Labor and Equity
“Hungry Translations: Relearning the World through Radical Vulnerability” with author Richa Nagar and commentators Elizabeth Sumida Huaman and Ajay Skaria
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesSaturday, February 8, 2020, 2 - 4pm Join us in discussion of a fearless new approach to the search for poetic and social justice. Experts often assume that the poor, […]
Families Supporting Families Against Police Violence
Wednesday, February 12, 2020, 6:30pm When our loved ones are taken away from us at the hands of Police there is little to NO support for the families (unlike other […]
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 […]
Screening and Discussion: “Gaza Fights for Freedom”
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesSunday, February 16, 2020, 2pm "Gaza Fights for Freedom” documents the Gaza protest movement, known as the Great March of Return, which began in 2018 and continued through last year, […]
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 […]
How Not to Save the Planet: A Conversation with Michael Goodhart
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesFriday, February 28, 2020, 7PM With the ‘dire predictions’ of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report last October, the introduction of the Green New Deal in the new […]
History Revealed: She Voted
Thursday, March 5, 2020, 7pm Help us celebrate Women’s History Month with a preview of the in-progress Minnesota History Center exhibit. Learn what is in the works and have an […]
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 […]
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 […]
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), […]
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 […]
Human Rights Discourse in the Post-9/11 Age
This event will be posted on our Facebook page! Kanishka Chowdhury is Professor of English and Director of the American Culture & Difference Program at the University of […]
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 […]
Afropessimism: A Conversation Between Frank Wilderson III and Bill Hart
Thursday, May 14, 2020, 7pm Frank Wilderson's new book, AFROPESSMISM fuses innovative philosophy with trenchant memoir to argue that we are still living in the legacy of slavery's […]
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 […]
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 […]
“Learning from the Past, Fighting for the Future” Tom O’Connell in Conversation with Ricardo Levins-Morales
How have crises created opportunities for progressive social change? What kinds of opportunities are being created by the crises we are experiencing now? What work is being done, on the […]
The Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Movement: An Introduction
This event will premiere on ESFL's Facebook page and YouTube channel on July 1st, 2020 at 7pm Most Americans are unaware or uninformed about the persistent public dissent of Hong […]
History Revealed: Exploring the Historical Roots of Racism in Minnesota
A conversation with Bill Green, Christopher Lehman, and Marty Case Thursday, July 9, 2020, 7pm In the past year, local historians have published three eye-opening books, each of which, grounded in […]
Watch & Discuss “1877: The Grand Army of Starvation”
ESFL is excited to introduce a monthly Labor History Film Series, on the second Friday night of each month. We will begin by premiering the films on our Facebook page […]