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Mindful Self-Compassion (Workshop)
East Side Freedom Library invites you to explore workshops in “Mindful Self-Compassion” with Patricia Enstad. Eastsider Patricia Enstad, a licensed social worker and teacher, will provide a lively introduction to the practices of Mindful Self-Compassion. She writes: “As we consider the important tasks that lie ahead, we will need to support our action with compassion […]
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 […]
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 […]
Mindful Self-Compassion (Workshop)
East Side Freedom Library invites you to explore workshops in “Mindful Self-Compassion” with Patricia Enstad. Eastsider Patricia Enstad, a licensed social worker and teacher, will provide a lively introduction to the practices of Mindful Self-Compassion. She writes: “As we consider the important tasks that lie ahead, we will need to support our action with compassion […]
Book Geek Happy Hour(s)
Are you thirsting for some time to read and a chance to talk about what you're reading? East Side Freedom Library is holding its monthly Happy Hour via Zoom. Join us at 5:30pm to share what you are reading. Register here for the Zoom invitation. Click "Going" and share on Facebook!
Mindful Self-Compassion (Workshop)
East Side Freedom Library invites you to explore workshops in “Mindful Self-Compassion” with Patricia Enstad. Eastsider Patricia Enstad, a licensed social worker and teacher, will provide a lively introduction to the practices of Mindful Self-Compassion. She writes: “As we consider the important tasks that lie ahead, we will need to support our action with compassion […]
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, funding, staffing, and operating of the U.S. Postal Service has become a central political issue. Is President Trump seeking to undermine the U.S.P.S. to sabotage […]
Loving Deeply: A Conversation on Afro-Asian Aesthetic Authority
the second in our series exploring Afro-Asian solidarity Sunday, September 13, 2020, 7pm This event will premiere on ESFL's Facebook page & YouTube channel Alessandra Williams and Yuichiro Onishi explore the world of Ananya Dance Theatre. Williams shares the rich details of the techniques of Ananya Dance Theatre’s specific dance form called Yorchhā, especially how […]
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 and movement against institutionalized racism provide a great vantage point from which to consider the 1930s and engage in a conversation between the past and […]
Mindful Self-Compassion (Workshop)
East Side Freedom Library invites you to explore workshops in “Mindful Self-Compassion” with Patricia Enstad. Eastsider Patricia Enstad, a licensed social worker and teacher, will provide a lively introduction to the practices of Mindful Self-Compassion. She writes: “As we consider the important tasks that lie ahead, we will need to support our action with compassion […]
History Revealed: Closing Time 2020
Bill Lindeke & Andy Sturdevant, Closing Time: Saloons, Taverns, Dives, and Watering Holes of the Twin Cities Live presentation on Zoom Register in advance for this meeting here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. The presentation will be recorded. An entertaining journey into the highs, lows, bright spots, […]
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 history" to include the histories of working people, not just the histories of unions. How was the American working class made and unmade, in era […]
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 told. What happens when we investigate the intersection of these two narratives? Such a journey can yield significant insight into the making and remaking of […]
Mindful Self-Compassion (Workshop)
East Side Freedom Library invites you to explore workshops in “Mindful Self-Compassion” with Patricia Enstad. Eastsider Patricia Enstad, a licensed social worker and teacher, will provide a lively introduction to the practices of Mindful Self-Compassion. She writes: “As we consider the important tasks that lie ahead, we will need to support our action with compassion […]
Book Launch: Social Poetics
with author Mark Nowak in conversation with ESFL’s Peter Rachleff and Holly Krig & Jason Evans This event will be live streamed to our Facebook page and later uploaded to our YouTube channel Mark Nowak grew up in a working-class family in Buffalo, New York. His mother was a clerical worker and his father became […]
Conversation with Dr. Rashid Khalidi, historian and author of ‘The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine’
Join Middle East Peace Now and the East Side Freedom Library for an online conversation with Dr. Rashid Khalidi of Columbia University, discussing his new book and current events in an interview with Peter Rachleff, Professor Emeritus in the Macalester College History Department and co-executive director/co-founder of the East Side Freedom Library. Dr. Khalidi will […]
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 to discuss his new book The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party: The Enduring Legacy of Henry Wallace’s Antifascist Antiracist Politics Monday, September […]
Mindful Self-Compassion (Workshop)
East Side Freedom Library invites you to explore workshops in “Mindful Self-Compassion” with Patricia Enstad. Eastsider Patricia Enstad, a licensed social worker and teacher, will provide a lively introduction to the practices of Mindful Self-Compassion. She writes: “As we consider the important tasks that lie ahead, we will need to support our action with compassion […]
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 this meeting here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. The presentation will be recorded and put on […]
Book Geek Happy Hour
Are you thirsting for some time to read and a chance to talk about what you’re reading? East Side Freedom Library is holding its monthly Happy Hour via Zoom. Join us at 5:30pm to share what you are reading. Register here for the Zoom invitation. Click “Going” and share on Facebook!