Labor and Equity
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Give Me Shelter! Challenging the Landlord- Tenant Paradigm
Give Me Shelter! Challenging the Landlord- Tenant Paradigm
The East Side Freedom Library invites you to the next conversation in our series "Learning from the Past, Fighting for the Future" The crises of 2020 have left millions unable to pay rent. In a society where almost all rental housing is in private hands, tenants are demanding a shift in power. New […]
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Labor History Reading Group: “When the Seattle General Strike and the 1918 Flu Collided”
Labor History Reading Group: “When the Seattle General Strike and the 1918 Flu Collided”
At the East Side Freedom Library, we have been particularly concerned with the Pandemic's impact on working people—putting healthcare, grocery, transit, and meatpacking workers, and many others, at risk. We have also paid attention to its disparate impacts on immigrants and communities of color. We have been encouraged by conversations and movements which insist that we […]
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“Racial Justice Protests and Social Change: Connecting Local Movements – Stories, and Analysis from Minneapolis, Atlanta, and Washington, D.C.” An Interdisciplinary Collaborative Workshop Online Teach-In
“Racial Justice Protests and Social Change: Connecting Local Movements – Stories, and Analysis from Minneapolis, Atlanta, and Washington, D.C.” An Interdisciplinary Collaborative Workshop Online Teach-In
The Interdisciplinary Collaborative Workshop on Democracy under Threat: Public Scholarship and Teaching is organizing two online teach-ins in July “Racial Justice Protests and Social Change: Connecting Local Movements - Stories, and Analysis from Minneapolis, Atlanta, and Washington, D.C.” An Interdisciplinary Collaborative Workshop Online Teach-In Wednesday, July 29, 2020, 12:00-3:00 p.m. (CST), 1:00-4:00 (EST) In recent weeks, […]
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History Revealed: Black Women’s Struggle for the Right to Vote
History Revealed: Black Women’s Struggle for the Right to Vote
The East Side Freedom Library and the Ramsey County Historical Society invite you to the next conversation in our “History Revealed" series Black Women's Struggle for the Right to Vote A Conversation with Dr. Martha S. Jones Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University Wednesday, August 12, 2020, 7pm Amidst all the turmoil of 2020, it […]
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Virtual Screening and Discussion: Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl
Virtual Screening and Discussion: Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl
Join us to watch and discuss the film "Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl: Immigrant Women in the Turn of the Century" This virtual event will premiere on ESFL's Facebook page and YouTube channel Immigration is a hot topic today. What can we learn from studying the experiences of immigrants a century ago? What challenges […]
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Reparations Reading Group: The Great Migration and the Red Summer
Reparations Reading Group: The Great Migration and the Red Summer
Register here for an invitation to the Zoom meeting As we continue our investigation into the development of institutional and systemic racism in the United States, we turn our attention to the Great Migration in which millions of African Americans left the South in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the explosion of […]
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Labor History Reading Group: Teamsters, Class Identity, and Domesticity in 1950s-1960s America
Labor History Reading Group: Teamsters, Class Identity, and Domesticity in 1950s-1960s America
with Ryan Murphy, activist/scholar Associate Professor of History, Earlham College Tuesday, August 25, 2020, 7:00PM Via Zoom Register here for an invitation to the Zoom meeting The study of labor history is more than the uncovering of untold stories. It also involves the reinterpretation of subjects that we might think we already know. Jimmy Hoffa, […]
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Confederate Monuments, The Knights of Labor, and Working Class History
Confederate Monuments, The Knights of Labor, and Working Class History
The East Side Freedom Library invites you to a conversation with ESFL Co-Executive Director, Peter Rachleff, and SF Labor Video Project Director, Steve Zeltzer This virtual event will premiere on ESFL's Facebook page and YouTube channel We are living in an era of unprecedented challenging of historical monuments, statues, and paintings. Much can be learned when […]
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Putting the “Public” in Public Health: Global Organizing in a Time of Pandemic
Putting the “Public” in Public Health: Global Organizing in a Time of Pandemic
The East Side Freedom Library invites you to the third conversation in our series, “Learning from the Past, Fighting for the Future” When the topic of health comes up, most Americans think of their personal health and how they are going to pay their health care bills. Often taken for granted is the public dimension: a […]
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Labor Day Ain’t No Picnic
Labor Day Ain’t No Picnic
Labor Day Ain't No PicnicAn event about Amazon, workers' rights, and our communityMade possible in part with support from Cummins and Cummins A century ago, farmer, labor, and community activists used an octopus to depict the ways they saw capitalist greed grasping control over work, business, community, and political life. Today, it is hard to imagine […]
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