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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 […]

Vulva Making Workshop

Whether you already have a vulva or not, come and learn to make one.

Free

Our Bodies, Our Battles (Closing and Rent Party)

The show for Our Bodies, Our Battles will be having a closing rent party from noon-4. There will be food supplied by Food Not Bombs, music, maybe a panel, and the completion of the silent auction.

Free

Plastic River Installation Build

PO Box Collective has been gathering trash from Rogers Park beaches with artist David Gista to create a sculptural installation, Plastic River, in our space at 6900 N Glenwood. Building starts this evening! The community is invited to help!!

Lucy Parsons Lab 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!