This Thursday, January 15, the Northwest Film Center will be hosting the premier of the film, Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence.

The Film Center’s website offers this description:

“Media artists and social activists Jodi Darby, Julie Perini, and Erin Yanke’s film speaks to the history of police violence in our society, providing a framework for understanding the systems of social control in Portland and its history of exclusion laws, racial profiling, redlining, and gentrification practices. . . . [They] explore alternatives to current policing practices and consider strategies for community safety that do not employ constant surveillance and unneeded violence.”

I talked to the filmmakers about the history of the police, and about my work with Rose City Copwatch.    I’m excited to see the fished version.

Arresting Power

Thursday January 15th, 2015 7pm 

Northwest Film Center Whitsell Auditorium

1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland

My interview for the Crimethinc podcast has been transcribed and issued as part of a free, downloadable pamphlet, titled Police/Policing and Life Without the Police.

Also, it’s not quite an interview per se, but I am quoted extensively in this article on police militarization, from Souciant.

Meanwhile, over at DCSC, we have a Christmas story from Leslie James Pickering, based on his examination of Oregon State Police files.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’ll be in Northern California for two events in the coming days — Dec. 13 in Humboldt and Dec. 15 in Sacramento. (Details below.)

I will read short selections from my new book, Fire the Cops, followed by a more open discussion. In Manilla, I’ll discuss strategic questions and tensions between police accountability work and abolitionist goals. In Sacramento, I will talk about the repression of the environmental movement and put it in the context of everyday policing.

 

Saturday, December 13, noon-1pm

Humboldt Anarchist Bookfair

Manila Community Center

1611 Peninsula Drive

Monday, December 15, 7pm

Time Tested Books

1114 21st Street, Sacramento

hosted by Sacramento Prisoner Support

This month, I have a long review at DCSC, looking at Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman’s book Enemies Within.  The book provides an excellent look (and trenchant criticisms) of the New York Police Department’s spy unit.  However, I argue that its favorable depiction of the FBI’s operations is a bit misguided.

Also, I gave a wide-ranging interview to the folks at Humboldt Grassroots, covering torture, the social function of policing, restorative justice, call-out culture, and anarchism.