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  • Depose: Luigi Mangione, the Right to Health, and the Unfinished American Revolution by the December 4 Legal Committee

    • November 7 @ 3:00 PM
    • Pilsen Community Books
    • 1531 W 18th St Chicago, IL

    Join us for the Chicago launch of Depose: Luigi Mangione, the Right to Health, and the Unfinished American Revolution by the December 4 Legal Committee, a groundbreaking new book from the anonymous collective that created Luigi Mangione’s official legal fund. Depose asks how the widespread support for Mangione could become a catalyst for a genuine healthcare revolution.... Read More

  • Michigan 8 Benefit Show

    • November 7 @ 6:00 PM
    • until 10:00 PM
    • Gallery Wrightwood
    • 3325 W Wrightwood Ave Chicago, IL 60647

    On June 10th, FBI agents and police arrested 8 pro-Palestine activists as a part of a federal case targeting Palestine organizing at the University of Michigan Those arrested face decades in prison. This repression is part of an ongoing and coordinated effort to dismantle the movement for Palestine. Join... Read More

  • Male Fantasies Reading Group

    • November 8 @ 3:00 PM
    • The Beach Beneath the Street
    • 1703 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60637

    Join us for a "Male Fantasies" reading group at THE BEACH (@thebeachchicago), starting 9/13 and meeting every Sunday at 4 p.m.! The two volumes of Klaus Theweleit's classic "Male Fantasies" (1977/1978) provocatively plumb the psychological depths of fascism to reveal origins at once shocking and banal. Our... Read More

  • Letter writing/Book packing night

    • November 8 @ 4:00 PM
    • Su Casa
    • 5045 s Laflin st

    Come write introductory letters with us! CBBW (@chicagobooksbreakwalls) is a new Books To Prisoners program and the first one is be explicitly pro-Black. This is a chance for you to see the space, write letters, and fulfill the requests we already have.... Read More

  • What Now? On Palestine, Freedom and Our Global Future, with Tareq Baconi and Eman Abdelhadi

    • November 9 @ 7:00 AM
    • Pilsen Community Books
    • 1531 W 18th St Chicago, IL

    Join Pilsen Community Books and the Palestine Festival of Literature for the Chicago launch of Tareq Baconi's new book What Now? On Palestine, Freedom and Our Global Future. Palestine is a litmus test for our global future. The ongoing genocide is showcasing what it means for Palestinians to be taken to the brink of extermination.... Read More

  • Monday Night Film Club: ROBOCOP (1978)

    • November 9 @ 7:00 PM
    • The Beach
    • 1703 1/2 E 55th St Chicago IL 60615

    Monday night film club at The Beach presents: Robocop! In a scifi Detroit, Robocop must restore order, by any means. A violent parody of the "war on crime," this is the most human a cop has ever appeared on film. The Beach is an autonomous space for experiments in living and sharing.... Read More

  • Pax Silica Working Meeting w/ Science for the People

    • November 10 @ 6:00 PM
    • until 8:00 PM
    • The Beach Beneath the Street
    • 1703 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60637

    A working meeting (i.e. drop-in, semi-structured time) for organizing and research work against Pax Silica with folks from Science for the People Chicago and the Shut the Pax Down city-wide coalition. The Pax Silica is a US-led international treaty to secure and expand semiconductor mining and manufacturing, connecting the resistance to AI and data centers in the US to colonialism and brutality abroad.... Read More

  • Fredy Perlman Reading Group

    • November 10 @ 8:30 PM
    • The Beach Beneath the Street
    • 1703 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60637

    Fredy Perlman (1934-1985), along with his comrades at Black and Red Press in Detroit, was a key figure in the midcentury American anarchist and left-communist tradition. The Press's translations of European anti-state communist texts, including The Society of the Spectacle, profoundly shaped anarchism in America.... Read More

  • Open Hours at The Beach

    • November 11 @ 4:00 PM
    • until 6:00 PM
    • The Beach Beneath the Street
    • 1703 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60637

    Join us at The Beach (@thebeachchicago) from 5 - 7 p.m. every Wednesday for open hours! Come to share and read zines, hang out, drink tea, and chat about events you'd like to see in the space!

  • Anatomy of Disintegration launch with Rodrigo Nunes and Ari Bloomekatz

    • November 11 @ 7:00 PM
    • Pilsen Community Books
    • 1531 W 18th St, Chicago IL

    A leading political philosopher dissects the global far right’s appeal through the lens of Bolsonarismo, tracing its roots to the social disintegration caused by the crisis of neoliberalism and looming climate change For four years, Jair Bolsonaro led Brazil and the popular, far-right movement that bore his name.... Read More

  • Reading Group! DEPOSE: LUIGI MANGIONE, THE RIGHT TO HEALTH, AND THE UNFINISHED AMERICAN REVOLUTION Reading Group

    • November 11 @ 8:00 PM
    • The Beach (Beneath the Street)
    • 1703 1/2 E 55th St, Chicago IL 60615

    Wednesdays at 8pm beginning November 11th Depose: Luigi Mangione, the Right to Health, and the Unfinished American Revolution makes a new kind of case for why the healthcare system in America is itself a crime. Connecting the dots between the rise of for-profit health insurance and the nearly 15 million “excess deaths” in America that accompanied it, the authors track the opponents of universal healthcare back to their sources.... Read More

  • Meshtastic Skillshare 1.0

    • November 14 @ 12:00 PM
    • until 2:00 PM
    • The Beach Beneath the Street
    • 1703 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60637

    Come to The Beach (@thebeachchicago) to learn more about off-grid communication, how it works, why it works and what it can be used for.

  • Male Fantasies Reading Group

    • November 15 @ 3:00 PM
    • The Beach Beneath the Street
    • 1703 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60637

    Join us for a "Male Fantasies" reading group at THE BEACH (@thebeachchicago), starting 9/13 and meeting every Sunday at 4 p.m.! The two volumes of Klaus Theweleit's classic "Male Fantasies" (1977/1978) provocatively plumb the psychological depths of fascism to reveal origins at once shocking and banal. Our... Read More

  • Writers' Bloc: Some Quiet Time to Write Together

    • November 15 @ 6:00 PM
    • until 9:00 PM
    • The Beach Beneath the Street
    • 1703 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60637

    Join us from 7 - 10 p.m. every third Sunday of the month at THE BEACH (@thebeachchicago) to write letters to prisoners or work on personal writing projects in the company of neighbors and friends in a casual, calm, and collective environment.... Read More

  • Monday Night Film Club: VIDEODROME (1983)

    • November 16 @ 7:00 PM
    • The Beach Beneath the Street
    • 1703 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60637

    Monday Night Film Club at The Beach presents: Videodrome! In a world swallowed by consumption and spectatorship, one man's quest for sensational media reveals a far deeper change taking place, in our very bodies. Every Monday night at 7 p.m., a film club will convene at The Beach (@thebeachchicago) to watch carefully curated films with a community of like-minded moviegoers.... Read More

  • Pax Silica Working Meeting w/ Science for the People

    • November 17 @ 6:00 PM
    • until 8:00 PM
    • The Beach Beneath the Street
    • 1703 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60637

    A working meeting (i.e. drop-in, semi-structured time) for organizing and research work against Pax Silica with folks from Science for the People Chicago and the Shut the Pax Down city-wide coalition. The Pax Silica is a US-led international treaty to secure and expand semiconductor mining and manufacturing, connecting the resistance to AI and data centers in the US to colonialism and brutality abroad.... Read More

  • Fredy Perlman Reading Group

    • November 17 @ 8:30 PM
    • The Beach Beneath the Street
    • 1703 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60637

    Fredy Perlman (1934-1985), along with his comrades at Black and Red Press in Detroit, was a key figure in the midcentury American anarchist and left-communist tradition. The Press's translations of European anti-state communist texts, including The Society of the Spectacle, profoundly shaped anarchism in America.... Read More

  • Open Hours at The Beach

    • November 18 @ 4:00 PM
    • until 6:00 PM
    • The Beach Beneath the Street
    • 1703 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60637

    Join us at The Beach (@thebeachchicago) from 5 - 7 p.m. every Wednesday for open hours! Come to share and read zines, hang out, drink tea, and chat about events you'd like to see in the space!

  • Reading Group! DEPOSE: LUIGI MANGIONE, THE RIGHT TO HEALTH, AND THE UNFINISHED AMERICAN REVOLUTION Reading Group

    • November 18 @ 8:00 PM
    • The Beach (Beneath the Street)
    • 1703 1/2 E 55th St, Chicago IL 60615

    Wednesdays at 8pm beginning November 11th Depose: Luigi Mangione, the Right to Health, and the Unfinished American Revolution makes a new kind of case for why the healthcare system in America is itself a crime. Connecting the dots between the rise of for-profit health insurance and the nearly 15 million “excess deaths” in America that accompanied it, the authors track the opponents of universal healthcare back to their sources.... Read More

  • Community Print Party

    • November 21 @ 12:30 PM
    • until 4:00 PM
    • Chicago Art Department
    • 1926 S Halsted, Chicago IL

    In celebration of Dr. Margaret Taylor Burroughs’s birthday month, join South Side Community Art Center and Chicago Printers Guild for Print Futures at Chicago Art Department on Saturday, November 21, from 1–5 p.m. This November, we’re honoring Dr. Burroughs’s printmaking legacy and the creative exchange she nurtured.... Read More

  • Abolition 101

    • November 21 @ 2:00 PM
    • until 5:00 PM
    • Walls Turned Sideways
    • 2717 W Madison St, Chicago, IL 60612

    Join @wallsturnedsideways and Haymarket books for a four-part political education series on abolition. This series is for people of any level of knowledge about abolition to join us in thinking together about a prison-free future. Each workshop will be facilitated by an abolitionist educator who will introduce a reading, guide us in discussion, and then present on an intersecting topic related to abolition.... Read More

  • Male Fantasies Reading Group

    • November 22 @ 3:00 PM
    • The Beach Beneath the Street
    • 1703 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60637

    Join us for a "Male Fantasies" reading group at THE BEACH (@thebeachchicago), starting 9/13 and meeting every Sunday at 4 p.m.! The two volumes of Klaus Theweleit's classic "Male Fantasies" (1977/1978) provocatively plumb the psychological depths of fascism to reveal origins at once shocking and banal. Our... Read More

  • 'When ICE Melts' Screening & Discussion

    • November 22 @ 5:00 PM
    • Hairpin Arts Center - wheelchair accessible
    • 2810 N. Milwaukee Ave, 2nd floor, Chicago

    Screening to be followed by a discussion with: * Kip Hedges, director and union activist * Cynthia Sarver, Twin Cities union activist who helped produce the film * Emmett Doyle of the "Minnesota 15," rapid responders targeted by ICE for repression after thousands in the Twin Cities dealt ICE its biggest defeats. For... Read More

  • Monday Night Film Club: VARIETY (1983)

    • November 23 @ 7:00 PM
    • The Beach Beneath the Street
    • 1703 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60637

    Monday Night Film Club at The Beach presents: Variety! A repressed woman takes a job at a Times Square porn theater, testing the boundaries of pornography, voyeurism, and what she can get away with. Every Monday night at 7 p.m., a film club will convene at The Beach (@thebeachchicago) to watch carefully curated films with a community of like-minded moviegoers.... Read More

  • Pax Silica Working Meeting w/ Science for the People

    • November 24 @ 6:00 PM
    • until 8:00 PM
    • The Beach Beneath the Street
    • 1703 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60637

    A working meeting (i.e. drop-in, semi-structured time) for organizing and research work against Pax Silica with folks from Science for the People Chicago and the Shut the Pax Down city-wide coalition. The Pax Silica is a US-led international treaty to secure and expand semiconductor mining and manufacturing, connecting the resistance to AI and data centers in the US to colonialism and brutality abroad.... Read More

  • Fredy Perlman Reading Group

    • November 24 @ 8:30 PM
    • The Beach Beneath the Street
    • 1703 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60637

    Fredy Perlman (1934-1985), along with his comrades at Black and Red Press in Detroit, was a key figure in the midcentury American anarchist and left-communist tradition. The Press's translations of European anti-state communist texts, including The Society of the Spectacle, profoundly shaped anarchism in America.... Read More

  • Open Hours at The Beach

    • November 25 @ 4:00 PM
    • until 6:00 PM
    • The Beach Beneath the Street
    • 1703 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60637

    Join us at The Beach (@thebeachchicago) from 5 - 7 p.m. every Wednesday for open hours! Come to share and read zines, hang out, drink tea, and chat about events you'd like to see in the space!

  • Reading Group! DEPOSE: LUIGI MANGIONE, THE RIGHT TO HEALTH, AND THE UNFINISHED AMERICAN REVOLUTION Reading Group

    • November 25 @ 8:00 PM
    • The Beach (Beneath the Street)
    • 1703 1/2 E 55th St, Chicago IL 60615

    Wednesdays at 8pm beginning November 11th Depose: Luigi Mangione, the Right to Health, and the Unfinished American Revolution makes a new kind of case for why the healthcare system in America is itself a crime. Connecting the dots between the rise of for-profit health insurance and the nearly 15 million “excess deaths” in America that accompanied it, the authors track the opponents of universal healthcare back to their sources.... Read More

  • Male Fantasies Reading Group

    • November 29 @ 3:00 PM
    • The Beach Beneath the Street
    • 1703 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60637

    Join us for a "Male Fantasies" reading group at THE BEACH (@thebeachchicago), starting 9/13 and meeting every Sunday at 4 p.m.! The two volumes of Klaus Theweleit's classic "Male Fantasies" (1977/1978) provocatively plumb the psychological depths of fascism to reveal origins at once shocking and banal. Our... Read More

  • Monday Night Film Club: EQUUS (1977)

    • November 30 @ 7:00 PM
    • The Beach Beneath the Street
    • 1703 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60637

    Monday Night Film Club at The Beach presents: Equus! As an analyst studies a young man's horse fixation, he learns that the line between normal and abnormal is more blurry and violent than he thought. Every Monday night at 7 p.m., a film club will convene at The Beach (@thebeachchicago) to watch carefully curated films with a community of like-minded moviegoers.... Read More

  • Pax Silica Working Meeting w/ Science for the People

    • December 1 @ 6:00 PM
    • until 8:00 PM
    • The Beach Beneath the Street
    • 1703 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60637

    A working meeting (i.e. drop-in, semi-structured time) for organizing and research work against Pax Silica with folks from Science for the People Chicago and the Shut the Pax Down city-wide coalition. The Pax Silica is a US-led international treaty to secure and expand semiconductor mining and manufacturing, connecting the resistance to AI and data centers in the US to colonialism and brutality abroad.... Read More

  • Fredy Perlman Reading Group

    • December 1 @ 8:30 PM
    • The Beach Beneath the Street
    • 1703 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60637

    Fredy Perlman (1934-1985), along with his comrades at Black and Red Press in Detroit, was a key figure in the midcentury American anarchist and left-communist tradition. The Press's translations of European anti-state communist texts, including The Society of the Spectacle, profoundly shaped anarchism in America.... Read More

  • Radical Writers' Café

    • December 2 @ 5:30 PM
    • until 7:30 PM
    • Qamaria Yemeni Coffee
    • 4728 N Kedzie

    Body doubling session. Lets write together forma more impact and community.

  • Reading Group! DEPOSE: LUIGI MANGIONE, THE RIGHT TO HEALTH, AND THE UNFINISHED AMERICAN REVOLUTION Reading Group

    • December 2 @ 8:00 PM
    • The Beach (Beneath the Street)
    • 1703 1/2 E 55th St, Chicago IL 60615

    Wednesdays at 8pm beginning November 11th Depose: Luigi Mangione, the Right to Health, and the Unfinished American Revolution makes a new kind of case for why the healthcare system in America is itself a crime. Connecting the dots between the rise of for-profit health insurance and the nearly 15 million “excess deaths” in America that accompanied it, the authors track the opponents of universal healthcare back to their sources.... Read More

  • The Both-Handed Path to Scientific Enlightment

    • December 5 @ 7:00 PM
    • The Beach Beneath the Street
    • 1703 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60637

    There is a specter haunting the sciences -- the specter of dialectical materialism! In spite of the foundational contributions not just by Marxists but by Marx and Engels themselves to epistemology and philosophy of science, few in the fields they most influenced -- physics, ecology, molecular biology, etc.... Read More

  • Pax Silica Working Meeting w/ Science for the People

    • December 8 @ 6:00 PM
    • until 8:00 PM
    • The Beach Beneath the Street
    • 1703 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60637

    A working meeting (i.e. drop-in, semi-structured time) for organizing and research work against Pax Silica with folks from Science for the People Chicago and the Shut the Pax Down city-wide coalition. The Pax Silica is a US-led international treaty to secure and expand semiconductor mining and manufacturing, connecting the resistance to AI and data centers in the US to colonialism and brutality abroad.... Read More

  • Fredy Perlman Reading Group

    • December 8 @ 8:30 PM
    • The Beach Beneath the Street
    • 1703 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60637

    Fredy Perlman (1934-1985), along with his comrades at Black and Red Press in Detroit, was a key figure in the midcentury American anarchist and left-communist tradition. The Press's translations of European anti-state communist texts, including The Society of the Spectacle, profoundly shaped anarchism in America.... Read More

  • Reading Group! DEPOSE: LUIGI MANGIONE, THE RIGHT TO HEALTH, AND THE UNFINISHED AMERICAN REVOLUTION Reading Group

    • December 9 @ 8:00 PM
    • The Beach (Beneath the Street)
    • 1703 1/2 E 55th St, Chicago IL 60615

    Wednesdays at 8pm beginning November 11th Depose: Luigi Mangione, the Right to Health, and the Unfinished American Revolution makes a new kind of case for why the healthcare system in America is itself a crime. Connecting the dots between the rise of for-profit health insurance and the nearly 15 million “excess deaths” in America that accompanied it, the authors track the opponents of universal healthcare back to their sources.... Read More

  • Pax Silica Working Meeting w/ Science for the People

    • December 15 @ 6:00 PM
    • until 8:00 PM
    • The Beach Beneath the Street
    • 1703 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60637

    A working meeting (i.e. drop-in, semi-structured time) for organizing and research work against Pax Silica with folks from Science for the People Chicago and the Shut the Pax Down city-wide coalition. The Pax Silica is a US-led international treaty to secure and expand semiconductor mining and manufacturing, connecting the resistance to AI and data centers in the US to colonialism and brutality abroad.... Read More

  • Fredy Perlman Reading Group

    • December 15 @ 8:30 PM
    • The Beach Beneath the Street
    • 1703 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60637

    Fredy Perlman (1934-1985), along with his comrades at Black and Red Press in Detroit, was a key figure in the midcentury American anarchist and left-communist tradition. The Press's translations of European anti-state communist texts, including The Society of the Spectacle, profoundly shaped anarchism in America.... Read More

  • Reading Group! DEPOSE: LUIGI MANGIONE, THE RIGHT TO HEALTH, AND THE UNFINISHED AMERICAN REVOLUTION Reading Group

    • December 16 @ 8:00 PM
    • The Beach (Beneath the Street)
    • 1703 1/2 E 55th St, Chicago IL 60615

    Wednesdays at 8pm beginning November 11th Depose: Luigi Mangione, the Right to Health, and the Unfinished American Revolution makes a new kind of case for why the healthcare system in America is itself a crime. Connecting the dots between the rise of for-profit health insurance and the nearly 15 million “excess deaths” in America that accompanied it, the authors track the opponents of universal healthcare back to their sources.... Read More

  • Writers' Bloc: Some Quiet Time to Write Together

    • December 20 @ 6:00 PM
    • until 9:00 PM
    • The Beach Beneath the Street
    • 1703 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60637

    Join us from 7 - 10 p.m. every third Sunday of the month at THE BEACH (@thebeachchicago) to write letters to prisoners or work on personal writing projects in the company of neighbors and friends in a casual, calm, and collective environment.... Read More

  • Pax Silica Working Meeting w/ Science for the People

    • December 22 @ 6:00 PM
    • until 8:00 PM
    • The Beach Beneath the Street
    • 1703 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60637

    A working meeting (i.e. drop-in, semi-structured time) for organizing and research work against Pax Silica with folks from Science for the People Chicago and the Shut the Pax Down city-wide coalition. The Pax Silica is a US-led international treaty to secure and expand semiconductor mining and manufacturing, connecting the resistance to AI and data centers in the US to colonialism and brutality abroad.... Read More

  • Fredy Perlman Reading Group

    • December 22 @ 8:30 PM
    • The Beach Beneath the Street
    • 1703 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60637

    Fredy Perlman (1934-1985), along with his comrades at Black and Red Press in Detroit, was a key figure in the midcentury American anarchist and left-communist tradition. The Press's translations of European anti-state communist texts, including The Society of the Spectacle, profoundly shaped anarchism in America.... Read More

  • Pax Silica Working Meeting w/ Science for the People

    • December 29 @ 6:00 PM
    • until 8:00 PM
    • The Beach Beneath the Street
    • 1703 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60637

    A working meeting (i.e. drop-in, semi-structured time) for organizing and research work against Pax Silica with folks from Science for the People Chicago and the Shut the Pax Down city-wide coalition. The Pax Silica is a US-led international treaty to secure and expand semiconductor mining and manufacturing, connecting the resistance to AI and data centers in the US to colonialism and brutality abroad.... Read More

  • Fredy Perlman Reading Group

    • December 29 @ 8:30 PM
    • The Beach Beneath the Street
    • 1703 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60637

    Fredy Perlman (1934-1985), along with his comrades at Black and Red Press in Detroit, was a key figure in the midcentury American anarchist and left-communist tradition. The Press's translations of European anti-state communist texts, including The Society of the Spectacle, profoundly shaped anarchism in America.... Read More

  • Pax Silica Working Meeting w/ Science for the People

    • January 5 2027 @ 6:00 PM
    • until 8:00 PM
    • The Beach Beneath the Street
    • 1703 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60637

    A working meeting (i.e. drop-in, semi-structured time) for organizing and research work against Pax Silica with folks from Science for the People Chicago and the Shut the Pax Down city-wide coalition. The Pax Silica is a US-led international treaty to secure and expand semiconductor mining and manufacturing, connecting the resistance to AI and data centers in the US to colonialism and brutality abroad.... Read More

  • Fredy Perlman Reading Group

    • January 5 2027 @ 8:30 PM
    • The Beach Beneath the Street
    • 1703 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60637

    Fredy Perlman (1934-1985), along with his comrades at Black and Red Press in Detroit, was a key figure in the midcentury American anarchist and left-communist tradition. The Press's translations of European anti-state communist texts, including The Society of the Spectacle, profoundly shaped anarchism in America.... Read More

  • Radical Writers' Café

    • January 6 2027 @ 5:30 PM
    • until 7:30 PM
    • Qamaria Yemeni Coffee
    • 4728 N Kedzie

    Body doubling session. Lets write together forma more impact and community.

  • Pax Silica Working Meeting w/ Science for the People

    • January 12 2027 @ 6:00 PM
    • until 8:00 PM
    • The Beach Beneath the Street
    • 1703 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60637

    A working meeting (i.e. drop-in, semi-structured time) for organizing and research work against Pax Silica with folks from Science for the People Chicago and the Shut the Pax Down city-wide coalition. The Pax Silica is a US-led international treaty to secure and expand semiconductor mining and manufacturing, connecting the resistance to AI and data centers in the US to colonialism and brutality abroad.... Read More

  • Fredy Perlman Reading Group

    • January 12 2027 @ 8:30 PM
    • The Beach Beneath the Street
    • 1703 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60637

    Fredy Perlman (1934-1985), along with his comrades at Black and Red Press in Detroit, was a key figure in the midcentury American anarchist and left-communist tradition. The Press's translations of European anti-state communist texts, including The Society of the Spectacle, profoundly shaped anarchism in America.... Read More

  • Writers' Bloc: Some Quiet Time to Write Together

    • January 17 2027 @ 6:00 PM
    • until 9:00 PM
    • The Beach Beneath the Street
    • 1703 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60637

    Join us from 7 - 10 p.m. every third Sunday of the month at THE BEACH (@thebeachchicago) to write letters to prisoners or work on personal writing projects in the company of neighbors and friends in a casual, calm, and collective environment.... Read More

  • Pax Silica Working Meeting w/ Science for the People

    • January 19 2027 @ 6:00 PM
    • until 8:00 PM
    • The Beach Beneath the Street
    • 1703 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60637

    A working meeting (i.e. drop-in, semi-structured time) for organizing and research work against Pax Silica with folks from Science for the People Chicago and the Shut the Pax Down city-wide coalition. The Pax Silica is a US-led international treaty to secure and expand semiconductor mining and manufacturing, connecting the resistance to AI and data centers in the US to colonialism and brutality abroad.... Read More

  • Fredy Perlman Reading Group

    • January 19 2027 @ 8:30 PM
    • The Beach Beneath the Street
    • 1703 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60637

    Fredy Perlman (1934-1985), along with his comrades at Black and Red Press in Detroit, was a key figure in the midcentury American anarchist and left-communist tradition. The Press's translations of European anti-state communist texts, including The Society of the Spectacle, profoundly shaped anarchism in America.... Read More

  • Pax Silica Working Meeting w/ Science for the People

    • January 26 2027 @ 6:00 PM
    • until 8:00 PM
    • The Beach Beneath the Street
    • 1703 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60637

    A working meeting (i.e. drop-in, semi-structured time) for organizing and research work against Pax Silica with folks from Science for the People Chicago and the Shut the Pax Down city-wide coalition. The Pax Silica is a US-led international treaty to secure and expand semiconductor mining and manufacturing, connecting the resistance to AI and data centers in the US to colonialism and brutality abroad.... Read More

  • Fredy Perlman Reading Group

    • January 26 2027 @ 8:30 PM
    • The Beach Beneath the Street
    • 1703 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60637

    Fredy Perlman (1934-1985), along with his comrades at Black and Red Press in Detroit, was a key figure in the midcentury American anarchist and left-communist tradition. The Press's translations of European anti-state communist texts, including The Society of the Spectacle, profoundly shaped anarchism in America.... Read More

  • Radical Writers' Café

    • February 3 2027 @ 5:30 PM
    • until 7:30 PM
    • Qamaria Yemeni Coffee
    • 4728 N Kedzie

    Body doubling session. Lets write together forma more impact and community.

  • Writers' Bloc: Some Quiet Time to Write Together

    • February 14 2027 @ 6:00 PM
    • until 9:00 PM
    • The Beach Beneath the Street
    • 1703 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60637

    Join us from 7 - 10 p.m. every third Sunday of the month at THE BEACH (@thebeachchicago) to write letters to prisoners or work on personal writing projects in the company of neighbors and friends in a casual, calm, and collective environment.... Read More

  • Radical Writers' Café

    • March 3 2027 @ 5:30 PM
    • until 7:30 PM
    • Qamaria Yemeni Coffee
    • 4728 N Kedzie

    Body doubling session. Lets write together forma more impact and community.

  • Writers' Bloc: Some Quiet Time to Write Together

    • March 14 2027 @ 7:00 PM
    • until 10:00 PM
    • The Beach Beneath the Street
    • 1703 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60637

    Join us from 7 - 10 p.m. every third Sunday of the month at THE BEACH (@thebeachchicago) to write letters to prisoners or work on personal writing projects in the company of neighbors and friends in a casual, calm, and collective environment.... Read More

  • Radical Writers' Café

    • April 7 2027 @ 6:30 PM
    • until March 31 @ 8:30 PM
    • Qamaria Yemeni Coffee
    • 4728 N Kedzie

    Body doubling session. Lets write together forma more impact and community.

  • Writers' Bloc: Some Quiet Time to Write Together

    • April 18 2027 @ 7:00 PM
    • until 10:00 PM
    • The Beach Beneath the Street
    • 1703 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60637

    Join us from 7 - 10 p.m. every third Sunday of the month at THE BEACH (@thebeachchicago) to write letters to prisoners or work on personal writing projects in the company of neighbors and friends in a casual, calm, and collective environment.... Read More

  • Radical Writers' Café

    • May 5 2027 @ 6:30 PM
    • until 8:30 PM
    • Qamaria Yemeni Coffee
    • 4728 N Kedzie

    Body doubling session. Lets write together forma more impact and community.

  • Writers' Bloc: Some Quiet Time to Write Together

    • May 16 2027 @ 7:00 PM
    • until 10:00 PM
    • The Beach Beneath the Street
    • 1703 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60637

    Join us from 7 - 10 p.m. every third Sunday of the month at THE BEACH (@thebeachchicago) to write letters to prisoners or work on personal writing projects in the company of neighbors and friends in a casual, calm, and collective environment.... Read More

  • Writers' Bloc: Some Quiet Time to Write Together

    • June 20 2027 @ 7:00 PM
    • until 10:00 PM
    • The Beach Beneath the Street
    • 1703 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60637

    Join us from 7 - 10 p.m. every third Sunday of the month at THE BEACH (@thebeachchicago) to write letters to prisoners or work on personal writing projects in the company of neighbors and friends in a casual, calm, and collective environment.... Read More

  • Writers' Bloc: Some Quiet Time to Write Together

    • July 18 2027 @ 7:00 PM
    • until 10:00 PM
    • The Beach Beneath the Street
    • 1703 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60637

    Join us from 7 - 10 p.m. every third Sunday of the month at THE BEACH (@thebeachchicago) to write letters to prisoners or work on personal writing projects in the company of neighbors and friends in a casual, calm, and collective environment.... Read More

  • Writers' Bloc: Some Quiet Time to Write Together

    • August 15 2027 @ 7:00 PM
    • until 10:00 PM
    • The Beach Beneath the Street
    • 1703 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60637

    Join us from 7 - 10 p.m. every third Sunday of the month at THE BEACH (@thebeachchicago) to write letters to prisoners or work on personal writing projects in the company of neighbors and friends in a casual, calm, and collective environment.... Read More

  • Writers' Bloc: Some Quiet Time to Write Together

    • September 19 2027 @ 7:00 PM
    • until 10:00 PM
    • The Beach Beneath the Street
    • 1703 E. 55th St., Chicago, IL 60637

    Join us from 7 - 10 p.m. every third Sunday of the month at THE BEACH (@thebeachchicago) to write letters to prisoners or work on personal writing projects in the company of neighbors and friends in a casual, calm, and collective environment.... Read More