Labor and Equity
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 […]
“Policing, Public Policy, and Racial Justice: Stories and Analysis from Minneapolis, Atlanta, and Washington, D.C.” 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 “Policing, Public Policy, and Racial Justice: Stories and Analysis from Minneapolis, Atlanta, […]
The Lies of Emancipation: The Failure of Reconstruction, the Development of Sharecropping, and the Growth of Convict Labor
MN, United StatesThe East Side Freedom Library and the St. Paul Recovery Act Reparations Book Group invite you to a discussion: 'The Lies of Emancipation: The Failure of Reconstruction, the Development of Sharecropping, […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]