Film
Labor History Film: Ghosts of Amistad
The East Side Freedom Library invites you to our December Labor History Film Screening: The Ghosts of Amistad with an introductory conversation with historian Marcus Rediker This event will premiere on ESFL's Facebook page and YouTube channel The uprising this past summer against institutional racism raised debate and action about historical monuments and […]
Labor History Film: The Willmar 8
The East Side Freedom Library invites you to our monthly Labor History Film This event will premiere on ESFL's Facebook page and YouTube channel This month, we invite you to join us for a deep dive into women workers’ organizing in the 1970s. At our monthly Labor History Reading Group on Tuesday evening, […]
Labor History Film: Finally Got the News
This event will premiere on ESFL's Facebook page and YouTube channel On the second Friday evening of each month, ESFL screens a labor history film. We often connect it with that month’s Labor History Reading Group, which meets on the third Tuesday evening. This February, marking Black History Month, we are focusing on […]
“Jim Crow of the North” Panel Discussion
Register here A virtual panel discussion on the film "Jim Crow of the North" centered on housing inequities and food access in the Twin Cities. The event series "Co-op Community Conversations: Exploring the intersection of racial, social, and food justice" is presented by Eastside Food Co-op, Mississippi Market Food Co-op, Seward Community Co-op, and Twin […]
Twin Cities JACL Day of Remembrance
Free registration: tinyurl.com/DOR2021 The Twin Cities JACL is commemorating the 79th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066 with a "Day of Remembrance" program that will be presented on Zoom. The program includes the screening of "Conscience and the Constitution," an hour-long, award-winning PBS documentary that tells the story of the draft resistance movement at […]
Online Screening + Discussion of “Do The Right Thing” with Trilingua Cinema
Join Trilingua Cinema for a free online screening and discussion of Do The Right Thing. Free Registration: http://bit.ly/right-thing About: Perhaps no other film speaks more directly to our current cultural moment than Spike Lee's seminal work, released more than 30 years ago. Exploring the lives and communities that comprise the diverse, vibrant neighborhood of Bed-Stuy, […]
Screening + Discussion—9to5: The Story of a Movement
The East Side Freedom Library and the IBEW Local 292 Women’s Group, as part of our celebration of Administrative Professionals’ Day, invite you to a screening and discussion of 9to5: The Story of a Movement. Register here for the Zoom link for this event or watch live on ESFL's Facebook page. This new documentary from […]
Labor History Film Discussion—Plutocracy: Part 1: Divide and Rule
The East Side Freedom Library invites you to our monthly Labor History film discussion: PLUTOCRACY: PART I: DIVIDE AND RULE Register here to join the event on Zoom. Plutocracy is the first documentary to comprehensively examine early American history through the lens of class. A multi-part series by filmmaker Scott Noble, Part I focuses on the ways in which the American people have […]
Labor History Film Discussion—Plutocracy II: Solidarity Forever
Register to attend this event on Zoom. Plutocracy II: Solidarity Forever continues filmmaker Scott Noble’s project to comprehensively examine American history through the lens of class. This film covers the seminal labor-related events which occurred between the late 1800s and the 1920s. Its subtitle refers to a 1915 song composed by Ralph Chaplin as an […]
Labor History Film Discussion—Plutocracy III: Class War
Register here to join this event on Zoom. In the last month, awareness of the Tulsa race massacre and Juneteenth have made us more conscious that there is much of American history that we were never taught. In this full-length film, the third in Scott Noble's five film series, stories of the early struggles of […]
What the 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters’ Strikes Can Suggest About Meeting the Challenges Faced by Today’s Labor Movement
ESFL is delighted to be participating in this year's San Francisco LaborFest 2021. Most of their wonderful programming is online this year, so you can participate, too. Please follow this link to see what else is on tap. The 1934 July Minneapolis Teamsters' strikes were part of a mass movement of workers in the United […]
Labor History Film Discussion: Plutocracy IV
The East Side Freedom Library invites you to join our monthly Labor History Film discussion Plutocracy IV: Gangsters for Capitalism Register here to join this event on Zoom. For the past several months, we have been working our way through Scott Nobles' series of documentary films, produced by Metanoia Films and made available for free […]
Labor History Film Discussion: The Bisbee Deportation of 1917
Register to join this event on Zoom (this event will not be live streamed to ESFL's Facebook page). Three years ago, the Arizona town of Bisbee marked the 100th anniversary of its darkest day, the day when local authorities rounded up 1200 immigrant miners, loaded them on a train, and shipped them into the desert, where they […]
Eastside Roller Party
Friday, September 10th from 6-10pm at the Phalen Rec Center 1000 E Wheelock Pkwy, St Paul, MN 55106 Join ESFL Housing Justice and Saint Paul Parks for an evening of roller skating, art, food trucks, film and music! Free skate from 6-8pm with DJ Kirk Da Capt'n and stay for a screening of the film […]
Labor History Film Discussion: Plutocracy V: Subterranean Fire
The East Side Freedom Library invites you to our monthly Labor History Film Discussion: Plutocracy V: Subterranean Fire. Register here to join this event on Zoom. For the past five months, ESFL community members have been watching and discussing Scott Noble's powerful series of documentary films, titled "Plutocracy." In September, we come to the end […]
ReMembering: Singing Water – Film Premiere
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesReMembering: Singing Water is an original choral film that explores Minnesota as a place of both home and exile for Indigenous people, LGBTQ people, and immigrants. Interconnected stories are brought to life through choral music, spoken word, animation, and life size puppets. The film will premiere at two outdoor locations —under the stars and on […]
Labor History Film Discussion: Harlan County USA
Register here to join this event on Zoom. We invite you to discuss one of the most significant labor history documentaries ever made, Barbara Kopple’s Harlan County U.S.A. This Academy Award winning film documents a community in eastern Kentucky divided by a strike at its coal mine and gets to the heart of labor conflict […]
Serán Las Dueñas De La Tierra: Film Screening and Panel Discussion
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesRegister to Attend Join East Side Housing Justice and Trilingua Cinema for a Free Documentary Screening and Panel discussion of Serán Las Dueñas De La Tierra (English title: Stewards of the Land). The film follows the struggles of three young farmers in Puerto Rico, their fight for land sovereignty, the realities of climate change, and […]
BEYOND WALLS Film Screening
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesREGISTER HERE! This event is free and open to the public. Registration is encouraged to help us plan. Presented in partnership with Working Films, Beyond Walls is a compilation of five short films that explore the possibilities of prison industrial complex (PIC) abolition. In sharing the stories of individuals resisting the PIC, these works demonstrate the […]
WAMM Film Screening: Israelism (2023)
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesWomen Against Military Madness Membership Committee Presents…Special Screening of Israelism (2023) Sunday, April 28, 2024, 7:00 – 9:00 pm, East Side Freedom Library, 1105 Greenbrier Street, Saint Paul, MN Join us along with new WAMM members for a special screening of one of the best documentaries of 2023 (Arizona International Film Festival). Bring a friend! […]