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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.

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Thank you @bennjordan.bsky.social for the shout out in your latest video!

No word of a lie, we often refer to Benn's videos as a reference for how to make short & long-form content that educates the public. Appreciate it.
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a still frame from Benn's video that reads "the police surveillance security nightmare"
November 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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10 Years (!!!) of @lucyparsonslabs.com. Our newest newsletter does a very brief moment of reflection, we hope you'll read it.
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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.
November 2, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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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."
September 17, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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NEXT WEEK: Berkeley CA is organizing against its Flock ALPR contract and is holding a rally before the next city council meeting.
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."
September 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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REMINDER EVENT: TODAY JULY 16TH we will have a live show on organizing against police secrecy in Atlanta with
@atlpresscollective.com
. It will also be on Twitch and YouTube, scan the QR code for the links. July 16th @ 6:30 ET.
A flyer that reads "Uprooting Cop City" a live show on organizing against police secrecy in Atlanta. July 16th at 6:30ET. 3 photos of the panelists, "Matt Scott" a plaintiff in the case, Alejandro Ruizesparza, another plaintiff in the case and Samantha Hamilton, our attorney representing us.
July 16, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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July 15, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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EVENT: Next week we will have a live show on organizing against police secrecy in Atlanta with @atlpresscollective.com. It will also be on Twitch and YouTube, scan the QR code for the links. July 16th @ 6:30 ET.
A flyer that reads "Uprooting Cop City" a live show on organizing against police secrecy in Atlanta. July 16th at 6:30ET. 3 photos of the panelists, "Matt Scott" a plaintiff in the case, Alejandro Ruizesparza, another plaintiff in the case and Samantha Hamilton, our attorney representing us.
July 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Chicago Ald. Mitts proposed an ordinance requiring surveillance cameras at EVERY business open to the public. Despite the absurdity of this request, it was initially co-sponsored by 28 other aldermen, who seemingly didn’t read the fine print or didn’t care to confirm the details.
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"
June 23, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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HUGE WIN: LPL and ‪@atlpresscollective.com‬ WINS our challenge against the Atlanta Police Foundation. The APF held numerous records about its behind the scenes efforts to build #CopCity and those records must now be turned over to us.
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" Another flyer that reads, "The ruling marks a significant shift in the use of "private" police foundations to funnel donations to police departments, in secret, without public oversight or input. In Atlanta, the APF has been central to the building of #CopCity including leasing the land and privately financing its construction using corporate dark money."
June 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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TOMORROW! RSVP at tiny.cc/gjresist for more info!
May 2, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Confirmed on the ground: An Illinois state police officer is flying their drone to spy on the May Day march in Chicago
May 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Demoralized by what’s happening in the world? Maybe take a few minutes to read how we challenge these modes of domination and the techno-optimism drive for domination
A screenshot from the article that says “the futuristic utopias they express are an uncritical *aesthetic*”
February 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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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!"
February 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Finally, we *know* people want to support projects with solid abolitonist politics and who are authentic to themselves and won't change up because of whose in power. Please become a monthly donor or even increase your giving if you can.

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Text that says "none of this is possible without your support and solidarity" with a rounded button to donate.
January 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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People who subscribe to our newsletter know we always include books/film/music in it.

This week's FILM recommendation is 2018's Shoplifters. It's an exceptional fim about chosen family under precarity and solidarity against the (insufficient) status quo. You might catch feelings!
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.
January 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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An LPL member and their family spent Saturday afternoon translating this Know Your Rights resource into Spanish. This is part of a legal network being organized by Muslims for Just Futures. More importantly, CALL your friends AND CHECK IN www.muslimsforjustfutures.org/blog/immigra...
Imagine of a woman wearing a hijab with the word "private" in spanish.
January 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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We've published our latest news where we remind people to slow down, clarify our thinking and with a cool determination put our ideals into action. To sit and imagine freedom: despite never really knowing it.

NEWSLETTER: mailchi.mp/ac3417895ce8...
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."
January 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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In 2025, we're doubling down on our commitment towards abolition. It’s clear people want to support outwardly political, uncompromising groups on the left, especially during this fascist phase-shift. We're thankful to all of you for supporting our work and you can do so again at the link in our bio!
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.
December 27, 2024 at 11:34 PM
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BREAKING: The Georgia Journalism & Access Project has filed an Open Records Act lawsuit on behalf of
Atlanta Community Press Collective
and LPL against the Atlanta Police Foundation seeking records in the private entity's custody related to the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center (“CopCity”)
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.
February 26, 2024 at 4:58 PM
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In a rebuke of surveillance technology, the city of Chicago is decommissioning its use #ShotSpotter and canceling its contract.
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”
February 13, 2024 at 6:00 PM