Labor and Equity
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 […]
Labor Day Ain’t No Picnic
ZoomLabor 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 […]
The Crisis of the Postal Service: What’s Behind It? What’s at Stake? What Can We Do?
Wednesday, September 9, 2020, 7pm This event will premiere on ESFL’s Facebook page and YouTube channel Carolyn Sue Olson, Letter Carrier, from her series, “Essential Workers” In the last month, […]
Reparations Reading Group: The Great Depression, the New Deal, and the Birth of Industrial Unionism
How Did These Historic Developments Impact Black Americans? And How Did Black Americans Impact these Historic Developments? Register here for a link to the Zoom conversation. The current economic crisis […]
Virtual Screening and Discussion of “Up South”
This virtual event will premiere on ESFL’s Facebook page and YouTube channel This is the next in ESFL's monthly series of labor history films. It is important that we understand "labor […]
Labor History Reading Group—African American Dining Car Waiters: An Overlooked Chapter in an Overlooked History
Register here for an invitation to the Zoom meeting. The stories of American workers' lives are much too little known. Similarly, the stories of African Americans' lives are too rarely […]
Learning from the Past, Fighting for the Future: The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party
The East Side Freedom Library invites you to the next conversation with Tom O’Connell, “Learning from the Past, Fighting for the Future” Tom will talk with Nation Magazine’s John Nichols […]
History Revealed: Suffrage at 100
Suffrage at 100: Women in American Politics since 1920 a conversation with authors/editors Stacie Taranto & Leandra Zarnow Thursday, October 1, 2020 at 7:00 pm Live presentation on Zoom Register for […]
Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor with Steven Greenhouse
The East Side Freedom Library invites you to a conversation about the new book, Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor, by Steven Greenhouse Tuesday, […]
Virtual Screening and Discussion: The River Ran Red
The East Side Freedom Library invites you our monthly screening & discussion of a Labor History film The River Ran Red Friday, October 9, 2020, 7pm This event will premiere […]
Reparations Reading Group: How Did Japanese-Americans Get Reparations? What Can We Learn From Their Experience?
The East Side Freedom Library & the St. Paul Recovery Act Reading Group invite you to the October meeting of the Reparations Reading Group How Did Japanese-Americans Get Reparations? What […]
Labor History Reading Group—Immigration, Ethnicity, Race, and Class: The Growing Puerto Rican Presence in Central Pennsylvania
The East Side Freedom Library invites you to the October session of our Labor History Reading Group Immigration, Ethnicity, Race, and Class: The Growing Puerto Rican Presence in Central Pennsylvania Tuesday, October […]
Tenants’ Rights, Where Are We Now?
Join the East Side Freedom Library and the East Side Housing Justice working group in a virtual discussion of the new tenant protection ordinances in Saint Paul on Tuesday, October […]