We are in the political season, or as they call it, the season of change. In Portland we have public financing for elections in which the city matches candidate contributions from small individual donations. One candidate sponsored a hip hop dance battle. Tonight city hall candidate John Branam raises money by donation at an otherwise free film showing.
The film is the Academy Award nominated documentary Street Fight. It is the true story of African American Cory Booker, educated at Stanford, Yale and Oxford who returns home to run for mayor of a depressed Newark. Disproving the sentiments expressed by a soulful Lou Rawls in his song "You Can't Go Home No More", Booker settled into the projects to live and campaigned with all his heart.
You can see the film at Mississippi Studios, 3939 N. Mississippi (21+) 7PM Free
