Thursday, November 6, 2014

Beyond the Classroom presents the Emmy award-winning documentary "The Interrupters" on Monday at 7:00 pm!

Monday, November 10th, 7:00PM-9:00 PM
South Campus Commons Building 1, Room 1102 

The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once employed. From acclaimed director Steve James and bestselling author Alex Kotlowitz, this film is an unusually intimate journey into the stubborn persistence of violence in our cities. The Interrupters captures a period in Chicago when it became a national symbol for the violence in our cities. During that period, the city was besieged by high-profile incidents, most notably the brutal beating of Derrion Albert, a Chicago High School student, whose death was caught on videotape.
 
The film’s main subjects work for an innovative organization, CeaseFire. It was founded by an epidemiologist, Gary Slutkin, who believes that the spread of violence mimics the spread of infectious diseases, and so the treatment should be similar: go after the most infected, and stop the infection at its source. One of the cornerstones of the organization is the “Violence Interrupters” program, created by Tio Hardiman, who heads the program. The Interrupters — who have credibility on the streets because of their own personal histories — intervene in conflicts before they explode into violence.
 
 
 
Beyond the Classroom Living & Learning Program | Office of Undergraduate Studies
E-mail: btcinfo@umd.edu | Tel.: 301-314-6621 | Office: South Campus Commons 1104

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