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Impact Storytelling for Liberation

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SoapBox Productions and Organizing is a film and social activism nonprofit
specializing in multimedia storytelling for structural social change.

Our mission is to utilize media to power, frame, and sustain social movements
that advance holistic solutions to root problems. In tandem with grassroots organizing efforts
for racial, economic, and social justice, SoapBox delivers emotional impact storytelling for liberation.
We produce documentaries, fiction films, podcasts, articles, and community-based programming
​that intend to educate, agitate, inspire, and ultimately transform.
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One Million Experiments

What does safety in a world without police and prisons look like? What does it make more possible? Built out of Interrupting Criminalization and AirGo’s podcast of the same name, the half-hour film explores how we define and create wellness and reduce harm in a world without police and prisons.
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No Cop Academy
The Documentary

#NoCopAcademy was a grassroots campaign to mobilize against then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s plans to build a massive $95 million training center for Chicago police on the city’s West Side. This feature documentary chronicles the explosive youth-led campaign against the construction and for the redirection of those funds into resources for schools, youth, and community.
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W H A T ' S     G O O D ?

As technology and entertainment push the digital age forward, the need for inclusive communities of compassion, humanity, and justice continues to build. Our destinies are connected to each other. With that, we must remember that creative integrity and radical change are essential to our progress as a society. Check out some of our recent projects, events, and endeavors below.
FILM | Reyna discusses her upbringing with her mother in "Seguimos Aquí" (screenshot & cinematography by James Murray).
EVENTS | Panelists speak at Fitness Against Fascism 3: Prison-industrial Complex & Healthy Communities, discussing the role the PIC has had in their lives and on society as a whole at the 2019 SoapBox fundraiser (Photo by @whereizmerz).
SOAPBOX ACTION WORKS | The #WeAreMore campaign centers the experiences of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people, and pushes back against fear-mongering “tough on crime” rhetoric resurging in the 2022 election season. We need more pathways out of prison, not new ones into it. Through advocacy, public education, and direct representation, the Illinois Prison Project brings hope to and fight in community with incarcerated people and their loved ones for a brighter, more humane, more just system for us all. (Photo by @kaymireya.jpeg).

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EDITORIAL | Citlali Perez examines the #NoCopAcademy campaign from a post-uprisings perspective with regards to the new progressive Chicago political class (Photo by Sarah-Ji Rhee).
PODCAST | SoapBox colleagues Caullen Hudson and David A. Moran co-host the affiliate podcast Bourbon 'n BrownTown (Photo by @shawn_kiwistrawberry).
ORGANIZING | A press conference on the harms of the Chicago gang database by members of the #EraseTheDatabase coalition (Photo by unknown).

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Photo below by Jalen Hamilton.
Last photo by David A. Moran.
Multimedia Integration between films, podcasts, articles, educational initiatives, and community-based programming encourages broader access to diverse audiences.
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We build power by supporting and participating in campaigns and community efforts for radical, holistic solutions through a transformative and intersectional lens.
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Radical imagination inspires our storytelling frameworks and informs the tangible skills necessary to facilitate cultural shifts that deepen our sense of struggle and make revolution more possible.
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“Our visions of technology, design, entertainment and creativity have to be married with a vision of humanity, compassion and justice.”
BRYAN STEVENSON | Lawyer, Professor, & Activist

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1006 S Michigan Ave Suite 604
Chicago, Illinois 60605
501(c)3 | EIN: 82-4144067​
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  • Home
  • Productions
    • Film >
      • One Million Experiments
      • No Cop Academy: The Documentary
      • Chi DNA
      • Seguimos Aquí
      • Calvin's Story
      • What's Beef?
      • Blue Notes
    • SoapBox Action Works
    • Commercials & PSAs >
      • NewRoot
      • Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights
      • Nike
      • Save Antibiotics
      • First Wheels
  • Organizing
    • SoapBox Action Works >
      • 2024 Elections
      • Bring Chicago Home
      • Sh*t Talks: Studio Sessions
      • Coalition to Decarcerate IL
      • The Final 5 Campaign
      • "We Are More"
      • Erase the Database
      • Defund CPD
      • Obama CBA
      • 2020 Uprisings
      • 2020: COVID-19
      • 2020 Census
      • Crossroads Fund
      • Judges Matter
      • #NoCopAcademy
      • Archives
    • Education & Workshops
    • Live Events >
      • Chi DNA Speaker Series
      • Fitness Against Fascism
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