At this gathering we will be talking about seed saving techniques and gauging interest in starting a seed library in the neighborhood. The goal of this library would be to offer free seeds to community members and cultivate community resilience through food growing education.

Lucy Parsons Labs gets together twice monthly in the PO Box space to work on various projects, including researching policing and surveillance issues, filing FOIA requests, and developing OpenOversight. Open to anyone interested in working on any of these issues or projects with us!

RPSN is organizing to end immigrant child detention at the Rogers Park facilities at 1620 W. Morse and 1628 W. Chase operated by Heartland Alliance — the 2nd largest immigrant child detention contractor in the country. Enforced family separation, abuse and neglect have been widely reported in ProPublica and elsewhere.

Letter Writing Meetup

The Balut Artist Salon brings together two artists to present and dialogue with an audience about an artwork they are currently working on. Art making, to some extent, is a solitary activity, yet the artwork itself is enfolded within a social and historical sphere. This salon is an attempt to open up the art making […]

PO Box Collective will host one of seven flags (see artist and description below) flown by Roman Susan Foundation from their ongoing project romansusan.org/w-club at different sites around Chicagoland as a part of the Terrain Biennial between October 1 and November 17. The fall flag Bodies of Water by Angela Lopez explores transformation, symbolic and […]

Muslim, Arab, refugee and immigrant folks are perceived by some individuals and the state as dangerous, un-American, or terrorists. In this exhibit, artists from these communities targeted by surveillance and state violence challenge this dominant narrative and ask you to find them as they truly are: full of love, creativity, and resistance. PO Box Collective […]