Lucy Parsons Labs

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Chicago-based collaboration between data scientists, transparency activists, artists, & technologists that sheds light on the intersection of digital rights and on-the-streets issues. https://linktr.ee/lucyparsonslabs

A flyer for the LPL summer party that states the location of the party as near the 43rd street pedestrian bridge on the lake front. LPL will bring Non alcoholic drinks and picnic style snacks. Bring a friend.
A magazine style front cover that says summer issue 2026 and LPL in Lower case letters.
A flyer for the LPL summer party that states the location of the party as near the 43rd street pedestrian bridge on the lake front. LPL will bring Non alcoholic drinks and picnic style snacks. Bring a friend.
A flyer for the LPL summer party that states the location of the party as near the 43rd street pedestrian bridge on the lake front. LPL will bring Non alcoholic drinks and picnic style snacks. Bring a friend.
Three associates from Loevy and Loevy and Freddy from LPL in front of a building that says "State of Illinois" following oral arguments.
An LPL member in a grey dress shirt making the V for victory sign
A baby doing the 67 meme
Five characters from Sesame Street including Elmo saying “Eid Mubarak”
two graphics of the pink panther that reads "applications open. Apply now to join LPL as a 2026 summer fellow. This paid fellowship is for early-career researchers looking to investigate surveillance technologies. Your work will challenge Big Tech and how racialized capitalism underpins these logics." Link to the full proposal is https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/66045fc0d0be7536b4fb020a/69b1b8b1787cd413337973ba_Fellowship___Call_for_Applications.pdf
A flyer for LPL's birthday party in the style of a kid's birthday invitation. The text reads: "Lucy Parsons Labs will be celebrating ten years of existence with a birthday party on Saturday, February 7th. The party will be at Little Black Pearl, in Chicago's Kenwood neighborhood, beginning at 7pm. More details below! A birthday party flyer for LPL's part on the 7th of February at the Little Black Pearl on the Southside of Chicago Little Black Pearl has street parking for our guests across the street in the parking lot and is accessible via CTA's 47, 6 or 2 or Metra's Electric Line at 47th. LBP is an accessible space with no stairs.:
a picture of a crowd in a theatre on the balcony someone has dropped an abolish ice flag the flag is black and white
From the newsletter, "What’s important to note is that these approaches do not present a single future to strive for against polycrisis. Instead, they argue for developing many political formations from the ground-up, networking together many possible futures that all adapt to highly-localized conditions. Our formations, different and many, can also interlock, amplify, and flip polycrisis on its head. Our dreaming should aim to prevent defaulting to the static, hierarchical, highly-scaled and centralized logic of the nation-state, always leaving room for dynamic political recreation. We’re doing this already, and we’re often distracted away from it. Chicago has constantly experimented with solidarity networks through pandemics, genocides, and ICE violence. While formal organizations may be involved in parts of the process, the total body emerged from pockets of spontaneous, organized resistance. The spirit of rebellion then flows into how we talk to those we already have intimate relationship and trust with, and those we hope to build with. Those are the people you build your unique politics with, no one must define it but you."
a chair in front of a parking spot, in the Chicago tradition of calling "dibs" during winter storms. The words "Icebreaker!" and "calling dibs on the future" are also on the screen
a still frame from Benn's video that reads "the police surveillance security nightmare"
the words "10 years of LPL" above a still from the hit Japanese show "Old Enough!" where toddlers wander Japan at the ages of 2 and 3 and run errands for adults.
a screenshot of the national lawyers guilds most recent instagram post. on a black background there is black text that says “FEDERAL DEFENSE HOTLINE 212-679-2811” below this in mostly white text it says If you are approached by federal law enforcement, call NLG's federal defense hotline! Remember: • You do not have to let cops into your house without a warrant. • You have no obligation to speak to or answer their questions. It can be dangerous to do so. • It is a crime to lie to federal agents. • Say: "I cannot answer any questions without my lawyer. Please leave your name and 2 number, and a lawyer will call you."
A poster for Berkeley CopWatch that says "We are organizing a rally on Tuesday, September 9 at 5:00 PM, prior to the City Council meeting. Join us outside of the boardroom at 1231 Addison Street. The Berkeley City Council is meeting Tuesday 9/9 at 6:00 PM at 1231 Addison Street. The Flock contract is Item 24 on the agenda."
A flyer that reads "Uprooting Cop City" a live show on organizing against police secrecy in Atlanta. July 16th at 6:30ET.
a video of freddy explaining that there will be an event in atlanta with atlanta press collective to talk about organizing against police secrecy in atlanta. this event will be livestreamed on our youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpNpef5OTzA) and twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/lpl__) tomorrow july 16th at 6pm cst
A flyer that reads "Uprooting Cop City" a live show on organizing against police secrecy in Atlanta. July 16th at 6:30ET.
Distorted pixel image of a pole with endless surveillance cameras. Reads: "RESIST THIS TERRIFYING NEW EXPANSION OF POLICE POWER! contact your alders today 🤮 to O2025-0018186"
a flyer that reads "a state judge has ruled the Atlanta Police Foundation MUST turn over records in response to a public records lawsuit. Two community organizations brought the suit (24cv001116) against APF for documents in its role in building #Cop City. Judge Barwick ruled the city of Atlanta evaded its transparency requirements by outsourcing its building of #CopCity to a private foundation"
A screenshot from the article that says “the futuristic utopias they express are an uncritical *aesthetic*”
Purple and yellow poster with the title "LexipolLeaks." The top reads "New Data Drop" and there's also text stating "including data from around 8,500 law enforcement agencies!". The center of the text reads "68.00 GB," "leech and seed at ddosecrets.com" and "data_source == puppygirl hacker polycule." The main body of the text reads "With support from LPL, DDoSecrets just published #LexipolLeaks, a massive trove of previously secret police training and policy manuals from Lexipol. Lexipol is a private company inluencing how american cities control their populations and justify carceral violence, like racial profiling, harassment of migrants, and police killings. For the first time, there is transparency into their documents. Download and share today!"
Text that says "none of this is possible without your support and solidarity" with a rounded button to donate.
A film still from 2018's movie "shoplifters". Two asian women are laughing inside of a kitchen that appears worn and of a lower income class.
Imagine of a woman wearing a hijab with the word "private" in spanish.
Text from Alfredo Bonanno's the anarchist tension "So we continiously need to maintain a relationship between this tension towards something absolutely other, the unthinkable, the unsayable, a dimenson we must realize without very well knowing how to, and the daily experience of the things we can and do, do. A previse relationship of change, of transformation."
Text from Lucy E. Parsons' "Rumblings of the Coming Storm" originally published August 1892. Full text reads: What were those rumblings which have been heard in the iron mills of Pennsylvania and mines of Idaho the last few weeks? They are the rumblings of the approaching Social Revolution which will deluge this world before the end of the present century. What is the world today but a vast hospital ward? The air is filled with groans and lamentations, and every form of suffering is to be seen twitching and turning on beds of poverty. What a spectacle in a world of plenty! Go through the world and ask each country you come to, “Do peace, plenty, and happiness dwell here?” and from each the same reply will be made: “Pass on; what you seek is not here.” Pause and listen at the borders of each, and the breeze will waft to your ears the same confused echoes of contention, tumult, revolt, and oppression. How long can this condition of affairs last? How much longer must the schoolhouse be robbed that the robbers’ factory may be filled with the fair roses that bloom at the firesides of poverty and fade in these hells? How much longer must our sons be made tramps and criminals and our daughters prostitutes, so that a few may riot in luxury? How long will the few be permitted to sit in exalted places and answer the complaints of the people in short, terse sentences like this: “We possess all rights; you all duties; perform them or we will have you clubbed by our police, hanged by our Sheriffs, and shot by our militia.” Will these surrender their “rights” peaceably? Never! And they who answer that they will are ignoramuses and idiots and have read history to no purpose.
Press release that reads: “The Georgia Journalism and Access Project at the University of Georgia School of Law's First Amendment Clinic has filed a lawsuit on behalf of Atlanta Community Press Collective and Lucy Parsons Labs seeking public records from the Atlanta Police Foundation. The suit alleges that the Atlanta Police Foundation（APF）failed to respond to requests for records related to the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center (aka CopCity) that APF has contracted to construct for the City of Atlanta.
Text that says the city has canceled its contracted with ShotSpotter. The text reads “the city of Chicago will not renew its contract with sounthinking that expires February 16, 2024 and will decommission the use of ShotSpotter technology on September 22,2024”