Lecture/discussion
A Live Oral History Interview with Dr. Gene Young Conducted by ESFL’s Peter Rachleff
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesDr. Gene Young is a first generation son of Russian-Jewish immigrants who settled in New York City where they were active as labor organizers, coming to Minnesota during the Great […]
From the Monkey Mountains: Listening Parties with The Bakken Trio and Z Puppets Rosenschnoz
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesThe Bakken Trio is teaming up with the highly-acclaimed puppetry ensemble Z Puppets Rosenschnoz to invite you to experience live classical music through new ears and eyes. At each of these free events at the […]
Screening and Discussion: I Am
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesThursday, January 16, 2020, 7pm I AM is an utterly engaging and entertaining non-fiction film that poses two practical and provocative questions: what’s wrong with our world, and what can […]
Screening and Discussion of “A Huey P. Newton Story”
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesThe East Side Freedom Library invites you to commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr., Day with a screening and discussion of A Huey P. Newton Story. Monday, January 20th, 2020, 7pm […]
The Past is Present: The Legacy of Incarcerated Girls
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesThe East Side Freedom Library invites you to a conversation revolving around the new book, Evidence of V, by Sheila O’Connor. Thursday, January 23, 2020, 7pm In 1911, Minnesota opened a […]
A Conversation with Musician/Composer Douglas R. Ewart
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesFriday, January 24th, 2020, 3:00-4:30pm This interview will be live-streamed on Facebook and archived on ESFL's YouTube channel This is the first of a planned series of interviews with creative musicians […]
The Wounds of War in Iraq, Afghanistan and Yemen: Escalating Threats of War with Iran with Kathy Kelly
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesFriday, January 31st, 2020, 7pm Kathy Kelly, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence (VCNV), has organized more than 70 trips to Iraq during the sanctions […]
“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, […]
From the Monkey Mountains: Listening Parties with The Bakken Trio and Z Puppets Rosenschnoz
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesThe Bakken Trio is teaming up with the highly-acclaimed puppetry ensemble Z Puppets Rosenschnoz to invite you to experience live classical music through new ears and eyes. At each of these free events at the […]
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 […]
From the Monkey Mountains: Listening Parties with The Bakken Trio and Z Puppets Rosenschnoz
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesThe Bakken Trio is teaming up with the highly-acclaimed puppetry ensemble Z Puppets Rosenschnoz to invite you to experience live classical music through new ears and eyes. At each of these free events at the […]
Artist Talk Series: Chitra Vairavan In Conversation with Gabrielle Civil
MN, United StatesArtist Talk Series: Consent, Awakening, and Reclamation Conversations between Artists of Color and Indigenous Artists Gabrielle Civil joins Chitra Vairavan in conversation this month, to discuss liberatory performance […]
Virtual Event: Shannon Watts for “Fight Like a Mother”
Join SubText Books and East Side Freedom Library for a virtual event with Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action, on Friday, May 29th at 7:00pm. Watts will read and […]
Afro-Asian Enchantment
Join a conversation between Emma Sapong, an award-winning Liberian American journalist and writer, and Yuichiro Onishi. The Immigration History Research Center (IHRC) is collaborating with the East Side […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]