with population expected to double along the Wasatch Front by 2050, even more cars will

be hitting Utah’s roads and contributing to the problem. But the good news is cars are getting cleaner, and so is the fuel we fill them with.

New cars are way cleaner, especially with

The Tier 3 standard for fuel reduces the sulfur content from 30ppm to 10ppm. Burning fuel releases sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere, leading to the formation of particulate matter pollution we see all too often during an inversion.

Sulfur also causes problems for catalytic converters. As it builds up, it makes the catalyst function poorly. Less sulfur buildup will increase the life of the catalyst, making the vehicle run cleaner for a longer period of time.

Two of our largest refineries have committed to produce Tier 3 fuels in Utah: Andeavor (formerly Tesoro) and Chevron. A smaller refinery, Silver Eagle, has already begun producing the lower sulfur fuel. Even though the upgrades needed for the local refineries to remove more sulfur from the fuel they produce are quite costly, the cost of complying with Tier 3 fuels for U.S. oil companies will likely not be passed through to customers.

Also, in case you were wondering, older cars can use Tier 3 fuels and the newer cars can use the Tier 2 fuels, all without vehicular harm (and some improvement over a Tier 2 car/gas combo). However, with the perfect combination of a Tier 3 vehicle running on Tier 3 fuel, the emissions reduction will be dramatic.

Check the smog rating You can identify a cleaner vehicle several ways. The easiest is by the smog rating. The smog rating is for vehicle tailpipe emissions. These pollutants, like the fine particulate matter we see in wintertime and summertime ozone, cause the smog and hazy skies that are so prevalent in this valley. The smog rating is on a scale of one to 10, and vehicles that score a 10 are the cleanest. A vehicle with a smog rating of 8 emits one-

The new standards mean that cars are about 80% cleaner than the Tier 2 standard. fifth of the emissions of a vehicle with a smog rating of 5.

The smog rating is found on the right-hand-side of a new vehicle’s EPA/DOT Fuel Economy and Environment window sticker, or by searching for a used car with the make, model and year on fueleconomy.gov.

Of course, Miles Per Gallon (MPG)

and fuel economy are also important for our air quality since the less fuel the vehicle burns, the fewer emissions it produces.

An all-electric, or battery-electric vehicle is the only vehicle right now that truly has zero tailpipe emissions. This means EVs have a smog rating of 10. The emissions from electricity generation are an important part of the equation, but even in areas like Utah where our electricity comes from relatively dirty coal-powered plants, the emissions produced by charging an EV are less than

Older cars can use Tier 3 fuels and the newer cars can use the Tier 2 fuels, all without vehicular harm (and some improvement over a Tier 2 car/gas combo). the emissions of the average compact conventional vehicle. And as America’s electricity grids become cleaner and fueled by more renewables, charging EVs will become even cleaner. You’ll find that even taking this into consideration, electric vehicles are the cleanest choice for our air quality challenges. Solar panels can make your car even cleaner, provided you are charging during daylight hours.

You may recall hearing about a resolution passed in 2017 during the last legislative session encouraging Utahns to consider a smog rating when purchasing a vehicle. Representative Patrice Arent and Senator Brian Shiozawa, along with 46 co-sponsors from the Utah House of Representatives ran HCR 18. The resolution recognizes how vehicle emissions impact Utah’s air quality, acknowledges the air quality benefits of purchasing a vehicle with a smog rating of eight or higher, and encourages Utahns buying new cars to consider the air and other environmental impacts when purchasing their next vehicle. The resolution passed and lays a great foundation for a statewide educational campaign.

We live in a delicate airshed. We all must do our part to contribute to cleaner air. Consider the smog rating when purchasing a vehicle.

It’s just the sort of thing we can do as individuals to improve the air we all breathe. ◆ CATALYST welcomes Ashley Miller, J.D., as our new air quality columnist. Miller is program and policy director for Breathe Utah. She was recently appointed to the state’s new Air Quality Policy Advisory Board and is also a member of the SL County Health Department Environmental Quality Advisory Commission.

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THE ARTIST AT HOME

At home with John deJong PHOTOS BY EMMA RYDER

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he studio of John deJong is an extraordinary place— an emanation of an extraordinary mind. I have visited many artists’ studios, and I have one of my own, but the sheer magnitude and variety of John’s output and collection of work is, to say the least, both impressive and overwhelming.

Trained as an industrial engineer, and the veteran of many years of Burning Man both as an effigy builder and a volunteer with Burners Without Borders, John works exclusively in three dimensional space, experimenting with how to divide it and how to fill it up.

He’s been collecting and modifying everything from military surplus aircraft instruments to Happy Meal toys since his college days. An amateur photographer but a stranger to the darkroom, he found unlimited freedom in his first digital camera. He says his first photography show should have been called "Port, Pot and Photoshop," reflecting the mixture of his working materials, but he was running for the Salt Lake City School Board at the time and thought of a less descriptive title. deJong’s inner architect has been nurtured by bags of miscellaneous Lego pieces acquired at yard sales and Deseret Industries. He builds temples, altars and other Escheresque structures, challenging himself to use only the pieces in each bag.

John’s father was a mechanical engineer working in the steel industry. The family moved around a lot, ultimately landing in Provo, but not before John and his sister got to visit the Gateway Arch in St. Louis as it was being constructed. “I remember seeing the top section, which was 17 feet by 17 feet by 17 feet, going out of the plant in Des Moines,” he says. This was a pivotal moment in his life—“the Arch is truly monumental and inspirational. Everyone should visit.”

How about showing his art? “I’ve thought about having an ‘open studio’ but two or three years ago I decided to be a ‘5% artist’—you know that quote by Thomas Edison about invention being 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration? Well, to hell with the 95%; it feels really good to be doing this just for me.”

Access to John’s studio is by invitation only.

The collection has moved several times over the years, variously inhabiting rooms in a house, a garage, and rented studios before settling in its present location in a building on Broadway. “I’ve always expanded to fill the space available,” he admits. “You know that KonMari decluttering book that’s so popular? In getting rid of things it asks you to pick up the object and ask yourself ‘does this bring me joy?’ —well, all of it brings me joy.” He smiles.

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The “rights of nature” movement An organizer in the Colorado River “personhood” lawsuit explains

BY WILL FALK

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

f I asked you, “Which corporation provides drinking water to 40 million Americans?” you might guess Nestle or Pepsi or Coca Cola. It’s a trick question.

No corporation provides drinking water to 40 million Americans, but the Colorado River does.

Similarly, if I asked you, “Which corporation shapes the American Southwest by moving millions of square acres of red rock, granite mountainsides, and desert sand?” you might guess Chevron or Exxon-Mobil or Bechtel. But, again, no corporation is capable of shaping the American Southwest like the Colorado River does.

Despite the fact that no corporation can do what ecosystems can do, corporations under American law are considered “persons” and the ecosystems giving us life are not. For the past decade, a movement committed to achieving legal rights for nature has been gaining momentum .

Ecosystems gaining rights worldwide Courts and legislatures from South America to Asia have recognized that ecosystems themselves possess rights. Ecuador amended its national constitution in 2008 to establish the rights of ecosystems to exist, regenerate, evolve and be restored. Using these constitutional provisions, Ecuadorians have filed several enforcement cases protecting the rights of rivers and other ecosystems in the country.

In July 2014, Te Urewera, an 821-square-mile forest area of New Zealand, was designated as a legal entity with “all the rights, powers, duties, and liabilities of a legal person.” Te Urewera may now bring causes of action on its own behalf without having to prove direct injury to human beings.

This past spring, New Zealand’s Whanganui River gained legal “personhood status” under an agreement that states the river is no longer the property of the government but rather owns itself.

Colombia’s Constitutional Court, in November 2016, ruled that the Atrato River, including its tributaries and watershed, is “an entity subject to rights to protection, conservation, maintenance, and restoration.” To enforce these rights, the Court ordered that the Colombian State shall “exercise legal guardianship and representation of the rights of the river in conjunction with the ethnic communities that inhabit the Atrato river basin.”

In March, a high court in northern India declared that the Ganges and Yumana Rivers are “legal/living persons.” This declaration followed numerous rulings by the court which found that while rivers are “central to the existence to half of the Indian population and their health and well-being,” they are severely polluted and their existence seriously threatened.

First step toward protection in U.S. To bring the rights of nature movement to the United States, four of my comrades and I in the environmental and social justice organization Deep Green Resistance recently filed a first-in-thenation lawsuit—Colorado River v.

Colorado—in the United States District Court, District of Denver, seeking “personhood” for the Colorado River and recognition of the river’s rights to exist, flourish, regenerate, and naturally evolve.

Personhood grants one the right to sue for damages and seek court-enforced injunctions— rights that corporations, as persons, possess.

The Colorado River is the only listed plaintiff, so it can be said that the Colorado River, herself, is suing the State of Colorado.

Under current law, however, the Colorado River is not “legally competent,” so my colleagues and I serve as “next friends” to the Colorado River—a fiduciary or guardian of the river’s interests in court. We are represented by noted Denver-based civil rights

attorney Jason Flores-Williams. Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), the premier rights of nature organization in the United States, is advising us.

While water continues to be polluted, air poisoned, and the collapse of every major ecosystem on the continent intensifies, our system of law fails to protect the natural world we depend on.

Legal tools such as achieving wilderness designation are available for some places.

But the 1964 Wilderness Act which governs what can be designated as wilderness only protects “an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man” and land “retaining its primeval character and influence without permanent improvements or human habitation.”

Ecosystems like the Colorado River have been so thoroughly exploited that they no longer retain their primeval character. Designating the Colorado River as “wilderness” is impossible under this definition.

system. He asks us to imagine that we are lawyers defending a black client in Jim Crow South or apartheid South Africa. “What would you do,” Evernden asks, “if faced with a trial judge who denies your client any rights and who, after hearing your case, simply says: ‘so what—is he white?”

If we were lawyers in this case, we’d have two choices. We could detail our client’s genealogical record to try to prove our client has white blood and, in the process, legitimize institutionalized racism by bowing to its demands. Or, we could make the argument that lacks legal merit under contemporary standards, demand that the judge recognize the rights and dignity of our client, and then watch as the judge disregards our argument while sentencing our client to death.

Many of us would seek to prove our client white and, at least, give our client a chance to be safe from execution. Evernden writes, “Essentially this is what the environmentalist does.

When challenged to justify his declaration on behalf of the living world, he proceeds, not to oppose the assumptions of his critics, but to try ‘to prove his client white’. Rather than challenge the astonishing assumption that only utility to industrialized society can justify the existence of anything on the planet,” environmentalists try to prove that the ecosystems they love are only valuable for the way humans use them.

American history is haunted by notorious failures to afford rights to those who always deserved them. Americans will forever shudder, for example, at Chief Justice Roger Taney’s words, when the Supreme Court, in 1857, ruled that persons of African descent cannot be, nor were never intended to be, citizens under the Constitution in Dred Scott v. Sanford. Justice Taney wrote of African Americans, “They had for more than a century before been regarded as being of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race … and so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect…”

Without rights that white, slave-owning men were bound to respect, the horrors of slavery continued.

On the other hand, the most hopeful moments in American history have occurred when the oppressed demanded and were granted their rights in American courts. Despite centuries of treating African Americans as less than human while defining them as property, our system of law now gives the same rights to

The American legal system fails to protect nature because it defines nature as property that may be consumed and destroyed.

Parallels of racism and ecocide The American legal system fails to protect nature because it defines nature as property that may be consumed and destroyed. To define nature as property is to objectify nature and objectification always precedes exploitation.

Environmental philosophers Derrick Jensen and Neil Evernden insist that no one will be safe so long as nature remains objectified and valued only for the way humans use it.

Jensen, while diagnosing the cultural roots of ecocide, observes a psychological principle: “We act according to the way we experience the world. We experience the world according to how we perceive it. We perceive it the way we have been taught.” Jensen quotes a Canadian lumberman who once said, “When I look at trees I see dollar bills.”

When corporations see trees, they, too, see dollar bills. And, when the legal system looks at trees, it sees property. Jensen helps us unpack the psychology of this objectification: “If, when you look at trees you see dollar bills, you will act a certain way. If, when you look at trees, you see trees you will act a different way. If, when you look at this tree right here you see this tree right here, you will act differently still.”

Evernden describes the dilemma facing environmentalists working for change in the legal

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Similarly, despite a centuries-old tradition where women were, in the legal sense, owned by men, our system of law now gives the same rights to women that American citizens have always enjoyed. Once property, women are now persons under the law.

Like African Americans and women before, natural ecosystems must be recognized as persons under the law.

Can we change our relationship with nature?

Practically speaking, if the Colorado River was granted rights, what would happen to all the human activities existing along the river?

Less than 20% of the river’s water is used by individuals for drinking and residential purposes.

Close to 80% of the water is used by corporations, especially for industrial agriculture to water nearly 3 million acres of commodity cropland.

Personhood grants a legal entity a bundle of rights. A right grants a "person" the capability to request access to the power of the state to compel another to do something or stop doing something. For example, a "person" in the United States has the right to free speech. This means a person has the power to step into a courtroom, accuse someone of infringing upon his, her, or its right to free speech, and ask that the court order the defendant to stop infringing on the person's free speech, or to pay money to the person.

A ruling by the court that the Colorado River has personhood and rights would grant citizens a stronger tool to end destructive corporate activities. But these activities would only be ended after a lawsuit was brought against the corporation. Eventually, yes, many corporations who have profited for so long on the exploitation of the river might see their activities shut down by courts.

For example, the Nestle Corporation owns two plastic bottling operations on the river.

These operations divert as much as 500 million gallons of Colorado River water which is put in plastic bottles and sold back to the public. Nestle would not have to close up shop until 1. they are sued by the Colorado

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE River, 2. a judge finds Nestle is infringing on the river's rights and 3. a judge orders Nestle to close up shop (through an injunction) or orders payment of damages so high that Nestle's shop is no longer profitable and Nestle decides to close up.

How? We can look to international models for guidance on how to implement the rights of nature. In recognizing rights of nature for the Te Urewera ecosystem and the Whanganui River, New Zealand established a government board to serve as guardians protecting Te Urewera’s and the Whanganui River’s interests.

In Ecuador, any person may invoke rights of nature in court, just like any person may invoke their constitutional rights to free speech, due process, freedom from illegal search or seizure, or a trial by jury in the United States. Ecuador’s constitution reads, “any person will be able to demand the recognition of the rights of nature before public organisms.”

Is there any optimism our lawsuit can succeed?

Either we will fundamentally change our relationship to the natural world, or we may face extinction. Instead of wondering whether we can succeed, we must ask, “What needs to be done?”

We want others to consider filing rights of nature lawsuits, too.

Most movements begin at the local level. The movement for women’s suffrage, for example, did not start with the U.S. Supreme court. It was a struggle that lasted more than 50 years and included over 400 local and state laws that recognized the right of women to vote.

To change local and state laws like the women’s suffrage movement did, we need communities across the country to pressure their local courts and governments by demanding rights of nature for local ecosystems.

And, one day, maybe future Americans, living in a truly sustainable world, will look back, embarrassed, to ask, “Why were corporations considered persons when ecosystems were not?” ◆

Designating the Colorado River as “wilderness” is not a possibility.

The ecosystem has been so thoroughly exploited that it no longer retains its primeval character.

Will Falk is a writer, lawyer and grassroots activist who lives in Heber City, Utah.

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Ben Shapiro serves up a hierarchy that puts white men on top—again

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ast month, conservative media celebrity Ben Shapiro came to speak at the University of Utah to approximately 400 people as a guest of the student organization Young Americans for Freedom, a chapter affiliate of the nonprofit national organization Young America’s Foundation (YAF). The free tickets were distributed selectively at the Student Union the Saturday morning before the event. Demand for the tickets far exceeded the capacity of the venue and hundreds of people (including myself ) were turned away.

People were interested in hearing the conservative mega-pundit for various reasons. I was interested in the content of his speech. I watched the recording of the talk that was provided by KSL-5. (The YAF at University of Utah also provided a link to a YouTube channel "Trump Truth Watch.")

I wondered how his language would compare to the blatant racism apparent in the Unite the Right white supremacist rally in Charlottesville in August. In September, when protests turned violent at another Shapiro speaking engagement, I questioned the impact of protest demonstration against undesirable speech.

The roots of YAF In opening remarks, a Young Americans for Freedom spokesperson thanked the sponsors who made this event possible without actually naming the sponsors.

A well-funded strategic effort by Young America's Foundation brings provocative conservative speakers to public college campuses.

They advocate on the behalf of the political interests of their donors and undermine faith in public education institutions. They give their ideas away for free on public campuses because they know they are protected by free speech laws. This is an effort to groom future conservative leaders to serve the group’s mission; increasing the number of y o u n g Americans who “understand and are inspired by the ideas of individual freedom, a strong national defense, free enterprise, and traditional values.”

The organization was formed in 1969 as a coalition between traditional conservatives and libertarians. In 1974 YAF sponsored the first Conserv-

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ative Political Action Conference (CPAC) which has turned into the largest political gathering of conservatives in the country. Notable YAF alumni who hold or have held public office include Ronald Reagan, Dan Quayle and Jeff Sessions.

Ann Coulter is an alumna of the YAF National Journalism Center’s internship program.

The funding behind YAF includes megadonors Charles and David Koch and the Richard and Helen DeVos family. This coincides with other investments in colleges and universities with the same aim of grooming and recruiting members.

The funding behind Young America’s Foundation includes mega-donors Charles and David Koch and the Richard and Helen DeVos family.

YAF is an associate member of the nonprofit, State Policy Network (SPN) that focuses on policies they refer to as “workplace freedom, education reform and individual choice in healthcare.”

SPN policy positions have included reduction in state health and welfare programs, expansion of charter schools and voucher programs and opposition to public-sector trade unions.

The organization has ideological relationship with the Heritage Foundation.

Controvery and protest The topic of Shapiro's talk at the University of Utah was debunking the "myth" of white privilege. The topic begs for controversy; it’s designed to be offensive.

Part of the appeal of these events is the response of the protesters. The potential of violence draws an audience. Shapiro devoted the opening of his talk to a widely circulated op-ed article posted in local newspapers just prior to his speaking engagement. The letter was signed

by Ian Decker, a spokesperson for Students for a Democratic

College campuses are vulnerable to partisan propaganda because speakers can stay within the limits of legally acceptable speech and at the same time share ideologies that don’t hold up to academic scrutiny.

Society-Utah, Black Lives MatterSalt Lake City and University of Utah Movimiento Estudiantil Chicanx de Aztlan.

“We intend on shutting down Ben Shapiro precisely because we don't live in a fantasy world where hate speech has no conse-

University Police and other local and federal authorities provided security for the event at an estimated $25,000. The UC-Berkeley Shapiro protest cost an estimated $600,000. These costs are absorbed by the University and taxpayers.

Protesters gather outside of a Ben Shapiro speech at the University of Utah on September 27, 2017.

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quences. We believe his hate speech can and will have material consequences for vulnerable people. This will not be a violent protest, but we intend to exercise our free speech in the boldest and most unapologetic way we can, even if Shapiro, his fans, and the University police would have it otherwise,” it stated.

Because Shapiro's talk falls well within the confines of protected speech, the threat by the activists fell hollow. Shapiro was able to use this to his advantage. An isolated incident of violence at the protest outside also had no impact on altering the course of Shapiro’s discussion. He even noted that the protests and related excitement is good for media coverage.

Suggesting speech should be censored for such vague accusations displays an ignorance of free speech laws and turned away not only conservative observers but liberal ones as well.

Hierarchy of victimhood A key concept Shapiro uses is the idea that the left has created a hierarchy of victimhood that goes as follows, from most victimized to least: 1.) LGBTs 2.) Black “folks” 3.)

Hispanics 4.) Women 5.) Jews 6.)

Asians, and lastly, 7.) White straight males: “Your opinions don’t matter at all, rich, white, straight males.” The message is that racial and sexual minorities,

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Shapiro identifies himself with his audience.

He teases the audience that the only reason they are not rich now is because they are college students and they spend all their money on pot, only to later make the point that the way to end police brutality is to stop committing crimes. These incongruent statements illustrate the existence of white privilege; drug laws are a joke for white young college males but a harsh reality for people of color.

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According to Post data, “...police have continued to shoot and kill a disproportionately large number of black males (24%), yet black males are only 6% of the nation’s population.”

Shapiro again dismisses this complicated research and insists racial bias in the criminal justice system is a non-issue.

Women The next target Shapiro takes aim at is unwed and single mothers. Conservative ideology typically involves concepts like “society works best upon a set of strict rules; rules about morality, authority and national identity.” He emphasizes the idea that poverty is the result of a set of bad choices, entirely within your control. He explains that there are basically three rules in society to be “followed” in order to keep oneself from falling into poverty. 1.) graduate high school. 2.) get a job and 3.) get married before you have kids.

He wants his listeners to believe poverty is a result of having a baby before being married,

POLITICS African Americans account for 13% of the nation’s population; whites, 77%.

—2016 U.S. Census not graduating and not having a job—when in fact, being in poverty makes you more likely to fall into all three categories. His list of three behaviors is basically what you do when you are not in poverty.

“Women are not victims!" Shapiro insists.

"This notion that women all across the United states are being raped, fired, brutalized, and it's just like the Taliban, and that Donald Trump is a peculiarly anti-woman force in legislation— all this is nonsense.”

The "notion" that Shapiro refers to is a direct reference to a statement by actress Whoopi Goldberg. Goldberg criticized the Trump administration for White House adviser Steve Bannon’s advice for the media to “keep its mouth shut” as well as Trump’s promise to prioritize Christian refugees. She stated, “Here’s the thing — we have a constitution that says these are the things we don’t do, this is what makes us different from everybody else,” Goldberg said. “Nobody tells our media to shut up and just take it. That’s not America. That is the Taliban.” This has nothing to do with Shapiro's statement, "women all across the United States are being raped, fired, brutalized." Shapiro mischaracterizes and disputes Goldberg's comments and in so doing, minimizes and dismisses the very real effects women in this country face due to sexual assault, violence and workplace discrimination.

We live in a culture where media personalities wield as much or more political influence over public opinion than elected officials. University and college campuses are vulnerable to partisan propaganda because speakers can stay within the limits of legally acceptable speech and at the same time share ideologies that don’t hold up to academic scrutiny. They rely on free speaking gigs through campus clubs because they aren’t invited by faculty who are serious about research. Ideas that desensitize us to the marginalization or suffering of other people serve the interests of the privileged. Shapiro's popularity is only increased by misled, disorganized and uninformed protest.

In an age of propaganda, confront the message and not the messenger. Bad ideas are protested by better ideas. ◆ Elisabeth Luntz is a freelance journalist who writes about politics, the environment and social justice.

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Party for the Common Good— CATALYST @ The State Room, November 30

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ne year ago, CATALYST Magazine became a nonprofit under the name Common Good Press. (We know that some of you, because of our focus on local nonprofits, arts and movers-and-shakers, thought CATALYST already was a non-profit). Since 1982, CATALYST has been here for this community and now, more than ever, its continued existence is in your hands. We hope you pick up our free pages every month because, like us, you believe that small-shop, independent, local journalism (in print and on the web) is a powerful and important resource.

In celebration of our nonprofit status, and to give our readers a fun way to contribute, CATALYST is throwing our first annual Winter Fundraiser for Common Good Press at The State

Michelle Moonshine

Room, Thursday, November 30. Congregate in the name of the many good things we stand for—and at the same time enjoy music by Talia Keys, Green River Blues, Michelle Moonshine, Jane Lyon and performances by the aerial acrobats of Aeris Aerial and live painting by Cheryl Sandoval. Join us and ensure our ability to continue serving you as a change agent in our community for another 35 years.

Great items are coming in for the silent auction for all pocketbooks, including a $1,000 gift certificate to Boulder Mountain Guest Ranch. Stay tuned to the

event page (“CATALYST’s Party for the Common Good”) for updates!

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alt Lake and the Wasatch Front might be growing, but thankfully we’ve stuck with some of those old pioneer, small-town, barn-raising values that bring people together to lend a needed hand. Our talented local musicians are much in demand and many of them have come through for us during this first annual Winter Fundraiser.

We’d like to let you know how much we appreciate their support.

In case you haven’t heard of these talented performers, we’d like to take a moment to introduce them before the big night. Thanks to them, and thanks to all of you for coming out and supporting CATALYST.

Talia Keys Talia Keys’ music is a blend of

soul, reggae and rock. Since being “discovered” while playing at the closing day festivities at Alta Ski

Valley Concert Series, Mystic Hot Springs Music Festival, Utah Pride Festival, Equality and the Utah Allies Dinner. They opened for Andrew Bird at the Twilight Concert Series.

“CATALYST saved my life,” declared Talia when CATALYST interviewed her for this story. During a particularly rough time in her life, Talia found a therapist in CATALYST’s Community Resource Directory, and through her therapist’s encouragement started practicing Kundalini yoga. “When you look for a therapist online, you don’t know that these people are going to be in the right space for you,” says Talia. Connecting through the CATALYST community made her more comfortable reaching out to a therapist for help. “This is one of the main reasons I would do anything for CATALYST,” says Talia.

While Talia is currently in the process of recording an album, We’re Here, with her band, for this Winter Fundraiser Talia is bringing her solo work. Her one-woman show, which she calls Gemini Mind, relies on live sound recording and looping to create a groovy layered musical experience. Expect some funky, soulful, original sounds as she multitasks on the synths, drum machines, vocals and electric guitar.

Green River Blues Richard Cory started Green

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Resort in 2014, and subsequently recording a television ad for Visit Salt Lake (a tourism promotion company in Salt Lake City), Talia, along with her band Talia Keys & The Love, has played gigs at the Building Man Festival, the Deer

River Blues (GRB) as a two-man acoustic project eight years ago.

The name was a nod to Mississippi bluesman Charley Patton (18911934), widely considered the Father of the Delta Blues, but Cory admits that over the course of becoming a full, three-member band—Richards Cory on guitar/ vocals, Lonnie Blanton on drums and Shawn Davis on bass—the group’s sound has shifted to something decidedly more modern. These days, Green River Blues points to such rock and roll influences as Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, AC/DC, Jack White and The Black Keys.

fore she started playing music on stages, Michelle Moonshine is excited to take a break from recording her first album to play a few tunes for the Winter Fundraiser this November.

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The coming together of this new psych-rock music posse happened more or less by (happy) accident. While sharing practice space downtown, Richard and Lonnie began casually playing tunes together and eventually collaborated on an hour-long set of music. Once they decided they actually had something good on their hands they incorporated Shawn Davis, Lonnie’s former band mate from Red Dog Revival, and before they knew it the group went from “let’s hang out and play music” to “oops, we’re booking shows.”

This upcoming show will be a chance for GRB to reunite with some of their SLC music family. “We love sharing the stage with Talia. We love Michelle Moonshine,” says Shawn.

Michelle Moonshine Michelle Moonshine, 25, is a relative new-

comer on the Salt Lake music scene. As a young rising artist, she turned down a coveted spot on NBC’s The Voice, in 2015, in favor of making a name for herself the old fashioned way: taking her songs on the road, playing in small bars and staying in cheap motels. This young guitarwielding Americana musician, whose lush sound has been compared with Emmy Lou Harris, played her first show at The State Room alongside local blues man Tony Holiday (of Tony Holiday & The Velvetones).

This time, Michelle Moonshine will bring with her to The State Room her full band made up of John Davis (guitar/harmonica/vocals/lapsteel), Bronk Orion (upright bass), and Chad Biddle (electric guitar).

Now a fulltime musician and single mom, working on her first full album, Michelle says, sounding much like her country music heroes of old, that even though her life isn’t exactly as she envisioned she wouldn’t change a thing. “If anything it’s made me work a lot harder. It’s put a fire under my bum,” says Michelle.

A longtime CATALYST reader, since well be-

Fundraiser a comeback show for Jane Lyon, 23, a former intern for CATALYST magazine who now works on staff.

Not long ago, Jane was a pretty driven little 15-year-old, honing her music skills at the Music Garage (an after-school training program focusing on rock, blues and jazz) and booking solo gigs at the Sun and the Moon Café (now closed but once a favorite stop up Emigration Canyon). Jane fearlessly bared her artistic truth by singing about the unbearable emotions of adolescent heartbreak.

Just before leaving for college, Jane reached a high point in her short musical career, playing as a local opener for the Deer Valley Concert Series. Now Jane uses her folk-revival sound, with influences from Crosby Stills & Nash, James Taylor and Joni Mitchell, in songs that will certainly appeal to her new all-grown-up audience.

“Honestly I can’t believe I’ll be performing at The State Room with Talia Keys and Michelle Moonshine,” says Jane. “If those kinds of people didn’t exist in this town, I wouldn’t be itching to get back on stage the way I am. I couldn’t be more thrilled to support CATALYST in this way.”

Aeris Aerial Arts Performing artists Mark Webber, Chelsie

Ross, Erickson Lyons and CATALYST’s own Sophie Silverstone will perform aerial, interspersed throughout the night on aerial straps, duo straps, and lyra (hoop) to the music of Talia Keys, Michelle Moonshine and Green River

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Blues, adding a cirque element to the night.

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ALTERNATIVE REALITIES

Exploring Utah’s redrock desert through

BY AMY BRUNVAND

Poetry matters because it offers an alternative reality – it refuses the logical, reductionist, materialist aspects of industrial culture; aslant, it invites us to feel our way in the dark.

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– Editors, Uncivilised Poetics

f you were around Salt Lake City in the 1980s when poet Mark Strand taught at the University of Utah you might remember that he was called “The God of Poetry,” not entirely as a joke. Strand was a U.S. poet laureate, a Pulitzer Prize winner and he also won a McArthur genius grant. One thing I remember, though, is he didn’t like living in Utah that much. He longed for the sea, and for a more bigcity, indoorsy social life.

The books he wrote while he was in Utah — The Continuous Life and Dark Harbor – describe a sense of exile. You can hear it lines such as these: It is the sound as well as its size that I love And miss in my inland exile among the mountains That do not change except for the light That colors them or the snows that make them remote or the clouds that lift them, so they appear much higher Than they are.

Strand himself thought the setting of his poems didn’t matter much, and that the words matter more than the subject of a poem In an interview published in the book Poets on Place he remarked, “Even if the poem is set in a particular place, the particular place is erased by

the imaginary place that is suggested by the poem. The poem takes the place of the actual world.”

I think Strand was wrong about this. There’s no doubt that his poems are worth reading even for someone who has never set foot in Utah, but as a reader I get an extra kick out of finding familiar places in his poems. For instance, when Strand writes, the light-footed deer come down to the graveyard, / And the magpies cry, that’s a place in Salt Lake City and I’ve been there. Suddenly the poem is less of an abstraction, and the words create a kind of alchemy with my lived experience.

The mental images are richer because the words pull a whole landscape out of my own memory to mix with what the poet is describing.

In fact, I enjoy this kind of reading experience so much that I’m always on the lookout for poetry that somehow expresses the Utah landscape.

Most poets who live in Utah put a little of the experience of place into their writing. However, there are some books of poetry where the sense of place becomes a dominant theme. Here are some of my favorites: In contrast to Strand’s alienation, Terry Tempest Williams’ encounter with the Utah landscape in Desert Quartet is intimate and erotic. Williams is not really a poet, though these four essays on Earth, Water, Fire, and Air read like prose poems. Williams experiences the land as a lover, and on a hike in Canyonlands National Park she finds that the landscape has developed a pulse, the rock seems more accessible and yielding than the human species, and, The arousal of my breath rises in me

like music, like love, as the possessive muscles between my legs tighten and release. I’ll have what she’s having. The book is illustrated with erotic drawings by Mary Frank. If you give it to someone as a gift, make sure it’s the right person.

Alex Caldiero a.k.a. “The Sonosopher” is an eccentric genius who has lived in Utah since 1980. He is currently an Artist in Residence at Utah Valley University. A few years ago someone had the brilliant idea of inviting him on a river trip down the Colorado River through Cataract Canyon. Caldiero kept a poetic journal which has been published by saltfront (a locally published environmental humanities literary journal) as “Who is the Dancer, What is the Dance.” As the days pass, the river becomes a god-like presence in a world defined by sound: The rocks paint The river The river paints The sky The sky paints every thing and every thing responds with a sound The sounds of the desert likewise inspired Nancy Takacs, another local poet who won the 15 Bytes Book Award for poetry in 2016 for her poetry collection Blue Patina. In Red Voice, the nymph Echo gives a human voice to the landscape. In the first poem we meet “Echo the River Guide,” traveling through the same territory as Alex Caldiero.

They were the orders I brayed when the raft headed for Skull Hole, my crew paddling in unison to ride its lip In amethyst shadow.

Skull Hole is a terrifying rapid in Westwater Canyon. The captain of the paddle raft is screaming orders, and the rock cliffs pick up the tones of panic in the voice of the echo. Again, it changes the poem to know exactly how

frightening yet exhilarating that place is.

Navajo poet Sherwin Bitsui was a keynote speaker at the 2016 Utah Humanities Book Festival conference on “Poetry, Ecology, & Place in a Technological World” where he presented a session on “The Song Within: Poetry as Landscape.” His poems about the landscape of “the rez” confront the clash of ancient and modern. Bitsui’s poems juxtapose images in complicated ways, and in a few lines he can evoke a whole history of place: Pioneers wanted in, and the ends of our feet yellowed to uranium at the edge of fear.

Perhaps the redrock deserts of the Colorado Plateau are the most obviously poetic part of the state, but I’ve always had a special fondness for the Great Basin. Liane Ellison Norman is a poet who grew up at the Great Basin Experimental Range near Ephraim where her father Lincoln Ellison was an ecologist. In Breathing the West: Great Basin Poems, Norman finds poetry in local history and in her father’s scientific passions, and a deep-time geologic history: On the Wasatch Plateau, above timber, the fish that once Swam in Lake Bonneville still brush against my face Landscapes hold memories of many kinds. Rebecca Lindenberg’s Logan Notebooks which won the 2015 Utah Book Award for poetry is inspired by The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon,a diary of poetic observations describing life at the imperial court of Japan 1,000 years ago; Lindenberg’s poems document contemporary life in Logan, Utah, and it’s amusing to find entirely recognizable things in the poems: Today, according to the radio, the air quality in Logan will be the worst in the nation.

Brian Komei Dempster experiences Utah’s Great Basin as a landscape of exile during a journey of self-discovery to the Japanese internment camp near Delta, Utah. His poems examine questions of identity as he imagines the experience of his ancestors. His poetry collection, Topaz, won the 2014 15-Bytes Book Award for poetry.

The tank needling below half-full, I smoke Camels to soothe my worry. Is this where it happened? What’s

left out there of Topaz in the simmering heat?

If I had to pick one single book to exemplify place-based poetry of Utah it would be David Lee’s wonderful So Quietly the Earth. Lee was Utah’s poet laureate from 1997 to 2003. The Entrada Institute gave him the Ward Roylance Award in 2005 for “increasing appreciation and understanding of the Colorado Plateau.” Compared to Lee’s previous poetry, this one is more spiritual and more overtly environmentalist, the landscape and the poems that arises from it inseparable. Lee’s words can be just breathtaking: In the rust-colored edge of my life I come here to find myself.

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That’s the redrock desert in a nutshell. Give some of these books a try. The poetry of place is a guide to secrets hiding in places you thought you already knew. ◆ Amy Brunvand is a University of Utah librarian and a published poet.

Books mentioned in this article Sei Shōnagon, The Pillow Book (written in Japan sometime around the year 1000) Mark Strand, The Continuous Life (Knopf, 1990), Dark Harbor:a Poem (Knopf, 1994) Terry Tempest Williams, Desert Quartet: An Erotic Landscape (Pantheon Books, 1995) Sherwin Bitsui, Shapeshift (University of Arizona Press, 2003) David Lee, So Quietly the Earth (Copper Canyon Press, 2004) W.T. Pfefferle. Poets on Place: Tales & Interviews from the Road (Utah State University Press 2005).

Liane Ellison Norman, Breathing the West: Great Basin Poems (Bottom Dog Press, 2012) Brian Komei Dempster, Topaz (Four Way Books, 2013) Rebecca Lindenberg, Logan Notebooks (Colorado State University, 2014) Alex Caldiero, Who is the Dancer? What is the Dance? (saltfront, 2016) Nancy Takacs, Red Voice (Finishing Line Press, 2016), Blue Patina (Blue Begonia Press, 2015) Uncivilised Poetics (Dark Mountain #10, 2016)

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Nov. 30: CATALYST Winter Fundraiser @ State Room. 7-11p. Music by Talia Keys, Michelle Moonshine, Green River Blues, and Jane Lyon. Aerial acrobatics, live painting, silent auction, food by Red Iguana, & drinks by Squatters, Underground Herbal, Cru Kombucha. $45/$35/$25 Day of/Pre-sale/Members.

Nov. 6: Soulcollage Circle @ Milagro Art Studio. 5:30-8:30p. Card making w/ Lucia Gardner. $30. SOULPATHMAKER.COM

Nov. 8: A Fierce Green Fire (film) @ Impact Hub SLC. 7-9:30p. $5/free for members. HUBSALTLAKE.COM

Nov. 9: Air Quality & You @ SLC library.

7-8p. A discussion on air quality and our impact. Free. SLCPL.ORG

Nov. 3: The Bee // All In @ Clubhouse. 610p. An evening of lovingly competitive storytelling. 21+. $18. THEBEESLC.ORG

Nov. 7: TEDx: Dare to Have Fun @ Marmalade Library. 7-8p. With Clint Watson, executive director of the Bicycle Collective, a nonprofit community bike shop. Free.

Nov. 9: Rumi Poetry Club @ Salt Lake City Library Anderson/Foothill Branch.

7-8:30p. A celebration of spiritual poetry.

Free. RUMIPOETRYCLUB.COM

Nov. 3: Medicine Tribe Presents Nahko—My Name is Bear @ The Depot.

7-11p. 21+. $35/30 adv. DEPOTSLC.COM

Nov. 8: Chocolate Festival @ Caputo’s. 710p. 6th annual Chocolate Festival. $40/$60 w/ pairings. CAPUTOS.COM

Nov. 10: PechaKucha Night - SLC Volume #22 @ The State Room. Tonight’s presentations feature people/organizations/projects that promote wellness through collaborations among academic research, arts and the public. 7p.

21+. Free.

Nov. 4: Ani DiFranco @ The Eccles. 8p.

Touring her new album Binary. $25-$55.

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Nov. 8: Vintage Trouble @ The State Room. 7-11p. American rhythm & blues. $32.

Nov. 3-5: Puerto Rican Bomba Dance & Drum Weekend @ Extravadance Dance Studio. Fri 7-10p. Sat. 2-5p. Sun. 10a-1p.

Workshops on dance and musicality. $30-$100. EXTRAVADANCESTUDIO.COM

Nov. 4-5: Orchid Show @ Red Butte Garden. 9a-4p. $12/free for members. REDBUTTEGARDEN.ORG

Nov. 9: On the Front Lines with HEAL Utah @ Pierpont Place. 6:30-9p. Annual fundraiser for HEAL Utah. 21+. $25-$100.

BIT.LY/2GIQK4K. Nov. 9: ULLR “Pray For Snow” Ball @ The State Room. 7p. Drinks, silent auction, and live music, benefitting Save Our Canyons. 21+. $30. SAVEOURCANYONS.ORG

Nov. 4, 9-11, 16-17, Dec. 1-2: White Rabbit Red Rabbit @ Kingsbury Hall. 7:3010p. An Iranian play by Nasim Soleimanpour. $20. TICKETS.UTAH.EDU.

Nov. 11: RDT’s Ring Around the Rose Presents Tanner Dance @ The Rose Wagner. 11a & 1p. Why is Utah such a hotbed of modern dance activity? This school started it all. $5. RDTUTAH.ORG Nov. 11: Digital Headshots @ Marmalade Library. 1p. High-quality digital headshots by professional photographer, Jeri Gravlin. Free.

Nov. 4: Meet the Candidates! @ Beer Bar. 3-6p. The Sierra Club’s Political Action team will be mingling and discussing the candidates for Utah’s general election on 11/7. Free. SIERRACLUB.ORG

Nov. 11: After Glo party @ The Gateway.

8p-3a. After-party for the Illuminate Light festival. 21+. $25.

Nov. 12: Hirie + Nattali Rize @ Elevate.

8p. 21+. $16/$14 Doors/adv. REGGAERISEUP.COM

Nov. 5: The Jerry Douglas Band @ The State Room. 7p. 21+. $35.

Nov. 5: Trevor Hall @ The Depot. 6p. w/ East Forest. 21+. $25/20adv. REGGAERISEUP.COM

Nov. 11: Rio Grande Winter Market begins @ Rio Grande Depot. 10a-2p.. SLCFARMERSMARKET.ORG

Nov. 8: ACME: The Art of Mindful Living @ Glendale Library. 6:30p. Guided meditation, art-based exercise and group dialogue. Free. UMFA.UTAH.EDU

Nov. 12: Indoor Flea Market @ The Gateway. 10a-4p. Winter flea market with over 70 vendors of local and eclectic goods. $2. FLEAMARKETSLC.COM

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Curated Film Media Education Artist Support

Upcoming Free Film Screenings

Nov. 10-11: Illuminate Light Art + Technology Festival @ The Gateway. 510p. Explore our city in entirely new ways by illuminating our history, culture and community through art and technology. Free. UTAHARTS.ORG Nov. 14: Open Mic Night @ The People’s Coffee. 6-9p. Presented by CATALYST Magazine. Free.

Nov. 15: Evening for Educators, Art in the Elements: From the Trail to the Museum @ UMFA. 5:30p. Learn how to integrate nature and art into any subject you teach. Free.

THE MARS GENERATION

CALIFORNIA TYPEWRITER

Official Selection: 2017 Sundance Film Festival

Presented in partnership with KUER and RadioWest

Teenagers at Space Camp chase their dreams of traveling to Mars, while experts reflect on NASA’s history and future.

Saturday | November 4 | 11am The City Library 210 E 400 S, SLC

Post-film panel

Cinematic essay of those who remain loyal to the typewriter as a tool and a muse, and the struggles to keep the machines clicking.

Tuesday | November 21 | 7pm The City Library 210 E 400 S, SLC

Q&A with director

Nov. 15: Living Light, Dance & Yoga @ Ecstatic Dance SLC. 6-10p. w/ DJ/Yogini Eartha Harris. $15. ECSTATICDANCE.ORG Nov. 16-18: RDT’s Top Bill @ Rose Wagner. 7:30p. RDT spotlights work by its most prolific alumni choreographer, William "Bill" Evans. $30/$15 students & seniors.

Nov. 16: Raising Zoey (film) @ The City Library. 7p. Moving story about trans activist Zoey Luna, 13 years old. Free.

CHASING CORAL

DAVID LYNCH: The Art Life

Presented in partnership with the Natural History Museum and The City Library.

Post-film Tuesday | November 14 | 7pm dicussion The City Library 210 E 400 S, SLC

Official Selection: 2016 Venice International Film Festival

RAISING ZOEY

THE ROAD FORWARD

The director of Chasing Ice returns, turning time-lapse cameras on coral reefs, the nursery of all ocean life.

Candid interviews with Lynch provide a rare glimpse into the mind of one of cinema’s most enigmatic visionaries.

Wednesday | November 22 | 7pm UMFA 410 Campus Center Dr., SLC

Nov. 17: An Evening w/ Noam Pikelny @ The State Room. 7-11p. 21+. $26.

Nov. 14: Chasing Coral (documentary) @ Downtown Public Library. 7-9p. Free.

UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG Nov. 14: Son Little @ The State Room. 811P. Presented by KRCL. 21+. $17.

Nov. 14: Michael McDonald with Marc Cohn @ The Eccles. 7:30p. $45-265.

Nov. 18: Divine Rest @ Quaker Meetinghouse. 10a-3p. Spiritual retreat, sound bath & transformational party. $55. SYLVIANIBLEY.COM Nov. 18: Flying Lotus in 3D, Seven Davis Jr, PBDY @ The Depot. 9-11p. $30/$27 Adv. DEPOTSLC.COM

The moving story of 13-year-old trans activist Zoey Luna and her family’s fight for her right to selfidentify at school.

Official Selection: 2017 Outfest LGBT Film Festival

Thursday | November 16 | 7pm The City Library 210 E 400 S, SLC

Damn These Heels Film Festival Year-Round

Inspired musical documentary connects 1930’s Indian Nationalism with the powerful momentum of today’s First Nations activism.

Opening Night: 2017 American Indian Film Festival

Tuesday | November 28 | 7pm The City Library 210 E 400 S, SLC

Outside of SLC screenings

WEST JORDAN

Viridian Event Center 8030 S 1825 W

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THE BIG SICK | Thursday Nov. 16 @ 7pm

Star Hall

159 E Center St

OREM

THE MARS GENERATION | Saturday Nov. 11 @ 2pm

Orem Public Library 58 N State St.

OGDEN

Peery’s Egyptian Theater

Nov. 20: Reimagining Warm Springs —A Community Conversation @ Marmalade Library. 7-8p. The Wasatch Plunge building and the Warm Springs historic site has always served best as a gathering place. It can be that again.

Free. WARMSPRINGSALLIANCE.OR

THE BIG SICK | Thursday Nov. 2 @ 7pm THE MARS GENERATION | Monday Nov. 6 @ 4pm

2415 Washington Blvd

THE BIG SICK | Wednesday Nov. 15 @ 7pm

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Nov. 18: Down The Rabbit Hole (ft.

Mythbusters alumni) @ The Eccles.

Starring Kari Byron, Tory Belleci and Grant Imahara. 7:30p. $30-165.Nov. 18: Film in the Crafternoon—Labyrinth @ SLC Library Sweet Branch. 2-4p. Watch movies while working on a themed craft. Free.

Nov. 18: Rio Grande Winter Market @ Rio Grande Depot. 10a-2p..

Nov. 19: 12 Min. Max @ SLC Public Library. 2-3p. Monthly performance series showing three 12 min.-and-under acts. Free.

Nov. 28: The Road Forward @ The City Library. 7p. Musical documentary connecting 1930’s Indian Nationalism with today’s First Nations activism. Free.

Nov. 19: John Cleese and Monty Python & The Holy Grail @ The Eccles.

6:30p. $60-275.

Nov. 29: Wasatch Audubon Bird Walk @ Ogden Nature Center. Weekly bird walk with Paul Lombardi. Free. OGDENNATURECENTER.ORG

Nov. 20: Jai Wolf w/ Elohim @ The Depot. 7-10p. $25/20 Adv. Nov. 21: Finding Nonprofit Grants @ Glendale Library. 7-9p. Learn 10 important things when it comes to finding grants to fuel your mission. Email mrex@slcpl.org to register.

Nov. 22: David Lynch—The Art Life @ UMFA. 7p. A movie about one of cinema’s most enigmatic visionaries. Free.

Nov. 30-Dec. 1: Jeff Dunham: Passively Aggressive @ The Eccles. 6:30p. $56.

Dec. 1: The Bee // Adulting @ Clubhouse SLC. 6-8p. 21+. $18.

Dec. 2-3: Holiday Open House & Art Fair @ Red Butte Garden. Free. Unique handmade holiday gifts. REDBUTTEGARDEN.ORG

Nov. 25: Rio Grande Winter Market @ Rio Grande Depot. 10a-2p..

Nov. 25-26: The Crystal Festival @ Rockpit Legend Co. 10a-4p . Gem, mineral, crystal, Santa (Sunday), readers, workshops, craft corner, artist. Free.

CRYSTALFESTIVAL.COM Nov. 27: Jewel’s Handmade Holiday Tour @ Eccles Theatre. 7-10p. $35-$95.

Dec. 2: Marya Stark and Moonbeam @ Vitalize Studio. 7p. Carrier of myth, magic, and medicine songs. $20+ $5 for after-party. VITALIZESTUDIO.COM

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BRIEFLY NOTED

What’s new around town A team of two or three trainers, ages 18-23, is assigned one dog. For up to a year, team members work together to transform one rambunctious ruffer into a helpful hound who can use emotional detection to recognize and treat symptoms associated with PTSD, TBI and other injuries.

— Avrey Evans Labs for Liberty is a nonprofit organization that depends on donations and volunteers to run smoothly. Learn more about becoming a trainer or sponsoring a pup and donate today at HTTP://LABSFORLIBERTY.ORG/

Labs for Liberty With the kickoff of each fall and spring semester comes a flourish of activity up at the University of Utah campus. Freshmen scrambling to find classes only five minutes apart (pro tip: get a bike), seniors sauntering around the library courtyard, student groups gathering hungry for fresh recruits, puppies barking— wait, puppies?

Now in their fourth year on campus are 30 bright-eyed curious little Labrador retriever pups keen on kisses and affectionate doting.

While these furry babies provide much needed alleviation from the stresses of college, their purpose on campus is actually much bigger than simple student distractions. These well-behaved puppies, seen trotting around the courtyards and lounging in lecture halls, are service dogs in training with a program called Labs for Liberty.

This national nonprofit trains purebred Labrador retrievers to be given to veterans free of charge. Founded in 2015 by Joan and Roger Nold, Labs for Liberty provides up to 25 service dogs a year to deserving veterans. To be prepared for a variety of environments as well as acquire skills needed to help out their future veterans, these pups need around-the-clock training and intense socialization. What better place than at the University of Utah?

The theory is that college students make perfect trainers, with enough time on their hands to devote precious attention to labs in training, but busy enough that each dog will be exposed to a diverse range of environments and experiences.

the body donor program administered by the University of Utah Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy.

You’ll be put to good use for three months to two years. Then, at no expense to your survivors, you’ll be cremated and either returned to your family or interred at the Salt Lake City Cemetery.

All you have to do is fill out two copies of the Department’s authorization form and mail one to the program and keep the other with your will or Departure File (See “A Day Planner for Death,” October 2017 CATALYST.) You’ll receive a wallet card; keep it with your license and other ID. Be sure to let your family know your plans.

Upon your exit, the School of Medicine will pick up your body, as long it’s within a 50-mile radius of SLC. And yes, you can still have a funeral.

Hey, someone did this before you, which is how your doctor knows your liver from your spleen.

—Diane Olson For more info, call the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy at 801.581.6728, email BODYDONOR@LISTS.UTAH. EDU or visit HTTP://MEDICINE.UTAH.EDU/NEUROBIOLOGY-ANATOMY/ BODY-DONOR-PROGRAM/

OLIO Skin & Beard Care Company opens storefront Eight-year-old Olio Oils has moved up from its tent at the farmers’ market to a real, live storefront in the 21st & 21st neighborhood.

Jennifer Williamson says her business is dedicated to 100% natural skincare, beard care and now tattoo care.

In this same space you will find Aimee’s Home Cookin’, another local small business that makes seasonings, spice blends, organic teas and cocktail necessities.

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The University of Utah wants your body Wondering what to do with your mortal remains? Want to be useful even when you’ve ceased to be, are bereft of life, have gone to meet your maker—are an ex-person?

Then you should bequeath your cadaver to

Westside affordable housing anyone could love The Giv Group, a Salt Lake-based team of developers and planners, is working on a new affordable housing development they are calling Project Open that will offer along with singlebedroom units a limited number of art studios, available for approved residents.

The development is planned for Salt Lake’s Guadalupe neighborhood, 355 N. 500 West, and will include features designed to attract not only artists but those interested in environmentally conscious living. The Giv Group is expecting the new apartment complex to be 100% solar-powered and its proximity to public transit, a third mile from Trax and the FrontRunner, will help commuters travel without their cars. Plans for the pet-friendly complex also include a community clubhouse, fully equipped gym, sun decks, community gardens, an electric vehicle charging station and bike repair stations.

— Katherine Pioli Move-in dates are projected to begin January 1, 2018.

Request an application at 801-916-5148 or by emailing PROJECTOPEN@EMG-APTS.COM

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BYU and U of U find something to agree on: The Climate Campaign

9th South Maven District

The chic 9th & 9th vibe keeps creeping further west as boutique stores and pricey restaurants continue to open down Harvey Milk Boulevard, inching ever closer to the noise of State Street (the planned future opening of a homeless shelter on 700 S hasn’t scared off the money yet).

The latest in this trend is the newly constructed, and very elegant, Maven District (155 E. 900 South, next to the Arctic Circle). Built by Tessa Arneson, former owner of 9th & 9th Pilates, this anchor for an anticipated new 900 South neighborhood is a corner building that will house an assortment of health, wellness and beauty stores.

Of particular appeal for Arneson’s body sculpting devotees is Maven STRONG where more than just Pilates is on the schedule. Drop in for TRX, velo, circuit and hot yoga or get oneon-one training.

—Katherine Pioli 155 E. 900 South. 801.410.4180. MavenSLC.com

BYU student Nick Huey and University of Utah student Collin Green have formed an alliance that is above any rivalry. Cougars and Utes are teaming up to protect the world—or at least, to create awareness about climate change (and maybe save the planet). “It’s not a party issue, it’s a people issue,” said Green in a phone interview.

It started when Huey and BYU students brought 3,500 flowers to the University of Utah campus to distribute to students and show their solidarity when it comes to climate change awareness.

In response, Green and friends went to Provo and put 500 flowers and a Utes football helmet on the Brigham Young statue with a sign that said “This is the place to unite on climate change.”

We saw them come together during the biggest rivalry game of the year on September 9 when a group of students climbed the hillside in Provo to make a giant “Y” out of purple lights,illuminating a willingness to come together to make real change.

The Climate Campaign, a nonprofit organization, demonstrates how the model of rivalry can actually work to create bipartisanship. They hope to share the ideas they are incubating with other schools across the country.

—Jane Lyon TheClimateCampaign.com/ On Wednesday, November 29 at Rye on 500 East, a portion of lunch sales will go to the organization’s efforts.

What’s new at Wasatch Community Gardens The big news is that the popular nonprofit gardening organization has become the proud owner of acreage adjacent to its well-used Grateful Tomato Garden on 800 South at 600 East. We’ll tell you more about that next month.

In the meantime, if you speak another language, consider volunteering as an interpreter.

Also, reliable and affordable carpenters, electricians, welders, and plumbers are also needed for some special garden projects.

Are you an experienced gardener or are you doing something cool, innovative, and unique on the urban homestead front? Consider teaching a workshop for Wasatch Community Gardens in 2018.

Contact Laura Leach, community relations and volunteer director, 801.359.2658 x11. LAURA@WASATCHGARDENS.ORG

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YOGA

The teacher-student relationship When to call the teacher out

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s I reel through my Facebook feed today, more than half the posts begin with “Me, too.” This is, of course, the social media request to post these words if you have been sexually assaulted or harassed. It’s intended to shine a light on the prevalence of harassment and assault in our culture.

The sheer number of these “Me, too” posts has been huge, but not especially shocking. In my younger days, I was groped three times and flashed twice. The catcalls and insinuations are too numerous to remember.

The stereotypical perpetrator is a person in power, such as a boss or teacher, or sometimes just random guys. (The random guys pattern was a daily occurrence when I spent the summer of my senior year of college in Italy.) I can’t think

BY CHARLOTTE BELL a workshop on using yoga to heal back issues. The weeklong workshop was team taught by what was then a who’s who of senior yoga teachers.

Around mid-week, I was enjoying a class with a well-known senior teacher. While we practiced Downward Facing Dog Pose at the

wall, the teacher came up behind me, placed his hands on my collarbones and ran them all the way down my front body, and yes,

My youth and my starry-eyed pedestalizing of the famous teacher had caused me not to trust my own first instincts. of a single arena in which this sort of thing hasn’t happened.

My own chosen path, the path of yoga, is certainly not exempt. With alarming regularity, yoga teachers—especially famous ones—are “exposed” (pun intended) as having abused their positions of authority to take advantage of usually younger female students. In fact, the second of my three gropers was a famous yoga teacher.

By the time this article is published, the “Me, too” trend will have passed, but harassment and assault haven’t yet gone out of style.

Here’s the story of my gropy yoga teacher experience and what I learned from it.

Thirty-one years ago, in my first year of teaching yoga, I attended

right over my breasts. At first I shuddered. I thought, “What was that about?”

Then, quickly I began to rationalize. This was a famous teacher after all. I convinced myself that he had a good reason to make this “adjustment.” I knew I wouldn’t be comfortable adjusting students this way, but of course a teacher of his stature could not have meant to grope me. I castigated myself for being judgmental and promptly forgot about it.

A few years later, I learned that the same teacher had been called out for making adjustments that were far more intrusive than the one I’d experienced. When I heard the news, I had so sufficiently buried my own experience that it

took me a few days to remember.

My youth and my starry-eyed pedestalizing of the famous teacher had caused me not to trust my own first instincts. In al-

bodies, minds and spirits to us, at least for the class period. We are not entitled to that trust; we must earn it.

Here’s how I wish I would have handled the inappropriate adjustment long ago: I wish I had asked, “Can you explain that adjustment to me? I would not be comfortable making this adjustment to a student, so can you clarify why a teacher might want to make this particular adjustment?” This way

Here’s how I wish I would have handled the inappropriate adjustment long ago...

lowing the teacher to get away with a violation of my boundaries, I had unwittingly allowed the same thing to happen to who knows how many others.

This is an unfortunate pattern in the yoga world. Charismatic, famous teachers misbehave and their devotees ignore or cover up the behavior. I do understand why this happens. It is easy to be swept up in the high-energy current generated by a famous teacher and the happenings that surround them. The current feels good and right, and you get to be a part of it. How could there be a shadow?

Plus, many times these teachers are knowledgeable. We’re learning good things from them, after all.

We’re all human, nobody’s perfect; the rationalizations are endless.

Whistle blowers are rarely rewarded for their courage. By exposing problems, they are often blamed for causing damage. This is especially true when a community bases its image on “goodness and light.” Anyone who bursts the bubble of bliss—even if that bubble was an illusion to begin with— will be seen as a hater.

The teacher’s seat is an honored one. In addition to being wellversed in anatomy, philosophy and technique, a teacher needs to know himself/herself profoundly—all the places we shine and the places that trip us up. We must accept our humanity and the fact that we are all still on a path of learning. Humility is a teacher’s ally. Our students entrust their

of responding holds the person innocent until proven guilty—there is a chance that there was a good reason for the adjustment. At the same time this response acknowledges my own discomfort with the adjustment and lets the teacher know that.

I hope that the well-publicized controversies of the past few years and the evidence that teacher misbehavior had gone a long time unchecked will cause us all to think differently about the consequences of rationalizing inappropriate teacher-student relationships. The damage done by long-term denial is profound.

People I know who have committed time, energy, money and heart to the communities embroiled in controversy end up confused, angry and often bitter. Had there been more transparency in these communities earlier on, the illusion may have been more manageable once it shattered.

Teachers bear the responsibility of behaving within the guidelines of the cornerstone of yoga’s foundation, the yamas (ethical precepts), as they sit in the power position of the teacher-student relationship. But students also have the power to keep our fallible, human teachers’ power in check by letting them know when their actions are out of integrity. ◆ Charlotte Bell has been practicing yoga since 1982. She is the author of several yoga-related books and founder of Mindful Yoga Collective in Salt Lake City.

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HEALTH & BODYWORK APOTHECARY Natural Law Apothecary 1/18

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MISCELLANEOUS CAUSES Center for Awakening 10/17

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PROFESSIONAL TRAINING Healing Mountain Massage School

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MARTIAL ARTS Red Lotus School of Movement 12/17

801.355.6375, 740 S. 300 W., SLC. Established in 1994 by Sifu Jerry Gardner and Jean LaSarre Gardner.

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Mountain Yoga—Sandy 3/18

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Mudita—Be Joy Yoga 3/18

801.699.3627, 1550 E. 3300 S., SLC. Our studio is warm and spacious – a place for you to come home and experience yourself! Varied classes will have you move and sweat, open and lengthen, or chill and relax. Come just as you are, ease into your body and reconnect to your true essence.

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PSYCHOTHERAPY & PERSONAL GROWTH THERAPY/COUNSELING Cynthia Kimberlin-Flanders, LPC 10/18 801.231.5916. 1399 S. 700 E., Ste. 15, SLC. Feeling out of sorts? Tell your story in a safe, non-judgmental envi-

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Healing Pathways Therapy Center 11/17

435.248.2089. Clinical Director: Kristan Warnick, CMHC. 1174 E. Graystone Way (2760 S.), Ste. 8, Sugarhouse. Integrated counseling and medical services for anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship, life adjustment issues.

Focusing on clients’ innate capacity to heal and resolve past and current obstacles, rather than just cope. Modalities include EMDR, EFT, mindfulness, feminist/multicultural. Individuals, couples, families. WWW.HEALINGPATHWAYSTHERAPY.COM

Holly Lineback, CMHC11/17

801-259-7311. 1104 E. Ashton Ave, #103, SLC. Counseling and psychotherapy for stress, worry, anxiety, depression, relationships and other life problems causing emotional distress.

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Jan Magdalen, LCSW 3/18

801.582.2705, 2071 Ashton Circle, SLC. Offering a transpersonal approach to the experiences and challenges of our life cycles, including: individuation-identity, sexuality and sexual orientation, partnership, work, parenting, divorce, aging, illness, death and other loss, meaning and spiritual awareness. Individuals, couples and groups. Clinical consultation and supervision.

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Marianne Felt, CMHC, MT-BC 12/17

801.524.0560, ext. 2, 150 S. 600 E., Ste. 7C, SLC. Certified Mental Health Counselor, Board certified music therapist, certified Gestalt therapist, Mountain Lotus Counseling.

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Natalie Herndon, PhD, CMHC 7/18

801.657.3330. 1151 E. 3900 S, Suite B175, SLC. 15+ years experience specializing in Jungian, Analytical, and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy. Are you seeking to more deeply understand yourself, your relationships, and why you struggle with certain thoughts and feelings? Call today for an appointment and let's begin.

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Stephen Proskauer, MD, Integrative Psychiatry 10/18

801.631.8426. Ambassador Plaza, 150 S. 600 E., Ste. 3B, SLC. Steve is a seasoned psychiatrist, Zen priest and shamanic healer. He sees kids, teens, adults, couples and families,

Sunny Strasburg, LMFT3/18

1399 S. 700 E., SLC. Sunny is a licensed marriage and family therapist specializing in Jungian Psychology, Gottman Method Couple’s Therapy and EMDR. Sunny meets clients in person at her office in Salt Lake City. For questions, or to schedule an appointment, please email Sunny at: SUNNYS@JPS.NET.

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801.531.8051. ssifers514@aol.com.

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Norwegian Nazi Resistance has lessons for modern times

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n April, 1940, my father was seven years old, a child living in Moss, Norway, when German troops invaded his country. I grew up with stories of the Norwegian Resistance, and tales of the heroism of ordinary Norwegians. My great-uncles Henry, Fridtjoff and Ellef were part of it; all engaged in acts of sabotage.

My father’s stories inspired me, and years later, when doing research for my dissertation, I spent hours in the Norwegian Resistance Museum, located in the ancient fortress of Akershus, the site of the grim Grini prison, where so many prisoners of conscience spent the war.

As a playwright, I felt an obligation to write about this great legacy. The title of my play, The Ice Front, is based on instructions from the Norwegian governmentin-exile regarding how loyal citizens were to conduct themselves under Nazi occupation. Of particular concern were interactions with collaborators.

Vidkun Quisling, the treasonous puppet Prime Minister, became the focus of resistance efforts, even as his name became synonymous with “traitor.” No loyal Norwegians were to shop in quisling stores, or interact socially with quisling neighbors. Norwegians who were forced to work for or with Germans or quislings were instructed to be bad at their jobs, to work slowly and ineffectively.

I focused on the actors of the Norwegian National Theatre and the various ways they found to implement those instructions.

When forced to perform in an anti-Semitic nightmare of a play, at gunpoint, they acted badly—inaudible dialogue, confusing block-

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ing, overt defiance in every acting choice. They were very nearly shot for it, and some of them ended up at Grini.

I was also driven by my own sense of personal history. My father is Norwegian, and I speak the language with some fluency. I have

The title, The Ice Front, is based on instructions from the Norwegian government-in-exile regarding how loyal citizens were to conduct themselves under Nazi occupation. Of particular concern were interactions with collaborators.

Although the story is based on fact, I did invent the characters. I wanted to capture the specific dangers faced by those people who were particular targets of Nazi aggression and race-hatred.

One actor is Jewish, though one who has managed to hide his ethnicity. Another is gay, and again, in hiding. I also included a character linked to the Roma people— known then and now by the demeaning term ‘gypsies.’

The play is based on actual events, and I went to some lengths to get the history right. Of course,

been to Norway several times, for research purposes, and also as director of a Study Abroad program. I love the country and its culture, and I can’t pretend that my personal connection to this story didn’t drive me to write it.

But I write the play now, in 2017, as an American. And

25 years ago, when I was researching this material, I never imagined even the possibility that it would become as real to me as it has become. I never thought that at least some of my fellow Americans would, once again, embrace Nazism.

Those calling themselves ‘altright’ may well insist that their stance is at least somewhat tongue-in-cheek; that they are more troll than storm trooper. But we Norwegians know all about trolls.

My favorite playwright, Henrik Ibsen, nailed trolls in Peer Gynt. Trolls are cowards, driven by expediency; relativists whose only values are domination and intimidation.

But even Ibsen could not have intuited the race-baiting, violence promoting, murderous extremes that have come to define them.

And difficult as it is to admit this, our nation’s leader relies on them for his support.

The actor characters of the National ultimately had to choose.

They could protect themselves, stay safe (relatively), and acquiesce to Nazi demands. Or they could choose rebellion and civil disobedience. Their lives were at stake.

The choice was never easy. But it was necessary. I pray that it never becomes quite so necessary for us. ◆ Eric Samuelsen has previously premiered Miasma, Amerigo, Borderlands, Nothing Personal, Radio Hour Episode 8: Fairyana, Clearing Bombs, 3 and The Kreutzer Sonata at Plan-B Theatre. His latest, The Ice Front, premieres November 9-19. Tickets and information at PLANBTHEATRE.ORG

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If your need to have the gun removed is urgent—a gun showed up in your trash or you have an unstable person in the home, for instance —call Salt Lake City Police Department (SLCPD) dispatch: 801-799-3000.

“Obviously if someone has a troubled person in the house, we don’t want that person to have access” to firearms, said Sgt. Brandon Shearer, a 15-year veteran and spokesman for SLCPD. The police will remove an unwanted gun from your residence upon request. SLCPD also can assist you in moving firearms to a secure site—like a relative’s gun safe.

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ne morning some years ago, I stopped by the CATALYST office on trash day.

John deJong invited me to walk out to the curb with him and when he opened the lid of his trash can, I was astonished to see a shotgun inside! Why it was there, where it had come from, John didn’t know. But he was sure of one thing: This was not the way to dispose of an unwanted firearm.

A host of questions The question of what to do with an unwanted gun unveils a host of other questions. Why do you want to get rid of it? What kind of gun is it? What is it worth? In today’s market a workable firearm in good condition might sell for thousands of dollars, and even parts of old or broken guns can be sold for repairs.

If you feel uncomfortable selling an unwanted gun to a stranger, consider gifting it to a responsible friend or relative who is a hunter/shooter. About 45% of Utah’s families own guns and Utah hunters are a dime a dozen. Strike up a conversation with someone who knows about firearms.

Does it hold any historic or family value? Is it a WWII Luger that Uncle Henry brought back from Germany?

Ask Uncle Henry, while his mind is still good, what he wants done

BY MARLIN W. STUM with his sidearm. One of my elderly relatives, a Korean War veteran, had two strokes and developed dementia. Having a reasonable discussion about his guns became impossible. I helped sneak them out of his closet to a friend’s safe.

A firearms dealer can help you assess the market value of a firearm. There are about 650 federally licensed dealers in Utah,

Involving the police

Gun buybacks Over the past two decades, numerous local police departments and state agencies around the country have held temporary gun

While there are pros and cons to buybacks, they do initiate conversation, help educate the public about gun safety and empower individuals to take action against local gun violence. ranging from individual collectors to pawn shops to full-service facilities with a gunsmith. There are more than 40 firearms dealers in Salt Lake City. If you intend to ship a gun out of state, it must be done through a licensed dealer. Dealers are also sources for trigger locks, safes and other secure means of storing firearms. Anyone owning a firearm assumes responsibility to keep it out of unwanted hands. An inexpensive trigger or cable lock will render a gun temporarily inoperable, but steel safes and lock boxes are the most secure option

buybacks offering cash or other incentives for surrendering a firearm, no questions asked. Such altruistic programs are designed to help take guns out of the hands of criminals, the mentally ill and individuals at risk of harming themselves or another.

In 1993, SLCPD ran a buyback. I turned in a poorly made small-caliber handgun that frequently jammed, a prime candidate to be melted down (most buybacks destroy the guns collected). I received $25 and a free trigger lock worth about $20.

A second buyback was held in Salt Lake City during 1996, bringing in 264 guns compared to 1,125 three years earlier.

More than 25 years later, gun buybacks seem not to be on local radar. Sgt. Shearer said that a buyback was not in the department’s current budget. “These are often paid for with a grant or financed by a corporate sponsor,” he noted.

Typically, buybacks net a bunch of old, broken firearms, small-caliber handguns, and long guns used for hunting. Few and far between are the rapid-fire assaulttype weapons and large-caliber handguns often used in crimes. A buyback held in Newark, New Jersey, last July addressed this discrepancy by paying $100 for shotguns and $200 for assaulttype weapons.

While there are pros and cons to buybacks, they do initiate conversation, help educate the public about gun safety and empower individuals to take action against local gun violence.

If a community philanthropist or business owner approached SLCPD wanting to sponsor another buyback, the department would seriously consider the offer, said Sgt. Shearer.

Make a lamp Often overlooked is the option to make your gun inoperable and keep it. To make a gun legally and permanently inoperable, you’ll need to weld the action shut and weld the action to the barrel, then fill the barrel with cement.

After doing this to Uncle Henry’s prized WWII Luger, you can mount it on a plaque and hang it in the den. Online stories tell of war veterans making table lamps out of their rifles. ◆ Marlin Stum is a freelance writer who grew up hunting with his father in Utah.

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The split that this situation can cause to your psyche is big but you can’t deal with what needs to be dealt with if you fall into fear and suffering. You will have to find your way, and a new balance, moment by moment.

Your best choice is to widen back and look at the situation with an open mind, then decide what to do. Your childhood fears and insecurities may quickly surface but do not allow them to overtake your logic and intuitive knowing.

Watch and wait like a Fox. Calculate the situations and options. Have all of those clearly in mind before choosing an approach. Be fluid in that approach. Know that there is much going on that you can feel but you cannot yet see. You will have to make some choices based on a feeling sense rather than a cognitive knowing.

Whether real or imagined, you may feel a threat to your security, status or income. Careful consideration is important rather than reactive choices. You will feel as if you are moving into a time of physical hardship. The perceived goal might evaporate suddenly. Finding a balance will be essential in the transformation.

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November 2017 A monthly compendium of random wisdom for the natural world and beyond

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NOV 1 All Saints’ Day. Sun rises at 7:59am and sets at 6:22pm. Av. high: 57 degrees; low: 38 degrees NOV 2 Challenge yourself to write a 50,000-word novel by Nov. 30. NaNoWriMo.org NOV 3 Full moon. November’s full Moon was called the Beaver Moon by both the colonists and the Algonquin tribes because this was the time to set beaver traps before the swamps froze, to ensure a supply of warm winter furs.

NOV 4 Clear your rain gutters now.

NOV 5 Daylight Saving Time Ends at 2am. Turn your clocks back one hour.

NOV 6 Trees, with sive root sys-

their extent e m s , draw

up nutrients from deep within the subsoil. Where do those nutrients go? Into their leaves. Autumn leaves are an excellent source of nitrogen phosphorus and potassium, making them the perfect mulch.

beets, carrots, celery, kale, leek, lettuce, radish, spinach and Swiss chard (or buy them at the Downtown Winter Market, which starts today).

or alfalfa meal.

NOV 15 Perennial herbs, such as rosemary and sage, can be harvested year-round.

NOV 7 Election Day. It’s a big one for Utah’s Third Congressional District. Who will you choose to replace Jason Chaffetz?

NOV 8 Bring in your garden hoses; drain outdoor faucets.

NOV 9 You can plant spring bulbs, rosebushes, deciduous trees and shrubs until the ground freezes hard.

NOV 10 Indian summer, a period of warmth following a cold spell, often falls between now and November 20.

NOV 11 It’s time to harvest parsnips and brussels sprouts.And you can still harvest

Wild turkeys are badass. (see Nov 23 entry for details) NOV 12 In fall and winter, house plants need less water, but more humidity. Also hold the fertilizer until the spring equinox.

NOV 13 The edge of chaos is the optimal life zone for involving complex systems, such as ant and termite colonies, beehives, brains, economics, and human society (says organizational scientist and Utahn Margaret Wheatley.

NOV 14 Got icemelt on hand? Buy it now so you will be prepared.

Look for organic salt-free deicer

NOV 16 People born around midNovember were conceived around Valentine's Day. NOV 17 Just after midnight (really the 18th), view the Leonids meteor shower. This should be a good one, with the New Moon (dark) tomorrow.

NOV 18 Noon Moon. What shall you begin today?

NOV 19 Cats can't see directly under their noses, which explains why they can't find treats.

NOV 20 Having guests over for Thanksgiving?

Make sure your plumbing is in order. The day after Thanksgiving is the single busiest day of the year for plumbers.

NOV 21 When cut, onions release sulfuric compounds that, combined with air, activate to a compound called thiopropanol solfoxide. To reduce tears, burn a candle nearby to oxidize the chemical.

NOV 22 Astrologically, today begins the time of Sagittarius (through Dec. 21). The symbol is a centaur with bow and arrows, familiar from Greek and Roman mythology.

NOV 23 IWild turkeys are badass. They sleep in trees, can fly 55 mph in short bursts, have periscopic vision, gobble loud enough to be heard over a mile away and turn crazy colors when aroused. A group of turkeys is called a gang, posse, raffle, crop or dole. .

NOV 24 Black Friday used to be the biggest shopping day of the year. Now it’s #3 (following Dec. 23 and Dec. 17) NOV 25 Small Business Saturday. for every dollar spent in a Utah-owned business, four times more of that dollar stays in our economy than would be the case with a national retailer.

NOV 26 The average person gains 1 to 2 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's day.

NOV 27 According to the 17th-century astrologer Richard Saunders: “In this Moneth [November], Melancholy much increaseth.” He recommended eating eggs and honey and vomiting sometimes NOV 28 A dog’s sense of smell is 100,000 times better than ours, able to pick up chemical solutions that form one or 2 ppm.

NOV 29 If you cook bacon, save the fat for the birds. They welcome the calories in the cold! Refrigerate fat in a tuna or cat food can till solid.

Punch a hole in the side wall with a nail, and tie the nail head to a tree (where the cat can’t reach).

NOV 30 Av. high: 44 degrees; low: 29 degrees. ◆ Diane Olson is the author of Nature Lover’s Almanac, a content strategist at MRM/McCann and longtime CATALYST writer.

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