Learn more about the harms of prison transfers and the need for the Illinois Department of Corrections to adopt the Logan Transfer Rapid Response Plan now. Care cannot wait! Register at: tinyurl.com/LoganTeachIn
Since 2009 Soup & Bread has been providing food and community to hungry Chicagoans, and has raised more than $110,000 for local food pantries. This winter, we’re bringing back our traditional community meals at the Hideout on the first Wednesday of the month, from 6-8 pm, from December through April. As... Read More
Come celebrate the release of Melon's CD, Favorite Shards - out now on Burial Recordings:) 8pm --- Seven Bar, 400 E Randolph, 7th floor PWYC Nu A M - saturated tape ambience Quicksails - hyperspheric synthesis Melon Sprout - ceramic amplifier Slumpman Ray - welcome Ray... Read More
🖤🖤Join us for a discussion on the Prairieland Defendants case and solidarity with anti-ICE protestors facing political repression. This case is a test for how easily Trump might criminalize dissent going forward; the results impact everyone involved in the anti-deportation struggle and basic first amendment rights. 🎞️💌Stay... Read More
Celebrate Black History Month at Garfield Park Conservatory! Join us in celebrating Black History Month with a special cooking demo featuring Chef Brandon Lagrone who was born and raised on Chicago’s West Side. Chef Brandon will highlight culturally significant ingredients in a dish that is sure to inspire and educate visitors about the history of Black culinary traditions. Chef... Read More
Enhancing the Visitor Experience Through Music Don’t forget your headphones! As guests explore the collection, they are encouraged to enjoy these playlists, enriching their experience. These curated selections serve as a heartfelt tribute to the enduring impact of Black culture on music and instrument-making.... Read More
From Wednesday, February 25, to Sunday, March 1, neighbors and anti-ICE organizers in Minnesota will host a Week of Action (WoA) assembling community members, students, workers, people of faith, and people of conscience from across the country. We invite you to come to the Twin Cities metropolitan area to participate in ICE-watch rapid response networks and huge public protests.... Read More
via @generalstrikeillinois: Join the Illinois chapter on Tuesday, February 24th at 6:30 for a General Strike Teach-In at Skunk Cabbage Books! Open to the public. Please help us keep the event safe and inviting for everyone by wearing a mask! (masks provided) Learn the histories of general strikes in America and how we can use those past experiences to prepare for the future. General... Read More
Flock Safety has had a bad year. Local organizers across the country are researching, campaigning, and getting Flock kicked out of their cities. Flock has been exposed for what it is: a company that cares more about growing its revenues than anything that might resemble community safety.... Read More
How do we build communities that can protect themselves from ICE and Landlords? Come out for a community discussion on how the tenant movement can mobilize against ICE. By Chicago Union of Tenants Location: Sulzer Regional Library 4455 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL... Read More
@ilcofchi is excited to present its first self-defense workshop. This will be an introduction to the basics of hand-to-hand self-defense, drawing on the boxing tradition. The session will focus on finding your stance, learning basic strikes and defensive techniques, and drilling effective responses to real life encounters.... Read More
Food Not Bombs rescues food from the waste stream and often in the summer, we have fresh produce that is unsold at Farmers Markets, alongside miscellaneous goods. Many neighbors join us to hang out and everyone is welcome to grab some items and bring treats they want to share with neighbors! When we expect disruptive rain, we only set up on the corner of Farewell & Glenwood.
We gather every Sunday to work on the Memorial for people killed by police, recognize the profound loss of life, honor their memory, and talk about abolition.
Join us Thursday, February 19th at 6 PM for a screening of Jamie Coughlin Silverman and Gabriel Silverman’s 2025 documentary The Spies Among Us. The film will be followed by a discussion led by members of Lucy Parsons Labs. Proceeds from ticket sale donations will go towards supporting the work of Lucy Parsons Labs and refreshments will be served.
"Against Landlords overturns the stale assumptions and YIMBY delusions as to why housing in the UK is so poor, and why rent is so high. Bano lays the blame squarely at the feet of landlordism, which boosts house prices and makes tenancy unaffordable.... Read More
100% of proceeds from this show will be donated to The National Immigrant Justice Center, which is a nonprofit organization that seeks to establish and defend the legal rights of immigrants, regardless of background, and transform the immigration system to one that affords equal opportunity for all. If... Read More
Food Not Bombs rescues food from the waste stream and often in the summer, we have fresh produce that is unsold at Farmers Markets, alongside miscellaneous goods. Many neighbors join us to hang out and everyone is welcome to grab some items and bring treats they want to share with neighbors! When we expect disruptive rain, we only set up on the corner of Farewell & Glenwood.
We gather every Sunday to work on the Memorial for people killed by police, recognize the profound loss of life, honor their memory, and talk about abolition.
We gather every Sunday to work on the Memorial for people killed by police, recognize the profound loss of life, honor their memory, and talk about abolition.
Come join us in celebrating 10 years of Lucy Parsons Labs! Little Black Pearl 1060 E 47th St, Chicago IL 60653 February 7th, 2026 7PM - 10PM Food, fun and non-alcoholic drinks will be provided! Come hang out! RSVP (see link) is not required, but will help us with a food order :) Invite your friends, family, and trusted loved ones! Wanna learn more about us? Check out our 2025 year in review: https://www.urlvanish.com/88f70d1b
Since 2009 Soup & Bread has been providing food and community to hungry Chicagoans, and has raised more than $110,000 for local food pantries. This winter, we’re bringing back our traditional community meals at the Hideout on the first Wednesday of the month, from 6-8 pm, from December through April. As... Read More
Food Not Bombs rescues food from the waste stream and often in the summer, we have fresh produce that is unsold at Farmers Markets, alongside miscellaneous goods. Many neighbors join us to hang out and everyone is welcome to grab some items and bring treats they want to share with neighbors! When we expect disruptive rain, we only set up on the corner of Farewell & Glenwood.
We gather every Sunday to work on the Memorial for people killed by police, recognize the profound loss of life, honor their memory, and talk about abolition.
Food Not Bombs rescues food from the waste stream and often in the summer, we have fresh produce that is unsold at Farmers Markets, alongside miscellaneous goods. Many neighbors join us to hang out and everyone is welcome to grab some items and bring treats they want to share with neighbors! When we expect disruptive rain, we only set up on the corner of Farewell & Glenwood.
We gather every Sunday to work on the Memorial for people killed by police, recognize the profound loss of life, honor their memory, and talk about abolition.
ICE just executed another person in Minneapolis this morning. This lawlessness and terrorization of our communities cannot continue. Join ICNW today to say "ICE OUT" of our communities and "Accountability now!" for these rogue government agents. We'll meet at the circle in Logan Square and walk down to Palmer Square Park to make our voices heard. It... Read More
Celebrate the release of Melon Sprout's ablum, Favorite Shards :) at Seven Bar 400 E Randolph - 7th Floor Performances from Quicksails - psych-ed out hypersphere synthesis, Melon Sprout, the ceramic amplifier, Nu AM - tape saturated ambience, Slumpman Ray - all the way from NC, bringing the sweets to our sweet city.... Read More
Awesome rock show with female-led indie bands. @thematriarchband @ktwheelsmusic @jane_hobdaughter
@racoon.junior show at @theburlingtonbar with @michaelmathrocks , @jealous_lot , and @statictrip.band
Chicago For Abortion Rights is a network of activists and community members fighting for abortion rights and reproductive justice for all. IG - @ChiForAbortion https://bit.ly/yall4mac is the link to the eventbrite rsvp page bit.ly/m/CFAR is the link to our linktree type page
Food Not Bombs rescues food from the waste stream and often in the summer, we have fresh produce that is unsold at Farmers Markets, alongside miscellaneous goods. Many neighbors join us to hang out and everyone is welcome to grab some items and bring treats they want to share with neighbors! When we expect disruptive rain, we only set up on the corner of Farewell & Glenwood.
We gather every Sunday to work on the Memorial for people killed by police, recognize the profound loss of life, honor their memory, and talk about abolition.
Live DJs. Limited Merch. Hosted by Cafe Masira. Profits donated to the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights and the Midwest Immigration Bond Fund. Tickets can be purchased through ourmasira.com Date/Time: Jan. 17, 2026, 4 p.m. - Jan. 17, 2026, 8 p.m.
Chicago ALL OUT this week to hear from Palestinian community members about their delegation to Palestine! Join us for a night of solidarity, recounting, and storytelling. No registration needed! Food will be provided and we will see you all there!
After a decade of yearning for parenthood, years marked by miscarriage after miscarriage, Hala Alyan makes the decision to use a surrogate. In this charged time, she turns to the archetype of the waiting woman—the Scheherazade who tells stories to ensure another dawn—to confront her own narratives of motherhood, love, and inheritance. Book... Read More
Join us for a screening of the 2004 documentary ‘Venezuela From Below.’ In this critically important film, Venezuelans describe their own day-to-day experience in building a democracy for working-class people. The U.S. naval blockade of Venezuela and the illegal kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro are the most recent attempts to crush their sovereignty and independence.... Read More
@musicboxchicago is hosting a fundraiser for ICIRR on January 13th! All proceeds from ticket sales will support our work as well as our friends at @pilsenpuno! Tickets are $15 at musicboxtheatre.com. Screening of KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN at 6:30PM followed by an artist talk with film star, @iamtonatiuh & moderated by actor and artist, @lio.mehiel @kissofthespiderwomanfilm
Learn how to protect yourself and your community during encounters with immigration or law enforcement. This workshop will cover our fundamental rights, how to assert them safely, and where to find trusted resources and support. [Interpretación en español disponible] Aprende cómo protegerte a ti mismo y a tu comunidad durante encuentros con agentes de inmigración o agentes federales .... Read More
Food Not Bombs rescues food from the waste stream and often in the summer, we have fresh produce that is unsold at Farmers Markets, alongside miscellaneous goods. Many neighbors join us to hang out and everyone is welcome to grab some items and bring treats they want to share with neighbors! When we expect disruptive rain, we only set up on the corner of Farewell & Glenwood.
We gather every Sunday to work on the Memorial for people killed by police, recognize the profound loss of life, honor their memory, and talk about abolition.
Join us for a conversation with leading scholars, activists, and organizers about how we can combat the attacks on people in our streets, our communities, and our universities. How do we defend ourselves and organize against ICE, academic repression, racism, and attempts to silence us? The panel will feature those who have been targets of right-wing attacks as well as those who have been writing and organizing about the long history of repression in the US, including Tom Alter, A.... Read More
The Chicago Palestine Film Festival is proud to partner with the Gene Siskel Film Center for the theatrical opening of The Voice of Hind Rajab in Chicago! Between January 9 to 29, there will be numerous opportunities to catch this film, so if you missed it last time, be sure to catch one of the upcoming showings. Note:... Read More
Join us to protest in solidarity with the brave community member, Renee Good, who was murdered by ICE in Minneapolis. Sponsoring orgs include Behind Enemy Lines and Dare to Struggle
Nonfiction Read-Aloud Book Group meets online once a month, on the 2nd Thursday of each month @ 6:30pm. We’ve been meeting since 2019. Meetings are fluid. Pop in when you can! We take turns reading aloud to each other and stop the reading frequently to discuss the text, ask questions, and repeat sentences.... Read More
Join us for an emergency vigil and protest in solidarity with Minneapolis, where a community responder was murdered by ICE.
Since 2009 Soup & Bread has been providing food and community to hungry Chicagoans, and has raised more than $110,000 for local food pantries. This winter, we’re bringing back our traditional community meals at the Hideout on the first Wednesday of the month, from 6-8 pm, from December through April. As... Read More
Bring Noisemakers, Instruments, Lights, Love and Rage -- This is a call for a raucous night of strong solidarity with those imprisoned by the state on one of the noisiest nights of the year. On New Year’s Eve gather your crew, collective, community, organization, or just yourself and come together to raise a racket and remind those on the inside that they are not alone. Internationally,... Read More
The Black Banjo Jam is a Black affinity space to learn and play the banjo hosted by @black.banjo.reclamation. It’s an intergenerational space, so feel free to bring your aunties, uncles, grandma, and the baby. A limited number of extra banjos are available to play if you don’t have your own.
12/27/25 10-11:30 AM From Mail to Medicare: Stop the Authoritarian Bulk Mail Center 7500 Roosevelt Rd Forest Park IL 60130
World’s best band Moth Cock hits Chicago on December 23 at @colesbar +++ a stacked Chicago bill curated by @goodwillsmith much love to the Chicago Reader for sharing the news of the show: “All Chicago’s goodest little boys and gargoyles get a special treat this year: a merry Moth Cock Christmas.” MOTH... Read More
An assembly for folks in Northwest Indiana to discuss ways we can change the world beyond voting.
A Holiday Crafting event with a Free Store and Free Gift Wrapping, put on by The Space (@spacenwi) & Queerly Crafted (@queerlycraftedin)! What to expect: *Holiday Crafting - cards, gifts, decorations, whatever you can think of! *Free Store - pantry, hygiene, clothing, housewares, toys *Free Gift Wrapping - wrapping supplies will be available! Ways to participate: *Use crafting time to make gifts, cards, or decorations for yourself, your people, or to add to the Free Store! *Bring items for the Free Store, or supplies for crafting/wrapping (paper, scissors, tape, wrapping paper, tissue paper, markers, etc.)... Read More
What are the radical horizons of play? How do we game counter-histories as strategies for the future? Join us on Dec 12 for a collective teach-and-play / discussion of "Chicago '68", a new strategy board game about the DNC riots of 1968.... Read More
Drop in. Play games. Win prizes. Support your neighbors. Bring friends or come make new ones - we’ll introduce you to some of our favorite fast, fun tabletop games, while supporting a good cause. ✨ Play games, collect tickets and trade them in for goodies from local businesses ✨ All welcome, all skill levels ✨ Snacks & drinks available All proceeds go directly to supporting our neighbors through Albany Park Mutual Aid. Mark... Read More
Join BYP100, MAMAS and Pilsen Community Books in celebrating the publication of How to End Family Policing: From Outrage to Action as we explore all the ways that family policing impacts our communities. From the policing of families, attacks on bodily autonomy, and undermining the self-determination of people experiencing violence and abuse, the family policing system is an often ignored tool used to criminalize our communities.... Read More
Community self defense class for queer folks and allies who want to learn to protect themselves! $15 suggested donation, trans folks fight for free.
We invite you to join us for Art for Gaza, a community art sale and event featuring ceramics, prints, zines, textiles, and more by local artists, plus live music. This event is both a celebration of creative resistance and a fundraiser.... Read More
The Black Banjo Jam is a Black affinity space to learn and play the banjo hosted by @black.banjo.reclamation. It’s an intergenerational space, so feel free to bring your aunties, uncles, grandma, and the baby. A limited number of extra banjos are available to play if you don’t have your own.
@all_chicago_tenant_alliance Come learn about why we believe tenant unions are the way to build strong ties within our communities that are necessary to sustain revolutionary struggle! Our work is growing, and we are looking for dedicated and curious individuals who are searching for a serious organization to call home and build with us.... Read More
Chicago!!! Movie night and fundraiser for political prisoner Casey Goonan! Casey Goonan is an anarchist/anti-imperialist political prisoner incarcerated for actions carried out in solidarity with Palestinians facing genocide in Gaza and response to the repressive actions against the pro-Palestine student encampments in the United States.... Read More
From ICE raids to police violence, our communities continue to face harm during encounters that should never turn deadly. It’s time to know our rights — and to organize for real change. Getting stopped shouldn't cost us our dignity or our lives.... Read More
Make new friends and celebrate the season of gratitude at our cozy Friendsgiving Potluck! 🍂✨ Join us at Mixed Mediums for an evening designed to help you connect with amazing new people in our creative community. Whether you're new to Chicago, looking to expand your social circle, or just want to meet like-minded creatives, this is the perfect event for you! What to expect: 👥 **Main Focus: Meeting New Friends** - Structured activities to help you connect 🍽️ Potluck-style dinner with dishes from our amazing community 🍷 Seasonal beverages and warm drinks to break the ice 🎨 Interactive craft activities (gratitude journals, fall decorations) to spark conversations 🎵 Cozy atmosphere with music and good vibes 💬 Conversation starters and friendship-building activities Perfect for: - New Chicago residents looking to build community - Solo attendees ready to make new connections - Anyone wanting to expand their creative network - People who love meeting new friends over good food What to bring: - A dish to share (appetizer, side, main, or dessert) - Your own plate and utensils (eco-friendly!) - An open heart and willingness to meet amazing new people This is a free community event open to all! Come solo or bring a friend - either way, you'll leave with new connections and great memories. RSVP... Read More
Join us November 11th, the 138th anniversary of the execution of the Haymarket Martyrs by the state of Illinois, as we mark the return to print of The Famous Speeches of the Eight Chicago Anarchists, edited and organized by Lucy Parsons and now with a new introduction from David Roediger.... Read More
Under the Tree Podcast will host a conversation at Pilsen Community Books with Prexy Nesbitt, Martha Biondi and Bill Ayers in celebration of Dr. Biondi's new book We Are Internationalists: Prexy Nesbitt and the Fight for African Liberation, an exploration of forgotten solidarity with African liberation struggles through the life of Black Chicagoan Prexy Nesbitt. For... Read More
Community self defense class for queer folks and allies who want to learn to protect themselves! $15 suggested donation, trans folks fight for free.
Tuck Woodstock is the host of the acclaimed Gender Reveal podcast and co-founder of Girl Dad Press. His first anthology, 2 Trans 2 Furious, received a 2024 Lambda Literary Award. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, Tuck currently lives in Brooklyn, like Miranda from that TV show. Vera... Read More
The idea of service can be hot and enticing especially for those of us into power dynamics. But it’s important for us to understand our motivations for service, what it means personally, and what do we gain from it. Service should be rewarding and fulfilling and when it’s not it can become disappointing and frustrating.... Read More
(CORRECTED # FOR LOCATION) SECRET LOCATION - TEXT FOR DETAILS 🍈🍈🍈 NOVEMBER 8th 🍈🍈🍈 COME SEE KWAMI FRESH FROM EUROPE 🍈🍈🍈 ENJOY FREE RICE N BEANS! PWYC - FREE FOOD - WELCOME ALL FREAKS! 🍈 LOCALS: @wajidaldomour WAJID @laserofthebride HEDRA @melon.a.friend (yours truly)🍈 TOURING: @_._kwami_._... Read More
Learn how to add color gels to high contrast photos. $10.00.
Free collage club! Filter events by community events to find this event and many others.
Please join us at this year’s DuPage County Trade Apprenticeship Expo, Thursday, November 6th, 2025 from 3:30pm – 6:00pm at the IBEW Local 701 Union Hall in Warrenville! Visit over a dozen trade affiliates and meet with their training directors Learn more... Read More
Join Kelly Hayes, Eman Abdelhadi, and Atena O. Danner at Pilsen Community Books for the launch of Hayes's new book Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis. In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable. Campaigns will be lost.... Read More
Join the Independent Labor Club (ILC), Chicago Workers Solidarity Network (CWSN), Starbucks Workers United (SBWU) and Working Films at Film Row Cinema for a FREE premiere screening of Partners: How Starbucks Workers Started a Labor Revolution on Wednesday, November 5 at 6 p.m.... Read More
Bring your unwanted Halloween costumes and old clothing to trade for new-to-you pieces! Perfect way to end Halloweekend by giving your costumes a second life and finding new outfits. - How it works - 1. Bring your unwanted Halloween costumes and gently used clothing (no more than 2 bags please) 2.... Read More
The American Indian Center and Global Gardens Chicago are excited to invite you to our Green Corn Festival on Sunday, November 2nd from 1-6pm. Events will take place at the farm at 4815 N Sacramento as well as the AIC at 3401 W Ainslie St,.... Read More
Join us for a special cafe pop up on November 2nd, from 9 am to 12 pm at My Modern Oasis. In collaboration with coffee at KC's, the Fat Pan, and ceramicists from The Pottery Studio (Chicago, IL), we're coming together to support our city's street vendors, many of whom are in urgent need right now. What... Read More
Community Altar Build Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez Saturday 11/1/25 2 PM Corner of Emerson & Grand Franklin Park IL
Reading of Boy Apparition by mk zariel There are two transmasculine genders: the butch anarchist, and the tiny atemporal gremlin who really needs a hug. In BOY APPARITION, mk zariel tackles both. This chapbook is full of love letters to the BashBack tendency, chronicles of insurgent trans boyhood and its ties to lesbian culture, unhinged teenage rants, and the kind of love poems you’d write in lipstick on the mirror of the gender-neutral bathroom.... Read More
Join PUÑO for a training on how to document and report ICE activity in your neighborhood. Since January, PUÑO has been building collective power to protect Chicago’s immigrant communities through a variety of trainings and connecting Chicagoans to their local rapid response group.... Read More
Thursday, October 30 Doors: 8:30pm // Show: 9pm $14.45 / Day Of : $16.65 Absono- I’m a hardcore junglist bringing sounds from all across the world with massive influences from Los Angeles (my home city) and Chicago (where I live now). Aiming to create dance floors that keep people dancing, engaged and bring a sense of community on the floor. ... Read More
Set 1: Jeb Bishop (solo trombone & electronics) Set 2: Keefe Jackson w/ dancers (woodwind & movement duo)
Step away from your screens and into the real world, where the words aren’t just read - they’re felt. On the night before Halloween, our poets will embody the sensual, the haunting, and the deliciously tangible in a reading that’s as physical as it is spectral. 📅... Read More
Please join MoCP at Ferguson Lecture Hall for the panel discussion Performance to Camera, expounding upon the works from the exhibition Channeling: body ← Image → viewer. The conversation will address the role photography plays in translating, preserving, and sharing live, site-specific performances, while also discussing what is missing when representing a live moment through still images. Panelists... Read More
Free music, improvisational and experimental, with DJ One Track Mind Echo Chamber Z. Soniat Melon Sprout DJ One Track Mind
Halloween at Comfort Film presents, A Dark and Stormy Night with Group 312 Films GROUP 312 FILMS, Chicago’s Most Adventurous Video Collective, is excited to present our newest Halloween program–“A Dark and Stormy Night with Group 312 Films”. This holiday themed line-up will present 15 of the scariest, creepiest, and weirdest videos made by group members over the years.... Read More
Sir! No Sir! tells the story of the 1960s GI movement against the war in Viet Nam, the impact that the movement had on the war, and the subsequent erasure of the movement from public memory. About Face Veterans Against the War will facilitate a post-screening discussion.... Read More
Nonfiction Read-Aloud Book Group meets online on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of each month @ 7:30pm. We’ve been meeting since 2019. Meetings are fluid. Pop in when you can! We take turns reading aloud to each other and stop the reading frequently to discuss the text, ask questions, and repeat sentences.... Read More
Community self defense class for queer folks and allies who want to learn to protect themselves! $15 suggested donation, trans folks fight for free.
Join us for our Chicago book club session, where we will be reading chapter 5 of “Full Spectrum Resistance.” Full Spectrum Resistance by Aric McBay is a powerful toolkit for liberation movements. Emphasizing a range of popular tactics, the book outlines how movements grow and sustain themselves through principled solidarity, diverse strategies, and collective action. We... Read More
Thru December 20 About the Exhibition Channeling: body ←Image→ viewer features works by eleven international artists who communicate through and with the body. The featured artists draw on diverse approaches and means to deliberately activate direct connections with the viewer. These articulations position the viewer to experience a heightened awareness of their self and body, and to explore how bodies channel and confront societal malaise, oppression, transition, and vulnerability.... Read More
Leather Archive & Museum would like to invite you to join us in the library for an afternoon of art, conversation and fun, for artists of all skill levels. You can draw your sexiest fantasies or kinky icons, meet and chat with other fetish artists and get to know each other in a fun, laid-back artistic experience! Bring your own materials, and come with cool kinky ideas to draw or peruse works in the library for inspiration.... Read More
The Black Banjo Jam is a Black affinity space to learn and play the banjo hosted by @black.banjo.reclamation. It’s an intergenerational space, so feel free to bring your aunties, uncles, grandma, and the baby. A limited number of extra banjos are available to play if you don’t have your own.
Join us be having tea along with an open mic/jam session at the leather archive and museum on august 30th from 1-4:30! as usual, this is a potluck style event - bring snacks and drinks to share! we’ll be in the auditorium, if you want to bring something to perform, please do! You'll also have access to the museum and library/archive during the event, so you’ll also have the opportunity to see a bunch of queer art Note that stairs are required both to get to the space and to get to the restrooms.... Read More
Seven sins. Eight DJs. Zero restraint. Four deadly B2Bs serving temptation by the pound—so hot and sinful, it’ll make the angels blush 😳 Expect hardgroove, hard dance, bouncy techno, and deep, filthy bass to keep you sweating all night long 🥵 Buckle up, sinners.... Read More
@ilcofchi presents a collaborative discussion on the far-reaching impact of the second Trump administration. Together, we will discuss how it will affect the climate, the border, corporate power, foreign policy, and the welfare state, and how it all adds up to a sweeping war on workers.... Read More
Join us for a screening of ¡Las Sandinistas! The documentary uncovers the untold stories of women who shattered barriers to lead combat and social reform during Nicaragua’s 1979 Sandinista Revolution, and the ensuing US-backed Contra War, as these same women continue as leaders in the struggle against their current government's suppression of democracy and women's rights. 🇳🇮... Read More
Curious about leather and kink history? Do you want to learn more about the affect of the AIDS epidemic on the leather community? The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt honors over 110,000 people, and thousands of them were leatherfolk and kinksters.... Read More
Join us on the 2nd Tuesday each month for a studio drawing class where you can practice your figure drawing skills individually. We'll provide the sexy fetish models, tables and chairs......you provide whatever materials you want to use for your art. This... Read More
Community self defense class for queer folks and allies who want to learn to protect themselves! $15 suggested donation, trans folks fight for free.
Fruta Putería and alterotics curated together a selection of six queer and trans erotic films. Three of these films are from Chicago (Fruta Putería and alterotics produced), while three of the submissions are international (Argentina and Greece). The run time of the screening is about 2 hours total. October... Read More
Friday!!! Poetry, opera, drag, cello duets, trans art makers, and more. 10 minute open mic slot, one poem per poet! Proceeds to the LA&M and performers.
BIPOC only | Silent auction | Donation table | Hot drinks & snacks | Open grill at Cedillo's | Reportback of August 2025 Zapatista encounter in Chiapas (informal discussion and Q&A) NET PROCEEDS TO Chicago Books Break Walls; Hammond Community Garden; migrant and Palestinian relief; Sudanese horizontalists; Suwayda minorities; and Cedillo's. Suggested... Read More
BIPOC only | Silent auction | Donation table | Hot drinks & snacks | Open grill at Cedillo's | Reportback of August 2025 Zapatista encounter in Chiapas (informal discussion and Q&A) NET PROCEEDS TO Chicago Books Break Walls; Hammond Community Garden; migrant and Palestinian relief; Sudanese horizontalists; Suwayda minorities; and Cedillo's. Suggested... Read More
Men In The Sun 7-9 PM Jazwah Coffee 9150 S Harlem Ave Bridgeview IL 60455
ice "Know Your Rights" Training 630 PM Orland Park Prayer Center (Sister's Ground Hall) 16530 104th Ave Orland Park IL 60467
Emergency Protest 530 PM Chicago says: ice, national guard Out Of Our Streets Ida B Wells & Michigan
Vigil For Gaza 430 PM aipac 240 W monroe Ave Chicago IL Noise Demo 6 PM
7th Of October 2025 Protest 4PM israel consulate 500 W Madison Chicago IL
A noisy fundraiser for Compound Yellow Side Yard Sounds A Noisy Fundraiser 10/5/2025 BYOB Join us for a wild and noisy event/fundraiser featuring a line up of experimental sound artists and musicians: Hedra Rowan NuAm Tina LaFauve Melon Sprout Nicole Alonso Hedra Rowan: Hedra Rowan is a computer musician in Chicago. She runs Bodymilk, a concert series and tape label.... Read More
Let’s go above and beyond basic care for leather, whether at home or on the stand. We will look at some of the widely available and some very niche products on the market you can incorporate in your kit and gain confidence when to crack open that new bottle of magic potion! This class is great for beginners who are interested in bootblacking as well as seasoned bootblacks looking for new and fun products to try on their next project! - - - - - Come worship with us on the first Sunday of every month with some fun and engaging kink education.... Read More
Join Kristopher Daniel of La Petite Mort Photography (www.LaPetiteMortPhotography.com) for a Halloween-themed workshop. Learn how to create bold, sensual imagery with a delightfully wicked twist—using dramatic lighting, inventive posing, and kink-inspired styling. Think moody shadows, seductive costumes, and just the right amount of mischief. Costumes... Read More
Ladles and Jellyspoons! The one and only Bread & Puppet Circus returns to Chicago with Anti-Empire Art that acknowledges our beloved Mother Dirt, who makes us and unmakes us, and who presents urgently needed domestic resurrection services for the victims of this latest genocide.... Read More
RIDE FOR PALESTINE Sunday 9/28/25 Noon Start Daley Plaza Finish Sultans Market
The Black Banjo Jam is a Black affinity space to learn and play the banjo hosted by @black.banjo.reclamation. It’s an intergenerational space, so feel free to bring your aunties, uncles, grandma, and the baby. A limited number of extra banjos are available to play if you don’t have your own.
Stop The Deportations Saturday 9/27/25 6PM- 1930 Beach St. Broadview IL
Join us as we welcome Arti Walker-Peddakotla and Aaron Hughes in conversation with Bill Ayers as they discuss the long history of GIs rebelling against US militarism and fascism. Viewed through an abolitionist framework, this discussion will highlight the legacy and revolutionary power of GI resistance against the backdrop of military mobilizations to violently suppress people’s movements. Arti... Read More
Rally Saturdays 4 Silverio Saturday 9/27/25 3PM Grand & Emerson Franklin Park IL
Protest Cook County S.A. Saturday 9/27/25 PM 1PM Daley Plaza 50 W. Washington St. Chicago IL
PET CEMETERY WITH A C THE MUSICAL is here! It's absurd and audacious and if you're not entertained you can slap the producers as hard as you want in the face. The show runs every Friday evening in September at Facility Theater.
It's going to be HUGE! Join us for the annual Kinky Rummage Sale where you'll find a great deal on everything from leather to rubber to butt plugs to fine china. All funds go to support the work of LA&M, so support a great cause and find some new treasures.... Read More
At Broadview, immigrants are being held hostage by ICE and are awaiting deportation. Stop ICE from kidnapping our neighbors! Shut down Broadview! Bring a buddy, bring goggles, bring goggles. ICE out of our city!
RHC presents FEMME FREQUENCY 💋📡 an evening of experimental dance music celebrating the divine feminine ❤️🔥 ⏰ 8:00 PM - 12:00 AM 🗓️ Thursday 9/25/25 📍 @cafe_mustache 💰 $5-$10 donations recommended LINEUP: @problemchildhels (resident) @k1ttipup @voidblxm @heavyflow.chi @hyper_individualism
SBWU PRACTICE PICKET FOR A JUST CONTRACT Thursday 9/25/25 10AM-12PM 5970 N Ridge Ave Chicago IL
Imagining A Liberated Future Monday 9/22/25 7PM Pilsen Community Books 1102 W 18th St Chicago IL 60608
This raunchy and campy DIY film is about the sexcapades of friends Tracey, Stacey, Lacey, Kacey and Macey over 24 hours during a hot and sweaty summer. Single Tickets can be puchased in advance and cost $10 per screening, or $8 for LA&M Members & Students.... Read More
PET CEMETERY WITH A C THE MUSICAL is here! It's absurd and audacious and if you're not entertained you can slap the producers as hard as you want in the face. The show runs every Friday evening in September at Facility Theater.
Illinois isn’t the only state trying to build more prisons and jails- there are fascist carceral projects being attempted across the US 💥 Join us as we welcome comrades from Kentucky, compare notes and learn from their ongoing fight against federal prison expansion in Letcher County. Take... Read More
DIVEST FROM GENOCIDE Press Conference on Friday 9/19/25 12pm at 160 N. LaSalle Street Chicago IL denouncing the State Board of Investment for investing our tax dollars into the Israeli genocide, apartheid, & occupation of Palestinians. Call on Frerichs to divest at 866-458-7327.
SHUT DOWN THE BROADVIEW ICE FACILITY! Join us Friday, 9/19/25 7-9 AM & 6PM-onward 1930 Beach Street, Broadview, IL CHINGA LA MIGRA - STOP DEPORTATIONS - DEFEND COMMUNITIES - FIGHT FASCISM - FREE THEM ALL Bring a buddy, N95s, goggles & noise makers. Share widely!
CHICAGO EMERGENCY PROTEST ALL EYES ON GAZA BOOTS OUT OF GAZA BOOTS OUT OF CHICAGO WEDNESDAY 9/17/25 5PM McNally HQ 151 N Franklin St
🪧🕯️The grieving family of Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez requests that you attend a Public Speakout TODAY/MONDAY 9.15 in Franklin Park, IL. Please circulate widely to social media and other groups. SPEAKOUT for Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez Murdered in cold blood by ICE Fascists. Stop the Racist Trump Regime's Ethnic Cleansing Campaign.... Read More
PET CEMETERY WITH A C THE MUSICAL is here! It's absurd and audacious and if you're not entertained you can slap the producers as hard as you want in the face. The show runs every Friday evening in September at Facility Theater.
RALLY TO DEFEND YOUR NEIGHBORS! ice OUT OF CHICAGOLAND! Friday 9/12/25 7AM-7PM 1930 Beach St Broadview IL #DEFUNDfacebook
September 8 at 7pm. TALK LONG, TALK LOVE!, a free workshop with Nancy Ava Miller, MEd, CHt. At this unique and FUN workshop, learn to reach beyond the chatter and the clutter of small talk to the soul of our beautiful kink community.... Read More
Join us as we welcome Eileen Flanagan to the store for an event in celebration of her new book Common Ground: How the Crisis of the Earth is Saving Us from Our Illusion of Separation. As heat waves, wildfires, storms, and floods become ever more deadly, it has become apparent that we have a shared stake in protecting the air, water, and climate—for ourselves and for future generations.... Read More
Rope can be very daunting at times... This class is will bring back fun and emphasize safety in rope bondage basics. There will be an emphasis on anatomy and common ties which can be used for light suspension. Let’s get knotty and nice! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Jay is a Leather Woman and a body work specialist.... Read More
Join us at LA&M for "Leather: It's Not What You Wear, It's Who You Are" Saturday, September 6th, 3 - 4pm Taught by Master Leather Redux and raea Presented by Second City Bootblacks Come learn, reflect, and grow with us. whether you're new to leather or a lifelong traveler on the path, this class is for you.
🅰️🐺⚡️SAVE THE DATE⚡️🐺🅰️ @fuerzasbroadwaycuyler and ACTA are throwing a rager on September 7th, all day! The occasion, like all things, contains some good and some bad. We are celebrating six months of Fuerzas Inquilinos in the struggle; this is right on time as their historic rent strike approaches is climax.... Read More
PET CEMETERY WITH A C THE MUSICAL is here! It's absurd and audacious and if you're not entertained you can slap the producers as hard as you want in the face. The show runs every Friday evening in September at Facility Theater.
Friday, September 5th. 6pm-8:30pm at the LA&M. Free admission. Exhibit opening at 6pm, talk at 7pm. BDSM History & Memories: Notes from the Sexual Underground with Nancy Ava Miller 💋📝 Come to the LA&M for a lively discussion about life and love in the sexual underground of the 1970s, 80s and 90s.... Read More
PACK THE COURT FOR RICO CLARK Friday 9/5/25 930 AM Leighton Criminal Court 2650 S California Room 305 Chicago IL
Broadview Detention Center has begun boarding up its windows and the Broadview mayor says that the detention center will be the center of ICE operations as the primary processing center for the next 45 to 60 days. Every Friday from 7AM-9AM people detained at Broadview are loaded into vans and moved to airports or to other detention facilities in Indiana, Kentucky, and other states.
Show up for radical artists paying tribute to a local Chicagoan fighter currently doing time for Palestine! Proceeds will go directly to Elias Rodriguez via offenderconnect. Performers: Sol, Said Earth The Last Poet Beanersteamer Zaza za
Learn techniques and skills, and practice your ties with an expert. All experience levels are welcome. Thursday sessions are scheduled for June 26, July 17, July 31, Aug 14, and Sep 4. $5.00
Wednesday, September 3. 7pm-8:30pm at the LA&M. Free admission. Nancy Ava Miller presents... Erotic Hypnosis 💤✨ A class and demonstration with assistant Ninjet Kitty. A JOURNEY INTO CONTEMPLATION AND MORE… Eye-opening! Intelligent! Profound! Attendees at this workshop will be guided into a deep, relaxed hypnotic and meditative state, during which they will experience a calm “inner being” — uninhibited and blissful.... Read More
Join us in celebrating this long-awaited collection by Chicago author and agitator Jarrod Shanahan, who will appear in conversation with members of Lake Effect Collective. Every Fire Needs a Little Bit of Help (PM Press, 2025) collects a decade of reflections on recent US struggles—Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, and the George Floyd Rebellion—alongside accounts of the rise of Trumpism, the alt-right, and an apocalyptic shift in popular culture, to paint a dense and complex portrait of a decade of protracted social crisis. Jarrod... Read More
Free Xochitl Vigil Tuesday 9/2/25 6-8 PM Chicago Patchwork Farms 2825 W Chicago Ave Chicago IL #FREEXochitl https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/833035/ #DEFUNDfacebook
BLACK AUGUST PEOPLE'S FEAST COOKOUT SUNDAY 8/31/25 6PM FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 6400 S KIMBARK AVE CHICAGO IL #DEFUNDfacebook
Join us be having tea along with an open mic/jam session at the leather archive and museum on august 30th from 1-4:30! as usual, this is a potluck style event - bring snacks and drinks to share! we’ll be in the auditorium, if you want to bring something to perform, please do! You'll also have access to the museum and library/archive during the event, so you’ll also have the opportunity to see a bunch of queer art Note that stairs are required both to get to the space and to get to the restrooms.... Read More
BIKE REPAIR SKILL SHARE COMMUNITY EVENT SATURDAY 8/30/25 12PM LEGION PARK ENTER ON W THORNDALE AVE, EAST OF KEDZIE CHICAGO IL
LA&M researcher Jay Sosa discusses the history and politics of poppers. Got a story? Got a question? We'll have a community conversation about what we should know about poppers. No names, no details, no recordings.
The Black Banjo Jam is a Black affinity space to learn and play the banjo hosted by @black.banjo.reclamation. It’s an intergenerational space, so feel free to bring your aunties, uncles, grandma, and the baby. A limited number of extra banjos are available to play if you don’t have your own.
On August 23rd we will gather to demand an END to the concentration camps, END to the wars, and END to the march towards fascism. Silence serves the oppressor, so come get loud. We will release more details soon! Please note, we will be holding this event instead of an event on August 2nd.
COFFEE & CONVERSATION Weekly M-F 9AM Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlcuCtqTgpHtVZc7UfxUfQOw8mjrLdPP2l#/registration #DEFUNDfacebook
HANDS OFF SOCIAL SECURITY 10-11 AM Social Security Adminstrative Office 2127 W Lawrence Ave Chicago IL 60625
Wednesday 8/20/25 at 4:30pm join us for our weekly vigil for the children of Gaza. We will meet downtown at Michigan and Wacker to make sure that we are getting the message out to as many of our fellow Chicagoans as possible: Chicago stands with Palestine! Vigils will continue weekly as long as our tax dollars are funding war crimes committed against Palestinians.
Rogers Park Seed Library Open Hours are every second Sunday 3-4:30 pm 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!
Join us for an evening of community, care, and collective action at this BIPOC-only, alcohol-free benefit cookout. Friends and neighbors are coming together to raise funds for BIPOC-led efforts and solidarities through shared food, connection, and a silent art auction featuring local talent. There’s... Read More
Learn techniques and skills, and practice your ties with an expert. All experience levels are welcome. Thursday sessions are scheduled for June 26, July 17, July 31, Aug 14, and Sep 4. $5.00
Tone Glow is excited to announce a special screening of an film Paul Sharits! Tone Glow Presents “The Body Electric: Six Films By Paul Sharits” August 14th, 7:00pm-9:00pm Doors: 6:00pm Tickets: $15 GA Presale $10 Student Presale (Use code STUDENT at checkout) $10 IMSS Member Presale (Use code IMSSMEMBER at checkout) -$20 at Door $15 Student at Door $15 IMSS Member at Door Tone Glow is excited to announce “The Body Electric,” a program highlighting six films by the visual artist and filmmaker Paul Sharits (1943-1993).... Read More
Join us on the 2nd Tuesday each month for a studio drawing class where you can practice your figure drawing skills individually. We'll provide the sexy fetish models, tables and chairs.... you provide whatever materials you want to use for your art. This... Read More
Emergency Protest & Memorial Tuesday 8/12/25 430 PM Daley Plaza 50 w Washington St DownTown Chicago IL #DEFUNDfacebook
DEFEND EPA WORKERS! Join us Tuesday 8/12/25 at noon at the Federal Plaza in Chicago IL to support @704afge members fighting back after Trump's authoritarian move to cancel the contract of thousands of EPA workers. This administration is escalating its union-busting.... Read More
This Monday, August 11th from 9-10am, there will be an autonomous noise demo next to the driveway at the northwest corner of 101 Ida B.Wells, which is home to the ICE field office. This demo is a surge effort to... Read More
Punk show. No cops, no zionists. DJ set following at the clipper.
Get your tickets here: https://events.humanitix.com/new-york-city-inferno-a-bijou-video-screening-at-the-leather-archives-and-museum Come early for sex and love life tarot reading by oracle Jessika Cutts. Plus so much more to be announced! Structured around the journey of Jerome (hairy, uncut Christopher Dock) in search of his lover, this French production also serves as a study of NYC's gay sex culture/locales and includes, along with its truly hot sex scenes and story, an interview with a gay political activist and performer/poet Camille O'Grady fronting a punk band in the film's epically wild orgy scene shot in the infamous Mineshaft! Raw, gritty, kinky, occasionally bizarre, this artfully made, historically significant classic is a major film of the '70s French gay porn boom. New... Read More
Pass the Aux: A Collective Sharing and Listening Session August 10 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm “What are we listening to these days, and why?” Prompted by this and other questions, Josh Rios invites you to this all-ages gathering to share and reflect on music in an open, collective setting.... Read More
Rogers Park Seed Library Open Hours are every second Sunday 3-4:30 pm 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!
Learn how to shoot bold, sensual, and kink-inspired imagery. Led by Kristopher Daniel of La Petite Mort Photography (www.lapetitemortphotography.com), this hands-on workshop covers lighting, posing, and working with erotic themes using live models. All skill levels are welcome. The second hour is open shoot time to practice what you’ve learned using Kris’ lighting setup.... Read More
Join Chicago-based publisher Marc Fischer of Public Collectors to discuss his latest Public Collectors publications, and read from the recent booklets: “Why Self-Publish Under Fascism?” and “Who Shares the Restroom Code with ICE Agents?“ Marc Fischer is the administrator of Public Collectors, an initiative he formed in 2007.... Read More
Come out to support artists inside IL prisons and organizations working together towards freedom! Artworks from Castaway (a group of artists at Western IL prison) and formerly incarcerated artists will be on sale. Join us for food, drink, music and more! 100% of proceeds will support ILARJ & WTS! Sliding scale tickets start at $10, including a dinner plate and free drink! RSVP and buy your ticket at Givebutter.com/DrawnTogether! The... Read More
🎆 ✨ Join us on Saturday, August 9th to celebrate Inga’s six year b-day. 🪅 We’ll gather around drinks, snacks, cake, printed freebies, and some newly released, limited edition merch. 🪢 Festivities set to take place during our 1-7pm open... Read More
Join us as we welcome brian bean to the store for an event in celebration of his new book Their End Is Our Beginning: Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition, a deeply reported analysis of the connections between policing and capitalism, centering global lessons of revolt and resistance. Where... Read More
🇸🇩🇨🇩Chicago Hardcore Benefit for Congo & Sudan August 8th, 2025 at 5PM 5-10PM / All Ages / No Drugs or Alcohol. Join us at the First Presbyterian church of Chicago, $15 (or more 👀) entry at the door! Thank you to @bugginhc @sensoryimpactchi @_manoamano_il @situationalhazard.hc... Read More
That's right--we're showing up, and we're picketing the owners. In our campaign to organize VRS interpreters at both Sorenson and ZP Better Together, Ariel Investments (Sorenson's private equity owner) is a major decision maker, especially in our continued pressure to get leadership to meet with us and negotiate a union agreement.... Read More
A conversation between activist/scholars from Germany and the U.S. about the far right movements in Europe, the U.S., and the possibility of international solidarity. Zeena Arndt is a researcher and activist from Berlin, Germany, who has been involved in antifascist/antiracist movements for over 25 years. Michael... Read More
Worker Support Action Wednesday August 6, 2025 5PM Emily Hotel 311 N. Morgan Chicago IL 60607 #DEFUNDfacebook
Worker Support Action Wednesday August 6, 2025 5PM Emily Hotel 311 N. Morgan Chicago IL 60607 #DEFUNDfacebook
VIGIL FOR GAZA Wednesday 8/6/25 430PM 500 W Madison Chicago IL Bring your empty pots & pans for a 6PM demand! Stop Starving Gaza Now! #DEFUNDfacebòok
VIGIL FOR GAZA Wednesday 8/6/25 430PM 500 W Madison Chicago IL Bring your empty pots & pans for a 6PM demand! Stop Starving Gaza Now! #DEFUNDfacebòok
Hearing to dismiss domestic terrorism charge against Cop City Defendant Jamie Marsicano Wednesday, August 6 2025 at 2pm DeKalb County Superior Court, 556 N. McDonough Street, Decatur, GA https://weelauneethefree.org/hearing-august-6-for-cop-city-defendant-seeking-dismissal-of-domestic-terrorism-charge-unindicted-more-than-two-years-after-march-2023-arrest/ Marsicano’s hearing can also be viewed virtually at: https://tinyurl.com/DropTheTerrorismCharge (ID: 883 8751 7511) Virtual press conference will be held by Marsicano’s legal team at 3:30pm, or when the hearing ends, whichever is later: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/78121869057... Read More
🚨JOIN US for a press rally and triple-header court date to demand freedom for three survivors of corrupt CPD detectives Brian Forberg, John Foster and Kevin Eberle! This crucial day of mobilization calls for all hands on deck! ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽 When: 9 a.m.... Read More
In the current political atmosphere of cruelty, repression and irrationality, many have pleaded for the urgent development of social movements to counter the rampage of the federal government and their oligarch allies. But what should these movement look like? And how should we build them? Imagining just such a grassroots movement is the goal of a new book from Sasha Davis.... Read More
Join Teamsters Local 705 members striking mauser for a rally and march on the boss Tuesday, August 5 2025 10AM @ mauser headquarters 1515 W 22nd St Oak Brook IL 60523. Tell mauser it’s time to listen to their workers and deliver a fair contract.... Read More
TEACH-IN Divesting Our Money From The Gaza Genocide Monday 8/4/25 7PM Pilsen Community Books 1102 W 18th St Chicago IL #DEFUNDfacebook
TEACH-IN Divesting Our Money From The Gaza Genocide Monday 8/4/25 7PM Pilsen Community Books 1102 W 18th St Chicago IL #DEFUNDfacebook
Abolitionist Playdate/Book Swap Join us for cultivating a future focused on dismantling systemic inequalities and building collective capacity for change, while the kiddos play! This time we’ll swap books (any genre, for kids or adults). 📆 Monday, August 4th ⏰ 5:30-7:30 PM 📍Horner Park Nature Play Space (near California Ave.... Read More
LETTER PACKING Newsletter To Mail To Cook County Jail Sunday August 3 2025 3PM Sultan's Market 2057 North Ave Chicago IL
Kink Klass: So You Want To Teach A Class — Pro Tips for Teaching, with Master Leather Redux and Raea Do you find yourself called to teach a class on leather or kink? Not sure how to go about it? Navigating wanting to teach has many facets.... Read More
MEET YOUR ALLIES Everyone Has A Partisan Story Sunday August 3 2025 1PM-4PM Sikh Religious Society 1280 Winnetka St Paletine IL 60067
100% of proceeds support Chicago organizing. Connect with orgs putting in the work! ** No New Prisons IL ** Campaign for Public Health and Safety ** Cannibis Equity IL ** Logan Sq Mutual Aid ** Chicago Food Soveignty Coalition ** MAMAS ** Coalition to Decarcerate IL ** Illinois... Read More
STOP GAZA GENOCIDE PROTEST AND MARCH! Saturday 8/2/25 330 PM Michigan Ave & Wacker Dr. Downtown Chicago lL END ALL U.S. AID TO lSRAEL!
Tesla Takedown Chicago Aug. 2 Start: Saturday, August 02, 2025 • 12:00 PM End: Saturday, August 02, 2025 • 01:30 PM Location: Gold Coast Tesla Dealership • 901 N Rush St, Chicago, IL 60611 US Host Contact Info: teslatakedownchicago@proton.me
Contest is open to participants of all genders. Meet and Greet at the North End (3733 N. Halsted) on August 1st at 8pm. Contest at the LA&M on August 2nd at 7pm (6418 N. Greenview).
Learn techniques and skills, and practice your ties with an expert. All experience levels are welcome. Thursday sessions are scheduled for June 26, July 17, July 31, Aug 14, and Sep 4. $5.00
RALLY TO SUPPORT S&S WORKERS Monday July 28 2025 1-4 PM 16427 W Prologis Pkwy Lockport IL 60441 Join the Teamsters Joint Council 25 & Teamsters Local 179 to stand with workers at S&S Activewear as they fight for the dignity and respect that... Read More
Come protest at 101 Ida B Wells that hosts ice field office. Learn about how to identify ice cars and agents and how we can keep our neighbors safe
Interactive Performance Sunset 1919 A Ritual Sunday July 27 2025 7PM Eugene Williams Memorial Square 125 Fort Dearborn Drive Chicago IL https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/07/25/lookingglass-honoring-1919-race-riot-victims-with-lakefront-performance-sunday/
☀️SUMMER SOUP NIGHT- SUNDAY JULY 27TH, 4-7, MONTROSE BEACH GRASSY AREA BY CRICKET HILL☀️ Join for an afternoon of food, dialogue and music! We will be talking about what it takes to get organized in the face of current struggles-- how to plug in, how to network, how to crew up, and what roles established groups and orgs have in our work and strategies.... Read More
Come out THIS Saturday for our Community Cookout to explore how we are fighting the Quantum Facility and what we would rather see built in our neighborhoods. 📆 Saturday, July 26th from 12-4 pm (speeches at 2 pm) 📍Steelworkers Park, 87th St... Read More
🚴♀️ RIDE FOR PALESTINE 🚴♂️ Chicago Critical Mass – Palestinian Contingent 🗓 Fri, July 25 | ⏰ 6 PM | 📍Daley Plaza Flood the streets. Ride in defiance. Drape your bike in flags, keffiyehs, signs, and resistance. This isn’t just a ride—it’s a call for liberation. Ride... Read More
Close The Broadview ice Facility! EMAILS NEEDED to tell Eileen Burke and Kwame Raoul to SHUT DOWN BROADVIEW! Use the link caarpr.org/irwc to send an email and support immigrants in Illinois! #DEFUNDfacebook
Join us as we welcome Benjamin Balthaser and Gabe Winant for a discussion of Benjamin Balthaser's new book, Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left, out now from Verso Books. Citizens of the Whole World is a 100 year cultural, political and literary history of the American Jewish left and its critique of the colonial and nationalist project of Zionism.... Read More
GAZA IS BEING STARVED! STOP THE GENOCIDE NOW! Thursday July 24th 2025 430PM Rally in front of the israeli embassy 500 W Madsion St Chicago IL #DEFUNDfacebook
Hola Chicago mycelium🥄 Kitchen Table is coming to town with puppet parties!! We’re touring with support from GPS Network @edgelands.institute and the Notice Coalition and we’re excited to bring our anti-surveillance big puppet show “Digital Dystopia: Kicking Big Brother Out Of School” to the Midwest! Chicago happenings: 7/22, 4-8pm Piñata build with @pilsenartscommunityhouse 7/23, 7-9pm Puppet Shows at Chicago Teacher Union @ctulocal1 “Digital Dystopia: Kicking Big Brother out of School” by Kitchen Table with opening acts: “Shake Off” by Tanima @jugnupanti “An Anansi Experience” by Anthony Michael Stokes @kesstokreatures We’ll end our puppet play with a piñata smashing during our art and organizer market featuring: @carlosbarberena @atlanaw @hoofprintchicago @werdmvmnt @justseeds We are a masked and wheelchair accessible event.... Read More
Vigil Honoring All Palestinian Children Affected By The Genocide July 23 2025 430PM 180 N LaSalle St Chicago IL #DEFUNDfacebook
Press Conference On Tuesday 7/22/25 12PM @ Daley Plaza 50 W Washington St Chicago IL to announce a campaign to close the Broadview ICE Staging Facility, which is being used as a de facto detention center.
Autonomous demonstrators are calling for as many people as possible to show up next to the driveway at the northwest corner of 101 Ida B.Wells, which is home to the ICE field office. Every week, masked ICE agents in unmarked cars leave the ICE field office to terrorize Chicago with violent raids.
Movie Club is proud to present Freakiest Friday: on a Saturday! Taking place on Saturday, July 19th at 8PM, this show will cover any and all body swap films through monologue, song, dance, idk! Anything can happen on a Freaky Friday that’s on a Saturday! Movie Club is a variety satire show.... Read More
Join A Continuous Struggle author Garrett Felber and Denzel K. Burke from the REAL Youth Initiative to discuss the legacy of jailhouse lawyer Martin Sostre (1923-2015). A Continuous Struggle, the first biography of the revolutionary political prisoner, shows how his lifetime of principled struggle helped lay the foundation for contemporary abolitionist struggles and Black anarchism.... Read More
We're excited to partner with Chicago Public Library to bring you the next Chicago Zine Fest! Chicago Zine Fest is a celebration of small press and independent publishers, with an annual festival of workshops and the big expo day where 70+ zinesters sell and trade their zines.... Read More
Join us for a conversation about tenant organising to celebrate the publication of Dispatches from the Threshold, edited by Rae Baker and Alexander Ferrer. Housing insecurity turned catastrophic during the COVID-19 pandemic, exposing the cruelty of threadbare tenant protections and state hostility toward unhoused people made worse by mass unemployment, a public health crisis, and racist police violence.... Read More
Hands Off Iran! Emergency Protest If U.S. attacks Iran! Federal Plaza 230 S. Dearborn St. Chicago IL If attack occurs before noon, protest will be at 5PM the same day. If attack occurs after noon, protest will be at 5 PM the next day. Demand that we don’t want the U.S.... Read More
Learn techniques and skills, and practice your ties with an expert. All experience levels are welcome. Thursday sessions are scheduled for June 26, July 17, July 31, Aug 14, and Sep 4. $5.00
Come join us and our friends at Dykes on Bicycles for a night ride and party at Dorothy together on Thursday, July 17th ❤️🪩🚲 Ride will be at a casual pace; 8 miles. 📍Meet up at BFF Bikes at 6:30pm, we roll at 7. @femnthembikechi @dykesonbicycles
GOOD TROUBLE LIVES ON RALLY Thursday 7/17/25 530–8PM Daley Plaza 50 W Washington St Chicago IL 60602 Our rights are under attack. We honor the anniversary of the passing of civil rights hero John Lewis, not with ceremonies, but with action. A new front in the struggle for freedom. It's... Read More
Oppose The Snap Curfew Wednesday 7/16/25 9AM City Hall 121 N Lasalle Chicago IL #DEFUNDfacebook
Mohammed El-Kurd’s “Perfect Victims.” book discussion Monday 7/14/25 630pm-830pm Pilsen Community Books 1102 W 18th St Chicago IL We will be meeting to discuss pages 171 through the end of the book. #DEFUNDfacebook
Sinners of Empire Sunday 7/13/25 6PM Little Red Nest 5458 N Ashland Chicago IL Lets talk about Sinners What does the representation of Irish culture in this film reveal? Email chirish.mutualaid@proton.me if youre joining in person
Ever wanted to have a spanking or to give one? Learn how to redden those cheeks as we go over the basics of spanking play, including the anatomy of spanking, different varieties of spanking play, types of implements and positions, effective communication, recommendations for safe play, how to connect with the spanking community, and more.... Read More
Speakout Against Extortion Of Families & Inmates Sunday July 13th 2025 12PM 2900 S California Ave Chicago IL #DEFUNDfacebook
Virtual Mass Meeting 7/13/25 2PM via Zoom Connect with other antiwar activists. Fight to divest Illinois from genocidal zionist investments. Push murica out of israel & build power. Organize & build solidarity with Palestine. Get the meeting information @ bit.ly/joinantiwarchicago
It's time for state legislators to get back to work to fix and FUND transit! Transit is in crisis because this Spring, the Illinois General Assembly failed to do their job and secure funding necessary to fend off 40% service cuts! Gov.... Read More
Indivisible Chicago Northwest Chalk the Walk 7/12/25 930AM Independence Park 3945 N Springfield Ave Chicago IL 60618 We’ll have Sign-making stations, Chalk art & templates. Together we reject the harm caused by the Trump regime & stand up for a future for all of our neighbors. #DEFUNDfacebook
Chicago Fetish Weekend is back with another year of celebrating Chicago's vibrant and diverse fetish community. Everyone in our community deserves to be heard & represented. Friday 9:00pm | Opening Ceremonies and Meet the Contestants, Jackhammer Saturday 12:00 pm - 4:30pm | Club... Read More
We're honored to welcome Eric King and Jeremy from Midwest Books to Prisoners to the store for a discussion of Eric's forthcoming book A Clean Hell: Anarchy and Abolition in America's Most Notorious Dungeon. A Clean Hell opens the doors of America’s most secretive prison and lets the reader step into the cell to experience all the horrors the Federal Bureau of Prisons tries to keep hidden underground. In... Read More
Justice For Nathaniel Fejerang Emergency Protest & March Thursday July 10th 2025 630PM Corner of Grand & Long Chicago IL #DEFUNDfacebok
On Monday June 30th, the UK government began the process of banning the group Palestine Action under anti-terrorism laws. For years, Palestine Action activists have disrupted, defaced, and destroyed the offices and manufacturing plants of Israeli weapons company Elbit Systems, which is the primary supplier of drones and land equipment to the Israeli Defense Force (IDF).... Read More
Join us on the 2nd Tuesday each month for a studio drawing class where you can practice your figure drawing skills individually. We'll provide the sexy fetish models, tables and chairs.... you provide whatever materials you want to use for your art. This... Read More
Stand Up for Social Security! Tuesday 7/8/25 10 – 11am Social Security Administration 3260 W Fullerton Ave Chicago, IL 60647 About this event Let’s gather in support of beleaguered yet dedicated SSA staffers and demand HANDS OFF Social Security — an earned benefit! Got a sign? Bring it.... Read More
A queer focused self defense class held biweekly at Grace Church in Logan Square. Admission is $15, trans folx fight free! Taught by Aspen Drake and Chijioke Williams
Autonomous Demo: Show Out to Get ICE Out 🧊 JULY 7 @ 9:00 AM. ICE FIELD OFFICE / IMMIGRATION COURT, 536 S CLARK ST, CHICAGO IL. With news from OCAD that ICE is going to refocus their kidnapping efforts at court hearings held at the ICE Chicago field office on S Clark and Ida B a Wells Dr.,... Read More
Find Out About The Ayla King Trial JULY 6 @ 6:00 PM UNTIL 8:00 PM. MEET BY THE POOL, GRANT PARK GAZEBO. Fire Ant Movement Defense Assembly Find out about the Ayla King Trial July 6th 2025 6-8 PM Grant Park Gazebo Meet by the pool! (REMOTE SUPPORT OPPORTUNITY) You can donate to Ayla’s trial fund here and to the Stop Cop City RICO defendants as a whole here. For... Read More
Letter Packing 7/6/25 3PM Anticonquista Cafe 952 W 18th St People are locked up in Cook County Jail facing horrific conditions. The majority of them are waiting for trial & many have been waiting for years. Help pack newsletter to send to inmates to fight the conditions from the inside & outside.
We are calling on CHICAGO for all to join us on July 4th for the PEOPLE’s INDEPENDENCE DAY because there can be no freedom without justice! The Coalition Against the Trump Agenda is a growing coalition united in the demands to fight and put an end to the racist and reactionary agenda of the Trump administration.... Read More
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July 3rd marks 6 months since CPD executed Timothy Glaze. Join us in the streets to demand justice for Timothy @ 6PM on Lake & Central Chicago IL. JAIL KILLER COPS!
THURSDAY: As part of our solidarity programming with the JVP Chicago Hunger Strikers, they are hosting TWO teach-ins (Thursday July 3) in Federal Plaza Chicago IL. First, from 4-5pm, @salon.kawakib will present a teach-in on Fighting Pinkwashing as Part of Your Activism.... Read More
WEDNESDAYS ACTION ALERT WHEN: July 2nd, 2025 at 5PM LOCATION: 9446 Raymond Ave., Oak Lawn, IL Join AAAN, USPCN, CARPRR & others to protest the @OakLawnPD and Fire Commission board meeting & demand #Justice4Murod & his family. #StopPoliceCrimes #EndRacialProfiling #DEFUNDfacebook
Stand Up To ICE! Know Your Rights! 7)/1/25 12PM Home Depot 6211 N Lincoln Ave Chicago IL
Interfaith Vigil For Gaza Monday 6/30/25 7PM St. James Commons 65 E Huron St Chicago IL
A queer focused self defense class held biweekly at Grace Church in Logan Square. Admission is $15, trans folx fight free! Taught by Aspen Drake and Chijioke Williams
Please join Organized Communities Against Deportations (OCAD) and the Gay Liberation Network (GLN) in a joint Pride Parade contingent on Sunday, June 29th. Our aim is to highlight the intersectional solidarity that was at the core of the Stonewall Rebellion and grassroots activism in the years afterwards that won us the right to have pride parades in the first place. Help... Read More
Organized by Stop Trans Genocide Chicago. We did it last year, let's do it again! Saturday June 28 (the eve before the Pride parade).
Stop The Gaza Genocide! Saturday June 28th 2025 2PM Water Tower Park Chicago Ave & Michigan Ave Chicago IL
From Chicago to Palestine: Mothering is Radical. Friday, June 27th 2025 7PM 2717 W Madison St. Chicago, IL 60612 Register: bit.ly/ChiPalMIR Childcare provided by ChiChiCo
Poems While You Wait is joining us for Gear Night on June 27th, 6-9pm. We'll have a poetry writing station, rare erotic poetry from vintage kinky magazines for your eyes only, and a live reading with Ramrose and the Leatherbound Lit poetry workshop group from 7:30 to 8pm.... Read More
Solidarity Hours With Hunger Strikers Friday June 27th 2025 4-7PM Federal Plaza Chicago IL
No kings! Fridays 4-6 CT St. Clair County Courthouse 20 Public Square Belleville IL 62220
Rally to Save the Alternative Work Schedule at Jesse Brown VA! Friday 6/27/25 1-2PM Across the street from the Damen entrance, Chicago IL. Schedule changes & staffing cuts are putting workers & the veterans they care for in danger!
🚨THIS FRIDAY! We are joining the national day of action with our allies to demand that the charges on Alejandro Orellana be dropped! Join us 12PM Friday 6/27/25 at Federal Plaza Chicago IL! Protesting is not a crime!
Flyering For Protest Friday 6/27/25 11AM Central Green Line, Chicago IL & Protest For Timothy Glaze Thursday 7/3/25 6PM Lake & Central, Chicago IL July 3rd marks 6 months since cpd executed Timothy Glaze. Take the streets & demand justice for Timothy. JAIL KILLER COPS!
Join us as we welcome Augustus Wood and Camila Gavin to the store for a discussion of Wood's new book Class Warfare in Black Atlanta: Grassroots Struggles, Power, and Repression under Gentrification. Between 1966 and 2015, the city of Atlanta was transformed.... Read More
Know Your Rights Training Thursday June 26th 2025 6PM CT open to ALL Starbucks partners. We keep each other safe, first and foremost. Zoom http://tinyurl.com/sbwu-kyr
Are you ready to step into your Dominant side and step up your kinky play? Are you looking to sink deeper into your Submissive role? This workshop will take you on a thrilling and immersive journey into the erotic world of consensual power exchange.... Read More
Join activists from @stoptransgenocide and other groups for an art build in support of the Trans Liberation March. Bring posterboard, markers, paint and other art supplies, or just bring yourself!
hi 👋🏼 come thru this thursday, june 19 at 7pm to a one-night-only early screening of Ponyboi at Music Box Theater! 🐴✨ i’ll be hosting (@pidgeon) and would love to see you there 💕 the film was written by and stars... Read More
Join us at the Chicago Public Library Bezazian Branch for an historical overview of bootblacking and its role in the queer leather community – including practical tips on leather care and restoration. This workshop will be led by local bootblack, Joey Reyes, and Gary Wasdin, Executive Director of The Leather Archives & Museum.
Vigil Honoring The Children Of Gaza Wednesday 6/18/25 4:30 PM Federal Plaza Chicago IL
Say No to the Instant Snap Curfew Wednesday 6/18/25 9:30 AM City Hall 121 N Lasalle St Chicago IL
⚡️☎️ PHONE ZAP! ICE OUT OF THE LOOP! 🚫🧊➰ Please share widely and post to social media, so people everywhere can help stop the kidnappings at Chicago Immigration Court 🗣️ 📞 ⚡️ 📞 ⚡️ 📞 ⚡️ Can't get out in the street or risk arrest? Here is a way to Melt Ice from wherever you are: ICE is kidnapping our neighbors from their court appearances at 55 East Monroe! We have to make it too costly for their landlord to allow them to continue operations.... Read More
A queer focused self defense class held biweekly at Grace Church in Logan Square. Admission is $15, trans folx fight free! Taught by Aspen Drake and Chijioke Williams
People's University For Palestine Teach-In Tuesday 6/17/25 10AM-5PM Federal Plaza Chicago IL
A Call For Support 6/17/25 9AM @ Skokie Courthouse
Melt ICE Noise Demo! Tuesday June 17 2025 at the Immigration Court 55 E Monroe / 50 E Adams Chicago IL. Show out at 8 AM. ICE typically arrives around 8:30 AM. Court is 9 AM to 1 PM and 1 PM to around 3:30 or 4 PM.
Monday 6/16/25 JVP Chicago 11AM press conference & 11:30 rally SE corner of the Federal Plaza launches the #LetGazaLive series of actions and Hunger Strike! As part of a nationwide mobilization, >22 actions are planned over the next 3 weeks. Daily events will be held, mostly in Federal Plaza, as the strike continues. ‼️6... Read More
Woodstock PrideFest - Indivisible Booth/Parade Community Event · Volunteer organized for Indivisible Sunday, June 15 2025 9am – 6pm CDT Woodstock Square Historic District 121 W Van Buren St Woodstock, IL 60098 About this event This a local Indivisible event! We are participating in the Woodstock Pridefest.... Read More
NO KINGS S Chicago Rally · Volunteer organized for No Kings Saturday, June 14 1 – 3pm CDT 10300 S Western Ave Chicago, IL 60643 lL
CHICAGO • Kick Out the Clowns: End The Greatest Shit Show on Earth Starts on Saturday, June 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM CDT Ends on Saturday, June 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM CDT Daley Plaza 50 West Washington Street Chicago, IL, 60602
NO KINGS Senior Event: Chicago Edgewater Rally · Volunteer organized for No Kings Saturday, June 14 12 – 2pm CDT North Sheridan Road & West Berwyn Avenue Chicago, IL 60640
CHICAGO Chalk The Walk: A NO KINGS Rally Send-Off. Saturday, Jun 14, 2025 9:30am - 11am CDT Jefferson (Thomas) Memorial Park 4822 N Long Ave, Chicago, IL, 60630
Everybody Takes One (sxe from twin cities) Contempt (Chicago XXX) Totaled (Peoria XXX) Scope (ChiHC)
FATES HAND / FATAL INTENT / FLESHPILE / SHACKLED BY LUST / LOS PARASITOS / CURBSTOMP THE OPPOSITION. All proceeds will be donated to the community affected by ICE! $10-15, all ages.
The Free America Festival (Obviously) will be held on Saturday, June 14th, 2025, from 12PM - 3PM at Raven Theatre (6157 N Clark St, Chicago IL), with activities both indoors and outdoors, including:
Women's March Ban Fascists, Not Books Protest and Book Drive Friday June 13th 2025 12PM-2PM 16 E Lincoln Way Valparaiso IN Protest against the rump regime & book drive. Please bring a sign and some books to donate. When you elect clowns, they don’t become leaders.... Read More
Emergency Rally! We Won't Let Them In! Friday the 13th 2025 8 AM Show up @ 50 E. Adams & 55 E Monroe Chicago IL (Both sides of the Immigration Court building) Only we can end this! Share widely! https://m.facebook.com/events/1401902660822551/?view=permalink&post_id=1406885990324218&mibextid=Nif5oz
ICE OUT OF ILLINOIS, ICE OUT OF EVERYWHERE: Join us June 12th 2025, at 4pm at Ida B Wells & Michigan, Chicago IL to say we reject ICE’s escalations in Illinois and across the country. ICE is tearing apart families... Read More
The Free America Festival (Obviously) will be held on Saturday, June 14th, 2025, from 12PM - 3PM at Raven Theatre (6157 N Clark St, Chicago IL), with activities both indoors and outdoors,
The Chicago Immigration Court was closed because the people shut it down. This is the front line. 9AM 55 E. Monroe Chicago IL every weekday. Be there.
Join us as we weclome David Roediger and Zhandarka Kurti to the store for a discussion of Roediger's new book An Ordinary White: My Anti-Racist Education. Written by the author of the landmark book The Wages of Whiteness and one of the key figures in the critical study of race and racism in America, An Ordinary White is the life story of the historian and radical American writer, David Roediger. With... Read More
Pack The Court For Gilberto Vargas Wednesday 6/11/25 9:30 AM Room 304 Cook County Courthouse 26th & California Chicago IL Join us this week at 26th and California to support a survivor of police torture Gilberto Vargas as they fight for their freedom! Court support is one of the most valuable tools we have to pressure the the courts to make just decisions This cases has a pattern and practice of a lack of evidence, recanted testimony from witnesses, coercion and wrongful conviction. Justice... Read More
Pack The Court For Rico Clark Wednesday 6/11/25 9:30 AM Room 305 Cook County Courthouse 26th & California Chicago IL Join us this week at 26th & California to support a survivor of police torture Rico Clark as they fight for their freedom! Court support is one of the most valuable tools we have to pressure the the court to make just decision.... Read More
Join us on the 2nd Tuesday each month for a studio drawing class where you can practice your figure drawing skills individually. We'll provide the sexy fetish models, tables and chairs.... you provide whatever materials you want to use for your art. This... Read More
Autonomous demo in solidarity with LA, outside the immigration courthouse at 55 E Monroe, Tuesday, at 3 PM. Last week and today, ICE agents have repeatedly kidnapped people from immigration court. Bring signs, art, noisemakers, and a friend. Be sand, find... Read More
Pack The Court For Deshanta Young 6/10/25 9:30 AM Rm 204 Cook County Courthouse 26th & California Chicago IL Zoom Option 95374722662 Pass 495237
On Friday afternoon, military-gear-clad ICE agents launched aggressive raids throughout Los Angeles. At one location, SEIU-USWW President David Huerta was assaulted, injured and detained while advocating for immigrant workers. While he has been released from the hospital, he remains in federal custody. Since... Read More
Join Indivisible Illinois on Zoom from 4PM-5:30 PM to help us call voters in the 3 Republican congressional districts in Illinois to let them know that their GOP congressperson voted to make deep cuts to Medicaid, and what that would mean for them and their communities.... Read More
Stop ice & cpd Collaboration Emergency Protest Sunday, 6/8/25 2p.m. Plaza Technotitlan W 18th St & S Loomis St Chicago IL Fight back against ice and cpd collaborating to kidnap our loved ones! This week we've seen a dramatic upsurge in ice working with local law enforcement to conduct illegal arrests in 10 cities across the nation.... Read More
free art+music show maximum weng rocco desgres wrex morbid circle harry james lotto quarter juice taurean da great
Strategies For Resistance Saturday 6/7/25 6-8 PM Pilsen Community Books 1102 W. 18th St Chicago
No EID During Genocide Protest & March Saturday 6/7/25 2PM Ida B. Wells & Michigan Ave Chicago IL Demand a stop to the murican backed israeli Gaza genocide, an end to all murican aid to israel & the full liberation of Palestine! As people in Gaza are being massacred & starved it is crucial that we continue to mobilize in mass & raise our voices. Mass... Read More
Hey Chicago! Join us Saturday, June 7th at Haymarket House (800 W. Buena Ave.) for our Radical Used Book Fair! All proceeds go to supporting the 2025 Socialism Conference with the goal of expanding our Spanish language access. We'll have hundreds of radical books available—many in like-new condition, as well as some rare finds.... Read More
Express your spanking kink! We’ll start with a presentation showing the history of depictions of male-male spanking in literature, art, photography, and videos. This is your chance to see some of the original sources that have ultimately shaped the development of the adult male spanking kink! Then, we’ll have some time for an artistic workshop to develop our own creations, followed by some show-and-tell.... Read More
DEFEND THE CONSTIUTION Rally · Volunteer organized for Indivisible Friday, June 6 4:30 – 6:30pm CDT Elk Grove Village Hall Biesterfield and Wellington Ave Elk Grove Village, IL 60007
[Member-led] Mini Neighborhood Protest Advocacy Event · Volunteer organized for Indivisible Chicago Northwest Friday, June 6 2025 4 – 6pm CDT West Diversey Avenue & North California Avenue Chicago, IL 60647 About this event Come and lift your signs to oppose the fascist regime in DC! Join me for a small neighborhood protest to share our message with people stuck in rush hour traffic. Accessibility Mainly... Read More
[Member-led] Mini Neighborhood Protest Advocacy Event · Volunteer organized for Indivisible Chicago Northwest Friday, June 6 2025 4 – 6pm CDT West Diversey Avenue & North California Avenue Chicago, IL 60647 About this event Come and lift your signs to oppose the fascist regime in DC! Join me for a small neighborhood protest to share our message with people stuck in rush hour traffic. Accessibility Mainly... Read More
Reading from their latest works, C. Russell Price and Dale Corvino will open the floor to discussions of queer haunts and hauntings, sex work, longing, desire, and whatever else enters the room. Bisquick: An American Seance Grief work is a rodeo filled with ghost clowns.... Read More
No EID During Genocide Protest & March Saturday 6/7/25 2PM Ida B. Wells & Michigan Ave Chicago IL Demand a stop to the murican backed israeli Gaza genocide, an end to all murican aid to israel & the full liberation of Palestine! As people in Gaza are being massacred & starved it is crucial that we continue to mobilize in mass & raise our voices. Mass... Read More
‼️COMMEMORATION PROTEST JUSTICE 4 MUROD: Two years since the killing of Murod Kurdi‼️ WHEN: Wednesday, June 4th, 2025, at 5 PM WHERE: Village Hall 9446 Raymond Ave., Oak Lawn, IL8 u
Racial justice. Trans rights. Education equity. Union organizing. Freedom of speech is under attack and unions must fight back. Join us for a crucial panel discussion: 📍 CTU Headquarters 1901 W Carroll Ave, Chicago 📅 Wednesday, June 4 🕔 Doors at 5PM | Panel to follow 🍽️ Food provided RSVP here so we can plan accordingly: bit.ly/64freesp... Read More
Across the country, the feds are ramping up deportation efforts, preying on immigrants attending their regular immigration proceedings and threatening lawyers and activists who question these kidnappings with arrest. Today in Chicago, multiple people have been detained after their hearings at 55 E Monroe and deprived of contact with their lawyers, while others have been detained during other check-ins with immigration at 2245 S Michigan Ave.... Read More
PACK THE COURT! FREE ELIAS! Join us the morning of Wednesday, June 4th 2025 at 9:30 a.m. to pack the court for Elias Gomez, a wrongful conviction survivor at the hands of corrupt CPD detective Daniel McWeeny. We'll meet at... Read More
PACK THE COURT! FREE RAMON NOW! This hearings is Wednesday June 4th 2025 Ramon Morales-Reyes was detained and publicly smeared by ICE for allegedly writing a letter threatening chump. It’s been revealed that this letter was fabricated by a man Ramon was going to testify against for armed robbery. We... Read More
Join members of the Illinios Divest coalition for a teach-in on Illinois’ growing divestment campaign and how to get involved. Illinois Divest demands the end of our pension funds and tax dollars being invested in genocide and community decision making power over investments.... Read More
Viewing of the 25 minute documentary "Save Briar East Woods". Q&A session to follow. Join us!
As part of the National day of action for Single Payer Health Care Chicago is targeting Blue Cross Blue Shield as the reason health care is out of reach for many.
From the fight for the 8 hour day to the first Rainbow Coalition to the struggle for fair housing to the Chicago Teachers Union strike (and so, so much more!), there is much to learn about past struggles as we navigate a quickly changing world in crisis.... Read More
Daytime: Workshops, vendors, DIY Art, Food/Drink Extravaganza Night time: Bands and DJs! Come Celebrate The Life and Bring Forth The End Of Our Beloved Community Center: The Orphanage
Art for sale / portraits on 35mm film / paintings, prints, photos, banner making, block printing, & more! All funds raised will go toward supporting the Comedor Communitario, a self-organized community kitchen by and for migrants.
Join us for the upcoming court! Donate Graham was wrongfully convicted and is fighting against the corrupt States Attorney's Office to prove their innocence and win their freedom. Court support is a powerful tool to help this survivor win the best possible outcome in court.... Read More
With Chicago Books to Women in Prison, Midwest Books to Prisoners, and Restore Justice, we will host an event on Thursday, May 29th at 6:30pm to learn more about programs that bring books to incarcerated folks & how to fight mail bans and book ban legislature. This... Read More
Women/Trans/Non-binary Open Bike Shop (5pm-8pm). Our DIY volunteers can help you learn how to work on your own bicycle; fix a flat, adjust your bike’s fit, true a wheel just to name a few. Donations appropriate for the work done in shop is requested.
We're excited to welcome Felipe Hinojosa and Miguel Castaneda to the store for a discussion of Dr. Hinojosa's book Apostles of Change: Latino Radical Politics, Church Occupations, and the Fight to Save the Barrio. In the late 1960s, the American city found itself in steep decline.... Read More
Protest on the 5th Anniversary of George Floyd's Murder! Sunday 5/25/25 2pm Federal Plaza 50 W Adams Chicago IL Show up to demand abolishing the police! Raise your voice & make some noise. People are mobilizing in cities across the country for this action marking the 5th anniversary of George Floyd's murder.... Read More
We are so excited to bring you another edition of Saturday Mourning Dance Party with DJ Scary Lady Sarah at Fallen Log Saturday, May 24th! It's getting bright outside, so come on in to the darkness and dance with us! As always the event is 18 and over, under 18 can attend if accompanied by legal guardian.... Read More
Greetings! We will be hosting a talk with author Jamie Merchant this May 24th, focusing on his book "Endgame: Economic Nationalism and Global Decline". This read could not be more timely and is likely to help us gain a better grasp on the economic turmoil the current administration has been engaged in.... Read More
The Protest List 5/24-30/25 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1f-30Rsg6N_ONQAulO-yVXTKpZxXchRRB2kD3Zhkpe_A/htmlview?pli=1&fbclid=IwY2xjawJum_lleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHvXHu3_wAd5_Yo5IitNL0VnyfYnjtLpZxSANXmx4FKtY7RjuCk_iF7Y8JBQB_aem_dVELXQnuFhUHexwPIVbnQg
The Protest List Illinois Protests 5/24/25 https://www.facebook.com/share/1Fvw9gZvSW/
WHAT: Buena Park tenants threatened with displacement are putting on a press conference to speak about the situation landlord Drew Miller and managers 33 Realty have put them through. Tenants will also speak about retaliation they have faced from management,... Read More
Take Action Now! Events mostly in the chicagoland area.
🚨 🚨 🚨 RALLY ALERT 🚨 🚨 🚨 Join REI Union Chicago & the CFL @ REI's Lincoln Park store 905 W Eastman St Chicago 60642 for a rally on Saturday 5/24/25 @ 1PM to demand REI give workers a fair contract! REI Union is currently bargaining their 1st contract with the co-op. https://www.facebook.com/share/1LEvgkkwBr/
Hands Off Social Security Thursdays 5/22/25 10am – 11am CDT Social Security Administration office 2127 W Lawrence Ave. Chicago, IL 60625 Vigil outside of the Social Security Administration building to support SSA employees and to demand HANDS OFF Social Security. Meets the 4th Thursday of the month, 10am - 11am https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/787628/ The... Read More
The DuSable Black History Museum is showing the film about the 2018 killing of Harith "Snoop" Augustus by Chicago police officer Dillan Halley.
Join us as we welcome Alec Karakatsanis and Robert Vargas to the store for a discussion of Karakatsanis's new book Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News, the deeply researched and definitive book on the way the media and police distract us from what matters.... Read More
We're excited to welcome James Stewart III and J. Howard Rosier to the store for the launch of Stewart's much anticipated debut novel Defiant Acts. James Stewart III’s powerful debut novel documents the life of a working-class interracial couple and their children in a Chicago suburb in the early 1990s.... Read More
Public Square Conversation Personal Power & Collective Action Tuesday 5/20/25 6PM Edgewater Presbyterian Church 5615 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago, IL 60660-4628, United States https://facebook.com/events/s/public-square-conversation-per/1033047798370423/ RSVP https://secure.everyaction.com/6nb4245sREiblICPN6GR4Q2 Join CAPA’s next Public Square Conversation where you’ll connect with others who are ready to get into action. This is your invitation to do something—and to do it together. The... Read More
The evening program will start with a short presentation by Dr. Ken Schoon, author of several books about the importance of duneland forests, followed by a 25 minute documentary viewing. There will be a Q&A session following the viewing that includes frontline community members.... Read More
We will form a human chain of conscience across Chicagoland in peaceful protest against Trump's illegal and authoritarian actions. We will line sidewalks from Aurora to Douglass Park along Ogden, 26th Street, and California. Bring signs, wear black, and make some noise!
Join us on the 17th of May 1pm at Federal Plaza 230 S Dearborn St Chicago IL 60604 to protest for the return of Kilmer Abrego Garcia SMART Local 100 apprentice! The racist Trump regime has kidnapped and deported Garcia to El Salvador to be imprisoned.
Share your design process when creating art in various forms. We will have an emphasis on digital media, but all styles and forms are welcome. Please be prepared to share and answer questions from other attendees. We look forward to... Read More
Reminder: Show out in the streets for the CPOP Spring Offensive at the CAARPR Office 6353 S Cottage Grove Chicago IL for training at 10:30 a.m. followed by tabling from noon to 3 p.m. The CPOP referendum will give us the democratic power to hold CPD accountable for their crimes against our communities.... Read More
Indivisible Say No To USPS Privatization This a local peaceful protest to alert the public and raise support in our efforts to stop the privatization of the United States Postal Service and save our jobs. Event Details Date: Saturday, May 17th Time: 10:00 AM Location: 7500 Roosevelt Rd, Forest Park, IL, 60130 https://www.findaprotest.info/event/Forest%20Park/47d8a8b8-2b8e-405a-9d1b-8c36d39488dc
Interrebellium, a new documentary about the 2019 Estadillo Social in Chile, will be screened this friday at Swift Hall RM. 106 1025 E 58th St, Chicago, IL 60637 7pm! Stop by if you’re free
In a one-time performance, Chicago-based composer and sound artist Lia Kohl presents the world premiere of her latest composition "Music for Union Station," a chamber work responding to the Great Hall of Chicago's central train station. Inspired by the historic space's expansive acoustics, and an ongoing interest in the mundane and profound possibilities of sound, Kohl offers a soundscape for intentional audiences and train passengers alike. NPR... Read More
Tune in TONIGHT at 6 PM for Spotlight on Transit! WGN Radio 720 AM is airing a special edition of The Workers' Mic: Spotlight on Transit, diving into Illinois' Public Transit Crisis, the bill that's aiming to fix it, and how you can get involved! Link: buff.ly/XpNu3Fw
Call 312-814-2121 & 217-782-6830 8:30AM-5PM to Demand Gov. Pritzker to move on all the clemency petitions collecting dust on his desk. Antoine Chest (R15473) is just one of hundreds of petitioners waiting for the governor to make a ruling. Antoine Chest was wrongfully incarcerated in 2007.... Read More
Join us on the 2nd Tuesday each month for a studio drawing class where you can practice your figure drawing skills individually. We'll provide the sexy fetish models, tables and chairs.... you provide whatever materials you want to use for your art. This... Read More
Since the attacks on federal workers continue, so do the Workers' Rights Board Hearings! Join us for Civil Servants: Speak Out! ft. HUD workers on May 12 and learn about and discuss the impacts of DOGE’s inhumane handling of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
On Monday, May 12, join @chicagolabor @ILAFLCIO @Local150 with WGN Radio's the Workers' Mic to put a spotlight on public transportation. You are invited to join the hosts of the Workers' Mic for a LIVE discussion and radio recording. Featured guests Senate Transportation Chair State Senator Ram Villivalam and myself to update you on the work at the Capitol in Springfield to ensure a stronger future for public transit 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧: 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗢𝗻 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘁 - 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗪𝗚𝗡 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀’ 𝗠𝗶𝗰 𝗪𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘: 𝗜𝗨𝗢𝗘 𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝟯𝟵𝟵 𝟮𝟮𝟲𝟬 𝗦.... Read More
Join our weekly meetings to build a strong anti-imperialist, anti-war movement here in Chicago! Visit bit.ly/joinantiwarchi… to get involved! Sun 5/4- 2pm on Zoom Sun 5/11- 2pm at Casa Michoacán, 1638 S Blue Island Ave. Sun5/18- 2pm on Zoom Sun 5/25 - 2pm at... Read More
American Civic and Humanitarian Coalition Bouquets for Mothers of Resistance Celebrate Mother’s Day by honoring the strength, sacrifice, and resilience of mothers facing oppression around the world. Sunday, May 11 2-5 PM Newton Park in Glen Ellyn, IL Bring your own set of flowers.... Read More
Rogers Park Food Not Bombs distributes free food every Sunday.
Every year, our awesome Urban Roots teens learn new skills and take on different responsibilities while working at the Conservatory. In 2023, we added beekeeping to that list. This year we are offering hands-on beekeeping classes led by our Head Beekeeper with the help of our two teen beekeepers.... Read More
Join us in the streets for our CPOP Spring Offensive! Every Saturday in May starting on the 10th, we'll be hitting the streets to spread the word about why we need to fight for the Referendum for Community Power Over Policing (CPOP).
Join us for a Nonviolent Communication Teach-in hosted by certified trainer (and friend of Joy Bomb) Mary May. Learn the core concepts of NVC and put it into practice with us!
Spring Community Gathering and Fundraiser at Yolotl and Bloodfruit Anarchist Library 🌿🌼🍄🏴 Friday, May 9th 6-11pm DM bloodfruitlib on Instagram for the address Come gather around the fire, plant seedlings, eat yummy food and write to the families of disappeared relatives in la ciudad de Mexico.... Read More
Save the date for: News Night, where 4 journalists have an open-ended conversation around what their latest stories are about and what they are thinking about in the city and globally. Come hungry for a long sandwich. Thursday, May 8th at 7p.m. @... Read More
antifascist, antiracist, antisexist, nonhierarchical martial arts classes in Chicago
Billionaires are organizing — but so are we. CTU President Stacy Davis Gates is joining the Workers Over Billionaires mass call this Wednesday, May 7th, and you don’t want to miss it. We’ve had enough of a rigged system where billionaires raise our rents, freeze our wages, and strip away our rights, while workers like us are told to wait our turn.... Read More
Join Dean Spade and Eman Abdelhadi in conversation around Spade's new book Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together. This event will take place at Haymarket House, and will also be live-streamed on our YouTube channel.... Read More
Emergency Protest: ICE raids which were rumored are happening today in DC targeting delivery drivers. Chicago raids are next. EMERGENCY PROTEST AND MARCH TONIGHT AT 5pm Daley plaza
JOIN US Tuesday, May 6 at 9:30 a.m. in Rm 404 at 2650 S California Ave Chicago IL 60608 to pack the court for Douglas Livingston! Livingston is a survivor of wrongful conviction at the hands of corrupt CPD sgt. Brian Forberg. On... Read More
$10, 7PM
Rogers Park Food Not Bombs distributes free food every Sunday.
Join us for a special evening in support of Milk, a powerful new short film by Palestinian-Mexican filmmaker Tasnim Hindeyeh. We’ll begin with a live table read of the script, followed by a panel discussion featuring the director and a guest speaker from Gaza.... Read More
With the Trump administration announcing plans to target pro-Palestine protesters and organizations under “terrorism” designations, it is critical that communities learn about what those tools look like in practice. Like everyone else, Lucy Parsons Labs is concerned with the growing repression and recognize that inter-community solidarity is one of our strongest defenses. We... Read More
Attention Workers! Celebrate May Day 2025 with Joy Bomb! We will be hosting speakers discussing labor history and it's relevance for current organizing, along with several classic labor songs sung by local musicians!!
Join us for an afternoon of camaraderie, delicious food (including vegetarian and vegan options), and refreshments as we celebrate May Day and the long tradition of resistance it represents. In this volatile moment we are more grateful than ever for our Haymarket House community.... Read More
Come out to Cole’s Bar on Thursday, May 1 to fight back against Trump’s attacks on the immigrant community! All proceeds will go to El Comedor Comunitario, a local community kitchen run by and for newly arrived immigrants. This autonomously run kitchen has been operating in the Bridgeport neighborhood, focused on providing not only food, but also care, support, and solidarity within the community. Come... Read More
The work of Chicago-based artist and activist Mary Patten operates between the realms of poetry and politics, posing expansive questions drawn from a life deeply engaged with social and political movements. In a program wryly titled after a truncated quote by Che Guevara, she presents a selection of readings and videos spanning from the mid-1990s to the present.... Read More
Haymarket Memorial Plaque Dedication event still takes place Thursday 5/1/25 4:30 PM @ The Haymarket Memorial 175 N Desplaines Ave Chicago IL.
NEW TIME FOR MAY DAY RALLY & MARCH The May Day Rally & March will now begin on Thursday 5/1/25 10 AM @ Union Park 1501 W Randolph St. Chicago IL 60606.
Take Action Against Snap Curfew! Show up on 4/30/25 9AM @ City Council Chambers, 2nd Floor City Hall, 121 N Lasalle St Chicago IL to give public comment agaist snap curfew..
Pack The Court Cook County Court House 26th & California For Caleb Charleston 4/30/25 9AM Rm. 308 Free Caleb Charleston! Free Them All!
Join us as we welcome Hagen Blix and Michael Sappir to the store for a reading and discussion of Why We Fear AI: The Interpretation of Nightmares. Will AI come and take all our jobs? Will it dominate humanity, hack the foundations of our civilization, or even wipe humans off the face of the planet? All kinds of people seem to think so.... Read More
Directors: Cristina Ibarra, Alex Rivera U.S., 95 min, 2019 With ripped-from-the-headlines relevance, though set during the Obama years, The Infiltrators chronicles the riveting, unbelievably true story of a group of activist Dreamers who slipped undercover into ICE detention centers to stop those inside from being deported.... Read More
Pack The Court Cook County Court House 26th & California For Gerald Reed Rm. 4/29/25 11:30AM Rm. 500 Free Gerald Reed! Free Them All!
Pack The Court Cook County Court House 26th & California For Elias Gomez Rm. 4/29/25 9:30AM Rm. 101
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Rogers Park Food Not Bombs distributes free food every Sunday.
From Flyer: “Neighborhood artists who’ve been helping nimmy have organized a night of performances to raise funds for her rent and utility bills and resources needed to give nimmy the adequate caretaker she deserves. Help the community local helpers, activists, and... Read More
Pilsen Community Books is honored to welcome Alejandra Oliva, Diego Báez, Daniel Borzutzky and other special guests to the store for a reading and teach-in in support of Midwest Immigration Bond Fund (MIBF). The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund facilitates a revolving immigration bond fund to pay immigration bonds that frees individuals from ICE custody and gathers community to advocate for the abolition of immigration detention and surveillance.... Read More
A weekly drop-in, hands-on art studio open to all ages, facilitated by art therapists and alumni from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). The topics and projects are chosen by you. A wide variety of creative and artistic supplies are Winner, New:Vision Award, CPH:DOX 2022 Winner, Prix Bartók, Jean Rouch International Film Festival 2022 2022 Whitney Biennial In the visually and sonically stunning What About China?, renowned artist and filmmaker Trinh T.... Read More
Saturday April 26, 2025 from 4-7pm The Chicago Black Gay Men Caucus and Chicago Department of Public Health present an inclusive, nonjudgmental space for a community discussion about Chemsex. Free Vaccinations, Sexual Health Screenings, Resources, and Demonstration!
The Stop Cop City Imaginary Crimes Tour comes to Joy Bomb on April 26th and will continue through May with events in cities across the country - Join us for the talk! The fight to Stop Cop City in Atlanta, GA is a localized iteration of the global struggle against carceral futures and a fascist police state.... Read More
Watkins’s reenactment of the Paris Commune — the revolutionary proletarian government in 1871 Paris — is another instance of his experimental approach to documentary-fiction. La Commune was shot in under two weeks with hundreds of actors, mostly non-professional, who are the populist backbone of the film.... Read More
TAITAIxTina swims and moves with homemade gelatin objects as she responds to SLAPHAPPY. A pink plastic table cover roll will cover the gallery floor. The objects are shaped from food preserving vessels with quarters and dollars cast inside. Audience members are invited to watch the performance and move with her, and take a close look at the objects in the exhibition.... Read More
On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of Italy’s Liberation from Nazifascism, the Italian Cultural Institute, in collaboration with the Department of French and Italian at Northwestern University, presents a performance of theatrical readings dedicated to the Italian Resistance movement. Through a reading of selected stories — translated into English by students of Italian at Northwestern University in collaboration with students of the Università La Sapienza of Rome — we will rediscover stories and testimonies of the events that shaped the Italian Resistance across the peninsula from 1943 to 1945.... Read More
For their second solo exhibition of the year, Jackson Junge Gallery is excited to announce THE WAIT WE CARRY, an exhibition featuring the work of in-house artist, Clifton Henri. THE WAIT WE CARRY is a collection of photo-based images inspired by the layered and complicated experience of ‘Being Black in America’.... Read More
Join us for an upcoming film showing and talk with one of the filmmakers -- @thenativeandtherefugee -- of "Spaces of Exception" on Friday April 25th @ 6pm -- co-organized with @nwicommunitysolidarity "Spaces of Exception features interviews with members of the American Indian Movement, the Mohawk Warrior Society, and Diné families resisting displacement on Black Mesa, as well as members of Fatah, Palestinian environmental and media activists, autonomous youth committees, and the families of political prisoners and martyrs.... Read More
Global Day Of Action For Gaza Friday 4/25/25 4:30 PM Federal Plaza 230 S Dearborn Av Downtown Chicago IL
Rally Friday 4/25/25 @ 11:30AM @ Gov. JB Pritzker's office 555 W Monroe St, Chicago IL to demand he pardon all survivors of police torture & all cases recommended for clemancy by the Prison Review Board.
"NO OTHER LAND" Film Showing and Discussion --RSVP: bit.ly/No-Other-Land-…. WHEN: Thu 4/24/25 at 7PM. WHERE: Lake Street Church, 1450 Chicago Ave, Evanston, IL 60201. @MennoniteAction @IfNotNowOrg AdvocatesforJustice LakesStreetChurch CAPA
The Stop Cop City Imaginary Crimes Tour comes to Chicago on April 24th and will continue through May with events in cities across the country - Join us for the talk! The fight to Stop Cop City in Atlanta, GA is a localized iteration of the global struggle against carceral futures and a fascist police state.... Read More
This month, Zine Club Chicago is celebrating the earth and its natural delights in collaboration with our friends at Life on Marz Community Club! Y’all are invited to help create a group zine on the theme Everything’s Gone Green. Please join us for Zine Club Chicago on Marz: Everything’s Gone Green Zinemaking Hangout, 7-9 p.m.... Read More
Get involved in the Campaign to Free Incarcerated Survivors of Police Torture! Thursday 4/24/25 at 6PM on Zoom! Visit bit.ly/cfistmeet at that time.
@lilybe606@stoopstylestories Thirteen years ago, Stoop Style Stories was born on a humble stoop. It was raw, real, and revolutionary. And now—it’s back, better than ever. Because this time, we’re not just telling stories. We’re helping people live. This isn’t your average storytelling show.... Read More
antifascist, antiracist, antisexist, nonhierarchical martial arts classes in Chicago
@chicago_jwj, The Chicago Federation of Labor, and the AFL-CIO host the 6th round of the Civil Servants Speak Out Series. This month we'll be discussing and learning about how the gutting of worker health and safety departments such as OSHA and NIOSH impact ALL workers.... Read More
Join us for a Banner Drop Against Gaza Ecocide as we call out the ongoing genocide and environmental devastation in Palestine. As families gather to celebrate Easter, we remind the world that there can be no true celebration while Israel continues to destroy the Holy Land.... Read More
Allen Moore vs. June Rin Peisert vs. Cody Shaffer CONSUMER. vs. Melon Sprout Mrs. Hands vs. Xerox Noise “Mainstays”: Allen Moore, Rin Peisert, Mrs. Hands, CONSUMER. “Fresh Blood”: June, Cody Shaffer, Xerox Noise, Melon Sprout “Referee”: Clark Woods @gayinsurance Mrs. Hands @allenmoorestudios Allen Moore @butt.mommy 1/2 Xerox Noise @dancejannadance 2/2 Xerox Noise @jcodyshaffer Cody Shaffer @art.cowboy... Read More
Let’s talk about MAY DAY… and Lucy Parsons… and general strikes from Chicago to Palestine! Community discussion in advance of International Workers Day. As we organize to tear down violent systems this May Day and beyond, let’s contemplate together where we’ve been, where our movements are now, and how we can build the deep and powerful solidarity needed to move towards the liberation of all lands & peoples.... Read More
“I am the Chosen One!” With this exclamation Donald Trump crowns the national exceptionalism his base upholds with a claim of personal exceptionalism. He leaves no doubt as to the emotional note: “I am your vengeance!” He personifies reaction for the masses.... Read More
Join us for an uplifting event at Daley Plaza focusing on "Joy as Resistance" as a form of protest. Organized by 50/50 Chicago, this gathering aims to bring the community together from 12 PM to 2 PM on April 19. We... Read More
Aja Y. Martinez and Robert O. Smith will be at Pilsen Community Books for a reading and discussion about their new book The Origins of Critical Race Theory: The People and Ideas that Created a Movement. Critical race theory (CRT), a vital movement and discipline in American legal scholarship, has transformed our understanding of systemic racism.... Read More
OPENING NIGHT: Friday April 18 6PM-8PMGALLERY HOURS: Thursday-Saturday 1PM-5PM Arts + Public Life presents the undercommons, the first solo exhibition by painter Brandon Carlton. Through his distinctive approach to stylized figuration, Carlton explores the complexities of contemporary Black life, using portraiture and spatial composition to evoke intimacy, distance, and presence.... Read More
Join us for a co-sponsored event with Haymarket Books at Haymarket House with best-selling author Malcolm Harris and activist-historian Gabriel Winant for a conversation on Harris’s new book, What’s Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis. In What's Left, Malcolm Harris gets real about our remaining options for saving the world.... Read More
Federal Grand Juries and State Repression Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 6:30pm ET / 5:30pm CT / 4:30pm MT / 3:30pm PT The NLG National Office is excited to announce a new webinar! Federal agents use tactics like “door knocks” and grand jury subpoenas to target activists and surveil social movements.... Read More
Tax Day March and Rally Start: Tuesday, April 15, 2025• 4:30 PM Jefferson & Harrison• 630 W Harrison, Chicago, IL 60607 US
Pack The Court Monday 4/14/25 9:30AM in room 304 26th and California Chicago IL 60608 or on zoom to support Antonio Porter in Court! We won't stop fighting until all survivors of police torture and wrongful conviction have justice! FREE... Read More
Dance for a good cause! Help an immigrant family pay their lawyer expenses for their asylum case, while also dancing your hearts out with all your friends👯 This dance social will be from 6 - 10pm on Saturday, April 12 at the APMA building (3000 W.... Read More
Protests continue this Saturday 4/12/25 2 PM @ Ida B Wells Dr & Michigan Ave DownTown Chicago IL End the Genocide! No to Deportations! Arms Embargo Now! End ALL U.S. aid to Israel!
Our annual native fruit tree share is going to be an local extravaganza, not to be missed! There will be food provided, music/a DJ, along with workshops on caring for the trees as well as other ecological topics.
Sharing events on facebook to take action everywhere in the omniverse, mostly in the chicagoland area. https://www.facebook.com/share/1AZKpYPTeF/
Updated Date! Urgent! 🚨UPDATED DATE !! URGENT ASK! CPD CONTINUES TO MURDER AND BRUTALIZE OUR LOVED ONES! Join us at city council chamber 2nd floor city hall 121 N Lasalle St Chicago IL 60602 for public comment to demand justice! Demand... Read More
Stop Trans Genocide Chicago (@stoptransgenocide on Instagram) is hosting a coalition-building night to talk about our sanctuary city status. What does it mean, in actual practice? Can we envision something even more ideal? Who will be on board? What kind of giant mutual aid networks can we create? How can we handle an influx of trans asylees? When will we get our needs met? So join us for this discussion.... Read More
Adam Greenfield, author of Lifehouse will be visiting to further discuss the book and its application in our communities.
How can we not merely survive this time of climate chaos together, but do so with our values of dignity and justice intact? And how on Earth are we supposed to do so in a moment when everything sustaining feels like it's being torn to pieces around us? Join us at the store to launch Adam Greenfield's Lifehouse.... Read More
A weekly drop-in, hands-on art studio open to all ages, facilitated by art therapists and alumni from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). The topics and projects are chosen by you. A wide variety of creative and artistic supplies are provided free by the library.... Read More
Join us on the 2nd Tuesday each month for a studio drawing class where you can practice your figure drawing skills individually. We'll provide the sexy fetish models, tables and chairs.... you provide whatever materials you want to use for your art. This... Read More
antifascist, antiracist, antisexist, nonhierarchical martial arts classes in Chicago
3pm - 4:30pm on Sunday April 6th 🍵⛓️ Ever wonder what a high protocol tea service entails? Curious about different types of tea service? Join Raea & Master Leather Redux in April as they go over the ins and outs of high protocol tea service and ceremonies.... Read More
Join Anti-War Chicago at their upcoming April meetings. It is more important than ever to get organized, find your community, and take collective action against Imperialism, war, and the US/Israel reign of terror. Together, we can make a difference and fight back against tyranny.
DIRECT ACTION brings viewers into France’s rural Notre-Dame-des-Landes commune, whose activist inhabitants live and work to protect a “Zone to Defend” (ZAD) against development in the region. With a commitment equal to that of their subjects, filmmakers Ben Russell and Guillaume Cailleau deliberately observe the work and play of daily life in the commune: agriculture, domestic chores, recreation—and preparations for a major protest action against a proposed reservoir project.... Read More
Join the Immigrants Rights Working Committee 4/5/25 on 26th & Pulaski Chicago IL @ 7:30PM for a vigil, honoring immigrants lost in the struggle and sharing stories of our immigrant experience. Let’s come together in solidarity and come out ready to fight back against injustice! Acompaña el Comité de Derechos Inmigrantes de CAARPR este 5 de Abril para una vigilia, honorando inmigrantes perdidos en la lucha, y compartiendo historias de nuestra experiencia inmigrante.... Read More
CPD officers in the 7th district are now allowed to file felony gun charges against anyone without going through the traditional felony review process. MOBILIZE at the 7th District Council meeting at 12pm on Saturday, April 5th, at Ogden Park 6500... Read More
Join the Chicago Federation of Labor, Equality Illinois, Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, Indivisible Chicago, Personal PAC, Sierra Club Illinois, and many others to rally and march opposing Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and the Trump Administration’s catastrophic attacks on our nation and the world. Enough... Read More
Support Little Village Tamalera from being kicked out of her 20 year location! Saturday 4/5/25 8-10AM Marshall Plaza, Cermak & Marshall Little Village, Chicago IL.
Court Support Training 4/3/25 5:30PM-7:30PM Walls Turned Sideways 2717 W Madison Chicago, IL 60612 Come support and learn how to build a court support program that free's while exposing the criminal justice system. Register now at: https://givebutter.com/CourtSupport
THURSDAY, 4/3/25 at 5:30 PM! CTU Center 1901 W Carroll, Chicago. IL. 60612 Join the @ChicagoTeachers and labor allies for the launch of the much-anticipated biography (I Didn't Come Here to Lie) of President Emerita Karen Lewis, the transformative leader of the CTU, IFT, and the entire labor movement. f.mtr.cool/dhqvccjxgf
Join us for a provocative exploration of how animal roleplay became a powerful form of queer resistance and community-building across time and borders. "Howls Across Spacetime" traces the evolution of pup play from its roots in the AIDS crisis—when leatherfolx reimagined sex and care amid devastating loss—to the vibrant pup community in Taiwan, where animal personas have become unexpected symbols in struggles for recognition and democracy. This... Read More
Participation is required on both April 2nd and April 9th. Ticket price includes both classes for a one time payment. Soil isn’t just dirt—it’s a living, breathing foundation for all life. In this immersive two-part course, renowned soil ecologist Nance Klehm of Social Ecologies will guide you through the hidden world beneath our feet, helping you understand how soil health directly impacts urban environments, food systems, and ecosystems. Designed... Read More
Stressed out? Feeling hopeless and crushed by despair? Experts agree: the remedy is soup. Join us at the Hideout for the final Soup & Bread of the winter 2025 soup season — and the return of Soup & Thread! We’re extending our hours this month, so stick around after the soup is gone for a crafting hour.... Read More
Join us on 3/2/25 to support Douglas Livingston in court. Douglas was kidnapped and torture by Sgt Brian Forberg & wrongfully convicted in 2012. He has been incarcerated ever since. Court support: 930AM Room 404 2650 S California Ave Chicago IL Zoom 990... Read More
Do you like science fiction, fantasy, horror, or just plain strange books? Meet fellow weird readers to discuss strange and speculative fiction at Weird Book Club, an adult book discussion group that meets at Map Room, on the last Monday of every month.... Read More
Hear from workers, educators, and community members about how cuts to the Department of Education impact workers and all of us! @chicago_jwj
Trans Day of Visibility is a time to celebrate the strength, resilience, and accomplishments of transgender and nonbinary individuals. This year, we’re taking action early and gathering to demand visibility, justice, and equality. On Sunday, March 30, 2025, we’ll gather at 1:00 PM at Federal Plaza in Chicago for a protest that’s more than just a community gathering for an early TDOV, it’s a call for action.... Read More
🚨Teamsters Mobilize. IBT ELECTION: A Platform for the Rank-and-File! 🗓️: Sunday, March 30, 2025 ⏰: 10am PT/ 11am MT/ Noon CT/ 1pm ET 🔗: bit.ly/TM-16 Join us, TM in discussing our demands for the upcoming 2026 IBT election.
#GlobalDayOfAction on 3/29/25 #Illinois #TeslaTakedown Take action at Tesla showrooms everywhere. https://www.teslatakedown.com/
Take action! A facebook event sharing events everywhere but mostly in the chicagoland area.
Lastima, (emotional black metal) apophy (black/death metal), blood nymph (anguished noise metal) and flowering (powerviolence) play at the vcr on Friday march 28th. 10$ suggested. 8pm doors music at 9pm. This show is 18+ Email blood.nymph.chi@gmail.com for address, please walk through... Read More
A public, interactive, art show about grief, abolition, and what it means to live on a world that is falling apart around us. Come co-create this piece with us! Also happening on Saturday, 3/29 from 3-6pm.
🚨🚨🚨RALLY ALERT🚨🚨🚨 Join federal workers for a rally at the Jesse Brown V.A. Polk & Damen Chicago, IL. Friday, March 28 @ 12 PM Stand with us to stop chump and MuskRat’s plan to slash 83,000 jobs and strip the VA of... Read More
It's time to get cozy! This time we're swapping little, tiny, big, creepy, spooky, handmade, hand -me-down, cutesy trinkets! Clear some space, bring home something cute and maybe make some new friends. Ticket sales go to @midwest_access_coalition
Public Square Conversations: Pillars of Democracy WHEN: Thursday, March 27, 2025 @ 6:00 PM WHERE: Lake Street Church, 1450 Chicago Ave, Evanston, IL 60201 (enter door on the north side of the courtyard) The upheaval we are experiencing as a society has left many individuals and communities wondering what they can do to uphold the pillars of our democracy.... Read More
🚨🚨🚨RALLY ALERT🚨🚨🚨 Join federal workers for a rally at the Jesse Brown V.A. Polk & Damen Chicago, IL. Friday, March 28 @ 12 PM Stand with us to stop chump and MuskRat’s plan to slash 83,000 jobs and strip the VA of... Read More
CALLS NEEDED to 312-814-2121 & 217-782-6830 to urge Gov. Pritzker to move on clemency petitions collecting dust on his desk. Antoine Chest is just one of hundreds of petitioners waiting for the governor to make a ruling. Use the script on slide two to call in and build the pressure on Priztker to do what’s right, and comment on this post when you’ve called.... Read More
Hear from our guest speaker Sunny Flower about using tools and resources to reflect on your own identity (sexual, kink, gender etc). This class can help you understand your wants and desires in various relationship dynamics. Doors at 7PM, Class 7:30- No alcohol allowed on Thursdays.... Read More
A weekly drop-in, hands-on art studio open to all ages, facilitated by art therapists and alumni from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). The topics and projects are chosen by you. A wide variety of creative and artistic supplies are provided free by the library.... Read More
We’re asking people to go to the Field Museum’s IG page and leave comments asking them to negotiate a fair contract! People can also leave comments on their facebook page https://www.facebook.com/share/1BjXBadJgf/ & message them. People can as well leave a reply on their Twitters @FieldMuseum & @SUEtheTrex . &... Read More
Sophie Lewis and Eman Abdelhadi will be at Pilsen Community Books for a discussion of Lewis's new book ENEMY FEMINISMS: TERFS, POLICEWOMEN, AND GIRLBOSSES AGAINST LIBERATION. In recent years, "white feminism" and girlboss feminism have taken a justified beating. We know that leaning in won't make our jobs any more tolerable and that white women have proven to be, at best, unreliable allies.... Read More
JUSTICE FOR DESHANTA YOUNG! Join us for court support at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, March 25th, at 26th and California to pack the court for Young! Young is serving time in some of the worst prison conditions imaginable for a crime he did not commit. There... Read More
Join us for a discussion of "We Are 'Nature' Defending Itself: Entangling Art, Action, and Autonomous Zones." This book club meeting is a part of Spill Paint Not Oil's week of programming culminating in interactive art shows for A Poem for Entangled Living at Watershed Arts and Ecology on March 28th-29th.... Read More
antifascist, antiracist, antisexist, nonhierarchical martial arts classes in Chicago
Join us for a discussion of We Are 'Nature' Defending Itself: Entangling Art, Action, and Autonomous Zones. This book club meeting is a part of Spill Paint Not Oil's week of programming culminating in interactive art shows for A Poem for Entangled Living at Watershed Arts and Ecology on March 28th-29th.... Read More
🚨🚨🚨 RALLY ALERT 🚨🚨🚨 Join Chicago Firefighters Union Local 2 and Chicago Teachers Union to rally for a fair contract on Monday, March 24 at 9 AM at Monroe & Laflin, between Engine 103 & Whitney Young HS 🔴Wear red and stand... Read More
"There's only one way to overcome temptation - by giving into it!" Acclaimed '70s avant-garde erotic filmmaker Peter de Rome and Hand in Hand Films bring a balanced measure of storyline, emotion, and raunchy sex to this classic gay horror/adult film hybrid, which is simultaneously artful, campy, and haunting. Loosely... Read More
Grab your favorite gear and join us on the last Friday of every month, from 6-9pm. We'll have music, drinks, and snacks to get your weekend off to a kinky start. Join us to socialize with other kinksters, check out the latest exhibits, or just hang out and color in your sexiest stuff. All... Read More
Sunday meeting at 2pm to get involved in the anti-imperialist, anti-war movement & a campaign to demand Frerichs divest IL tax $ from genocide. 3/23 on Zoom https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1t1wEU_F4ZfQU7rYQOyTRWmc5k1K3LLgzEuSxqsM-lYU/viewform?edit_requested=true for details
RP Food Not Bombs distributes free food every Sunday: PO Box Collective, 6900 N Glenwood 12-1pm
Join National Association of Letter Carriers members rallying at Federal Plaza on Sunday March 23 2025 at 11:30 a.m. in response to attempts made by the chump regime to dismantle the USPS. Show solidarity by attending if you're able and... Read More
We will be reading and discussing "Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves In a World On Fire" by Adam Greenfield. Everyone is invited to join in the group discussion with us.
We know everyone has been telling you to find community in uncertain times, but maybe you're not sure where to start? Join us and facilitator Belle for a conversation about building preparedness through community. This isn't "eat beans in your bunker" prepping, it's a way of thinking about how you and the people around you can support each other in times of uncertainty and emergencies.... Read More
Join us for queer focused karaoke night at Joy Bomb!
We're hosting our pals from Silver Sprocket and comics artist Connor B. to launch Bring Me The Head of Susan Lomond, a queer enemies-to-prom-date romance between a teen misanthropic genius and the lead quarterback, perfect for fans of the novel I Kissed Shara Wheeler and the shopping experience of Hot Topic. Featuring... Read More
Protest & March on Saturday 3/22/25 1PM @ Ida B.Wells Dr & Michigan Ave Chicago IL WE HIT THE STREETS AGAIN! We demand an end to the murica-backed Gaza Genocide! Immediate end to deportations! Freedom for Mahmoud Khalil and all other ICE... Read More
Tesla Takedown 3/22/25 Telsa Showroom https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/teslatakedown
Show up Fri, 3/21/25, 8:30am to protest the IL State Board of Investments to demand Frerichs & ISBI divest from genocide! ISBI invests in companies complicit in the occupation of Palestine & Frerichs just renewed $15mil in Israeli bonds bringing investments in Israeli bonds over $135m.
Doors at 7 PM $10-15 Pay What You Can't
Show up at the police board hearing to demand justice for Dexter Reed, Reginald Clay Jr, Lorenzo Williams Jr, and Ramon Banks! Pack the public comment to demand the firing and prosecution of all pigs involved in these crimes, and an end to cpd’s use of pretextual traffic stops! When: 7:30 p.m.... Read More
Candlelight Vigil For Christopher Lepe - Killed By apd! Thursday 3/20/25 7pm Simmons Park, 1201 E Indian Trl, Aurora, IL 60505, United States https://facebook.com/events/s/candlelight-vigil-for-christop/1331518321418408/
Protest Against Quantum Thursday 3/20/25 6PM Grand Lecture Hall, Chicago Architecture Center Meet @ Michigan & Wacker
Join APWU members on 3/20/25 at 5 p.m. @ the Daniel J. Doffyn Post Office 3750 N Kedzie Chicago IL 60618 Help postal workers send the message: the U.S. Mail is not for sale! The USPS is facing a serious threat and now more than ever, we must stand together to protect our mail service.
Graphics (Math / no-wave) Seaxes (Noise rock) Larvavision (Improv jazz-skronk) 9 PM $12
A weekly drop-in, hands-on art studio open to all ages, facilitated by art therapists and alumni from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). The topics and projects are chosen by you. A wide variety of creative and artistic supplies are provided free by the library.... Read More
Emergency Protest! Hands Off Gaza! 3/18/25 4:30 PM @ The israeli consulate 500 W madison chicago il.
Join us, following our next radical assembly, for a wonderful documentary about the Kurdish Women's Revolution that has been taking place in North and East Syria for more than a decade now. Learn about the lessons they have taken and put into action as they continue to fight to build a new world based on egalitarian values.
Joy Bomb is hosting radical assemblies throughout the year to give space for people to plug in to emerging mutual aid efforts in Northwest Indiana as well as to develop a strong network of connection among people ready to act. If you have an interest in making connections with what is growing in NWI's radical scene, the assemblies would be a great way to connect with us.
RP Food Not Bombs distributes free food every Sunday: PO Box Collective, 6900 N Glenwood 12-1pm
Join Chicago Irish for Palestine to pressure visiting Irish Minister of Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeil and demand that the Irish Government reject US weapons passing through Ireland’s Shannon airport. @chicagoirishforpalestine
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Join Chicago Irish for Palestine to pressure visiting Irish Minister of Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeil and demand that the Irish Government reject US Weapons passing through Ireland’s Shannon airport. @chicagoirishforpalestine
Maya Schenwar, Kelly Hayes, Anya Tanyavutti and Bill Ayers will be at Pilsen Community Books for an event in celebration of We Grow the World Together: Parenting toward Abolition. Abolition has never been a proposal to simply tear things down. As Alexis Pauline Gumbs asks, “What if abolition is something that grows?” As we struggle to build a liberatory, caring, loving, abundant future, we have much to learn from the work of birthing, raising, caring for, and loving future generations. In... Read More
Zhandarka Kurti and Jarrod Shanahan will be at Pilsen Community Books to launch their new book Skyscraper Jails :The Fight Against Jail Expansion in New York City, a damning account of the latest transformation in mass incarceration, revealing how powerful nonprofits and so-called progressives used the language of social movements to build new jails. In... Read More
Emergency Protest to Protect Our Students Release Mahmoud Khalil Tuesday 3/12/25 4:30 PM Federal Plaza 230 S Dearborn Ave Down Town Chicago IL
Emergency Protest Chicago IL Tuesday 3/11/25 Walk out & Rally! 12 PM University of Chicago Center Quad Resist the government's assualt on the student movement for Palestinian liberation!
Rally Monday 3/10/25 @ 6pm @ Ald Nugent's Office 4200 w Lawrence Ave Stop the forced displacement of the Gompers Park Encampment Sign the petition @ bit.ly/support4gomps Text HOUSING to 33777 to get involved
RP Food Not Bombs distributes free food every Sunday: PO Box Collective, 6900 N Glenwood 12-1pm
Join us at the Irish American Heritage Center for live music, a silent auction, and a sneak peek of the upcoming documentary THE REVOLUTIONARY HOUSING LEAGUE, with Q&A with J.H. Palmer. See this one-of-a-kind story, shot in Dublin, Ireland, about a group that resorts to breaking into empty buildings to house their homeless neighbors, and what it could mean for us across the pond.... Read More
Over the past month, people across the country have taken bold, decisive action against ICE. With that bravery in mind, join us at 2PM at the Division Blue Line Stop in Wicker Park for a demonstration against borders and deportations.... Read More
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
Friday, Feb 14, 07:00 PM (doors at 6:30) $10-15 suggested donation. Protect your community, WEAR A MASK.
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
($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
Library, social space, sometimes distro. Chicago, IL DM for address & time to visit Open Hours: Fridays 7-10pm.
*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.
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
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
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
Join us for a conversation about tenant organising to celebrate the publication of Dispatches from the Threshold, edited by Rae Baker and Alexander Ferrer. Housing insecurity turned catastrophic during the COVID-19 pandemic, exposing the cruelty of threadbare tenant protections and state hostility toward unhoused people made worse by mass unemployment, a public health crisis, and racist police violence.... 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
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
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
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
Schedule of events.
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
Potluck, workshop, and more!
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)
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
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.
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.
“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!
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)
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
Co-Author of Let This Radicalize You
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.