Black and Blue: Film screening and Panel Discussion
@ Community Film Workshop of Chicago
6200 S Drexel Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Monday, April 24th, from 6:30PM - 8PM
Monday, April 24, 6:30pm
Community Film Workshop
Harris Park, 6200 S. Drexel Ave.
Free
As part of the (In)Justice for All Film Festival, which runs April 20-29 at locations around the city, South Side Projections, the Community Film Workshop of Chicago, and Reel Black Filmmakers present a film screening and discussion about police brutality against people of color. Panel discussion includes Chicago Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression steering committee member Mike Siviwe Elliott and others TBD.
BLACK AND BLUE (Hugh King & Lamar Williams, 1987, 58 min., DVD) is a powerful mix of archival material, news clips, and documentary footage that chronicles impassioned community response to decades of deadly force against people of color by members of the Philadelphia police force. Community leaders, politicians, police officers, survivors of police brutality, and sympathizers unravel a pattern of biased violent police behavior from the tenure of Police Commissioner Frank Rizzo to the bombing of MOVE headquarters. This documentary is a testimony to longstanding tensions between police and people of color in communities throughout the United States.
Mike Siviwe Elliott, a longtime labor and community activist, is Labor Committee Chair of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression, a member of Black Lives Matter-Chicago, the Recording Secretary of the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) Chicago Chapter, and a leader in the fight for community control of the police, through an city ordinance that will establish an all-elected Civilian Police Accountability Council (CPAC).
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