Friday Casual Co-Working
Bring a book or laptop. Free wifi! Coffee + tea + loads of delicious free snacks from Food Not Bombs.. Friday Casual Co-Working is every week when there isn't a competing event.
Movie Night! ~ Burnt Oranges with director Silvia Malagrino
PO Box Collective hosts filmmaker SILVIA MALAGRINO presenting her award-winning film, BURNT ORANGES. From 1976 to 1983 Argentina underwent the most brutal dictatorship of the country's history. To this day Argentineans are confronting the legacies of the state terrorism of the '70s. Director Silvia Malagrino, in a joint effort with journalist/writer Monica Flores Correa, returns […]
RP Food Not Bombs Free Food Distribution
Food Not Bombs distributes free food every Sunday at 2pm at the PO Box. Food distribution is made possible through the work of volunteers who pick up unsold food at Whole Foods on a regular basis. If you want to volunteer, here's how you can help: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PJ5YF9CpPcW-NmR0ySTp4Qalu4gJPjvA7swdHNqNNYM/edit?fbclid=IwAR2FdXZtW9-4NytikrFpE-0OH8sEiGsf7p7GPCSOLz_Az_KTq67uTS2m85w
Nonfiction Read Aloud Book Group
The Nonfiction Read Aloud Book Group meets twice monthly, on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month. We are reading HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST by Ibram X. Kendi. We use a combination of reading at home (optional) and reading aloud to each other. You are not required to read aloud to participate in […]
Rogers Park Prisoner Letter Writing Coalition
RP-PLWC is a bi-monthly volunteer meetup that convenes at the PO Box twice monthly for prisoner solidarity letter writing, as well as packaging and mailing to abolitionist study groups supported by True Leap and other local organizations.
CANCELED: Lucy Parsons Labs working group
Lucy Parsons Labs meets 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!
Balut Artist Salon Featuring Jose Luis Benavidez + JeeYeun Lee
Jose Luis Benavides will share his current research into Aztalan State Park in southeastern Wisconsin. Queering geopolitical landscapes in dialogue with archeologists and the poet Alurista, his investigation into ancient Mexica codexes converges with contemporary Chicano political identity around the origins of the Aztecs from their mythical homelands of Aztlán. JeeYeun Lee will discuss work […]
Love Leaps Borders: A concert benefit for Jose
Hosted by Rogers Park Solidarity Network Join us for a concert! All proceeds will be directed to José, a young man who was incarcerated in migrant child detention facilities in Chicago. José has been working with community groups to organize and give testimony about this system of detention. He is now facing deportation and solidarity […]