Amidst the redwood trees on the California-Oregon border sits one of the most infamous prisons in US history. Pelican Bay is a labyrinthine construction of solid cement blocks – a supermax prison – opened in 1989 and designed specifically for mass-scale solitary confinement.... Read More
On May 28, 2022, a historic conference took place outside Mumbai, India bringing together leaders of the Black Panther Party and the Dalit Panthers, on the 50th anniversary of the revolutionary group’s founding, which aimed to abolish caste-based discrimination in India.... Read More
Support Devon Showers in court!
A 90-minute facilitated discussion of Vaclav Havel's famous essay, "The Power of the Powerless," with directing questions and prompts as well as small-group engagement opportunities that takes place on Zoom. A link to join the meeting will be provided upon registration.... Read More
Court support for 2 survivors of corrupt cpd torture cops.
Monthly protest at the @OakLawnPD meeting, to demand #Justice4Murod
Rogers Park Seed Library Open Hours are every second Sunday 2-3pm and every third Tuesdays from 6-7:30pm. This is the time to pick up new seeds (free!), gift your surplus, or just hang out and talk seeds!
RP Food Not Bombs distributes free food every Sunday: PO Box Collective, 6900 N Glenwood 12-1pm
Movie Club is a free comedy, variety show with a different theme each show.
Take Action NOW! A facebook event listing above ground events for the next 2 weeks. Please share events to be posted.
Spend No Money!
Worldwide protests following the 2020 murder of George Floyd included calls to defund or abolish the police until a sharp rise in crime gave politicians and police supporters the fuel they needed to suppress the movement. Unfortunately, a detailed conversation about transforming public safety was never had.... Read More
Join us as we welcome Calvin John Smiley and Jasson Perez to the store for an event in celebration of Dr. Smiley's new book Defund: Conversations Towards Abolition, a collection of illuminating interviews with leading abolitionist organizers and thinkers, reflecting on the uprisings of summer 2020, the rise of #defund, and the work ahead of bridging the divide between reform and abolition. The... Read More
Author and organizer Yaffa joins us to talk about how to create community care under rising fascism. Their latest book, Whispers Beneath the Orange Grove, blends personal narratives with strategies to build a liberated world grounded in mutual aid, community care, and collectivism.... Read More
Free event, RSVP Strongly Encouraged! Join us for a fun and inspiring Seed Exchange at the McKinley Park Branch Library! Whether you’re a seasoned gardener or just starting, this is a perfect chance to connect with others, exchange seeds, and grow your gardening community. Here's... Read More
Rogers Park Seed Library Open Hours are every second Sunday 2-3pm and every third Tuesdays from 6-7:30pm. This is the time to pick up new seeds (free!), gift your surplus, or just hang out and talk seeds!
If you go let everybody know at the second People’s Town Hall on the west side that we need to abolish the police. Learn about the mayoral task force and district councilor 1/2 measures if that, to root out white supremacists from within cpd! Where: Amberg Hall, Bethel New Life, 1150 N Lamon Ave When: Sun, Feb.... Read More
RP Food Not Bombs distributes free food every Sunday: PO Box Collective, 6900 N Glenwood 12-1pm
Are you a Chicago renter, homeowner, community advocate — or just someone who’s curious about Chicago’s housing landscape? Join Injustice Watch senior reporters Maya Dukmasova and Alejandra Cancino for a free, hands-on workshop to help Chicago residents learn how to research building code violations and find out who owns properties in the city.... Read More
$10, ask a punk for the address, all ages
With Feathers is a nature focused book club to imagine brighter futures. No RSVP is required, feel free to just drop in! In February we're reading The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Kimmerer, a botanist and citizen of the Potawatomi Nation, uses plant relationships and systems of interdependence to explore the possibilities for reciprocity that nature offers us and our obligations to each other and the Earth.
7:30 p.m. CT Tuesday, February 18, 2025 Online! Free! On Zoom, RSVP details below Whenever self-publishing fanatics gather, one question always seems to come up: How do you organize your zines? Whether you’re a meticulous cataloguer, a creator of haphazard piles, or something in between, we want to know about the ways you arrange, display, and categorize your personal collection. Get... Read More
Join Pilsen Community Books and In These Times for a discussion about Another World Is Possible: Lessons for America from Around the Globe, by Natasha Hakimi Zapata. In Another World Is Possible (published by The New Press), intrepid journalist Natasha Hakimi Zapata travels around the world, from Costa Rica to New Zealand, and Estonia to Singapore, to uncover how different countries solve the problems that plague the United States—from housing to retirement to drug addiction.... Read More
Share and trade at the Seed Exchange from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Monday, February 24, 2025, at the McKinley Park branch of the Chicago Public Library, 1915 W. 35th St., Chicago. The seed exchange provides opportunity to connect with others, exchange seeds and grow your gardening community.... Read More
$10-15, ask a punk for the address, all ages
RP Food Not Bombs distributes free food every Sunday: PO Box Collective, 6900 N Glenwood 12-1pm
An afternoon of community building and Socializing
Protest Lurie Children eliminating gender affirming care. Sponsored by DSA, Equality IL, PFLAG, Indivisible, Trans Up Front Illinois, and more.
On Saturday February 15th, people all around the country are called to picket and protest in front of Tesla dealerships. Say no to nazi musk! Bring signs, banners, and noisemakers. End impunity, end autogenocide, end oligarchy. Chicago has three Tesla... Read More
Fundraiser for West Town Bikes Doors at 7, show at 8 Pizza from Dante's, beer from Revolution $15 suggested donation (WTN is Women, Trans, Nonbinary, we host open shop nights for those demographics to learn how, get help with, or get shop access for... Read More
nyc bulleyes chicago punks NPC and P.noid Sharp Pins is not playing this show anymore P.S. If you have not made it to this space yet- I highly recommend.
As always our events are MASKS REQUIRED. The @poboxcollective is accessible by ramp with an accessible bathroom. We will also have 2 air purifiers running.
🚨CALL TO ACTION🚨 @ILTreasurer announces renewal of $15 million in Israel bonds, despite our demands to cut ties with genocide. Join us in flooding the lines to his office & sign petition demanding @MikeForIllinois stop investing Illinois tax dollars in Israel’s war crimes! Below is the script and the petition. Bit.ly/awcdivest
We're excited to be hosting Poppy and the Pen, a Palestinian literature book club, in February! This month they’re discussing Randa Jarrar's A Map of Home, a coming-of-age story about a Palestinian girl whose family moves from 1970s Boston to Kuwait, until the Iraqi invasion pushes them into Egypt and then Texas. Poppy... Read More
The inimitable and uncanny Tate Danger presents another Cafe Mustache banger ft. $10 Cucuy - fast/weird, members of Black Hole Youth, Sad Dragon, G.I.G.O., The Diamond Stretch - new CS "exclusively" on Earth Girl Tapes/Holistic Industrial (https://bandwagon.fm/675798140b68db7dda2861d9) Dog Shit - new, but not shitty Braince - catchy, dancey local two piece (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAfw-daX00U) Monday,... Read More
Friday, Feb 14, 07:00 PM (doors at 6:30) $10-15 suggested donation. Protect your community, WEAR A MASK.
Call 217-782-1090 & Email ATTORNEY_GENERAL@ILAG.GOV Illinois Attorney General to demand an investigation of the oak lawn police for violating the rights of Arabs & other people of color.
Rogers Park Seed Library Open Hours are every second Sunday 2-3pm and every third Tuesdays from 6-7:30pm. This is the time to pick up new seeds (free!), gift your surplus, or just hang out and talk seeds!
Are you a Chicago renter, homeowner, community advocate — or just someone who’s curious about Chicago’s housing landscape? Join Injustice Watch senior reporters Maya Dukmasova and Alejandra Cancino for a free, hands-on workshop to help Chicago residents learn how to research building code violations and find out who owns properties in the city.... Read More
Protest WarCriminal Yoav Gallant speaking tour on Thursday 2/6/25 @ 6 PM @ 3760 N. Broadway Chicago IL 60613! Free Palestine!
Join us for our February Social Ride on Saturday, February 1st! Meet up at Smith Park @ 12:30pm, we roll at 1. We’ll be riding approximately 6 miles to the Garfield Park Conservatory to enjoy Chicago’s warmest oasis in these cold, cold weeks.
Library, social space, sometimes distro. Chicago, IL DM for address & time to visit Open Hours: Fridays 7-10pm.
As always our events are MASKS REQUIRED. The @poboxcollective is accessible by ramp with an accessible bathroom. We will also have 2 air purifiers running.
Concentrating Chaos is a free, open community poetry workshop to offer a consistent and supportive space for poets of all levels to refine their work together. More details can be found at ConcentratingChaos.com. This event is capped at 30 participants and requires an RSVP! Please sign up and find more details on the website. Skunk... Read More
Food Not Bombs Rogers Park invites all of our neighbors to join us at Touhy Park on Wednesdays from 5:30pm. As the City of Chicago expands its criminalization and displacement of unhoused neighbors with the evictions of Humboldt Park and Gompers Park and the eviction of asylum seekers from city run shelters, we invite all community members to fortify their relationships, their hearts and their commitments to each other. Come... Read More
Come to city hall to tell mayor mcdermott No to the governor's parkway project.
Phone blast to protect unhoused neighbors.
Join us for an evening of Letter Writing for Casey Goonan + Other Political Prisoners. Sunday, January 26th @ 4:30 PM at PO Box! Bring stamps if you can, and things you'd like to screenprint! Donations accepted for Screen Printing & Button Making with Free Casey designs.... Read More
Joy Bomb Social Center is envisioned to be a hub for radical, direct engagement with communal possibility. It is one part of a greater strategy to create pathways to utopian culture and practice in Northwest Indiana. With communities working together, Joy Bomb can remain a permanent site of collective creativity, sowing the seeds of connection that can give way to a liberated world.... Read More
Join the All-Chicago Tenant Alliance (ACTA), an alliance of Chicago renters organizing tenant unions across the city against the landlord class. ACTA is holding two recruitment events for any Chicago tenant interested in joining the fight. Come as you are! No experience needed! Our rents continue to rise.... Read More
RP Food Not Bombs distributes free food every Sunday: 11am-1pm: Willye B. White Park, 1610 W Howard 1-3pm: PO Box Collective, 6900 N Glenwood
We are here every Sunday 11am-1pm honoring those who have been killed by police. Please join Cheap Art for Freedom (CAfF) and PO Box Collective in the maintenance of our public memorial under the El tracks at Glenwood and Farwell, to wheat paste a name to the wall, help keep the memorial swept, add flowers, pick up a free poster, or just show your solidarity. #defundthepolice
Bring your work-in-progress, create a new zine on the spot, or just catch up with other zine folks. We’ll stay open until 9 p.m., so feel free to drop in anytime during the evening. Bonus points if you wear your cutest pjs! (This gathering will channel the chill vibe of Quimby’s Zlumber Parties of yore.) We’ll... Read More
The Independent Labor Club of Chicago is participating in the Repair Fair with the Chicago Tool Library on Saturday, January 25th at 1pm. 4015 W Carroll Ave, Suite 101, Chicago, IL 60624 From the Chicago Tool Library: "Repair Fairs are free community events where you can bring your broken and beloved bikes, clothes, appliances, jewelry, and more and work with repair volunteers to fix them.... Read More
Are you a Chicago renter, homeowner, community advocate — or just someone who’s curious about Chicago’s housing landscape? Join Injustice Watch senior reporters Maya Dukmasova and Alejandra Cancino for a free, hands-on workshop to help Chicago residents learn how to research building code violations and find out who owns properties in the city.... Read More
Library, social space, sometimes distro. Chicago, IL DM for address & time to visit Open Hours: Fridays 7-10pm.
As always our events are MASKS REQUIRED. The @poboxcollective is accessible by ramp with an accessible bathroom. We will also have 2 air purifiers running.
Join the All-Chicago Tenant Alliance (ACTA), an alliance of Chicago renters organizing tenant unions across the city against the landlord class. ACTA is holding two recruitment events for any Chicago tenant interested in joining the fight. Come as you are! No experience needed! Our rents continue to rise.... Read More
Join the All-Chicago Tenant Alliance (ACTA), an alliance of Chicago renters organizing tenant unions across the city against the landlord class. ACTA is holding two recruitment events for any Chicago tenant interested in joining the fight. Come as you are! No experience needed! 💲 Our rents continue to rise.... Read More
Food Not Bombs Rogers Park invites all of our neighbors to join us at Touhy Park on Wednesdays from 5:30pm. As the City of Chicago expands its criminalization and displacement of unhoused neighbors with the evictions of Humboldt Park and Gompers Park and the eviction of asylum seekers from city run shelters, we invite all community members to fortify their relationships, their hearts and their commitments to each other. Come... Read More
From the publisher: "A unique insider perspective of daily life in New York City’s most notorious house of correction While most people behind bars at Rikers Island are detainees awaiting the settlement of their cases, a smaller population have already been convicted and are serving sentences deemed too short for the state prison system.... Read More
Zhandarka Kurti (States of Incarceration, Hard Crackers) hosts a book release event for City Time (NYU Press, 2025), an immersive ethnography of the facilities for sentenced men at Rikers Island, written by former political prisoner David Campbel and Jarrod Shanahan, author of Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage. From... Read More
Come make stuff in a respectful community. Bring your project, snacks, ideas, kindly disposition. Introverts welcome. As always our events are MASKS REQUIRED. The @poboxcollective is accessible by ramp with an accessible bathroom. We will also have 2 air purifiers running.
RP Food Not Bombs distributes free food every Sunday: 11am-1pm: Willye B. White Park, 1610 W Howard 1-3pm: PO Box Collective, 6900 N Glenwood
We are here every Sunday 11am-1pm honoring those who have been killed by police. Please join Cheap Art for Freedom (CAfF) and PO Box Collective in the maintenance of our public memorial under the El tracks at Glenwood and Farwell, to wheat paste a name to the wall, help keep the memorial swept, add flowers, pick up a free poster, or just show your solidarity. #defundthepolice
Week of the Forest Defender: Regroup & Strategize
Treewhispers is an ongoing international collaboration celebrating the profound connection between trees and humanity through handmade paper and artistic exploration. Participants contribute handmade paper rounds with personal memories, poems, images of tree rings, leaves, or depictions of their beloved trees. These rounds, bound with bookbinding thread, come together to form paper columns, creating an ever-evolving forest of art, stories and handmade paper.... Read More
Make friends, protect eachother! Join the Chicago/ NWI festival of resistance to support undocumented people targeted by the incoming administration. Coming early? Meet at 11 AM at JoyBomb (2584 Clay St) for hot drinks and handwarmers~
Library, social space, sometimes distro. Chicago, IL DM for address & time to visit Open Hours: Fridays 7-10pm.
As always our events are MASKS REQUIRED. The @poboxcollective is accessible by ramp with an accessible bathroom. We will also have 2 air purifiers running.
The 10-year-old Chronicle of the Zapatista movement, from before the public break-in, on January 1, 1994, until the disappearance of the AGUASCALIENTS and the creation of the snails in August 2003. Shooting images of the war between the EZLN and the Mexican army, exclusive interviews with Deputy Commander Marcos and the intense militarization of the state of Chiapas. This... Read More
With Feathers is a nature focused book club to imagine brighter futures. No RSVP is required, feel free to just drop in! In January we're reading Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin, a wild accounting of how humans decide some animals are fluffy neighbors and others are unwanted pests.... Read More
Alermen Lopez and Taberes have introduced legislation that would allow CPD to support Trump’s deportation agenda. Pack the public comment period to shut this down. More info @caarprnow
Chicago DIY
Week of the Forest Defender: Regroup & Strategize
Joy Bomb Social Center is envisioned to be a hub for radical, direct engagement with communal possibility. It is one part of a greater strategy to create pathways to utopian culture and practice in Northwest Indiana. With communities working together, Joy Bomb can remain a permanent site of collective creativity, sowing the seeds of connection that can give way to a liberated world.... Read More
RP Food Not Bombs distributes free food every Sunday: 11am-1pm: Willye B. White Park, 1610 W Howard 1-3pm: PO Box Collective, 6900 N Glenwood
We are here every Sunday 11am-1pm honoring those who have been killed by police. Please join Cheap Art for Freedom (CAfF) and PO Box Collective in the maintenance of our public memorial under the El tracks at Glenwood and Farwell, to wheat paste a name to the wall, help keep the memorial swept, add flowers, pick up a free poster, or just show your solidarity. #defundthepolice
Suggested $10-15 PWYC Week of the Forest Defender: Regroup & Strategize
Week of the Forest Defender: Regroup & Strategize
$10 7 PM FREE FOOD Indie show Hazel City: https://hazelcity.bandcamp.com/album/old-friend Gayun Cannon: https://hazelcity.bandcamp.com/album/old-friend Easy Going Tech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-JeRcXsYws Thee Maxwell Blast
Library, social space, sometimes distro. Chicago, IL DM for address & time to visit Open Hours: Fridays 7-10pm.
($5-20) Join us in opening the De-assimilate exhibition with a screening of short films and one full length film focused on the intersection of Palestinian and queer identities. De-assimilate is a collection of works by Christina Sifri, a local Palestinian artist, who describes the inspiration/origin of their exhibition: "Over the past year, while watching the genocide of my people right before my eyes, many times feeling completely helpless, I have found myself indulging in art as a way to cope.... Read More
*Opening reception 1/10/25 6pm-10pm* In an art world often driven by commercialization, “Not for Sale” takes a firm stance against the commodification of expression and spirit. Art is not a product, nor are artists mere sellers; instead, their work is a vulnerable extension of the soul, created for expression rather than transaction.... Read More
Gallery re-opening and reception! The woodcut prints in this exhibit are from 2013 and 2014, and were hand rubbed. The images address some of the problems that cause immigration and some that immigrants face when entering a new country. A smaller version of Migrant #6 appeared in the Venice Biennial .... Read More
As always our events are MASKS REQUIRED. The @poboxcollective is accessible by ramp with an accessible bathroom. We will also have 2 air purifiers running.
This month, Zine Club Chicago is channeling the strength of collective resistance with a free zinemaking hangout in collaboration with our friends at Life on Marz Community Club! Y’all are invited to help create a group zine on the theme People Have the Power. Please... Read More
Most popular critical accounts of mass criminalization interpret police and prisons as purely social or political phenomena. While such accounts have been indispensable in moving millions into collective action and resistance, the carceral state remains as pervasive as ever. White Property, Black Trespass argues that understanding why we have police and prisons, and building a world of safety and abundance beyond them, requires that we acknowledge the inherently religious function that criminalization fulfills for a colonial and racial capitalist order that puts its faith in cops and cages to save it from the existential threat of disorder that its own structural violence creates. The... Read More
RACHEL JACKSON 𝑻𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒏𝒐 𝑷𝒓𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒔𝒎 JANUARY 9 – FEBRUARY 16 Rachel Jackson is an artist, designer, and publisher based in Long Beach, CA. Her practice involves the use of digital imaging, time-based media, and additive/subtractive technologies to create works that reflect evolving relationships within networked society.
Food Not Bombs Rogers Park invites all of our neighbors to join us at Touhy Park on Wednesdays from 5:30pm. As the City of Chicago expands its criminalization and displacement of unhoused neighbors with the evictions of Humboldt Park and Gompers Park and the eviction of asylum seekers from city run shelters, we invite all community members to fortify their relationships, their hearts and their commitments to each other. Come... Read More
THE RETURN OF THE ONE HOUR SHOW w/ Bad Anxiety: Repeat 30 second applications of power. (https://earthgirltapes.bandcamp.com/album/demonstration-ii) Silo Kids: NWOHMSHC. New CS on Earth Girl. Collect all 4! (https://earthgirltapes.bandcamp.com/album/demo-3) Double Over: Transplants from all over do it right (https://doubleover.bandcamp.com/album/demo) Cucuy: Fast/Weird. New CS on Earth Girl & Holistic Industrial (https://bandwagon.fm/675798140b68db7dda2861d9) Shrike:... Read More
🌿 The plaques at Canal Origins Park tell the story of a preordained imperial greatness — “Geography is destiny!” A newly built floating wetland tells us we are now moving “between industrial past and wild futures”. And so the origin story of colonial capital reinvents itself again and again.... Read More
❤️🔥Let's take care of each other so we can be dangerous together ❤️🔥 🍂Join us for a fall Chicago Anarchist CareShare, the weekend before the election on November 1-3!🍂 After over a year full of actions, disruptions and more, we are focusing on skillshares and group-faciliated sessions on care, in AND out of the streets. What... Read More
Join us as we welcome Jamie Merchant and Tyler Zimmer to the store for a discussion of Merchant's new book Endgame: Economic Nationalism and Global Decline, a new account of globalization’s decline as the natural outworking of market economics. Globalization as we know it is over.... Read More
All ages! No drinking/no drama!
@goldgrrlchi The Resurrection of Judith Myers: A Rockin and Rollin Halloween Show Prepare yourself for a night of electrifying sounds, spine-chilling vibes, and eerie surprises at The Resurrection of Judith Myers! 🕸️ Join Electric Mothership for an unforgettable Halloween show featuring DJ Dropz, Welcome to Robot Paradise, and Bad Animals, all coming together to raise the dead in the name of rock, synths, and spooky beats. On... Read More
@goldgrrlchi The Resurrection of Judith Myers: A Rockin and Rollin Halloween Show Prepare yourself for a night of electrifying sounds, spine-chilling vibes, and eerie surprises at The Resurrection of Judith Myers! 🕸️ Join Electric Mothership for an unforgettable Halloween show featuring DJ Dropz, Welcome to Robot Paradise, and Bad Animals, all coming together to raise the dead in the name of rock, synths, and spooky beats. On... Read More
Be with us as we behold the spectacle!
The PO Box Poetry Series aims to bring local poets together with poets from across the city and beyond to build a stronger community through poetry. The October reading features Cass Donish, Temperance Aghamohammadi, and Kai Ihns. The event is free and open to the public! The PO Box space is wheelchair accessible and has a single stall bathroom.... Read More
PO Box Collective is thrilled to present an exclusive screening of An Island and One Night (Une Ile et Une Nuit) from the French ZAD-occupation of the Quartier Libre de Lentillères, about the rebellious joy of radical land reclamation. ZAD, or “zone à defender,” has entered the European lexicon as a general term for militant direct collective action against large-scale development projects.... Read More
@midwest4liberation is hosting The Art For The People Market on October 5th from 12-4pm at Haymarket House!! Join us to buy art from local artists, craft with your friends and eat some food! Vendors will be redistributing 10+ to mutual aid, humanitarian, and community organizations. Weather... Read More
The circus is coming! The circus is coming! The Bread & Puppet Theater will bring its iconic circus to Chicago on September 19, 2024. The company presents The Beginning After the End of Humanity Circus, a brand new show in the tradition of the iconic Bread & Puppet Circuses that began at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont in 1970.... Read More
Do you enjoy drawing, painting, or making cool art?! Would you like to do that with other people?!! Well, you are in luck. We have decided to host calm, casual art nights at Joy Bomb! The first art night will be our "Drop-in and Draw" night on September 18th, from 6pm to 9pm.... Read More
🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴 RUNNING DOWN THE WALLS 2024 Sunday September 15th - MCC Chicago (71 W Van Buren) 5pm: Rally, march, 5K marathon run/walk/bike/roll 7pm: Music by Glutton for Insurrection, Flowering, Nocturnal Prose (San Antonio), DJ Anarchotech, cutieademon + TBA Join us outside that brutal downtown fed joint MCC Chicago for this year’s Running Down The Walls, a non-competitive fundraiser marathon and generator show.... Read More
Come out for a Saturday night show at Joy Bomb featuring - Voidclass * Clear Coat * Barren Heir * Antlr - All ages/No Drinking/No Drama
(this event should have 4 slides but I can only submit one) in black august, we are making space for healing. come turn down with us after the dnc. we will have many amazing black organizers hosting workshops to help us get in touch with our bodies.... Read More
Join youth from across Chicago at Another World to reflect on the other worlds we want to build towards! 🌍🍉🚀 We'll be at Grace Place (637 S Dearborn St) on Friday, August 23rd for a Creative Writing Workshop from 6-7:30pm, and a Youth Open Mic from 8-10pm.... Read More
Free event with performances, art making, a community cipher and meal in partnership with Gertie and For Freedoms.
The Bodies Outside of Unjust Laws March for 🔵 Palestinian liberation 🔵 Reproductive justice 🔵 Queer & trans liberation
🦜 What is Pesky Parakeets?🦜 Pesky Parakeets is a helpful signal account run by folks you don't know, use your own discretion. In addition to sharing important updates about events, legal support, trainings, and community resources, we can help you plug in to existing organizing and forward messages from your group about events.... Read More
Make banners and signs for the March on the DNC! Materials provided, but bringing your own cardboard appreciated. Please wear a mask! @thepeoplesartinstitute
10AM-4PM both days! Featuring Pilsen Community Books, PM Press, Haymarket Books, Skunkcabbage Press, and more.
This is a multilingual open mic hosted by Alex Jane Cope with special guest Leon Predeau. Doors at 7:30 P.M. Sign up to read using the QR code.
The PO Box Poetry Series is now offering a generative writing workshop & potluck prior to each reading at 6:30pm-7:30pm. This workshop is led by guest writers— sometimes readers, sometimes other poets local to Chicago. Either way, the workshop aims to read and consider work by that month’s readers as well as the work that has inspired their own poetry.... Read More
Join us for street medic training. The training consists of safety for yourselves and protestors and safety guidelines for medical emergencies. This FREE training will be led by two organizers with experience as street medics!
Test Literary Series is a monthly interactive reading series featuring collaborative discussion, supporting a community of writers in Chicago and beyond. Hosted by Zach Kocanda. With readings by: Brian Engles Christina Gutierrez Laura Hawbaker Timothy Moore
Hosted by Lucy Parsons Labs. “LPL's event will give a lay of the surveillance landscape and an overview of what tools/techniques are deployed in Chicago. We'll also give security advice but the focus will be on the spy tools.” Live... Read More
🌿 July soup night is Thursday the 25th! 🌿 We're gathering at the Iowa Building in Hyde Park (56th St & South Shore Dr) from 6:30-9:30pm. Join for a classic soup night agenda of co-created breakout group discussions. Bring your questions, ideas, friends, lovers, family, kids, zines, snacks, drinks, blankets, chairs, concern, joy, sadness, loneliness, warmth, solidarity, and energy.... Read More
For the last nine months, Chicago has been in the streets every week in solidarity with the people of Palestine. This summer, our city will host the Democratic National Convention which will be met with massive protests. Now is the perfect time to learn or brush up on your rights during a protest. ... Read More
The city has started evicting asylum seeker families including children from the shelters. Join us as we rally to demand that Mayor Johnson stops all shelter evictions immediately! The Johnson administration is having a public safety meeting while continuing to ignore the lack of safety that evicting new arrivals creates.
Meet at Time Out Market (916 W Fulton Market) by 4:30pm sharp! Bring noisemakers and instruments. Combat the surveillance state--wear a mask and cover up! PALESTINE WILL BE FREE. Organized by an autonomous group of friends who hate cops, big tech, and Israel.
the next blacktivities is in honor of juneteenth and we are centering black joy! come thru, eat some delicious food, and meet other rad black people. feel free to bring a dish, somethin to throw on the grill, a game you wanna play, or show up empty handed.... Read More
JJA is excited to invite you to join us for Chicago’s inaugural Opal's Walk for Freedom, a commemorative event dedicated to celebrating the federal Juneteenth holiday and promoting unity, truth in history, and our freedom to vote. As we celebrate the fourth anniversary of the federal Juneteenth holiday, we join Opal’s Walk for Freedom, focusing on education, voter mobilization, and understanding the freedom that Juneteenth represents.... Read More
Join us June 18th at 7pm at Pilsen Community Books for a special workplace organizing training with the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC), the group that put out Unite and Win: the Workplace Organizer's Handbook, which is an accessible and concise guide for those who want to know how to unionize.... Read More
Zine Not Dead Fest is a one-day event bringing together comics and small press artists and publishers from around the world to Chicago. A day of vending (featuring over 80 artists & publishers), talks, and workshops concludes with the biggest Zine Not Dead reading of all time in the evening.
From @poboxcollective: One Million Experiments is a project exploring how we define and create safety while reducing harm in a world without police and prisons. The film remixes long-form interviews with movement workers across the world who have created community-based safety projects, expanding our ideas about what keeps us safe.... Read More
“autonomous activists have called for large numbers and support downtown tomorrow at Boeing HQ during rush hour“ At Washington Ave, East of Canal St. Access along the river. Across from Potbelly.
From @midwestbooks2p: Open mic 🖤 Letter writing 🖤 Book packing 🖤 Come thru for another lovely evening Open Mic in support of the comrades behind bars! #FreeThemAll
From @zineclubchicago: We’re thrilled to announce the launch of our brand-new South Side Zine Library! This free community resource, stocked with zines of all kinds, will be permanently housed in the Community Room at the Richard J. Daley branch of the @chicagopubliclibrary in Bridgeport. ... Read More
From @poboxcollective: One Million Experiments is a project exploring how we define and create safety while reducing harm in a world without police and prisons. The film remixes long-form interviews with movement workers across the world who have created community-based safety projects, expanding our ideas about what keeps us safe.... Read More
Open 6pm, Movie 7pm Discussion to follow Being comfy chairs, blankets, and vegan snacks Events are free, donations welcome.
Women & Children First is thrilled to celebrate the released of SLUTS: Anthology edited by Michelle Tea. This event will feature readings from Cristy Road Carrera, Carta Monir, Meredith Maran, Taleen Kali, Sam Cohen, Lyn Corelle, and jimmy cooper. Please note: This event is free to attend, but registration is required! By registering to attend this event, you agree to wear a mask throughout the duration of the event, according to W&CF's Covid-19 policy.
a space for black anti-authoritarian leftists to build community. we'll be painting banners, snackin, reading and discussing. bring food or zines to share if you'd like, or come empty handed. email blacktivitieschi@proton.me for the addy. pull up, we can't wait... Read More
(Registration link at @nlgchicago or linktr.ee/chicagonlg) For the last six months, Chicago has been in the streets every week in solidarity with the people of Palestine. This summer, our city will host the Democratic National Convention which will be met with massive protests.... Read More
UPDATED TIME & DATE! Join @nlgchicago in celebrating International Workers Day with a party at Haymarket House! Help us raise funds to support legal support efforts for protests of the DNC & RNC as well as the ongoing Palestine solidarity actions.... Read More
Join for an afternoon & evening of sharing, connecting and learning together to welcome in Spring & keep our May Day celebrations going. We invite our community to bring their skills, curiosities, and desires to this participatory event. This fair like soup night will include stations for folks to host mini workshops, skill shares, games, conversations, demos, read alouds and more.... Read More
We want to meet you, hear about the projects you are involved in, and envision the kinds of actions we might take together. The event itself will be informal, meet-and-greet style, with a screening of a rad film in the evening! There is plenty of parking available, but if you are interested arriving by train, we are a few minutes drive from the Miller Beach South Shore station.... Read More
Join the Peregrines, a eco-restoration volunteer group that visits different needy natural areas each week, to kick off spring with some work, discussion, and snacks! We'll be at Pilcher Park May 4th and Illinois Beach May 11th - both workdays run 9 AM - 12 PM with potlucks to follow. If... Read More
May Day Anarchist Parade! Wear costumes and bring props, decorations and noise makers for joyous play together as we celebrate the martyrs and resist against the state. No more lives stolen by work! Show up, bring your friends and come through, Chicago !!!!
From @chiunionoftenants: Have you ever been interested in joining a tenants union? Come out and meet some very nice folks at our general meeting this Sunday at 1:30 and see how you can plug in!
Palestinian workers and organized labor have played an instrumental role in advancing the struggle for national liberation by combatting Zionism and settler colonialism even prior to the Nakba in 1948. From workers in Gaza who have been abducted in the thousands by Occupation Forces since October, to Palestinian workers in the Midwest who have waged important strikes for Palestine, labor is central to the Palestinian cause.... Read More
From @uchicagounited: Join us THIS FRIDAY at 2PM in front of Levi Hall to demand an immediate end to the University’s ongoing investments in death! Gaza continues to face genocide, so we CAN NOT let our complicit universities repress the student movement for justice!! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 Masks are required — we will be providing some at the rally.... Read More
From @caarprnow: COME OUT this Thursday to the Community Commission for Public Safety & Accountability meeting to demand justice for Dexter Reed! The CCPSA has the power to set policy for CPD, and can act immediately to end CPD’s use of TACT teams & pretextual traffic stops.... Read More
We're excited to welcome Sasha Warren to the store for an event in celebration of his book Storming Bedlam: Madness, Utopia and Revolt. The contemporary world is oversaturated with new psychiatric programs, methods, and reforms promising to address any number of "crises" in mental health care.... Read More
show is free but taking donations for el comedor comunitario. large variety of treats and drinks will be for sale for donation on site. all proceeds will go directly to the newly arrived Venezuelan migrants who have been making hundreds of meals a week and running a free store for their community and other asylum seekers and migrants.... Read More
The Spring Anarchist Skillshare is happening April 19-21! This Skillshare we are going to be focusing on Direct Action and In-the-Streets type trainings and information. See bit.ly/anarchist_skillshare for the full schedule plus information on childcare, accessibility, interpretation, etc.
Joy Bomb is a new social center / mutual aid hub in NWI. We're hosting our first ever show in the new space with some rad bands: Cran (Paris) World In Action (Milwaukee) War Effort (Chicago) The Stuff ALL AGES
Join us for our first annual native fruit tree share! The share will happen rain or shine. We will likely have between 200 and 300 native fruit trees of differing varieties available for pick up. Message us at joybombsocialcenter@proton.me if you would like to help out at the event.
@pilsencommunitybooks invites you to an evening “Beyond the Bars” with Renaldo Hudson, Rachel DeWoskin, and Bill Ayers to celebrate "Humans of Life Row". "Humans of Life Row" is a special issue of the Chicago literary journal Real Conditions, featuring the work of students from Stateville Correctional Center.... Read More
Please join us for an unforgettable evening of advocacy and inspiration. Set against the vibrant backdrop of The Understudy Coffee and Books, this event will feature creative offerings from storytellers from inside prisons. Immerse yourself in an art exhibition showcasing the creativity and resilience of people held in prison, and hear the panel discuss UPLC's critical legal work.... Read More
@pilsencommunitybooks is excited to welcome Orisanmi Burton, Damon Locks, and Maryan Kashani to the store for a discussion of Dr. Burton's new book Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt. Tip of the Spear boldly and compellingly argues that prisons are a domain of hidden warfare within US borders.... Read More
From @rogersparkseedlibrary: Please join us Saturday April 6th from 1-4pm for a Native Fruit Tree Giveaway at @poboxcollective 6900 N. Glenwood Ave(accessibility info below). We are very delighted to be continuing the generous groundwork set up by @sowrecalcitrant and are picking up this tree distribution initiative from them.... Read More
Joy Bomb is holding it's first ever community wide event, a yard sale! 6+ families and Joy Bomb itself will be bringing our treasures for you to peruse. Prices will be ranging from free to dirt cheap, so swing by! Joy Bomb Social Center is located just off (lucky) exit 13 on I-94 (Central Ave) and ample parking is available at the site.
From @faraj_institute: Join us for the Chicago Al-Quds Protest for Palestine! April 5th, @ 4:30. Location: Israeli Consulate. #palestine #palestinewillbefree #freepalestine #alquds #protest #chicago
via @firstnationsgarden: Sunday is Trans Day of Visibility. We will be celebrating at the garden there will be planting and moving prairie plants around as well as feasting. Pipe ceremony before start (Native community only). Located at 4555 N Pulaski Rd, alley entrance.
via @savethepointchi: See you at the Point this Saturday! 🌊 Join S. Nicole Lane (@verified_virgo) & Jack and Debra to hear about our continued work to save this landmark & meet new Point people. Last week, Lane wrote about the continued fight to save the Point in the @chicago_reader.... Read More
Join Lucy Parsons Labs this Friday for a community iftar in Pilsen! During a time of rising Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism, we are gathering our community to be together, share in a collective break and enjoy delicious food. RSVPs are encouraged at https://tiny.cc/LPL2024iftar... Read More
Join us at @kalemyname on March 26th to raise funds for our anti-fur campaign in Chicago! 🌱 Kale My Name is generously offering 20% of their dine-in & carry-out proceeds, as part of their Giving Tuesday program, to our group during the evening of 3/26/23.... Read More
Raffle fundraiser at Cafe Mustache! El Comedor Comunitario is a self-organized community kitchen by and for newly arrived Venezuelan migrants. Twice per week, El Comedor provides hundreds of free three-course meals and a welcoming space.
Come out to Yolotl on March 22nd to support Bloodfruit Anarchist Library raise funds to keep the space going 🔥🏴🔥 karaoke, food, drinks and rad people @bloodfruitlib
We're excited to join In These Times to welcome Ajay Singh Chaudhary to Pilsen Community Books for an event to mark the publication of The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World. Climate change is not only about the exhaustion of the planet, it’s about the exhaustion of so many of us, our lives, our worlds, even our minds.... Read More
We invite you to join us in celebrating the coming of spring, and in commemorating the people who have been killed by occupying states, in solidarity with all struggles against colonialism across the globe. There will be music, screenings, food... Read More
Join Chicagoans for Palestine and Friends of the Congo for a teach-in on the genocide in Congo, how it relates to Palestine, and how to take action. Maurice Carney is a co-founder and Executive Director of the Friends of the Congo.... Read More
Hello everyone! We hope you are doing okay, or as okay as you can be in these hard times. Some good news: for a long time, we have been without a space to use consistently for physical self defense training, which in tandem with other factors unfortunately meant that this past Autumn & Winter, physical self-defense training has been on a hold (hence the temporary pivot to skillshare workshops i.e.... Read More
From @pilsencommunitybooks: We're excited to welcome Zeke Caligiuri and Bill Ayers to the store for an event in celebration of American Precariat: Parables of Exclusion. This groundbreaking anthology of essays edited by incarcerated writers takes a sharp look at the complexity and fluidity of class and caste systems in the United States.... Read More
Three days ago, Apple Store Lincoln Park fired a Palestinian employee for wearing a keffiyeh and other cultural items. It’s a double standard the store has only applied to Palestinians, as other employees are able to show their flags and culture.... Read More
We're excited to welcome Saretta Morgan to the store for an event in celebration of her new collection Alt-Nature. The poems of Alt-Nature move in desert dreams and riverbeds. Here, geography forms the basis of feeling and connection in the American Southwest.... Read More
After a series of delays, Mayor Brandon Johnson and the City of Chicago are expected to begin mass rolling evictions from shelter for migrants on 3/16. Evictions have been happening on a smaller scale since day one because of carceral, punishment-based shelter policies.... Read More
Calling all mapmakers, artists, musicians, writers, researchers, organizers, frontliners, educators, land stewards and others that care about Lake Michigan! Would you like to join a popular education project to learn more about opportunities to take action to protect Lake Michigan and surrounding watersheds and communities? Popular education is a practice in which people learn together and teach one another in an informal way about a topic and work to take action together.... Read More
We wanted to share a bit more information about our Workday & Skillshare next Saturday March 2nd from 1-4pm🌱🌱🌱 First off, our workday will be focused on getting the rest of our seed donations processed and into envelopes so that they are available to the public as we enter the growing season.... Read More
We’re so excited to announce our first event —a film screening of The Worker’s Cup at Reed’s Local! 🎥⚽️ Join us in the back room on Thursday, February 29th at 7pm and remember to bring cash, as @reedslocal is cash-only.... Read More
Come to Innertown Pub on Leap Night to support migrant solidarity efforts at El Comedor Comunitario 🏴🔥🔥🏴🔥🏴🔥🏴🔥🏴🔥🏴 February 29th, 5pm-2am Bring cash or Venmo to enter this INCREDIBLE RAFFLE. $10 per ticket with unlimited tickets! raffle tickets also available now, dm us to buy @anti.detention... Read More
Join us for another Socialist Night School Movie Night as we explore the work of Chicago's Black Panther Party chapter during the last time the DNC was held in the city. Please mask up!
Letter writing party and fundraiser. Materials provided.
From @snuffedchicago: Very stoked to celebrate the new record with some of our best buds and best bands across the midwest. February 17th, come through or you're goofin'. SNUFFED / STRESS POSITIONS / BUIO OMEGA (Minneapolis) / SLUTBOMB (Cinci) / PAYASA.... Read More
An all translator line-up of the PO Box reading series, featuring Cecily Chen, Clara Nizard and Léon Pradeau, & Aiya Sakr.
Join the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum and the Chicago Freedom School for a screening of Walled Off, a 2023 film directed by Vin Arfuso. Taking its title from the Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem, owned by the British artist Banksy, the film creatively explores how the history of the occupation of Palestine impacts the daily lives of people living there.... Read More
Featuring art by: Rama, Ahmad Almahdi, Fade Kareem & Yasmeen Khayr. In this exhibit, the artists ask: what is our responsibility to Palestinian life and liberation? Who is born into the responsibility and what does it mean to––sometimes unwillingly––bear the weight of such responsibility? What role does this responsibility to liberation and honoring history play in one’s artwork? We invite our community to join us in asking these questions and reflect on how we are responsible to one another and how we tend to our responsibilities.
Join us for a presentation and discussion with Matt Peterson from Woodbine in New York City, which is currently celebrating its 10 year anniversary. For this event we'd like to have a conversation on the long histories of crisis and disaster we've lived through in the last two decades, from 9/11, to the Financial Crisis, to Hurricane Sandy, to Covid, and our experiments since 2014 with neighborhood self-organization and autonomy in Ridgewood, Queens.... Read More
Spaces of Exception Directed by Matt Peterson and Malek Rasamny, 2019 90 min | in English, Arabic, Diné, and Kanienʼkéha with English subtitles Spaces of Exception observes and juxtaposes the communities and resistance movements on the American Indian reservation and in the Palestinian refugee camp, joining distinct spaces produced by settler colonialism in solidarity as sites of struggle for decolonization and indigenous autonomy.... Read More
🔥🖌️MINI SOUP NIGHT: ART MAKING AT PING TOM PARK- SUNDAY FEBRUARY 4TH, 2:30-4:30🖌️🔥 January soup is in February because time isn’t real! Join for an art centered soup night gathering under the 18th St Bridge at Ping Tom Park in Chinatown.... Read More
For years now, Atlantans have waged a heroic struggle to stop the construction of Cop City, a $90+ million facility for training cops in military tactics and surveillance to be built on a bulldozed Weelaunee Forest. An urban forest with a long history, Weelaunee has often been entangled in the history of colonialism and enslavement on Turtle Island.... Read More
Welcome to Riotsville, U.S.A., a fictional town built by the U.S. military in response to the mounting militancy of the late-1960s protest movement, and a desperate attempt by the nation’s rulers—politicians, bureaucrats, and police—to win the war in the streets. Using actual footage from these “Riotsvilles” where military and police were trained to respond to civil disorder, in addition selections from nationally broadcast news, director Sierra Pettengill connects the stagecraft of “law and order” to the real violence of state practice and militarization.... Read More
At this anarchist assembly we will strategize ways to be more proactive in anarchist interventions.In addition to continuing the discussion of palestinian solidarity and strategizing for anarchist activity we will also be discussing the DNC and other topics attendees may be interested in.... Read More
Winter Anarchist Huddle is happening in Chicago on January 26-28! Friday: Yolotl/Bloodfruit Library @ Ravenswood and Greenleaf 6:30-11pm “This is Not a New Crisis” Workshop being virtually screened to the Anarchist Encuentro in Tijuana! w/ info and stories about the Venezuelan Exodus and Autonomous projects happening around migrant solidarity in Chicago + Dinner Saturday: Orphanage @ 643 w 31st st 11-5pm Organize donations, cleaning and organizing medical gear + Midwest Books to Prisoners + Anarchist Games! Sunday: Orphanage @ 643 w 31st st 11-7pm Pancake Breakfast, Anarchist Assembly 2.0,... Read More
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Zine Club Chicago: Zine Valentines Hangout!3 p.m. Saturday, January 20, 2024Here at Quimby’s Bookstore, 1854 W. North Ave.Free! Zine Club Chicago is kicking off the season of love in all its incarnations with a heart-shaped invitation: Come make zine valentines with us about your self-publishing passions! We want you to pour your admiration for your favorite zinemakers, most beloved art supplies (who doesn’t love a long-arm stapler?), or whatever else you adore about DIY culture into the pages of a mini zine.... Read More
A film by Sasha Tycko. Free screening at Pilsen Community Books. Masks required.
From @bloodfruitlib: We will be writing letters to both the kids detained at the Heartland Alliance detention centers & for Eva, a fierce activist for disappeared women.
The Weelaunee Defense Society Chicago Chapter invites you to join in Chicago's first commemoration of The Day of the Forest Defender. We will have a candlelight vigil at sunset at Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary to remeber the life of beloved Forest Defender Tortuguita by marking the one year anniversary since their tragic murder at the hands of the Georgia State Patrol, Atlanta Police Department and the Atlanta Police Foundation.... Read More
$10! Ask a punk!
You can’t paint a watermelon, but you can stitch a flag 🇵🇸 Join us for an evening @pilsencommunitybooks to hand make flags together. We will have supplies and teach attendees how to hand stitch. Allies Welcome 🖤❤️💚🤍 Masks Required
HARDCORE PUNK. Epoxi / Useless Info / Human Error / Loose Lid. No punk time, no drinking, respect the space!
Join us at Albany Park Organizing Center for a FREE Photography Event! Explore stunning visuals, engage in a print swap, visit our printing station, and strike a pose at our photo booth. Raffle tickets available, with more chances to win when you buy additional tickets.... Read More
Opening of the Little Village shelter is imminent and it’s set to be operated by GardaWorld. GardaWorld is a security contractor, which ran detention centers and cannot be entrusted with taking care of people. Tell Governor Pritzker and Mayor Johnson to cancel... Read More
Hosted by Albany Park Organizing Committee. All proceeds will benefit the local vendors/artists for their work, and any donations for the space will be put toward operating the space and its community programs (including a warming center, ESL classes, tenant organizing meetings, food and clothing distros, etc).
Join Juan Gonzalez, Jorge Mujica (@arisechicago), Hatem Abudayyeh (@uspcn) & Amisha Patel for a discussion on how a culture of cruelty has created unprecedented despair. Hosted by HotHouse and @haymarketbooks. RSVP at the link.
As part of the week of action, join @hcw4palichi and @culturalworkers4palichi for an interfaith Vigil for Gaza with local faith leaders and community members. LOCATION: St Luke’s Lutheran/Grace Church of Logan Square at 3325 W Wrightwood Ave. Chicago, IL 60647 WHEN: Sunday, January 7th, 2024 at 5:30pm All are welcome.... Read More
This Friday, join a coalition of organizations for a demonstration of Black & Brown Solidarity with Palestine! We’ll gather at 35th & Michigan, the Chicago Police Department Headquarters, to send our message: From Chicago to Palestine, Occupation is a Crime! We are demanding:STOP THE GENOCIDE IN GAZA!END U.S.... Read More
🎇🎇🎇🎇🎇🎇🎇🎇🎇 New Years Eve Noise Demo MCC Chicago - 10pm - Free Them All! 🎇🎇🎇🎇🎇🎇🎇🎇🎇 Anti-prison Anti-detention Anti-border Anti-colonial None of us are free until all of us are free Bring comrades, noisemakers, boomboxes, banners & lights! 🔥🎉
Noise Demo and Paint-In No GardaWorld at the Little Village Shelter BYOB (Bring Your Own Banner)! Please wear a mask! Saturday | December 23 | 1PM Little Village CVS 2634 S. Pulaski GardaWorld is set to operate the upcoming Little Village shelter. GardaWorld is a security contractor, which ran detention centers and cannot be entrusted with taking care of people. Tell... Read More
Please join us next Thursday December 21st from 6-8pm for a Winter Solstice Gathering and Bonfire! This event will be both inside and outside so dressing in layers is recommended. We will have warm food and drinks (feel freee bring something to share), several hands on activities for kids and adults including seed envelop decorating for holiday gifts, and a fire to gather around outside.... Read More
This month we hope soup can be a space to gather in community, love, rage, grief and more. As we bear witness to and take action against the ongoing genocide in Palestine, imperialist violence across the globe, rising fascism and the seemingly endless list of threats to life & community— we gather soup to build relationships and shared practices of resistance.... Read More
At Wonderland, our hearts and minds are with Palestinians, and we oppose the genocide that is being committed against them with our tax money. There are different ways in which our community has been supporting the Palestinian resistance as individuals and we are in conversation about how as a collective group we can actively participate in movements that resist the destruction and oppression of life.... Read More
This month, we’re pairing up with our pal Michael Verdi @verdidotmov of Zine Party! to say farewell to 2023 with a festive online gathering! Our own Liz Mason @caboosezine will lead us in a fun zinemaking activity focused on celebrating our personal highlights of this year.... Read More
We're excited to welcome David K. Seitz and Kelly Hayes for a discussion of David's new book A Different Trek: Radical Geographies of Deep Space Nine. A different kind of Star Trek television series debuted in 1993. Deep Space Nine was set not on a starship but a space station near a postcolonial planet still reeling from a genocidal occupation.... Read More
We're so stoked to take our videos on the road to celebrate 20 years of subMedia!
@lucyparsonslabs and @muslimsforjustfutures invite you to our community gathering and digital security training on Monday, December 11th! As you know there have been an ever increasing number of attacks, both online and in person, against organizers who express support for Palestine. This free training (with food) on the south side of Chicago will help people navigate the issues of online threats, doxxing and more. You... Read More
Join us as we watch and discuss “El Norte” - a movie about two Guatemalan immigrants and their journey to the imperial homeland of USA.
Stop the U.S.-funded genocide! End the siege on Gaza now! End U.S. aid to apartheid Israel! For everyone's protection, please wear a mask. Bring flags; posters will be provided.
Join us and @free2movechi for Paint n' Sip where we're turning the spotlight on the too-common narrative of racial profiling during traffic stops. Together, we will discuss the impact of over-policing on Black and Brown community members and channel our creativity to imagine what true safety looks like.... Read More
Exhibit B, in collaboration with the Guild Literary Complex, is throwing a special event to benefit the Palestine Children's Relief Fund. This event will feature readings from some of Chicago's most talented writers. We will also be selling books that artists have donated to the cause.... Read More
In response to Ashtar Theatre’s request to collectively read The Monologues of Gaza in different settings around the world, we have organized this gathering as a way to show solidarity with Palestine here in Chicago. This event will take place on Dec.... Read More
Chicago: the court hearing for the 7 protestors arrested at Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky’s office is on Tuesday Dec. 5th! We’re not sure we believe #GenocideJan when she says she asked State Attorney Kim Foxx to drop the charges! So keep on calling all day today AND Monday! If @JanSchakowsky & @KimFoxx don't drop the charges on the 7 protesters arrested at the #GazaGenocide sit-in at Schakowsky's office, then we need EVERYONE to show up to support us.... Read More
We're excited to welcome Janie Paul and Bill Ayers to the store for an event in celebration of Making Art in Prison: Survival and Resistance. In Making Art in Prison: Survival and Resistance, Janie Paul introduces readers to the culture and aesthetics of prison art communities, and shares heart wrenching, poignant, and often surprisingly humorous artists’ narratives.
Casas! No Carpas! Rally at the Brighton Park construction site. GardaWorld’s construction of the unsafe detention tent camp has started. Support our new neighbors and tell Brandon Johnson: - No detention camps! - No GardaWorld! - Housing for all! (please mask up) Coalition Against GardaWorld
CHICAGO: We continue to demand an end to the genocide, an end to the siege on Gaza, and an end to U.S. aid to Israel! A temporary truce agreement isn’t enough! We hit the streets again this Saturday at 1... Read More
Co-Prosperity is excited to host the upcoming Art Book + Print Fair organized by the Department of Printmedia at the School of Art Institute of Chicago. The event will take place this Saturday, December 2, from 12 PM to 6 PM at our gallery, located at 3219 S Morgan St, Chicago, IL.... Read More
This Saturday, come make posters and meet your local tenants union at the po box collective! Bring scissors and old magazines if you have them - no experience necessary!
Come support autonomous migrant organizing & mutual aid 🔥🏴 Hosted by MC AMAYI. Featuring CLICKBAIT, DJ COBRA B, & FLORES NEGRAS.
Pull Up for Trans Students! Bigots are again attacking queer youth at Carl Sandburg HS. Please attend THURSDAY 11/30 7:00pm to show queer youth that we have their back.
Many pro-Israel myths and talking points have been circulating in recent weeks. Don't let them intimidate you into silence or inaction! Come join us this Thursday at 6:30 to learn more about how to address these myths, answer common questions, and communicate about Palestine in a principled and effective way.... Read More
This is the second event in our four-part public discussion series on Chicago’s left political landscape and movement. We’ll be talking about advancements on movement demands for Treatment Not Trauma, which will expand non-police responses to mental health crises and re-open clinics as a front-end investment in public health and safety, and the Peacebook, which will expand violence prevention efforts led by youth peacekeepers instead of cops.... Read More
Join the #StopShotSpotter campaign for our 100 Days Campaign Update next Tuesday, 11/28, at 6:00 PM! This is a chance for the community and endorsing organizations to stay informed and engaged with the work of the campaign in the upcoming months, as we put more pressure on Brandon Johnson and his administration not to renew the contract with ShotSpotter in February.... Read More
BRING FLAGS - POSTERS - CARS. We will meet at a discussed location at 5pm, address will be posted Friday night! We will support a pizzeria that donates to Gaza in Bridgeview so be ready to order some pizza 🍕🍉🇵🇸
Join us for a Solidarity with Palestine Teach-in on Saturday, November 25, at the First Nation's Garden in Albany Park! We'll share knowledge and stories centering our common struggles related to decolonization and the propaganda that undercuts our solidarity. Come share a meal and build with us.... Read More
Join the Coalition for Justice in Palestine as we hit the streets again on the busiest shopping day of the year! Please wear masks for safety and protection!
🗣📢 We are hosting workshops aimed at helping allies plug into Palestine organizing around Chicago and beyond! 🍉✨️ Our workshops will offer options for organizing tailored to different capacities and interests. All are welcome to attend! We are offering two... Read More
🗣📢 We are hosting workshops aimed at helping allies plug into Palestine organizing around Chicago and beyond! 🍉✨️ Our workshops will offer options for organizing tailored to different capacities and interests. All are welcome to attend! We are offering two... Read More
This month, we’re excited to welcome five of our favorite local #zinemakers for a panel and #zinemaking workshop! Moderator Jamie Kadas @curvygirlcomics and panelists Katie Armentrout @karmatrout, Jude R. Bettridge @hey_jude_1118, Megan Kirby @dweebulous, and Andrea Pearson @saturn2169 will discuss how they explore experiences and emotions regarding their own bodies in their work.... Read More
CHICAGO WE ARE NOT STOPPING! 🚨 PROTEST THIS SATURDAY!
The documentary ‘The Hills’ delves into the aftermath of the closure of steel mills in Chicago’s southeast side, focusing on the toxic legacy left by the abandoned slag, a byproduct of steelmaking containing arsenic, lead, and other harmful substances. It explores how this contaminated site, recently designated a superfund site, impacts the surrounding community and wildlife, affecting water sources that eventually connect to Lake Michigan.... Read More
Join us for a teach-in and discussion on the current humanitarian crisis in Palestine, organized by Chicago area healthcare workers.
The American Petroleum Institute (API) will be in Chicago this Thursday, Nov. 16th. The API has lobbied for decades to prevent government action on climate change. Come join up with individuals and groups opposing the API for protecting Exxon Mobil, BP, Shell, Chevron and other oil companies, perpetuating the climate crisis, and causing climate destabilization which has impacted our local and global community.... Read More
Join us for a virtual kickoff event hosted by VFAbundance, a collective committed to fostering radical and lasting change in our communities and industries. Discover a welcoming space where both newcomers and seasoned individuals can come together to explore new ways of relating, learning, and taking action.... Read More
A teach-in on stop cop city and it’s connection to environmental justice, Palestinian liberation, abolition, and indigenous solidarity.
Sixty-one people have been indicted in Georgia on racketeering charges following a long-running state investigation into protests against Cop City, a privately funded $90,000,000 cop training facility that is proposed to be built over 300 acres of the Muscogee Weelaunee Forest.... Read More
Masks highly encouraged.
Join Better Streets Chicago and local birder Daniela Herrera on Sunday, November 12 for an autumn birding and nature walk in Jackson Park to discuss the impacts of infrastructure on urban wildlife and green spaces. RSVP: mobilize.us/s/BY9iIT
Pop out for a public conversation on the ongoing intifada in Palestine and what our role in Chicago could be to help deepen a global rupture. Bring ideas, proposals, and zines for discussion on: -The Palestinian liberation struggle in a local context -Anti-colonial, struggle from within the US, black liberation, and land back -What can local anarchist interventions look like -Anarchist activity in light of another uprising Accessibility info: 1 single stall bathroom, wheelchair ramp, and 3 diy air purifiers.
Learn about movement lawyering, political prosecution, and the targeting of ATL activists with speakers Brad Thompson, Molly Armour, and Kamau Franklin. Event sponsored by the LUC National Lawyers Guild and the Loyola Defense Coalition. Event is free and open to the public - in person and on zoom! Register at tinyurl.com/stopcopcitypanel... Read More
Please join us and the Climate Defense Project on Thursday, November 9th for a discussion on the use of civil disobedience over the past decade of environmental activism. From pipeline protests to tree-sits to construction sites, activists have engaged in creative methods to disrupt projects causing environmental destruction.... Read More
Protest Joe Biden’s visit to Chicago this Thursday
We are hosting a screening of "Gaza Fights for Freedom" by Abby Martin and a discussion of the movie after the screening. There will be food and snacks provided.
Join the Peregrines, a community of volunteer restorationists in their 20s and 30s that visit a different nature preserve each week, for a celebratory workday at Somme Prairie Grove. Activities will include seed collecting, brush cutting and bonfires, and more! All are invited to learn about our group and join in the community care of nature.... Read More
Join us at the Humboldt Park Boathouse on Saturday, November 4 at 3 PM, for time spent sharing stories and getting to know one another. We'll also have lightly facilitated conversations about being in solidarity with asylum seekers and incoming migrants, and about mobilizing for Palestinian liberation 🇵🇸 Coming together and sharing space over soup is part of a practice of building trust and being in solidarity with one another.... Read More
One More Jump, a documentary by Emanuele Gerosa (2019) Jehad and Abdallah, founders of the Gaza Parkour Team, grew up together in the Gaza Strip, but their choices divided them for years. Today, more than ever, they need to find out if there is a way that can lead to freedom someone who, like them, was born in prison.... Read More
Come join us in the streets to walk with our southern relatives and resist against the City of Chicago building a prison-like migrant camp.
Join us, October 28 & 29 for an anarchist scareshare and migrant and prisoner solidarity gathering! let’s build a migrant and prisoner solidarity network together here in Chicago! Fuck prisons, fuck detention centers fuck and fuck gardaworld. no one gets to exploit survival 🗡️🗡️ plz wear a mask! masks will be provided at the door.... Read More
Halloween Show Friday October 27, 7PM at The Orphanage. $10 w/ costume, $15 without
MARCH WITH US ON FRIDAY TO DIVEST FROM BOEING & FREE PALESTINE ☀️ Bright & early, gathering at 8:45AM at Heritage Green Park, 630 W Adams street on Friday October 27th! 🌊 Masks are required and provided. Bring friends, signs, flags, etc.!
Battle themed flyer for war ready Punks! Golpe will be on tour all the way from Milan, Italy, coming at us with the raw intensity of one thousand suns. Will you withstand the heat? Electric Chair is returning to the Midwest with their radiant riffs of glory and chaos.... Read More
Fundraiser + BBQ
Dry Socket on tour from Portland, Oregon. Snuffed (Chicago), Loose Lid (Chi/NWI), War Effort (Chicago), Goose Therapy (Milwaukee)
This training will be focused on making sure Chicago activists know their rights during police encounters, common charges associated with protesting and what to expect if they are arrested. Masks required.
Please join us for Evanston Public Library and Northwestern University's continuing series on the culture, politics, religion, and society of the Middle East and North Africa. From Ramallah to New York, Tel Aviv to Porto Alegre, people around the world celebrate a formidable, transnational Palestinian LGBTQ social movement.... Read More
Organized by The Chicago Coalition for Justice in Palestine
Protesting their "War on Children" rally, being hosted by this anti-Semitic, racist, anti-trans fascist hate group. We say NO to this, especially near DePaul, which has a strong history of antifascist activism.
Join us next week for a special screening of Pan's Labrynth and meet your local FNB crew! Bring blankets and friends. Free entry, cash donations accepted day of. (Donate what you can/want)
“Come to this ride on thursday, we will be doing the evening shift with Chicago Community Jail Support.” Ride goes from Humboldt Park Boathouse to Cook County Jail. Please fill out the jail support volunteer form!
Emergency protest
Demonstration and march for Palestinian freedom.
Save the date for another anarchist skillshare. it’s coming October 28 & 29th and it’s going to be a spooky one 👻🔥 let’s build a migrant and prisoner solidarity network together! ALSO, come join us on October 12th for a potluck and planning session to talk about building migrant care and solidarity networks together here in chicago! 5pm Potluck, 6pm Strategy Session @ the Orphanage fuck prisons, fuck detention centers fuck and fuck gardaworld.... Read More
Don Hamerquist's A Brilliant Red Thread (Kersplebedeb 2023) marks the long-overdue publication of essays by one of the sharpest and most provocative communist intellectuals in the US today. Drawing on nearly seventy years of social movement activity, including stints in the Communist Party, the New Left, and the co-founding of the Sojourner Truth Organization, Hamerquist brings a unique and supremely practical perspective to bear on questions of political organizing, class struggle, the threat of fascism, and the possibility of proletarian revolution.... Read More
Come on out for the Chicago leg of the Weelaunee Worldwide Mass Action Speaking Tour! Folks will be visiting over 70 cities around the continent in an expansive speaking tour, with the goal of preparing hundreds of affinity groups for the action.... Read More
New holiday just dropped! Come tenants one and all! Join us in a celebration of tenant unity on October 3rd at Schubert Square for the first ‘Tenant Holiday’. We’ll be sharing a warm meal, enjoying the seasons change, and working through some of the questions on our minds.
Vincent Schiraldi and Bill Ayers will be at Pilsen Community Books for a discussion of Vincent's new book Mass Supervision, the most comprehensive critique of probation and parole—and a provocative and compelling argument for abolishing both—from the former Probation Commissioner of New York City.... Read More
September Soup Night gathering is the 3rd Annual Point Party!! Join us for an evening community gathering, dance party, and fundraiser! DJs will play music as we watch the sunset over the lake, bonfire, chats with friends and comrades and more.... Read More
No Tent City! Freedom, Justice & Housing for Migrants Protest at Daley Plaza. Chicago's mayor is planning to house migrants in a tent refugee camp built and run by GardaWorld, a security contractor that ran terrible migrant detention centers. We demand that the city 1) Cancels the contract with GardaWorld.... Read More
Punk show for total fuckers in Gary, Indiana! At the Miller Beach Performance Theater. Inferna and Shaka on tour from OKC. 18+. Come correct or it’s the boot! Maybe more TBA.
5PM: Rally, March and 5K Marathon Run7PM: Music by Kebranto, Lengua Salvaje, Glutton for Insurrection, Lil Guillotine, Ho-Chi-$pins, and Mr. Bobby Join us outside CCJ as we rally, march, and run in solidarity with political prisoners and the movement to #FreeThemAll! SHUT DOWN COOK COUNTY JAIL! A rising death toll amidst deteriorating conditions, lack of medical care, and increasing censorship of books, mail, and legal materials.... Read More
Bridgeport Kidical Mass Saturday! Family friendly bike ride. Meet at 9:45am at the NE corner of Palmisano Park, roll out at 10:00am. The ride will be 1-2 miles long.
Christopher Paul Harris will discuss To Build a Black Future: The Radical Politics of Joy, Pain, and Care. He will be joined in conversation by Barnor Hesse. A Q&A will follow the discussion. About the book: When #BlackLivesMatter emerged in 2013, it animated the most consequential Black-led mobilization since the civil rights and Black power era.... Read More
Join us in welcoming Michael Staudenmaier, Mic Crenshaw, Moe Bowstern, Shannon Clay and Malki Brown to the store of an event in celebration of “We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action” and “It Did Happen Here: An Antifascist People's History”.... Read More
M.E. O'Brien and Eman Abdelhadi will discuss M.E. O'Brien's new book Family Abolition at Pilsen Community Books. For some of us, the family is a source of love and support. But for many others, the family is a place of private horror, coercion and personal domination.... Read More
A year after Dobbs overturned Roe vs. Wade and removed federal protections for abortion, the state of abortion access looks increasingly dire. Several states have moved to pass increasingly draconian abortion restrictions, with dire consequences for women, transgender men, and non-binary people.... Read More
On Sunday, August 26th, the Chicago Park District will host the opening reception for an art exhibition titled “In the Fields of Rotting Giants”, featuring the artwork of Mark Banks. The exhibition will be held from 5-9 pm, with an artist talk being delivered at 7 pm.... Read More
"entre horizontes: Art and Activism Between Chicago and Puerto Rico" examines the artistic genealogies and social justice movements that connect Puerto Rico with Chicago. Featuring works by an intergenerational group of artists with ties to Chicago, the exhibition presents Puerto Rican painters who use printmaking techniques and approaches alongside artists who address social and political issues through their work.The... Read More
Dual Power Gathering Midwest is a three day event that will take place August 17th - 20th at a campsite just outside of Chicago. This gathering will take place on the traditional lands of the Miami, Potawatomi, and Kickapoo. The event will be held at a campsite approximately 30 minutes south of downtown Chicago, accessible by both car and train.... Read More
PUNK RUIDOSO EN ESPANOL @ ARCHER BALLROOM 8PM DOORS / $15 PWYC ABREAKINTHEGRID@GMAIL.COM FOR DETAILS
CCAM is offering a two-part seminar both in-person and online reading through the first chapter of Deleuze and Guattari’s second volume of Capitalism and Schizophrenia: "A Thousand Plateaus." To wrap up CCAM’s summer programming, we dive into the Rhizome, the most used (and perhaps misused) concept from Deleuze and Guattari’s famously prismatic collaboration in thought.... Read More
08.06.23. PUNKS ON DA BOULEVARD SWAP / RECORDS / CLOTHES / KNICK KNACKS / TCHOTCHKES / OBJET D'ART. UNLIMITED SPACE / LIMITED TABLES & ICE. 2246 S MARSHALL. 2PM START* 6PM END*
Poison Ruin, Home Front, Lost Legion, Exedo, Easy Targets Doors at 6pm. Show at 7pm. No presale tickets so be on time. Come correct or stay home.
☀️ Happy summer!! July soup is UP!! Join us at McKinley Park (side note: "president" McKinley, who the park is in "honor of", was a violent colonizer; this park should be renamed and the monument destroyed) on Thursday, July 27th at 6pm.... Read More
KORIDOR - Dark punk from Zagreb, Croatia. NAG - Riff masters from ATL. Along with the Midwest insanity of Consensus Madness and Loose Lid.
Black Fire: This Time, Volume 1 from Willow Books (a division of Aquarius Press) celebrates the roots and legacy of the Black Arts Movement featuring the works of over 100 poets and writers. Published last spring, perfectly captures the spirit of sankofa, a word from the Akan people of Ghana that roughly translates to “it is not taboo to fetch what is at riskof being left behind.”... Read More
In partnership with The Guild Complex as part of their Press Room series, Bay Area authors Michael Warr and Tongo Eisen-Martin (San Francisco Poet Laureate) discuss their work, the nature of protest, and how the historical acts of revolution during the heyday of the Black Power Movement in the Bay Area has influenced the literary activism in a post-George Floyd era of radical social change.... Read More
Pilsen Community Books is excited to welcome Jesse Cohn and Ania Aizman for an event in celebration of Jesse Cohn's new translation of Why? or, How a Peasant Got Into the Land of Anarchy. A revolutionary fairy tale for adults that makes sharpening your critique of capitalism fun, Why? follows the travels of a boy named Pochemu—“Why” in Russian—as he tries to understand the tsar’s empire, capitalism, state violence, and more.... Read More
A bi-montly meet-up for games, movement, and collective mental health care practice.
During the 1980s, against the backdrop of El Salvador's civil war, revolutionary groups engaged in armed struggle turned to filmmaking as an equally fundamental weapon against oppression, misinformation, and the erosion of historical memory. Working towards an urgent, agitational, and conscious-raising—or revolutionary—cinema, the documentaries produced often depicted life (and death) in the guerilla’s zones of control, featuring scenes of agricultural work, civic festivals, education environments, and combat.... Read More
Reggies Rock Club Friday, July 14th 7pm doors | 8pm show | $15adv/$20dos | 17+ Empire Productions Presents: The Virus Shitizen War Effort Complacent Evasive Actions
Live bands: PersonⒶ, Surrogates, Stress Positions, Lengua Salvaje
Documentary screening followed by director Q&A and solo set by Bill GoffrierWith Westonworld DJs Bob and Carrie Weston Join the documentary’s directors and the Embarrassment’s Bill Goffrier for an evening of film, music, and conversation celebrating Wichita’s most influential band. TRAILER: https://youtu.be/i8P7Mvv5x2I... Read More
Join us at the next protest of Oak Lawn's police board in support of #Justice4Murod & #Justice4Hadi! WHERE: 9446 Raymond Ave., Oak Lawn, IL
Show: Meat House, Mutant Strain, Watermelon, Man Eaters. At One City Tap. *Drug Free*
Playing: Mutant, St. Rain, Meat House, Geist, Loose Lid, Useless Information, IMPORTANT: This show is happening in a Junkyard. You will be surrounded by thousands of things that look dilapidated and useless but despite the appearance of run down cars or anything else, many of these things are being repaired and repurposed.... Read More
This lineup is absolute 🔥don’t miss it $10 | ALL AGES | 21+ to BYOB (respect that) | Doors 6:30 Music 7
Through contemporary and historic examples, this conversation explores the intersection of art and activism in Chicago housing. Hear directly from cultural workers, organizers, and former public housing residents about the ways creativity spurs action and policy as well as how home and housing can nurture talent and creativity.... Read More
Saturday June 24th, 9pm-Late @ The Orphanage
SAVE THE DATE 4 the CHICAGO ANARCHIST SKILLSHARE! Want to share a skill? Want to table? Email: chicago_anarchist_skillshare@riseup.net
Come out on June 24th and 25th to the Chicago Anarchist Skillshare. There will be all kinds of workshops from Digital Security to Lock Picking to DIY Abortion and more! Saturday night will also include one of the final shows at the notorious punk space the orphanage with some of your favorite local Chicago punk bands and DJs.... Read More
GoldGrrl Fest is a Juneteenth community event where racialized rockers can celebrate their most authentic selves. With local vendors, artist resources, live performances and a face-melting dance party, this event brings together underrepresented artists who showcase their talents while learning from one other.... Read More
Join Behind Enemy Lines for a discussion and interview with Rev. Donald Wagner and Roxane Assaf-Lynn, and an opportunity to get involved in anti-imperialist organizing. Donald Wagner is a long-time Chicago based activist for Palestinian rights, a Presbyterian clergyperson and the author of a new memoir, "Glory to God in the Lowest: Journeys to an Unholy Land."... Read More
This program will be held in-person at the Newberry and livestreamed on Zoom. The online version of this event will be live captioned. Please register below. “The whole world is watching!” cried protestors at the 1968 Democratic convention as Chicago police beat them in the streets.... Read More
Soup night at Tierra y Paz Farm! 🍲🌻🌱 ☀️ As the ground and air warm up, we're soooo excited and grateful to hold June Soup Night (in the daylight) at Tierra y Paz, located in a shared farming space @starfarmchicago in Back of the Yards (5136 S Laflin).... Read More
A SPECIAL EVENT ON JUNE 3RD ” A CONVERSATION ABOUT REPARATIONS” WITH GUEST SPEAKERS – ERNEST CRIMM, RICHARD WALLACE, AND ALONZO WAHEED THE EVENT IS FREE – $25 DONATIONS TO E.A.T’S Chicago Future Fund ARE ENCOURAGED The Body of Evidence Art Exhibit showcases the power resilience and brilliance of Black people.... Read More
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Hands-on organizing skills training from union leaders who are winning fights! Hosted by UNITE HERE Local 1, open to the public. Whether you're interested in community organizing or union organizing, this training is for you! Registration required: http://bit.ly/3BhmBQy
Featuring works by: Alex Wilson, Annabelle Tuma, Checkerdruid, Heather M. Cole, Neha Chawla AKA Insidiousstudios, Pamela Maurer, Toni Maugeri, and Tracy Kostenbader. We love tagging and muraling and these can be and often fit the definition of Guerilla Art. This time around though we’re showing everything else.
The image of Emiliano Zapata is built (or destroyed) via a series of feminine voices that assuredly knew him: the midwife who attended his birth, his mother, his sister and one of his lovers; all of them painting an intimate image of “The Atilla of the South”.... Read More
Seeking repairs? BRING YOUR LEASE
Join us at Chicago Freedom School on Wednesday May 31 @ 5:30pm for a letter writing event to support criminalized 2020 Uprising protesters! This is our first event of a summer-long solidarity campaign to mark the 3rd anniversary of the uprising and support those still facing state repression.... Read More
Group bike ride last Friday of every month. Route announced and maps provided Day-of immediately before ride. Rain or shine.
Anna Elena Torres and Ania Aizman celebrate With Freedom in Our Ears: Histories of Jewish Anarchism with an in-store event at Pilsen Community Books. Jewish anarchism has long been marginalized in histories of anarchist thought and action. Anna Elena Torres and Kenyon Zimmer edit a collection of essays which recovers many aspects of this erased tradition.... Read More
come catch all your favs at logan blvd skate park. 2-10pm, $15.
Stewardship 10am-12pm, Bird Walk 12pm-2pm. Join us in caring for the native plants at the Sanctuary followed by birding with Feminist Bird Club! All ages, abilities, and experience levels welcome. Tools and gloves provided.
come catch all your favs at logan blvd skate park. 2-10pm, $15.
Free event at Kosciuszko Park! Letter-writing at 7:30, screening at 8:30. Featuring Atlanta Forest Garden: Four Days of Work (2023, 12 minutes) and My Dad, the Socialist Kulak (1987, 100 minutes, one of Tortuguita's favorite films).
Punk & Education panel followed by matinee gig. Music by Spread Joy, Iron Years, National Photo Committee, Future Nobodies. Sober & all ages, pay-what-you-can $10+, all proceeds benefit the Caucus of Rank & File Educators. NO PUNK TIME
CHICAGO! 🌇 Join us for a two-day Intensive Direct Action Skills Training, May 13-14 from 9:30-6PM – priority application deadline end of day 4/26, rolling acceptance after! 💥‼️📢 This training came out of a monthly Soup Night discussion between a group of people across Chicago from various movement backgrounds who are hoping to build direct action skills in our organizing communities citywide.... Read More
Get 2 the Gig at The Junkyard in Northwest Indiana. 10$ at the door ⚠️ don’t break shit or wonder off from the bomb shelter ⚠️ Park in the parking lot and wait.There will be a shuttle bus making trips back and fourth from the parking lot to the show space about 2 miles into the Junkyard.... Read More
Friends, our Spring Plant Swap is just around the corner!! 🌱🪴🌾Join us for our third annual vegetable seedlings, house plant, native plant exchange at our beloved @poboxcollective located at 6900 N. Glenwood ave. Per usual, you don’t need to bring plants to receive plants! If you plan to bring plants to share, please drop them off between 12-1 so we can make sure they get organized and sorted well.... Read More
In their 2019 film, INFINITY minus infinity, the celebrated multi-disciplinary artist collective the Otolith Group contests the toxic sociopolitical histories that inform Black life in contemporary England. The film interrogates the “hostile environment policy” enacted by Theresa May’s Conservative government in 2012, which was framed as an effort to combat “illegal immigration” in the UK.... Read More
Join us at Ping Tom Park this Sunday, April 30th, at Noon, as we ride to Jackson Park to check out the cherry blossoms. We will also visit 'Redefining Redlining', a floral project by Amanda Williams, highlighting the historic & continued impact of redlining.
The second documentary ever to win Venice's prestigious Golden Lion, "All the Beauty and the Bloodshed" examines photographer-activist Nan Goldin's valiant effort to hold Purdue Pharma responsible for the opioid epidemic. The film paints a compassionate, gritty portrait of the fight against the Sackler family—Purdue's owners—through the lens of an indefatigable, battle-hardened woman.... Read More
Chicago stands in solidarity with the Atlanta Forest Defenders. Support the movement from here in Chicago by attending the #StopCopCity Fundraiser & Dance Party. This early show is from 8-11 pm on Saturday, April 29, 2023 at Parlour and Ramp in Pilsen.... Read More
April Soup Night 🌱☀️❤️🔥Rogers Park!! Think: Spring Lake side soup at Pratt Beach, the scoop on direct action skill share, May Day, report backs from rad work and juicy chats with comrades 💥💥 Join for another afternoon of sharing food, ideas and organizing questions! We convene soup night to build spaces to consistently come together and cross pollinate ideas, build stronger networks across crews, groups and campaigns, and slow down and tend to the very center of our work: our relationships with one another.... Read More
The Chicago Neighborhood Planting Project will be giving away hundreds of native edible fruit trees including chokecherry, elderberry, hazelnut, persimmon, and plum. Help us expand Chicago's tree canopy and provide sources of fresh fruit in our neighborhoods! Tree distribution from 1pm-3pm; later, Chicago forest defenders will be hosting a fundraiser dance party for the Stop Cop City movement, 8pm-11pm.
May Day Rave ! ! ! YUNG NILA BB BASURA RUMR + more SECRET LOCATION! email: keep_the_sky_factory_wild@riseup.net
May Day Eztravaganza! Friday, 4/28 8pm-Late (8pm) PUNK SHOW @ Canalport Riverwalk GLUTTON FETISHIST ARID (10pm) - Late Night Rave @ Secret Location (Email for Directions) YUNG NILA BB BASURA RUMR For More Info / Directions --> Email: keep_the_sky_factory_wild@riseup.net
Chicago Critical Mass rides start at Daley Plaza (Dearborn and Washington) at 6pm on the last Friday of every month, regardless of weather or season. Route TBD.
“Fill out this form to sign up for the #CNC Defend the Forest: Stop Cop City Atlanta Presentation, on THURSDAY, APRIL 27TH at 5PM in the Center for Identity and Inclusion LGBTQ Lounge! Space is limited due to COVID and... Read More
We are excited to see you Wednesday, April 26th at 8:30pm in Harris Hall room 107! We will hear a presentation by a forest defender about the history and strategy of the movement to stop the construction of Cop City—a militarized police training facility, in the largest urban forest in Atlanta—and engage in a Q&A and a call to action.... Read More
Memorial bike ride from marshall blvd & Cermak to Zapata park 19th and Damen.
Remember Tortuguita Birthday Vigil and Solidarity Action Bring banners, art, music, etc. After gathering, we will honor Tort's life with a nature walk through the area. wear a mask!
Press conference: “Chicago stands with Atlanta Forest Defenders” on Tortuguita's 27th Birthday Weelaunee Forest Defense Society NLG Chicago Sierra Club Chicago Chapter
Legendary Anarcho-punk band Omega Tribe playing with D.O.V.E from the Bay Area and other locals at Grandmas place?
April 18 at 6pm | Winner of Best Screenplay at Cannes Film Festival, A TOUCH OF SIN is composed of four vignettes involving violence and vengeance in contemporary China. The film confronts taboos of crime, corruption, adultery and prostitution by grounding its stories in actual news stories from the 2000s—as if tracing effects of modernization on the most vulnerable of Chinese citizens.... Read More
Jon Melrod and Bill Ayers celebrate Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War with an in store event at Pilsen Community Books. Deeply personal, astutely political, Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War recounts the thirteen-year journey of Jon Melrod to harness working-class militancy and jump start a revolution on the shop floor of American Motors.... Read More
Celebrate our earth! An afternoon of conversations about Chicagoland ecology organized by the Save Jackson Park network. Speakers: Ward Miller, Preservation Chicago; Michael McColly, NU; Ayesha T Qazi-Lampert, CPS; Climate Change Reality Project; Chicago Bird Collision Monitors; South Shore Neighborhood... Read More
We’re super excited to announce the first ever Logan Square Volunteer Fair! Through our work at @trashpeopleoflogansquare, we know there are *so* many of us that are looking for ways to meet new people, contribute to the community and support local organizations and causes.... Read More
On Saturday, April 15 at 1pm, join Verso Books and Pilsen Community Books for an opening weekend fundraiser screening of the eco-thriller How to Blow Up a Pipeline. After the screening, there will be a short conversation with local environmental justice activists who will share ways to get involved in local and nationwide movements to combat climate destruction and fight for a better world for all.... Read More
A discussion with Joy James, rosalind hampton, and Charles H.F. Davis III about James' new book, "In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love."
Just released from prison, Léa returns home to the Brasilia favela of Sol Nascente and joins up with her half-sister Chitara, the fearless leader of an all-female gang that steals and refines oil from underground pipes and sells gasoline to a clandestine network of motorcyclists.... Read More
Exiled Anarchists (from Turkey and Kurdistan) Soli-Night14th of April, (5pm - 9pm) Documentary Screening-`Is it just destiny?` 28 min-`Plan of Destiny` 41 min 2 Documentaries- We'll watch 2 documentaries.. `Is it just destiny?` (28 min) is talking about the rise of Erdogan after the earthquake in 1999 and reveals the gentrification projects which leaded this destructions.... Read More
This event brings together Indigenous activist-scholars to foreground the Indigenous lands and nations on the front lines not just of the climate crisis but also of collective actions seeking different futures. As the climate crisis continues to be fueled by energy extraction and an inability on the part of nation states and corporations to divest from capitalism, we focus in on Indigenous resistance movements to protect the environment.... Read More
Show at Subterranean with The Repo's, Concrete Elite, Fuerza Bruta, War Effort.
Chicago Families in Solidarity with #StopCopCity Write Letters To Send Love To Detained Forest Defenders
2nd Annual Ronnieman Memorial Foundation Easter Event.
A staged reading to benefit women's healthcare
March 28 at 6pm | One of the most powerful allegories for climate change in recent years, ANNIHILATION operates on a simple what-if premise: what if the boundaries between “human” and “environment” were finally and utterly elided? Of course, there is a premise for this philosophical query: an all-women group of military scientists, led by Natalie Portman’s Lena, is sent to examine the Shimmer, a “zone” (think Andrei Tarkovsky’s STALKER) created by a meteor strike three years ago into which people enter but never return.... Read More
In 2003 the US unleashed a murderous and unjust war on Iraq, followed by a criminal occupation of that country. Join Behind Enemy Lines to learn about the realities of the Iraq war, how people resisted it, and discuss what it means to stand with the people of the world today.
**Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 4:30-6 PM** - The UChicago English Department is pleased to announce Fred Moten will be our speaker for the 2023 Carpenter Lecture Series. Professor Moten’s lectures are entitled "The case of blackness: anthology, sociology, echomusecology." Fred Moten is Professor in the Department of Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts.... Read More
GRABADO POPULAR: PRINTS FOR THE PEOPLEMarch 18, 2023 through May 27, 2023A show by Carlos Barberena, Atlan Arceo-Witzl, & CHema Skandal! Opening Reception: Saturday, March 18, 2 - 5pm Live Printing///6-10pm Grand Opening Party Artist Talk & Panel Discussion: Saturday, April 1, beginning at 2pm Closing Reception: Saturday, May 27, 12 - 6pm Regular Gallery Hours: Friday & Saturday, 12-5 or by appointment ABOUT THE SHOWInspired by the immediacy and wide dissemination of graffiti, wheatpasting, street signs, posters, and all forms of printed ephemera, the artists explore the democratic roots of printmaking and draw on conversations between graphic movements in Latin America and Chicago.... Read More
Join for an afternoon of sharing food, ideas and organizing questions! Folks will share about the Stop Cop City/Defend the Atlanta Forest week of action and about solidarity work with folks in Turkey and Kurdistan. We are convening soup night (round 3!) to build spaces to consistently come together and cross pollinate ideas, build stronger networks across crews, groups and campaigns, and slow down and tend to the very center of our work: our relationships with one another.... Read More
When trans rights are under attack: what do we do? STAND UP, FIGHT BACK! Location is likely near the intersection of Ida B Wells & Michigan Avenue! (Closest Red Line: Jackson stop; Orange / Brown: Harold Washngtn Library stop)
Come explore all of the items you can check out from the Chicago Tool Library! The Tool Library is hosting an open house so the West Side can see what we're all about. Check out the space, meet other West Side organizations, and enjoy some activities on Saturday, March 18th 1-4pm at 4015 W Carroll Ave.... Read More
Madeline Lane-McKinley and Dave Maher will be discussing Madeline's new book "Comedy Against Work: Utopian Longing in Dystopian Times." Humor, Groucho Marx asserted, is “reason gone mad.” For Walter Benjamin, laughter was “the most revolutionary emotion.” In a moment when great numbers of people are reevaluating their commitment to the hellscape we call “work,” what does it mean to take comedy seriously—and to turn it against work? Both philosophically brilliant and deeply personal, "Comedy Against Work" demonstrates how laughing about work can puncture the pretensions of tyrannical bosses while uniting us around a commitment to radically new ways of making the world together.... Read More
The movement to Stop Cop City in Atlanta has reopened the prospect of mass abolitionist organizing after years of ongoing racist police murder, carceral expansion, and political quietism under a Democratic administration. The movement has also built important new links between abolitionist politics and climate, labor, and urban organizing.... Read More
From CHI 2 ATL, #StopCopCity Week of Action event. Event from roughly 6-8pm. 6:30 Dinner 7:00 Teach-in 7:30 Letter-writing 💌 Family friendly. Please wear a mask. Donations encouraged and will all go to forest defenders. Space has one entry ramp, one single stall bathroom, and air filters.
An essay film by Lyn Corelle and Sasha Warren about madness, death, and the political implications of collective acts of memory. Preceeded by the short A Letter From Minneapolis. Lyn will be there for a discussion after the screening. Please be aware that the films discuss a number of intense topics, including genocide, institutional violence, and self-harm.... Read More
FUNDRAISER SHOW FOR QUEER ASYLUM SEEKER SURVIVAL FUND! Make the Golf Course a Public Sex Forest After Party! Friday March 3rd 9PM @ the K-Hole, Maplewood & Potomac Come thru!!! 🗡💥🗡💥🗡💥🗡💥🗡
Readings from our new anthology of smut and queer utopian dreaming. Featuring editors Lyn Corelle and jimmy cooper and contributors Clark Ruhff, Erin Lynch, Robin Hustle, Suz Evans, Peach Gallant, and Val Schlosberg. Free admission, masks required, 18+.
THIS FRIDAY we will be joining the #globalclimatestrike , will YOU? On March 3rd join Fridays for Future, Chicago Climate Youth Coalition, Sunrise movement, 350 US, 350 Chicago, SEA Loyola, PSI UChicago, Fossil Free Northwestern, CAPA, and other climate activists in downtown Chicago to demand change and an end to fossil fuel financing.... Read More
Liberatory Harm Reduction is one of the most important interventions of the 20th century, and yet a compilation of its critical stories and voices was, until now, seemingly nowhere to be found. Saving Our Own Lives, an anthology of essays from long-time organizer Shira Hassan, fills this gap by telling the stories of how sex workers, Black, Indigenous, and people of color, queer folks, trans, gender non-conforming, and two-spirit people are – and have been - building systems of change and support outside the societal frameworks of oppression and exploitation.... Read More
Have you ever wanted to get some documents from the government that you know they have but aren’t making public? Have you heard about FOIAs but don’t know how to get started? Join Lucy Parsons Labs for a virtual training on how to submit public records requests aka freedom of information act requests.... Read More
Join Chicago Friends of the Forest for a rally and march Saturday, Feb 25 from 4-5:30 pm. We are meeting at 4:00 pm at the Logan Square Monument located at 3150 W Logan Boulevard in Chicago. (Called both Illinois Centennial Monument/Logan Square Park on Google Maps) Logan Square Blue Line stop is nearby! Bring banners, drums, snacks, zines, friends and anything else you want! NLG and Street Medics will be on site.... Read More
Bilingual event on the preservation of Latinx history in Chicago. Discussion of the storage and care for family photographs, negatives, and documents.
This presentation covers the history of the movement to stop the clear cutting of 300 acres of the largest urban forest in Atlanta for a militarized police training facility dubbed Cop City and this hemisphere's largest sound stage for private Hollywood interests.... Read More
This Friday (2/24) at P.O. Box Collective from 6-7pm, there will be a screen printing and art sale fundraiser prior to the 7pm discussion. See a screen printing tutorial, make a patch, buy some art! Donations are pay what you... Read More
A teach-in and screening of Riotsville, USA along with two shorts: Beneath the Concrete, the Forest and Defending The Atlanta Forest. Presented by Solidarity Cinema.
The Film Center is delighted to welcome the return of our long-running lecture series, presented in collaboration with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Art History, Theory and Criticism, and Film, Video, New Media, and Animation departments. GORE CAPITALISM will run January 31 through May 9.... Read More
Book release and panel discussion at Pilsen Community Books, Feb 18th, 2023 at 6pm. Featuring Shemon, Nevada, and other local activists. DETAILS: Written during the riots, "The George Floyd Uprising" (edited by Vortex Group) is a compendium of the most radical writing to come out of that long, hot summer.... Read More
"Shamanic Cinema: Trance as Resistance" brings together six short films by the Mexican independent artist group Colectivo Los Ingrávidos which depict what they call the “violent relational trance of our present.” Since forming in Tehuacán, Mexico in 2012, Colectivo Los Ingrávidos has produced a substantial body of experimental film and video that pushes back against the political, economical, and ecological violence of the present through manipulation of visceral sonic and visual means, seeking to induce trance as a method of healing and resistance.... Read More
Join members of Rainforest Action Network for community building and action: buffet lunch followed by training and prep for an easy, low-risk nonviolent direct action.
Join Chicago for Abortion Rights on Sunday, February 12th from 3-5pm at Haymarket House (800 W Buena Ave) for a V-Day fundraiser for Choix, a telehealth medication abortion provider. We'll hear from Dr. Mary Bowman, an abortion provider at Choix, about how medication abortion works and how it increases access to care, and learn about the politically motivated attacks on medication abortion and how you can get involved in the movement for abortion access and reproductive justice.... Read More
Join for an afternoon of sharing food, ideas and organizing questions! We're convening soup night (again!) to build spaces to consistently come together and cross pollinate ideas, build stronger networks across crews, groups and campaigns, and slow down and tend to the very center of our work: our relationships with one another.... Read More
From February 10 - 11, we’re gathering in Chicago for a weekend of relationship building and participatory workshops to build up our anti-militarist youth movement, and to help sustain our chapters into a spring semester of powerful direct action organizing! Come through to envision, strategize and build towards a demilitarized future together, while cultivating resilient relationships, culture, and joy through storytelling, an open mic, mística, and space to connect & be in community.... Read More
José Olivarez will discuss Promises of Gold. This event will be held in person at The Seminary Co-op. At this time, masks are required for in-store events. About the book: A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love—self, brotherly, romantic, familial, cultural—is birthed, shaped, and complicated by the invisible forces of gender, capitalism, religion, migration, and so on.... Read More
Join us as we welcome Zhandarka Kurti and Jarrod Shanahan for a conversation in celebration of of States of Incarceration, a crucial book for our current moment, uncovering the history of mass incarceration in the United States and engaging with the major challenges of contemporary prison and police abolition activism.... Read More
💌❤️🔥💌 We love you forest defenders! JOIN US for a cozy evening of letter writing to jailed forest defenders. We'll have materials! Bring your friends, your solidarity and your love for forest defenders targeted by police and politicians for their protection of the Weelaunee Forest.... Read More
...in late 2009 after walking around the city and seeing numerous flyers for soul nights. An idea formed. Why not have one night with a delegate from each soul group/crew to celebrate the different types of early soul sounds currently being represented in the city? The idea sprang into action and soon we had three 'residents', Dave Matta, Duke Grip, and Sloppy White.... Read More
Fundraiser for Defend the Atlanta Forest. Clothing and art sale, zine and movie tables, snacks. All proceeds go to Atl solidarity fund.
Emergency action! Justice for Tyre Nichols, Keenan Anderson, Manuel Tortuguita Teron, and all those murdered by police.
Join the #boeingarmsgenocide campaign for a day of canvassing, letter writing and hot cocoa. We will be at the Loyola Red Line stop from 11 AM to 1 PM on Sunday, January 29th! Come through and chat with neighbors, do... Read More
Lauded as a masterpiece by audiences and critics alike upon its release (Susan Sontag declared she would be “glad to see it every year for the rest of my life”), and shot in stunning black and white, Béla Tarr’s slow cinema opus follows members of a defunct agricultural collective living in a post-apocalyptic landscape whose lives are altered forever when a mysterious character returns to their village.... Read More
Nearly 50 years before Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, seven Chicago women were arrested and charged with building an underground network to provide illegal abortions—each facing up to 110 years in prison. These were 'the Janes,' an activist group which provided abortions to an estimated 11,000 women.... Read More
What drives fascists to commit mass shootings in public? Where does this ultraviolent, sacrificial murder cult come from, and how does it reproduce itself? This talk will outline a historical and theoretical framework for understanding 'far right accelerationism,' a distinct current of white supremacist militancy responsible for a considerable number of North American mass murder events over the span of four decades.... Read More
Come see some music and get some food and beer to support Feeding People Through Plants effort to build more orange tents for our unhoused friends in the neighborhood. All proceeds go to building more tents, tent repairs, heaters, tools, and food for the people ! Come through and join our efforts. www.feedingpeoplethroughplants.org/get-involved.html
Vigil in Chicago this Friday for an Atlanta Forest Defender murdered by police. Please bring candles and other offerings for the memorial.
Join us on January 19th at 7pm as we welcome Susan Mills and Bill Ayers for an in-store event in celebration of Susan's book On the Wings of a Hummingbird. At 15 years old, Petra must grow into the lessons of the Mayan hummingbird as she carves her future out of a childhood scarred by gang violence.... Read More
Martha C. Nussbaum will discuss her new book Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility. She will be joined in conversation by Mark N. Templeton. About the book: Animals are in trouble all over the world. Whether through the cruelties of the factory meat industry, poaching and game hunting, habitat destruction, or neglect of the companion animals that people purport to love, animals suffer injustice and horrors at our hands every day.... Read More
Featuring LYDIA ABEDEEN & JITESH JAGGI
Join us as we welcome legendary Chicago city council member and community activist Helen Shiller for an event in celebration of her new memoir Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win. Helen Shiller will be in conversation with organizer and journalist Annie Howard.... Read More
Join us at 10AM on Sunday Jan 15th at Rainbow Beach in South Shore. Check out the hundreds of weird ducks and raptors that frequent the waters & skies near this Chicago birding hotspot all winter 🦅 RSVP required (see... Read More
A place to meet new friends, listen to music and hang out without using alcohol. We will be spinning records, sharing appetizers, NA beers, mocktails & sparkling waters. We will provide some food and drinks but please bring some NA drinks/appetizer to share.
A panel event with Jeff Hou (University of Washington) and Stephanie Wakefield (Life University), moderated by Evan Carver (UChicago CEGU). In this CEGU panel, two eminent urban thinkers reflect critically on the prospects for radical, emergent, grassroots design interventions to create more democratic, socially just and environmentally viable urban landscapes and forms of urbanization.
Hybachi LeMar is a community organizer, transformational speaker and ghetto-bred Anarchist. He’s the founder of the Kemetic Anarchist School of Thought, and author of The Deprived & Depraved. LeMar will facilitate a teach-In entitled, “The More We Get it Together, The More We Get It, Together!” Participants will learn how Anarchists in the city can work together to strengthen the streets.
Join us in our rent strike rally this Thursday. Coffee, donuts, music, and more. No heat! No rent! No heat! No rent!
Community members: please show your support by coming to our strikes, TUESDAY THRU THURSDAY! Thursday Locations: Sheridan Clinic, 4025 N. Sheridan, 8AM-5PM / 63rd Clinic, 641 W. 63rd St, 8AM-5PM / Sunnyside Offices, 1025 W. Sunnyside, 8AM-7PM / Brown Elephant... Read More
Community members: please show your support by coming to our strikes, TUESDAY THRU THURSDAY! Wednesday Locations: Sheridan Clinic, 4025 N. Sheridan, 8AM-6PM / 63rd Clinic, 641 W. 63rd St, 9AM-5PM / Brown Elephant Andersonville, 3404 N. Clark, 11AM-6PM
Community members: please show your support by coming to our strikes, TUESDAY THRU THURSDAY! Tuesday Locations: Sheridan Clinic, 4025 N. Sheridan, 8AM-6PM / 63rd Clinic, 641 W. 63rd St, 9AM-5PM / Clark Clinic, 6500 N. Clark, 9AM-6PM / Halsted Clinic, 3245 N.... Read More
Haymaker classes are free to attend and geared toward comrades of all levels. Contact @haymakergym on Instagram or @haymakerchi on Twitter for location and details. Boxing for Women, Trans, and queer people onlySaturdays 12pm Kali for everyoneTuesdays 06:15 pm... Read More
Vaqueros y rockeros: art and music show ~ cumbia punk corridos y mas ~ rippancho takeover ~ $10 at the door
Terry Hall (of The Specials) tribute night
❄️SUPPLIES NEEDED❄️ Seeking Supply Donations to get us through the winter! Drop off outside of the Cook County Jail on Thursdays from 5:30–8:00pm. Other drop-off locations are all throughout Chicago. Please DM @ChiCommunityJS for addresses and more info! WINTER HATS GLOVES SCARVES SOCKS LONGSLEEVE SHIRTS COATS (SIZE M-3XL) SWEATSHIRTS SWEAT PANTS HAND WARMERS & more Donationation via OpenCollective: bit.ly/ccjs2022
A reading by Tongo Eisen-Martin, author of "Someone’s Dead Already" (Bootstrap Press, 2015) and "Heaven Is All Goodbyes" (City Lights, 2017). Eisen-Martin’s work “moves between trenchant political critique and dreamlike association, demonstrating how, in the right hands, one mode might energize the other—keeping alternative orders of meaning alive in the face of radical injustice ...... Read More
Join Spectre for a discussion of the roots of the uprising, the various struggles expressed in it, and its impact and possible trajectory.
Show featuring Organ-ism, Innuendo, Big Laugh, Molcajete, Weak Pulse, Chalk, Spat, Geist, Loose Lid. The return of Paul Henry’s is upon us. This gig features the finest the Midwest has to offer. Paul Henry’s has long stood as one of the most important spaces in Northwest Indiana so we ask that you treat it with the utmost respect.... Read More
Show featuring Daddy's Boy, Primitive Teeth, Consensus Madness, Private Life
Join for an afternoon of sharing food, ideas and organizing questions! We are convening soup night to build spaces to consistently come together and cross pollinate ideas, build stronger networks across crews, groups and campaigns, and slow down and tend to the very center of our work: our relationships with one another.... Read More
Exhibit of acclaimed Chicago artist, Franklin McMahon’s fifty years of protest in vibrant drawings and paintings. In the 1940s, McMahon was a cartoonist depicting conditions in WWII POW camps. He mailed his drawings back to Extensions Magazine in Chicago. In 1955 McMahon covered the Emmett Till Trial for Life Magazine in Sumner, Mississippi that transformed him into an artist-reporter.... Read More
The 19th annual Renegade craft fair returns for a festive wintertime marketplace on December 17 + 18 at a new venue, Morgan Manufacturing.
❄️SUPPLIES NEEDED❄️ Seeking Supply Donations to get us through the winter! Drop off outside of the Cook County Jail on Thursdays from 5:30–8:00pm. Other drop-off locations are all throughout Chicago. Please DM @ChiCommunityJS for addresses and more info! WINTER HATS GLOVES SCARVES SOCKS LONGSLEEVE SHIRTS COATS (SIZE M-3XL) SWEATSHIRTS SWEAT PANTS HAND WARMERS & more Donationation via OpenCollective: bit.ly/ccjs2022
Webinar on ALPRs next week with some awesome people. Come join us, learn about ALPRs and carceral tech! Register: http://bit.ly/alpr101 #abolition #carceraltech #ALPRs
Last Otro ritmo of the year is this Tuesday, December 13th. No Future Collective spins punk, Oi!, & Rock n Roll - One City Tap!
Join us as we welcome David Ranney in celebration of the publication of Dear Rhoda, out now from Charles H. Kerr Publishing. In chaotic bohemian Chicago of the 1920s, a powerful love affair is threatened by illness, a “red” scare and anti Semitic hatred.... Read More
Join us for the inaugural Radical Community Bookshop, a collaboration featuring three of Chicago’s beloved independent booksellers — Buddy Chicago, Haymarket Books, and Pilsen Community Books. Browse from a curated selection of art books, literary fiction, and radical critical reading in one of our city’s favorite holiday pop-ups, Happy’s! Masks are highly encouraged at this event, and will be available for patrons.
Pulling common threads from their recent books, "Practical Anarchism: A Guide for Daily Life" and "The Solutions Are Already Here: Strategies for Ecological Revolution from Below," Scott Branson and Peter Gelderloos will hold a conversation about what we can do now in our revolutionary movements to set our eyes on liberation.
Come watch "Push" with the North Spaulding Renters Association. Discuss the movie, eat food, and learn more about tenant unions.
❄️SUPPLIES NEEDED❄️ Seeking Supply Donations to get us through the winter! Drop off outside of the Cook County Jail on Thursdays from 5:30–8:00pm. Other drop-off locations are all throughout Chicago. Please DM @ChiCommunityJS for addresses and more info! WINTER HATS GLOVES SCARVES SOCKS LONGSLEEVE SHIRTS COATS (SIZE M-3XL) SWEATSHIRTS SWEAT PANTS HAND WARMERS & more Donationation via OpenCollective: bit.ly/ccjs2022
Music! Book checkout! Food! Full moon bonfire!
Writing Letters to Prisoners every 1st Wednesday of the month @ PO Box Collective
Fight back against Howard Brown Health's unfair and illegal layoffs! Our patients and community are welcome to join us. Solidarity forever! (RSVP using the Additional Info link.)
Chicago’s architectural legacy includes a civic ideal that has produced prized public spaces. Yet for many of the city’s Black and Brown residents, these spaces were—and, in some cases, continue to be—inferior to spaces used by white and affluent Chicagoans, and gentrification near new public spaces has made adjoining neighborhoods unaffordable for many longtime residents.... Read More
Gather anytime after 4pm. Bring candles, flowers, blank paper. Mask yourself if need be
Neighborhood, Watch is a solo window installation by Chris Collins opening on Saturday, November 12th until December 18th. Join us at Co-Prosperity for the opening reception along with Let it Grow: Hoofprints 10th Year Anniversary Exhibition on Saturday, November 12th from 6-10PM.... Read More
In this presentation, loosely structured as a three-part magic act, Ernest discusses the many representations of Native Americans in media and how these representations inform audiences’ perceptions of Native peoples and issues. The acts are separated by personal anecdotes that reflect the ideology of lived experience versus the authorship of expertise of Native representation.... Read More
THE SILENCES OF THE PALACE (Moufida Tlatli, 1994, Tunisia/France, 114 min, 35mm) RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-silences-of-the-palace-1994-35mm-screening-tickets-444409539897 A stunning debut feature from Tunisian filmmaker (and longtime editor of Arab cinema) Moufida Tlatli, THE SILENCES OF THE PALACE questions the relationship of women’s liberation with class and national struggles, looking unflinchingly at the traumas inflicted by patriarchal-colonial structures across two periods of Tunisian history.... Read More
FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION WITH THE DIRECTORThe Workers CupNovember 17, 7 PM Professors Laura Brueck and Ivy Wilson, co-directors of the Race, Class, and Colorism Project, host a screening of THE WORKERS CUP, followed by a discussion with director Adam Sobel.... Read More
This panel will feature Luz Pro, Founder of Arte Pro, an organization that works with children born in incarceration in Mexico; Eduardo Enrique Navarrete Murcia, a formerly incarcerated educator and writer who works with Contextos, an organization that works with incarcerated authors in El Salvador and Chicago, and and Juan Carlos Quirarte who established the first safehouse for youth escaping organized crime in Mexico and has led many other projects focusing on prevention and reentry from incarceration.
Starbucks is refusing to bargain with workers who won union elections, so SBWorkersUnited is calling on the community to show up for an all-day support event at two Chicago stores! Sign up for a shift to show the bosses that Chicago is a union town.... Read More
Los San Patricios: The Irish Soldiers of Mexico is a joint concert of Sones de Mexico Ensemble with Sean Cleland and the Irish Music School of Chicago. In 1846-48, during the Mexican-American War, a volunteer army formed mostly by recent Irish immigrants to the U.S.... Read More
Wed, Nov 16, at 5:30 PM, at 9446 Raymond Ave., Oak Lawn, IL!
Join Jameka Williams in conversation with Kemi Alabi. In "American Sex Tape", Jameka Williams captures the reader’s gaze and stares right back. In this stunning debut collection, Williams offers a deeply personal investigation into how Americans (herself included) have been duped, buying into classism, sexism, and racist beauty ideals, while sacrificing self-love and self-determination.... Read More
In her latest book The Trayvon Generation, Alexander tenderly writes about the young people whose worldview has been indelibly shaped by persistent and visible racially motivated violence and asserts the unresolved problem of the color line at the center of the American experience.... Read More
Remaking the Exceptional: Tea, Torture, and Reparations weaves together artwork, poetry, legal testimony, research, and experiences of creative resistance against systems of oppression, all the while celebrating the struggle for survival, justice, and reparations by imprisoned people, activists, and artists. Join us for readings and conversation centered on abolition, feminism and freedom. (http://www.tea-project.org/tea-project#project)
The Future is Here, Are You Coming? presents recent video works by four contemporary artists from China, all at varying stages in their careers. Cao Fei (b. 1978), Lu Yang (b. 1984), Xu Zhengyue (b. 1989), and Zheng Yuan (b. 1988) all draw upon China’s unique contemporary conditions, fueled by major investments in robotics, AI technologies, a sophisticated culture of surveillance, internet and video game aesthetics, as well as an ever-expanding virtual economy.... Read More
(Register through the "More Info" link!) Sitting at the foot of the Great Lakes and at the center of a sprawling transcontinental rail network, Chicago quickly grew into an industrial metropolis in the nineteenth century. In particular, Chicago was a printing town, home to national publications as well as large commercial printers that served the broader Midwest and West.... Read More
This show is a benefit for recently arrived migrants to Chicago.
Come meet some people organizing against Camp Grayling which is a planned military base construction in Grayling, Michigan. There will be a discussion and snacks to share.
All ages show. No booze no drugs no jerks. Pay what you can - suggested $10-$15. Face mask required.
Twompsax (Bay Area/ NY), Dollhouse (NY) and Private Life. At One City Tap on Ashland and Archer in Chicago. It is a 21 and over show. See you there!
David Wengrow is Professor of Comparative Archeology at the Institute of Archeology at the University of London, and co-author of The Dawn of Everything alongside the late David Graeber. Wengrow will be speaking as part of the Sigmund H. Danziger Jr.... Read More
A majority of grad workers have signed cards calling for a union election. We’re taking our demands right to admin!
Acto solidario con las madres que luchan en busqueda de l@s desaparecid@s en MexicoProyectando imagenes /videomientras imprimimos grabado/coloreamos, conversamosDonde? en el @poboxCollective Solidarity action with mothers in search of their sons/daughters who have disappeared in Mexico, by the government or otherwise.We... Read More
Join the Invisible Institute on Wednesday, November 2, from 6-8 pm CT for a closer look at CPDP, our police complaint database, at Pilsen Community Books. The event will allow participants to explore key database features, better understand the process of creating CPDP, and learn about our expansion into other cities in Illinois.... Read More
Writing Letters to Prisoners every 1st Wednesday of the month @ PO Box Collective
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is meant to be a way to provide public access to government documents and records, but there are many caveats. Learn about why you should file FOIA requests, how to conduct preliminary research, how to file your first FOIA, how to craft better FOIA requests, some common reasons for denial, pitfalls, how to appeal, and ways to push back to reassert our right to government records and documents.... Read More
Hardcore punk show in Gary Indiana
This event will be outdoors in the driveway and we will reschedule if it rains.There will be a wide variety of radical used books on sale and all money raised will benefit our Haymarket Books Not Bars program that sends free books to folks who are incarcerated.Paperbacks:... Read More
Since 2018, the annual Open Borders Conference has been a space for people to envision a world without deportation. Speakers and panelists will discuss what abolition means in the immigration context, violence patterns produced by borders, and the implications of climate change and COVID-19 for migration and policy.
An In-person with filmmaker Anand Patwardhan.Described as “perhaps one of the most important documentaries to emerge out of the Indian subcontinent”, JAI BHIM COMRADE focuses on the brutality of India’s centuries-old caste system, and the struggle of Dalit activists to dismantle its oppressive structures.... Read More
DIY hardcore punk show at Grandma's Place
October 26th 2022. 21 and Over. dj duty is DJ Scary Lady Sarah
We're so honored to welcome Nancy Rosenstock to the store in celebration of her new book Inside the Second Wave of Feminism: Boston Female Liberation, 1968-1972 An Account by Participants, a landmark account of a key radical feminist organization, offering lessons for today’s women’s liberation movement.... Read More
D-beat, crust punk, grind core show at Mephistos.
We are here every Sunday 11am-1pm honoring those who have been killed by police. Please join Cheap Art for Freedom (CAfF) and PO Box Collective in the maintenance of our public memorial under the El tracks at Glenwood and Farwell, to wheat paste a name to the wall, help keep the memorial swept, add flowers, pick up a free poster, or just show your solidarity.
Presented by ChiResists and The Pilsen Love Fridge FREE ALL AGES @chiresistsorg
Hot Load (L.A) @ Archer Ballroom with Consensus Madness, Dangus Tarkus & CB Radio Gorgeous on Friday, 21st October, 8pm.
Experimental Sound Studio, in partnership with Patron Gallery, co-presents the powerhouse trio of Fred Moten, Brandon López, and Gerald Cleaver. The performance and interview will be presented at Patron Gallery, and premiered online on ESS’s YouTube.
Conversation with Helen Shiller
We are here every Sunday 11am-1pm honoring those who have been killed by police. Please join Cheap Art for Freedom (CAfF) and PO Box Collective in the maintenance of our public memorial under the El tracks at Glenwood and Farwell, to wheat paste a name to the wall, help keep the memorial swept, add flowers, pick up a free poster, or just show your solidarity. #defundthepolice
Come visit and get to know the South Shore Nature Sanctuary which is under attack by a golf course expansion and needs defense, just like the Atlanta forest. Bring friends and ideas! Stewardship meetings happen 10am-12pm, every third Saturday of the month.... Read More
We are here every Sunday 11am-1pm honoring those who have been killed by police. Please join Cheap Art for Freedom (CAfF) and PO Box Collective in the maintenance of our public memorial under the El tracks at Glenwood and Farwell, to wheat paste a name to the wall, help keep the memorial swept, add flowers, pick up a free poster, or just show your solidarity. #defundthepolice
RP Food Not Bombs distributes free food every Sunday. 11am-1pm: Willye B. White Park, 1610 W Howard. 1-3pm: PO Box Collective, 6900 N Glenwood.
Writing Letters to Prisoners every 1st Wednesday of the month @ PO Box Collective
STOP COP CITY is about the militant occupation of Atlanta's South River Forest. For over a year, a coalition of militant anarchists, community organizers, and eco-activists have been resisting police and contractors to halt the deforestation of hundreds of acres of urban forest.... Read More
Workshops, presentations, zines, and more. Tap "More Info" for schedule!
We are here every Sunday 11am-1pm honoring those who have been killed by police. Please join Cheap Art for Freedom (CAfF) and PO Box Collective in the maintenance of our public memorial under the El tracks at Glenwood and Farwell, to wheat paste a name to the wall, help keep the memorial swept, add flowers, pick up a free poster, or just show your solidarity. #defundthepolice
RP Food Not Bombs distributes free food every Sunday. 11am-1pm: Willye B. White Park, 1610 W Howard. 1-3pm: PO Box Collective, 6900 N Glenwood.
Workshops, presentations, zines, and more. Tap "More Info" for schedule!
💥EVENT DETAILS: What's the Point? Party: No Pipelines, No Police. A Community Event and Queer Dance Party on Saturday, September 24th, 6-11pm at Promontory Point!! 💥 ✨Join us for a potluck, bonfire, info sharing, dancing with DJ @stemmequeensupreme, and fundraising for @nitaslovetrain, @officialassatasdaughters, and @cooperationjxn.... Read More
Come visit and get to know the South Shore Nature Sanctuary which is under attack by a golf course expansion and needs defense, just like the Atlanta forest. Bring friends and ideas! Stewardship meetings happen 10am-12pm, every third Saturday of the month.... Read More
Important info on this gig: PARK IN THE PARKING LOT. There will be a shuttle bus making continuous trips back and fourth from the parking lot to the Junkyard, where the show is. You can not walk to the show spot by foot from the parking lot.... Read More
Pick up match Friday 9/16, 6 PM, at Foster Ave Turf at the end of Foster Ave off the Lakefront Trail. All skill levels welcome! Everyone welcome! Come hang out even if you don’t play!
We are here every Sunday 11am-1pm honoring those who have been killed by police. Please join Cheap Art for Freedom (CAfF) and PO Box Collective in the maintenance of our public memorial under the El tracks at Glenwood and Farwell, to wheat paste a name to the wall, help keep the memorial swept, add flowers, pick up a free poster, or just show your solidarity. #defundthepolice
Join us for Running Down The Walls Chicago 2022 as we circle Cook County Jail in solidarity with political prisoners and the movement to abolish prisons. 3pm: Run / Walk / March the 5K. 6pm: Bands & DJ. Fundraiser for... Read More
https://www.gofundme.com/f/funeral-costs-for-marco?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet With great sadness in our hearts. It's unfortunate to inform that we lost a Chicago legend, Marco.Since this was so unexpected, we need to come together to help his family. He left behind his most precious treasure, his son Emiliano.... Read More
Algara from Barcelona!
We are here every Sunday 11am-1pm honoring those who have been killed by police. Please join Cheap Art for Freedom (CAfF) and PO Box Collective in the maintenance of our public memorial under the El tracks at Glenwood and Farwell, to wheat paste a name to the wall, help keep the memorial swept, add flowers, pick up a free poster, or just show your solidarity. #defundthepolice
RP Food Not Bombs distributes free food every Sunday. 11am-1pm: Willye B. White Park, 1610 W Howard. 1-3pm: PO Box Collective, 6900 N Glenwood.
*english below* Acto solidario con las madres que luchan en busqueda de l@s desaparecid@s en Mexico Proyectando imagenes /video mientras imprimimos grabado/coloreamos, conversamos Donde? en el @poboxCollective / Solidarity action with mothers in search of their sons/daughters who have disappeared in Mexico, by the government or otherwise.... Read More
FnB and affiliated individuals distribute a variety of food and harm reduction items directly to residents of the houseless encampment.
In-person reading, conversation, and book-signing with M. E. O'Brien & Eman Abdelhadi.
RP Food Not Bombs distributes free food every Sunday. 11am-1pm: Willye B. White Park, 1610 W Howard. 1-3pm: PO Box Collective, 6900 N Glenwood.
We are here every Sunday 11am-1pm honoring those who have been killed by police. Please join Cheap Art for Freedom (CAfF) and PO Box Collective in the maintenance of our public memorial under the El tracks at Glenwood and Farwell, to wheat paste a name to the wall, help keep the memorial swept, add flowers, pick up a free poster, or just show your solidarity. #defundthepolice
The Beneath the Surface team will host a gathering for friends, volunteers, and community participants in our long term investigations into gender based violence. Please RSVP (see link) to help us plan for snacks, drinks, and art activities!
A big opportunity for everyone in the scene to meet up in one place to enjoy what we all love doing the most TOGETHER. Hope to see everybody there
A discussion and film screening with anarchist theorist Andrew Culp on infowar, queer outlaws, and Black insurgency. Includes a screening of Culp’s film, “Machines in Flames,” which looks at the mysterious CLODO group, who bombed computer companies in 1980s France.
Stop Luxury Development at Weiss Hospital -Preserve Uptown's diversity, protect affordable housing, ensure access to healthcare in Uptown "Join us to demand that No Luxury Development be built on the parking lot here. Join us in calling on Resilience, the new owners of the hospital to take the 12 millions dollars they got from Pipeline and buy back the parking lot from Lincoln Properties. "
Join us this Saturday to learn about H.P.H.P. and other local organizers. There will be drinks, food, movie screenings, music, and more. Teach-in will focus on what is happening with CHA's vacancies (how to plug in and next steps), tenants rights groups, and discussion on the new revelations of the cop academy.... Read More
Come visit and get to know the South Shore Nature Sanctuary which is under attack by a golf course expansion and needs defense, just like the Atlanta forest. Bring friends and ideas! Stewardship meetings happen 10am-12pm, every third Saturday of the month.