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What’s it Like to be in Immigration Lockup During a Pandemic?

In the 1980s, fewer than 2,000 people were locked up in an immigration detention facility on an average day in America. Since then, that number has skyrocketed, quadrupling from 7,475 to 32,985 people detained by ICE per day between 1995 and 2016. Under the administration of President Donald Trump, the numbers have shot up even higher — at one point last year, a staggering 56,000 people were behind bars each night in an ICE detention facility. When asylum-seekers and other migrants in Customs and Border Protection facilities are included, the total figure rises to nearly 80,000 people detained by the U.S. government per day. This explosive growth of the U.S. immigration detention system tracks the rise of mass incarceration in America, prompted by punitive legislation passed by Congress in the mid-1990s around the same time as the infamous “crime bill,” and later through a massive post-9/11 expansion. Since then, the number of detained immigrants in the U.S. has grown nearly every year under Democratic and Republican administrations alike. Now, it’s a sprawling prison system, with 40 new immigration detention centers opening their doors just since the beginning of the Trump presidency alone. For immigrants caught in this system, life is often a nightmare of rampant medical neglect, overuse of solitary confinement, sexual abuse, excessive use of force, arbitrary transfers to other facilities across the country, unreasonably high bond costs, and long periods spent away from family members and loved ones. The COVID-19 crisis pulled the curtain back once again on the abuse and neglect that is deeply embedded in these detention facilities. While the rest of the country hunkered down in their homes, immigrants in detention have been forced to confront the pandemic in cramped conditions without adequate cleaning protocols or in some cases even basic sanitation supplies like soap. Guards have violently retaliated against immigrants protesting those conditions, and ICE has resisted efforts to secure their release for public health reasons. A combination of lawsuits and public pressure eventually forced ICE to release more than 1,000 people from detention because of concerns over the spread of COVID-19 between mid-March and early May. Legal actions brought by the ACLU have secured the release of more than 450 people so far. But there are still more than 21,000 people in immigration detention — a drop since last year’s high that is largely attributable to a near-total shutdown of the southern border. Whenever a new administration takes office, it will inherit an immigration detention system that has become an out-of-control, wasteful, and cruel behemoth. Drastically reducing the number of people trapped inside that system will be a crucial first step towards establishing a more humane and responsible immigration policy. In recent weeks, the ACLU interviewed a number of immigrants who were released from detention due to concerns over the COVID-19 crisis. They shared the following stories of what it was like to be incarcerated in an immigration detention facility during the pandemic. *Note: interviews have been condensed and edited.

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JESUS

Dreamer, born in Mexico. Detained at the Pike County Correctional Facility in Pennsylvania for over 12 months.

Credit: Marco Calderon for the ACLU

“My mother and father had been here for a long time. When I was 7, she came to pick us up in Mexico, and we crossed somewhere in Arizona. I’ve been here ever since then. “At a young age I started working in restaurants. When I got to high school, in my mind I said, ‘Okay, what’s going to happen?’ I can’t get financial aid, at that point there was no DACA, so I wound up dropping out. I can’t complain about it because I became a plumber, which is what I’ve been for the past 18 years. “My wife is an American citizen, and my kids were all born here. I’ve never been to Mexico. I mean even though it’s my country, it’s a strange country. I’ve been here all my life. I have an 18-year-old daughter, along with a 10-year-old, a 7-year-old, and my son, who’s 5. “We recently moved to Pennsylvania, where I purchased a property to fix up and started working with a real estate company. We’re trying to build a future for our kids. “I was already on ICE’s radar from a DUI in 2010. They picked me up at my house on April 2, 2019. I came out to warm up the car to bring my kids to school, when an officer grabbed me by my neck. They showed me their badge, which said ICE, and I realized they’d come for me. “I told my wife to contact my lawyer because she was begging them, you know, saying ‘He didn’t do anything wrong. Why are you taking him?’ The kids were crying. It was very sad, but I asked my wife not to beg them. They took me to Pike County [Correctional Facility], and that’s when it started. “When you first get there, you’re nervous. You don’t know what’s going to happen. So it’s very scary. You have people in there that get so stressed that they break down. “And if they see that they send you to the nurse, who asks, ‘How are you feeling? Are you stressed?’ Well yes, of course. “But if you start answering the questions honestly, all of a sudden they put you in what they call the turtle suit,* because they’re afraid you’re going to hurt yourself. So then you’re locked up in solitary for two or three days while they observe you. It makes it so much worse. You can’t contact your family. It’s really sad. “Seeing your family through glass is hard. I told my wife after the first time she visited me that unless the kids really want to come, I don’t want you to bring them. It’s like you’re in there trying to distract yourself and once you see each other it’s like reopening a wound that’s closing. “Once COVID started going we started hearing rumors that it was already in other cell blocks. The [ICE staff] kept on quitting. They were overworked always, but once COVID hit forget it, they were understaffed. It came to a point where we’d be on lockdown for 23 and a half hours a day. “I’m high risk — I have high blood pressure and asthma — so they released me. When I got into the car, me and my kids just started hugging each other and crying. As a child I went through so much domestic violence. I didn’t want my kids to go through anything like that so I’ve always spent as much time as I can with them. “Not being with them for a whole year was extremely hard, and seeing them again was the most amazing thing. And here we are, you know. Trying to push forward. “I’m only out because of the coronavirus. Once it’s over, I’m scared that they might come and pick me up again.” *An “anti-suicide smock” that resembles a straitjacket.

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ADRIAN AND YASMANI

Asylum-seeking couple originally from Cuba. Detained at Otay Mesa Detention Facility for over three months.

Credit: Saul Martinez for the ACLU

Adrian: “Before I left, I was in charge of sending doctors on mission trips to other countries.” Yasmani: “I worked at a radio and television agency, organizing programs and broadcasters for the night schedule. “We left Cuba for Guyana, traveling to Brazil and then up through the Americas into Mexico. We were in Tijuana for months until our numbers were called so we could turn ourselves in at the border in San Ysidro [outside of San Diego, CA].” A: “After being detained in a border detention center known as a ‘hielera,’ we were transferred to the Otay Mesa detention center. It was horrible there, like another world. When the coronavirus started, we went on a hunger strike because they weren’t giving us masks. [The guards] started attacking us. They would show up dressed all in black with tear-gas guns and threaten us, saying go back to your rooms. “We didn’t want to; we wanted to be taken out of there. We did things right, waiting for the process in Mexico only to be treated like that. They didn’t care. They had masks and we didn’t. “They took away about seven people from our pod, because a guard had coronavirus. He would take his mask off and walk around coughing. After he stopped coming to work for about two weeks, they placed our pod in quarantine. “Everyone realized that our pod had coronavirus and that’s when we started worrying more. We were trapped in there, but they didn’t adopt any measures; they didn’t give us anything and we couldn’t keep any distance. In fact, if someone got sick, they would take that person out of the pod for a week and after that they would bring the person back. As someone who is HIV positive, I feared I would not survive if I got sick in there.” Y: “After being released, we felt good to breathe fresh air again. But in my case, I also feel bad because I have an ankle monitor on — you feel like you’re still a prisoner. They call you at night at all times and again at dawn. During the process, you can’t work. We don’t have jobs, and we aren’t independent. “But I think, if we made it this far, it was God’s will — we just need to wait it out until the process happens.”

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NAHOM

Refugee and lawful permanent resident, originally from Eritrea. Detained at the York County Prison in Pennsylvania for two months.

Credit: Allison Shelley for the ACLU

“I came here when I was 8 years old, from Eritrea with my family in 1998. We had gone through a lot of war, turmoil, and civil unrest. We were able to come to the United States as lawful permanent residents thanks to literal miracles from relatives here, and I’ve been here ever since. “In 2007, I was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease. In the span of a few weeks, I went from weighing 200 pounds to 140. It altered my life completely. I was taking pain medications and anxiety medications. What got me into trouble with immigration was prescription fraud. “I took a plea bargain because I thought it wouldn’t affect me in a negative way. I wasn’t thinking about immigration, I was just thinking about my parents back home. She’s 78, and he’s 91, and I needed to take care of them. They didn’t inform me it would affect me like this. “Immigration picked me up from the jail and brought me to the York County Prison. “The food there made me sick because of my Crohn’s disease, and I started losing weight. I couldn’t see a full-fledged doctor, just nurse practitioners. They didn’t really understand my condition, and it took awhile for them to get my medication. They treat you like you’re the scum of the earth. What I heard from other people as well is that they would treat a severe issue as if it was something to put a Band-Aid on. “When COVID started, people went on hunger strike because the guards had masks, but we didn’t have anything. And they’d just wear them when they felt like it. “They didn’t offer us anything until people stopped eating. It took a long time. There had already been a confirmed case in the jail, and they hadn’t done anything about it. “I was amazed to get out. It was a literal miracle. I could properly take care of myself and have some sort of control over my life and health. “I went straight to my mom and dad’s. They cried. They had thought the worst, since I’ve never been that long without them before. They were happy, but they were crying and worried at the same time.”

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ALEJANDRA

Asylum-seeker, originally from Mexico. Detained at the Eloy Detention Center for 8 months and the La Palma Correctional Center for 3 months. Both facilities are in Arizona.

Credit: Drew English for the ACLU

“Before turning myself over to immigration, I was waiting in Nogales, Mexico. I had trouble with the mafia there, and they cut off the thumb on my right hand. They told me to leave and that they didn’t want to see me again. I was in very bad shape, bleeding so much. “I told a social worker that I was really scared and being followed, so she took me to [Border Patrol], and they said if I was in danger I should present myself at the port of entry. “From Nogales they took me to the Eloy Detention Center, still in Arizona. At Eloy, they don’t have special conditions for trans women. They have us mixed in with the men. We suffered a lot of discrimination and abuse, but thankfully it didn’t go beyond that. “Eventually I was transferred to La Palma [Correctional Center]. When the coronavirus situation first happened people were all crammed together, with no face coverings. They didn’t give us hand sanitizer or gloves, none of that. The [corrections officers] would work and cough, without any face coverings or protection. And they come from the outside while we are inside. I think that’s how people started getting infected. “A lot of people complained, but that’s when you realize they don’t care what you say. ICE said our right was to shut our mouths, take it, and wait for our turn to get out or be deported. “When they told me I was getting out, I was so happy, because I’d been detained for nearly a year. I’m doing really well with my sponsors now, they’re beautiful people. They treat me very well. After so much struggling, here I am.”

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ROGELIO

Undocumented resident, born in Guatemala. Has lived in the US since 2013. Detained for 15 days at the Plymouth Correctional Facility in Massachusetts, then for three and a half months at the Strafford County Department of Corrections in Dover, New Hampshire.

Credit: Channing Johnson for the ACLU

“When I first arrived, for about three years, I worked at pizzerias and restaurants. Now I work in construction. I like to spend time with my family and study English – that’s my hobby. “It was just a day like any other. I was on my way to work at my construction job when ICE stopped us — they said it was a routine check, and that’s when they caught me. “In detention, they give you a manual of what the rules are. They claim that you can go out in the courtyard and have fun or whatever, but it’s a lie. There’s no courtyard. I wouldn’t wish detention on my worst enemy because it truly is horrible. Some of the officers were very kind, but others just mess with you. One night my face and teeth were hurting and I told one of them I needed a painkiller. He said, ‘If you don’t go to bed, I’m going to put a mark on your record and send you to the hole.’ “We saw the news about the virus and started getting worried, because they were still bringing people in off the streets. We got scared when some people inside started having dry coughs. We were in bunk beds, all together, and couldn’t keep distance. There were a lot of sick people. I couldn’t say whether they had coronavirus or not, but they were rushed to the detention infirmary for eight, nine, 10 days. Some didn’t come back, and we never found out what happened to them. That’s when we got really scared, because we didn’t know what was going on. “When I was detained, my wife was six months pregnant. I wasn’t there for the birth of my first-born child. That’s what I cared about — being with them. When I was released, he was about two weeks old. “I was really happy, because I felt like I’d been in a contagion zone. I wouldn’t like to go back, and I wouldn’t wish it on anybody.”

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DAMARY

Asylum-seeker, originally from Cuba.

Credit: Gary Bogdon for the ACLU

“I flew from Cuba to Nicaragua and then traveled by bus through Honduras, Guatemala, and then Mexico. I crossed the border, and immediately turned myself over to Border Patrol. From there, I was sent to detention in McAllen, Texas for several days and then was transferred to Michigan where I remained for months until my release. “I traveled by plane with my hands and feet in shackles. They said in case of an emergency you had to put on your life vest and oxygen mask, but if anything had happened I wouldn’t have been able to do it because of the shackles. “I won’t say they treated me badly — nobody beat me — but I suffered a lot while detained. I had never been in prison before that, and everyone suffers there. “I have high blood pressure and gastritis, so the coronavirus was a big worry for me because I’m a vulnerable person. If I were to catch the virus, I would be in more danger than most. “We were at risk, some people there didn’t wear masks and they could infect us. Not everyone practiced social distancing around us. We were all very worried, and every day we became more vulnerable to catching the virus. But a person who is afraid to go back to their country and wants to fight for political asylum has to wait as long as it takes. “When I was released, I was so happy. I didn’t know what to do so I cried and laughed. Now I’m home with relatives complying with all the immigration proceedings. But I know a lot of people who are still there are at risk and suffering. People that I came to care about a lot since we were there together for so long. It’s very painful.”

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What’s it Like to be in Immigration Lockup During a Pandemic?

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JESUS

Dreamer, born in Mexico. Detained at the Pike County Correctional Facility in Pennsylvania for over 12 months.

Credit: Marco Calderon for the ACLU

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ADRIAN AND YASMANI

Asylum-seeking couple originally from Cuba. Detained at Otay Mesa Detention Facility for over three months.

Credit: Saul Martinez for the ACLU

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NAHOM

Refugee and lawful permanent resident, originally from Eritrea. Detained at the York County Prison in Pennsylvania for two months.

Credit: Allison Shelley for the ACLU

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ALEJANDRA

Asylum-seeker, originally from Mexico. Detained at the Eloy Detention Center for 8 months and the La Palma Correctional Center for 3 months. Both facilities are in Arizona.

Credit: Drew English for the ACLU

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ROGELIO

Credit: Channing Johnson for the ACLU

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DAMARY

Asylum-seeker, originally from Cuba.

Credit: Gary Bogdon for the ACLU

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The Fourth Annual Philip K. Dick European Science Fiction Film Festival brings the future to Germany and France!

A lineup of powerful films will screen at The Fourth Annual Philip K. Dick European Science Fiction Film Festival. The gathering, which celebrates the incredible talent of independent filmmakers and honors Philip K. Dick's worldwide legacy, returns to its familiar venues at Filmclub 813 e.V. in Cologne, Germany from October 27-28, 2017 and at L'Hybride in Lille, France from November 2-3, 2017.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2017:

Filmclub 813 e.V. (Hahnenstraße 6 50667, Cologne, Germany)

Block One: "The TransHuman Seduction"

Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Breaker (2017) Director: Philippe McKie Run Time/Country: 11 min, Japan/Canada Synopsis: In tomorrow's Tokyo, the technologically-enhanced body of a young mercenary hacker is overrun by a sentient data weapon. Wanted, the parasitic A.I becomes her only ally as she is chased across the city by those seeking to salvage it. Convergence (2017) Director: Bryce Kraehenbuehl Run Time/Country: 7 min, Australia Synopsis: Upon waking at his desk, a computer scientist discovers that he has developed a sentient computer. As the scientist realizes the computer is not yet fully functional, it begins to ask for more than he expected. Hum (2016) Director: Stefano Nurra Run Time/Country: 15 min, UK Synopsis: A grieving plumber seeks out a disgraced quantum physicist to rid himself of a tormenting hum. Sociopaths (2016) Director: A.T. Run Time/Country: 5 min, Japan Synopsis: A girl encounters an android on the street. She finds something strange about the experience and decides to follow the android to give it a "message." Noriko (2016) Director: Christian Jilka Run Time/Country: 30 min, Austria/Germany Synopsis: In dystopian future times at the end of human civilization, a man lost his wife and decides to bring her back to life by building her a robot twin. This, however, displeases the community's priest for in his eyes it is an act of blasphemy. Upload (2017) Director: Marcelo Takeo Run Time/Country: 11 min, Brazil Synopsis: A man is the only survivor on the planet, spending his time with digitized recordings - the only remaining vestiges of mankind. Now with the imminent destruction of the world by the Sun, he must find a way to save these memories. Mayflower (2017) Director: Christopher Goodman Run Time/Country: 8 min, UK Synopsis: A young engineer wakes up from cryo-sleep during a routine deep space flight on the star freighter 'Mayflower'. The ship's computer informs him that he was awoken due to a false alarm. But all is not as it seems.

Block Two: "Fight the Future"

Time: 9:00pm - 11:00pm

No Guarantee (2016) Director: Stuart Black, Nick Mather Run Time/Country: 6 min, UK Synopsis: A couple living in the ruins of London 2056 must decide whether they should upload their consciousnesses into the mysterious Cloud 9. Zarr-Dos (2017) Director: Bart Wasem Run Time/Country: 7 min, Switzerland Synopsis: An epic and odd nightmarish comedy about the abuse of almighty power. Tears in the Rain (2017) Director: Christopher Grant Harvey Run Time/Country: 11 min, South Africa Synopsis: An engrossing look into the world of Philip K. Dick's legendary novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) and its motion picture adaptation Blade Runner (1982). After We Left Our Homes (2016) Director: Marc Adamson Run Time/Country: 9 min, UK Synopsis: Under a dictatorship that has banned music, a man hides a recording until he is caught and imprisoned. Whilst paying for his crimes he stumbles across a repository of confiscated items, leading to a series of events that will forever change the city. The Parcel (2016) Director: Wilke Weermann Run Time/Country: 17 min, Germany Synopsis: In a world where it is normal to be alone, a man gets a package for his supposedly dead neighbor and the supernatural object drives him insane. After neighbors begin to stalk him, he realizes that there is a secret organization that wants to destroy his life. So he starts his counterattack. Moving On (2016) Director: Benjamin Addams McAllister, Bruce McAllister Run Time/Country: 7 min, USA Synopsis: It is a near-future America where scientists have discovered how to talk to ghosts, and the Justice Department gathers testimony from the ghosts of murder victims. A lone technician at a desert listening station spends his days and nights recording the testimony of the ghosts assigned to him. Adam (2016) Director: Veselin Efremov Run Time/Country: 5 min, Denmark Synopsis: In a dystopian future, an organic body is a privilege easy to lose and a convict awakens to the grim reality of having been transferred into a mechanical shell. Split Ticket (2016) Director: Alfred Thomas Catalfo Run Time/Country: 20 min, USA Synopsis: In 1947, newly-minted congressmen John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon travel to Pennsylvania where they must make a fateful decision. A supernatural drama based on true events.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2017:

Filmclub 813 e.V. (Hahnenstraße 6 50667, Cologne, Germany)

Block One: "The Lurking Shadow"

Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm

A Penny Dropped (2017) Director: A.D. Cooper Run Time/Country: 5 min, USA Synopsis: A desperate woman seeks help from an unlikely source in a dark place. Neither of them realize that their futures will be decided by the flip of a coin. The Plan (2016) Director: Pierre Teulières Run Time/Country: 13 min, France Synopsis: In an isolated mansion, a creature follows the orders of his master in order to accomplish a shady plan that will change the world. Meanwhile, a desperate father is looking for his missing daughter. Abrakadabra (2017) Director: Benedykt Zasadzki Run Time/Country: 29 min, UK Synopsis: A woman arrives in London from Eastern Europe and wanders the city alone. In a museum, she acquires telepathic contact with an ancient Egyptian spiritual entity. In a vision, she is raped and impregnated by the entity and descends into madness. Exposure (2017) Director: Lucas Rios Run Time/Country: 2 min, Argentina Synopsis: A man breaks into a little girl's bedroom with evil intent but as he lurks through the darkness, he'll come to know evil has much to fear in the light, as he'll find there are more horrific things than his intent. The Dollhouse (2017) Director: Kyra Elise Gardner Run Time/Country: 7 min, USA Synopsis: A loving tribute to growing up in the world of the psycho killer doll, Chucky. Beyond the Doors (2016) Director: Brent Murray Run Time/Country: 8 min, USA Synopsis: A man’s quest to find the perfect cuckoo clock will cost him much more than he could ever imagine. Based on a story by Philip K. Dick. Beastly Things (2017) Director: Zoe Chevat Run Time/Country: 5 min, USA Synopsis: A young street artist encounters a vicious group of local schoolchildren, and learns what truly makes a monster. Bride of Frankie (2017) Director: Devi Snively Run Time/Country: 19 min, USA Synopsis: In this feminist adaptation to Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," a not-so-mad scientist builds a mate for her mentor's lonely creature with electrifying and deadly results.

Block Two: "Loss and Remembrance"

Time: 9:00pm - 11:00pm

AYLA (2017) Director: Elias Run Time/Country: 86 min, USA Synopsis: A man haunted by the mysterious death of his four-year-old sister brings her back to life thirty years later as an adult woman, with dire consequences. Starring Dee Wallace (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Cujo) and Tristan Risk (American Mary, The Editor).

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2017:

L'Hybride (18 Rue Gosselet 59000, Lille, France)

Block One: "Doppelgänger"

Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Adam Peiper (2015) Director: Mónica Mateo Run Time/Country: 16 min, Spain Synopsis: The inlayer of a task tank works tirelessly on what seems to be a monotonous and mechanized day over and over, which will become a nightmare. Buddha of Superposition (2017) Director: Alexis Kirke Run Time/Country: 11 min, UK Synopsis: A woman is a Buddhist and singer and has schizophrenia. Buddha of Superposition uses innovative story-telling techniques to take the audience inside her mental illness. Quantum Satori (2016) Director: Samuel Vanclooster Run Time/Country: 14 min, Belgium Synopsis: A science fusion short that mirrors its public's interpretation through a thought-provoking maze of film scenes. Transmission (2017) Director: Tom Hancock, Varun Raman Run Time/Country: 18 min, UK Synopsis: In the future nightmare state of Britannia, a political prisoner finds himself violently oscillating between death and delirium. Neverness (2016) Director: Mohamed Imane Chahdi Run Time/Country: 5 min, Morocco Synopsis: His inspiration vanishing with his wife's passing away, a would-be writer finds refuge in his banking job. Emotionally stuck, time comes to a standstill. Adam must find a way to make it tick again. Inspired by the writings of Jorge Luis Borges. Monsieur Hernst (2016) Director: Vincent Cappello Run Time/Country: 15 min, France Synopsis: Monsieur Hernst has forgotten everything including his own identity and his doctor pushes through the ages of his life trying to recover the memory of the event that brought him to this moment. Flutter (2016) Director: Vladimir Todorov Run Time/Country: 10 min, USA Synopsis: In this animated film about despair, hope and the power of love, a man is trapped in a body that keeps him pinned to the ground. While others can defy the laws of gravity and fly freely above his head, he can only watch from a distance. He is an outcast, destined to trudge through life.

Block Two: "The Shadow Emerges"

Time: 9:00pm - 11:00pm

Popsy (2016) Director: Julien Homsy Run Time/Country: 18 min, France/Canada Synopsis: A man's addiction to poker leads him into deep trouble and forced to cover his debt, he reaches a point of no return. Adapted from a short story by Stephen King. Synchronous (2016) Director: Ricardo Fernández Jiménez Run Time/Country: 14 min, Colombia Synopsis: A man whose consciousness has the ability to live in two parallel worlds simultaneously must help a dangerous gangster to win a bet. But everything changes when he meets a woman. The Bridge (2016) Director: Keith Richner Run Time/Country: 5 min, USA Synopsis: Bridges can connect or divide us. Where we end up might not always be where we planned. An Eldritch Place (2016) Director: Julien Jauniaux Run Time/Country: 16 min, Belgium Synopsis: When a man accepts a job as a night watchman. he discovers the obscure secret hiding in his garage.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2017:

L'Hybride (18 Rue Gosselet 59000, Lille, France)

Block One: "After the Apocalypse"

Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Adam (2016) Director: Veselin Efremov Run Time/Country: 5 min, Denmark Synopsis: In a dystopian future, an organic body is a privilege easy to lose and a convict awakens to the grim reality of having been transferred into a mechanical shell. Notturno (2016) Director: Clemente Bicocchi Run Time/Country: 10 min, Italy Synopsis: Can just a little change in the daily routine make all our confidence fall? This science fiction story explains a lot about contemporary society. Epilogue (2017) Director: Matthias Bloom Run Time/Country: 10 min, Sweden Synopsis: The world as we know it no longer exists and mankind is forever lost. A mannequin in a house once filled with life gets to feel the fading memories and emotions of the family that once live there. Oak (2016) Director: Yann Giroud Run Time/Country: 18 min, UK Synopsis: Two brothers encounter a chance of salvation for humanity. Could post-apocalyptic tourism destroy it? The Plan (2016) Director: Pierre Teulières Run Time/Country: 13 min, France Synopsis: In an isolated mansion, a creature follows the orders of his master in order to accomplish a shady plan that will change the world. Meanwhile, a desperate father is looking for his missing daughter. Methane Momma (2016) Director: Alain Rimbert Run Time/Country: 40 min, France Synopsis: Life on Earth has disappeared because of global warming, greenhouse gas emissions and wars and survivors wander in space aboard spacecrafts. In one of them, MEL, a scientist biologist is sent to retrieve a space module becoming crazy while seeking traces of water on a unknown planet. While seeking the prospecting module, he has an accident and merges into the ether and then his conscience takes the form of a cloud of methane. In a cave that seems empty of all life, as he regains consciousness, he sees a female cloud of methane with whom he falls in love. Stars Melvin Van Peebles (Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song). Block Two: "Man and Machine" Time: 9:00pm - 11:00pm Juliet (2015) Director: Marc-Henri Boulier Run Time/Country: 12 min, France Synopsis: In a near future, the SEED Company launches with great fanfare JULIET1, the first generation of synthetic pleasure beings. But as technology evolves and new styles come and go it becomes more difficult for mankind to find their own place. The Weaving (2016) Director: Arthur Mercier Run Time/Country: 15 min, France Synopsis: A teenager has an appointment with a guidance counselor but unfortunately, the latter is missing when the boy enters the office and has been replaced by a strange machine. At the end of the meeting, he will discover much more about himself than ever before. Io (2016) Director: Imad Hatem Run Time/Country: 45 min, France Synopsis: The life of "Me" changes when the famous cyber-activist "Sad Monkey" gets interested by him. Answer Me (2017) Director: Marco Antonio Barajas Run Time/Country: 13 min, Mexico Synopsis: The film serves as a metaphor that revolves around four essential points: Time, Death, Love and Technology. The Otherworld (2017) Director: Florence Kosky Run Time/Country: 18 min, UK Synopsis: A group of friends holiday on ancient ground, and the veil between reality and the otherworld grows thin. Orbital Inn (2016) Director: Pierre Alain M'barga Run Time/Country: 16 min, France Synopsis: Year: 2076. Global population: 24 billion. To avoid chaos, nations have agreed on radical measures. It is now forbidden to conceive or raise a new child. This story focuses on a man, his wife and their young son who is not supposed to be. Festival Passes: To purchase passes to the festival, please visit philipkdickfilmfestival-europe.com.

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Damage Restoration Company Warns Homeowners About Toilet Blockages

The water damage restoration specialists at Rainbow International of Idaho Falls urge homeowners and businesses to be very careful about what is flushed down the toilet. The results could be disastrous to the home and its occupants. Adding blackwater into the mix increases the hazard level dramatically.

The Toxic Danger of a Sewage Backup: Blackwater

Blackwater is water contaminated with feces, urine, toilet paper, and other human waste. A sewage backup can flood a basement with water that is so toxic that a water damage incident is elevated to a biohazard cleanup. Exposing bare skin to blackwater can lead to serious health risks. The water damage team called in to treat a sewage spill must be highly trained, experienced, and well-equipped with the best tools, technology, techniques, and cleaning solutions.

Homeowners can protect themselves, their families, and their homes by taking great care to only flush down the toilet those items that are appropriate. Here is a list of things that should never be flushed down a toilet.

Baby Wipes

Do not put either non-flushable or flushable baby wipes in the toilet. Flushable wipes do not disintegrate the same way as toilet paper does. To avoid the risk of a backup, dispose of the wipes in a wastebasket.

Diapers

Dispose of diapers in a diaper pail. Diapers are made of highly absorbent material that will absorb water, swell, and clog the septic system very quickly.

Paper Towels and Facial Tissues

These two items are not designed to break down like toilet paper. When using paper towels or facial tissue, dispose of the items in a wastebasket or trash can.

Q-Tips and Cotton Balls

These bathroom products do not disintegrate quickly, and they tend to clump together. Over time, a mass of cotton balls or Q-tips can result in trouble that requires the services of a plumber with special equipment.

Feminine Products

Menstrual items are designed to absorb and not degrade. When flushed, the super-absorbent technology expands, causing problems quickly. Anything latex does not break down, so it also should not be flushed.

Dental Floss and Hair

Floss acts like a net when flushed, catching stray items that have accidentally been flushed. Hair has a similar effect on the septic system. Some systems involve pumps, which floss and hair can damage.

Medication

Pills should not be flushed down the toilet. Tablets and capsules are designed to dissolve in the mouth and body, and if flushed down the toilet, pills can cause toxic environmental effects, especially if they make their way to the local waste treatment plant rather than the septic tank.

Cigarette Butts

Flushing a cigarette butt down the toilet adds chemicals to the water system. Since they do not readily break down, the butts can also cause clogs.

Food and Gum

Undigested food is biodegradable but does not break down at a rate fast enough to be safely flushable. Chewing gum does not easily disintegrate and can easily stick to the inside of the pipes. The best destination for food scraps and gum is the trash can.

Cooking Grease

Cooking grease hardens when it cools, creating a glue-like effect that clogs pipes.

Pets

The toilet is not a proper burial place for a deceased pet, such as a goldfish, canary, or gerbil. Animals do not break down quickly in water and, depending on the size, can clog a pipe.

Kitty Litter

While some brands are marketed as flushable, newer toilets do not utilize enough water to transport the litter to the desired destination, the public sewer or the septic tank. The flushed litter makes it harder to purify wastewater. Do not flush cat waste from the litter box. The litter has dehydrated the waste, and toilets are designed to flush waste that is water-soluble.

Bleach

Avoid flushing bleach down the toilet. The household chemical may be a staple of the cleaning routine, but bleach is actually too harsh for the toilet and septic system. Instead of bleach, use vinegar to remove stains from the toilet.

Rainbow International of Idaho Falls proudly serves residents of Idaho Falls, Firth, Pocatello, and Shelley. Home or business owners should call for assistance at the first sign of fire, water, or mold damage at their property. Any delay could result in further damage or hazardous and unhealthy living conditions.

For more information about water damage, fire damage, and mold damage, visit the Rainbow International of Idaho Falls website at rainbowintl.com/idaho-falls. Contact the office by phone at (208) 497-5252.

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This black and white kitchen was designed for entertaining in style

This Hastings kitchen, which was a finalist in Your Home & Garden’s Kitchen Awards, was designed for maximum enjoyment with friends Meet + greet Hayden Houghton, 34 (financial advisor), and Victoria Houghton, 31 (primary school teacher), plus Nala the cat. Key trades/suppliers Builder Sam & Shelley Lamborn from Dundeal Building Electrician Bay Electricians Plumber Advanced […]

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Vancouver library story hour celebrates diversity, playfulness

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Apparently, children and their parents can go enjoy a different sort of storytime at the Vancouver Community Library on Feb. 9. This one will be rainbow-colored, all-inclusive, costume-positive and simply fabulous.

If your notion of storytime leadership is a mousy librarian intoning something tranquil, like “Goodnight Moon,” take another look.

The Feb. 9 reader will be a Portland nightclub star who hails from Vancouver. Her stage name is Clare Apparently, and she’ll be decked out in full drag. The event is called Drag Queen Story Hour.

“We haven’t settled on the books yet,” Apparently said, “but they’ll probably be about diversity and acceptance and friendship across differences. We’re working off lists that were compiled by the national organization with the help of professional children’s librarians.”

That national organization, launched in 2015 in San Francisco, has now spread Drag Queen Story Hours to many libraries across the nation — including Portland and even Longview.

Vancouver library officials call Drag Queen Story Hour an effort to reach out and make marginalized people in our community feel safe and welcome. It’s a way to teach tolerance, teach self-acceptance and prevent bullying, they said.

“As an organization, we feel it’s an important part of our mission to look at equity, diversity and inclusion,” said Amelia Shelley, executive director of the Fort Vancouver Regional Libraries system. “We want to normalize the message that everybody is different.”

That’s the same message the library tries for with its materials collection and its other programs, from English as a Second Language to computer-coding classes, staff development coordinator Blake Kincaid added: responding to community needs and representing diverse points of view. Drag Queen Story Hour “is just an extension of what we do with our collection,” Kincaid said.

But here’s one key difference: officials said no taxpayer dollars will be spent on the event, which is supported entirely by funds from the independent Friends of the Vancouver Community Library group. Not tapping public money for a happening that some people find objectionable was a careful decision, Kincaid said.

“This is not a regular storytime, which we have all the time,” Kincaid said. “This is a special event and we’ll evaluate it afterwards. It’s not for every single family, but for families who feel a need and choose to attend.”

Visible, optional

Because it’s historically been an “invisible need,” Shelley added, our whole culture is climbing a learning curve about gender identity and fluidity now. New visibility provokes “deep-seated feelings people have about gender identity,” she said. “It’s certainly generated more interesting comments than I would have expected.”

On Facebook, those comments range from “Yay!” to “Disgusting.”

“This atrocity has already spread like a plague to libraries throughout the Portland area,” one commentor wrote. “This must not be tolerated!”

Heidi St. John, a Christian motivational speaker based in Vancouver, hinted at a live protest: “Are you ready to get off the bench? The fact that this is being pushed on our kids is a tragedy, and it will not stop until people are willing to stand up to this wicked agenda!”

“Have sign, will travel,” another commentor responded.

Families first

Because space is limited and the event is intended for children and families who will appreciate it, priority admittance will be given to families with children, according to senior public services librarian Kari Kunst.

The library is not pushing anything at anyone, public services director Amy Lee emphasized, just meeting existing community needs. “All public libraries try to cover community needs. We are giving this one a try,” she said.

Unlike public schools, Shelley said, the library’s mission is to provide for everyone, but not parent anyone. When it comes to attending events, borrowing materials and exposing children to new ideas, she said, “We expect parents and caregivers to make those choices.”

Another Facebook commenter said: “In the words of my 9 year old, if you don’t like it, don’t go. But don’t be rude.”

Not a nightclub act

Clare Apparently grew up as Kit Crosland, a Vancouver native who attended Evergreen High School.

“I know from talking to some of the teachers as an adult, it was in their contract that they would lose their employment if they ever told a student they were gay” (until such discrimination was banned), she said.

“That’s how, on the institutional level, we limit role models for LGBTQ children and teenagers. That’s the sort of lack that could have been filled in by community and library events. I would have appreciated it so much when I was a child.”

Apparently said Vancouver’s Drag Queen Storytime will be completely age-appropriate — not a racy nightclub act. Apparently granted that some online objections “aren’t completely baseless,” because the nighttime drag world is “very adult-focused. It’s all about adult things, and that’s great in the right environment.”

But Apparently, who has worked with youth at social service nonprofits and elementary schools, said Drag Queen Storytime will be nothing but child-oriented. “I know how to hang out with kids. I know how to make the transition from 21-and-up drag queen to child appropriate,” she said.

“A large part of my drag is about playfulness,” Apparently said. “I always think of recapturing the energy of being 5 years old, turning on a radio and dancing in the living room in front of the mirror. The freedom and joy of loving that song, loving yourself, dancing in your body, letting it all out. That’s the direction I take my drag — recapturing the joy of childhood that’s been pressured out of us.”

IF YOU GO

What: Drag Queen Story Hour.

When: 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. Feb. 9.

Where: Vancouver Community Library, 901 C St.

Admission: Free. Priority admission for families with children.

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Workout VHS #241: The Money Pit A young couple buy a house that is much more of a fixer upper than anticipated. As a homeowner, I find the exaggerated barrage of catastrophic events in The Money Pit to be cringe worthy but pretty hilarious nonetheless. I enjoy the slapstick ridiculousness lurking around every corner & think both Tom Hanks & Shelley Long do a splendid job with their animated delivery. The multitude of quality bit parts in this film is vast but as my favorite this time around I pick Joe Mantegna's creepy plumber role since it is such a contrast to that of the behavioral profiler I know him best as. #VHS https://www.instagram.com/p/BnUxxaZBm3zBcTuppjuXAaWGNtWTBwsgW0SWuk0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=8w4659576uvs

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RepostBy @farzadthehappybarber: "12 years ago Friday Feb 3rd 2006 the shop was finished, I had to call the city and ask for the final inspection and I was warned by the plumber that the regional inspector is not very “friendly”..... I called the city hall and asked for the inspector, he got on the phone and I asked him when can he come and do the final inspection, he said to me: You have never called me to inspect the shop before starting your renovation, I had to see it beforehand. I said I didn’t know, I have never done this before and I don’t have a contractor, I had plumbing inspector and electrician inspector here.... Again he said I had to see it first..... have your cabinets installed? I said yes, and he told me to have tools ready to pull them off so he can look behind the cabinets. I was choking on the phone, my world was crumbling, had no money left, I owed money, cabinets were custom and there was no way to do what he was saying, I needed to just open the shop and work! Then he asked when do you want me to come? I said Monday would be great... Is ten in the morning okay? I replied that would be great sir....it was 3 nail-biting nervous days, Monday morning Feb 6th we waited .... a different inspector showed up because that guy couldn’t come due to cold if I recall correctly. The guy who came was a great guy, walked into the shop and said what a beautiful shop, as he looked for fireproofing and... I said what is next? He said: cutting hair, I am going to call my office, your license would be ready in an hour.... I went to City Hall to get the license and Shelley was on the phone calling the awaiting clients... 11:30 was Peter, the first client of the shop...." #whatajourneyitsbeen #couldntaskformore #thehappybarber #lifeisgood (at Farzad's Barber Shop)

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What’s it Like to be in Immigration Lockup During a Pandemic?

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JESUS

Dreamer, born in Mexico. Detained at the Pike County Correctional Facility in Pennsylvania for over 12 months.

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ADRIAN AND YASMANI

Asylum-seeking couple originally from Cuba. Detained at Otay Mesa Detention Facility for over three months.

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NAHOM

Refugee and lawful permanent resident, originally from Eritrea. Detained at the York County Prison in Pennsylvania for two months.

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ALEJANDRA

Asylum-seeker, originally from Mexico. Detained at the Eloy Detention Center for 8 months and the La Palma Correctional Center for 3 months. Both facilities are in Arizona.

Credit: Drew English for the ACLU

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ROGELIO

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DAMARY

Asylum-seeker, originally from Cuba.

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