ARRESTING POWER at Hollywood Theater

Arresting Power­: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, Oregon by Jodi Darby, Julie Perini, Erin Yanke 2015, USA, 84 minutes $8 regular / $6 senior, student, child Hollywood Theater: 4122 NE Sandy Boulevard All 3 filmmakers & community organizers Joyce Harris & JoAnn A Hardesty will be in attendance Buy tickets here: http://prod3.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=105746~5f969332-ec94-41af-822d-5c7ec8f2ca2b&epguid=81b7db1a-39a9-4ae1-99ac-2b415fbbae48& Arresting Power provides a historical and political analysis of the role of the police in contemporary society and the history of policing in the United States. It provides a framework for understanding the systems of social control in Portland with its history of exclusion laws, racial profiling, red­lining, gentrification practices and policing along lines of race and class. It serves to uncover Portland’s unique history of police relations and community response. Arresting Power features interviews with the families of people who were killed by Portland police, victims of police misconduct, local historians and community organizers. Utilizing archival newsreel from the Oregon Historical Society’s moving image archive, the film explores the history of police reform and abolition movements that have been active throughout the past 50 years, and introduces viewers to community leaders and organizations including Walidah Imarisha, author of the Oregon Black History Timeline, JoAnn Hardesty and Rev. Dr. LeRoy Haynes of the Albina Ministerial Alliance Coalition for Justice & Police Reform, Dan Handelman from Portland Copwatch, and Kent Ford, founder of the Portland Chapter of the Black Panther Party. Arresting Power­ Resisting Police Violence in Portland, Oregon explores alternatives to the current system of policing in the United States and considers strategies for keeping communities safe from harm without the threat of constant surveillance and ubiquitous violence.