Book Club
Book Geek Happy Hour(s)
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesARE YOU THIRSTING FOR SOME TIME TO READ AND A CHANCE TO TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE READING? The East Side Freedom Library invites you to our Book Geek Happy Hour(s) Sunday, February 2nd, 4 to 6PM Please join your friends, neighbors, collaborators, and, of course, Orso, the Library Dog Bring a book or find a book […]
Reading “Capital”
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesThe East Side Freedom Library and the East Side Study Collective invite you to participate in reading Capital, a reading and discussion process over four months. February – May 2020 In a rapidly heating world beset with resurgent ethno-nationalisms and right-wing authoritarianism, ever-continuing settler colonial projects of elimination, and the “bad infinity” of endless capital expansion where […]
The Saint Paul Recovery Act Reparations Book Group
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesThis will be an organizational meeting. Thereafter, we will meet on the third Tuesday evenings of each month, 6:30-8PM We will start with the classic text The Debt. Copies of the book will be available at Subtext Bookstore, 6 West Fifth Street, downtown St. Paul. The St. Paul City Council is considering a "Recovery Act," […]
Book Geek Happy Hour(s)
ARE YOU THIRSTING FOR SOME TIME TO READ AND A CHANCE TO TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE READING? The East Side Freedom Library invites you to our Book Geek Happy Hour(s) Sunday, March 1st, 4 to 6PM Please join your friends, neighbors, collaborators, and, of course, Orso, the Library Dog Bring a book or find a book […]
Reading “Capital”
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesThe East Side Freedom Library and the East Side Study Collective invite you to participate in reading Capital, a reading and discussion process over four months. February – May 2020 In a rapidly heating world beset with resurgent ethno-nationalisms and right-wing authoritarianism, ever-continuing settler colonial projects of elimination, and the “bad infinity” of endless capital expansion where […]
The Saint Paul Recovery Act Reparations Book Group
We will meet on the third Tuesday evenings of each month, 6:30-8PM We will start with the classic text The Debt. Copies of the book will be available at Subtext Bookstore, 6 West Fifth Street, downtown St. Paul. The St. Paul City Council is considering a "Recovery Act," to promote equity and racial justice. Grassroots […]
Zoom: Reading Marx’s Capital
ZoomWe will resume our Capital reading group on Saturday, April 11 from 10-12ish via online meeting. This would serve as our second meeting (given that we cancelled our March session), and we would cover chapters 10-15 (sections 1-5; i.e., the first half of ch. 15) as we had planned. Newcomers are welcome! Please email [email protected] […]
Zoom: The Saint Paul Recovery Act Reparations Book Group
We will meet on the third Tuesday evenings of each month, 6:30-8PM. Please email [email protected] for Zoom information. We will start with the classic text The Debt. Copies of the book will be available at Subtext Bookstore, 6 West Fifth Street, downtown St. Paul. The St. Paul City Council is considering a "Recovery Act," to […]
Book Geek Happy Hour(s)
Are you thirsting for some time to read and a chance to talk about what you're reading? East Side Freedom Library is holding its monthly Happy Hour via Zoom. Join us at 5:30pm to share what you are reading. Email us at [email protected] to RSVP and get the link to the Zoom conversation. Click "Going" and […]
Stories for (Little) People
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesThis new program is geared toward young people of preschool and early elementary grades. Kate Derickson, assisted by Harry Potter and Orso the Library dog, will read books that feature all kinds of families and children and people of diverse backgrounds, cultures, and experiences. Kate teaches in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies […]
Zoom: Marx’s “Capital” Reading Group
MN, United StatesFor the May 9th meeting, we will cover Chapters 15 (second half) through 24. Here Marx further develops his discussion of collective labor and class formation begun in the previous few chapters and fleshes out his thinking on wages and the production of surplus value. These chapters, which engage with how capital distinguishes "productive" and […]
Stories for (Little) People
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesThis new program is geared toward young people of preschool and early elementary grades. Kate Derickson, assisted by Harry Potter and Orso the Library dog, will read books that feature all kinds of families and children and people of diverse backgrounds, cultures, and experiences. Kate teaches in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies […]
Slavery and the Development of American Capitalism
MN, United StatesThe East Side Freedom Library and the Saint Paul Recovery Act Reparations Reading Group invite you to our monthly conversation: Slavery and the Development of American Capitalism. We will be reading and discussing an interview with historian Edward Baptist, "How Slavery Became America's First Big Business." In this 2019 interview, Baptist connects his brilliant book, […]
Stories for (Little) People
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesThis new program is geared toward young people of preschool and early elementary grades. Kate Derickson, assisted by Harry Potter and Orso the Library dog, will read books that feature all kinds of families and children and people of diverse backgrounds, cultures, and experiences. Kate teaches in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies […]
Stories for (Little) People
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesThis new program is geared toward young people of preschool and early elementary grades. Kate Derickson, assisted by Harry Potter and Orso the Library dog, will read books that feature all kinds of families and children and people of diverse backgrounds, cultures, and experiences. Kate teaches in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies […]
Stories for (Little) People
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesThis new program is geared toward young people of preschool and early elementary grades. Kate Derickson, assisted by Harry Potter and Orso the Library dog, will read books that feature all kinds of families and children and people of diverse backgrounds, cultures, and experiences. Kate teaches in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies […]
Zoom: Marx’s “Capital” Reading Group
For the June 6th meeting, we will cover chapter 25 through the end. To receive the link to the Zoom, please email [email protected]. This group is open to new participants at all times. Click "Going" and share on Facebook!
Book Geek Happy Hour(s)
Are you thirsting for some time to read and a chance to talk about what you're reading? East Side Freedom Library is holding its monthly Happy Hour via Zoom. Join us at 5:30pm to share what you are reading. Email us at [email protected] to RSVP and get the link to the Zoom conversation. Click "Going" and […]
Stories for (Little) People
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesThis new program is geared toward young people of preschool and early elementary grades. Kate Derickson, assisted by Harry Potter and Orso the Library dog, will read books that feature all kinds of families and children and people of diverse backgrounds, cultures, and experiences. Kate teaches in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies […]
How Slavery Became America’s First Big Business
Tuesday, June 16, 2020, 6:30-8:00pm via Zoom Protests and activism have put a spotlight on racism in the United States. An historical perspective can help us understand how things got to be the way are, and it can help us inform our visions of social change.This month, join us in discussing this interview with historian Edward […]