By James Walsh | April 26, 2021 Raquel Barrientos and her husband were happy their street dead-ended at the Hillcrest Golf Club in St. Paul. Especially in the four years since Hillcrest closed, their block has become a quiet place to raise their children. But now that...
By Filiberto Nolasco Gomez | January 19, 2021 For nearly seven years, the East Side Freedom Library has been a place for producing new knowledge and making connections. The link between African American history and labor history is one such connection. In...
By Cirien Saadeh | January 6, 2021 On today’s episode, recorded before the insurrection that occurred on Jan. 6, we hear from organizers with Voices for Racial Justice about the work happening to prep for the legislative session, as well as Peter Rachleff with the...
By Michael Moore | September 3, 2020 The East Side Freedom Library in St. Paul will celebrate Labor Day early and online this year, with a virtual discussion about worker organizing at the world’s largest retailer, Amazon. The event, “Labor Day Ain’t No Picnic,” will...
By Dan Niepow | September 2, 2020 Seemingly out of the blue, a new labor movement has emerged in the Twin Cities’ hospitality industry. Late last month, Tattersall Distillery became the first craft distillery in the nation with a unionized labor force. Shortly...
By Bill Hudson | August 13, 2020 It is the state agency responsible for protecting the safety and wages of 3 million Minnesota workers. But suddenly, the Department of Labor and Industry is caught in a political squeeze that cost the commissioner her job. Labor...
