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HAMILTON, ONTARIO L8P 1K2 HAMILTON’S WEEKLY ALTERNATIVE SINCE JANUARY 5, 1995, VIEW IS PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER USING VEGETABLE OIL-BASED INKS 4 JULY 11 — 17, 2019 VIEW [PERSPECTIVE] by MICHAEL TERRY BUT ARE THEY CONCENTRATION CAMPS? HERE’S A HELPFUL tip for any nation. If those who are rightly disgusted by these parse it out for 72 hours shall we? specific place and time. Children in are simply using this inhumanity to you’re leaders and citizens engage in a developments, millions of whom took to Often, proximity is what makes cages? Those from the #resistance just point out how bad the likes of Trump debate about whether the places you are the streets across America this past week Americans care about something. It also Never Though They’d See The Day. Oh indeed are. The fact that these are con- holding asylum–seekers and refugees are in protest. But, as with most things in fashions how it is they care about that really? Have you been living under a centration camps and the fact that ‘technically’ concentration camps or American politics, a wall of obfuscation thing. The humanitarian crisis that has rock all this time? Trump is cruel are equally as obvious. not, you’ve already lost. Unsurprisingly, was put up by all sides to make getting to long been unfolding in parts of Central This is not to suggest we should not The only question that needs to be dealt this is exactly what has recently been the root of the problem, not impossible, America? Largely, Americans can go be describing these dehumanizing places with is how to stop this from continuing. taking place in Trump’s America, in but much harder. about their day unconcerned about such as concentration camps. They absolutely To do so, one most move beyond the response to an ever–worsening manufac- To begin with, popular congress- a thing. When the people affected by are concentration camps. It’s that not time–consuming obfuscations, one must tured crisis on its southern border with woman Alexandria Ocasio–Cortez that crisis show up at America’s only is that so obvious, but that wasting stop bothering with those acting in bad Mexico. As Trump’s border minions and joined many critics of events at the bor- doorstep? Well, now we have a situation time with people arguing against the faith, and instead find a way to move the the yes–men of Trumps Department of der, calling the facilities housing these on our hands. Those who decry the term in the worst faith is utterly point- public to the reality of why this has Homeland Security do what they can to people concentration camps. Then, the camps and deliriously insist that this is less. It only serves to muddy the waters, unfolded, and that the only possible way make a bad situation worse, by denying likes of Liz Cheney rallied to the defense Not The America They Know, are as to put another obstacle between the root to even begin remedy this is to force due process for those in need, separating of the inhumane border facilities, and completely delusional as the most rabid of the issue and the discussion that is had America into a genuine accounting for families, and placing adults and children insisted they were not in fact concentra- Trump/ICE fan cheering on the drown- about what is happening and why. its behaviour in lands foreign and in unsanitary and inhumane conditions, tion camps. This led, inevitably, to a ing of parents and children trying to In terms of what this label does in any domestic. Until then, this distancing the typical battle lines have been drawn. media–wide obsession with what these cross bodies of water in an attempt to tangible sense, it is likely very little. from the reality of the situation will con- In one corner, Trump’s supporters (and places should be named. For days, news- escape danger. The trick is this: keep the Anybody who is willing to see these con- tinue, and the ineffectual battle over those who quietly agree with him) per- casts brought on competing pundits to issue itself contained in a cage, separate centration camps as they are, will surely how to describe a thing will only serve to fectly happy to defend any heinous situ- debate the accuracy of the term concen- it from the family of problems created in be moved to voice opposition to them make sure that those who use such obfus- ation wrought by their President, so long tration camp, and whether it applies to large part by American involvement in regardless of their accepted title. If they cation for their own ends will remain the as the suffering is applied with zero–focus this place where children are kept in Latin America, and go to battle over the aren’t, then they’re not really interested ones with the power. V to ‘Illegals’ or ‘Aliens’. On the other, cages. Tough question, Chuck! Let’s optics and the language at play in this in seeing what is going on, rather they [THEATRE] by ALLISON M. JONES in tap and jazz. “I began performing in musicals at Program to present Frozen JR. the age of 8, doing up to four productions a year “We were really fortunate to be able to use HTI’s within the community before going to Brock,” Viola space last summer for our first summer intensive pro- says. While there, she directed as well as performed gram; we knew we wanted to go back to that space in musicals, and has also received training in stage for this summers teen program and figured it would management. be the perfect space for Next to Normal,” Viola Kat Baranowski is a versatile dancer, choreogra- explains. “It is intimate enough for the audience to pher, director, and educator. Captain of her high really be a part of the show and is the perfect size for school’s competitive and recreational dance team, a six person cast.” she’s gone on to perform in Binbrook Little With Danielle Viola as troubled mom ‘Diana Theatre’s Pinocchio and choreographed musicals Goodman,’ Samantha Heath (‘Natalie Goodman’), like Puss N Boots the Panto, Hairspray, Beauty and Austin Gagnier (‘Henry’), Mason Micevski (‘Dan the Beast, and Little Mermaid JR. Kat teaches at Goodman’), Jared Morado (‘Gabe Goodman’), and Broadway Bound Dance Studio, and has been danc- Jacob Rushton (‘Dr. Fine’ and ‘Dr. Madden’) round ing with the studio for over 9 years, specializing in out the cast. Each has a rich set of experiences to jazz, ballet, hiphop, tap, and musical theatre. With bring to the production, from vocal training to Future Steps Studios, Baranowski has taught hiphop teaching voice lessons, work in choreography as well and ballroom dancing in Catholic and public as music performance and composition. Their col- schools throughout the GTA. lective list of theatre credits boasts such shows as Initially, the pair teamed up with local dance Villains: The Musical, UrineTown, Chicago, studios to co–direct children’s theatre productions Legally Blonde, Anything Goes, and even dinner before starting Curtain Call Performing Arts theatre. Company. That led to an inaugural run with Danielle Viola believes that audiences will be Seussical Jr., a junior musical theatre production drawn in by this ‘beautiful’ and ‘emotional’ show comprised of kids with stage experience along with that discusses the ever relevant topics of mental ill- complete novices.