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Lucy Parsons Labs working group

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!

Plastic River Beach Trash Collection

Since June, PO Box Collective members, friends and neighbors have been gathering beach litter for a sculptural installation in the PO Box space.  On Saturday July 13th, 10am-1pm, we will be joining forces with Rogers Park Clean Up at Pratt Pier.

Nonfiction Read-Aloud Book Group

We will continue reading How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell, Chapters 1 & 2, the case for doing nothing and some examples of dropping out. Hopefully, we will also start talking about making art that constellates these ideas. Artist and scholar Jenny Odell makes the case for reclaiming time and […]

Movie Night ~ Medium Cool by Haskell Wexler

"Haskell Wexler's Medium Cool (1969) is remembered as one of the great political films of its era—who could forget its climactic melding of fact and fiction, shot in the streets of Chicago during the 1968 Democratic convention, in which Robert Forster's TV news cameraman is swept into the real-life chaos of police and protesters? Medium […]

Lucy Parsons FOIA & Digital Security Workshop Combo

Part I -- 1-3 p.m. Learn how to FOIA local governmental agencies to increase transparency, track wasteful spending, understand surveillance in your community, etc. We will be breaking up into small work groups to help each other file specific requests. 4-5p.m. -- break and food Part II -- 4-6 p.m. Have digital security questions? Come […]