Outdoor Screening: Ohiyesa: The Soul of an Indian
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesJoin us for a free outdoor film screening! The program will begin at 8PM with a presentation about the making and meaning of the film. The screening will begin at dusk, about 8:30PM, and will last an hour. Please bring your own chairs and/or blankets. Plan to wear masks and maintain appropriate social distances. Ohiyesa: […]
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 to the Great Migration in which millions of African Americans left the South in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the explosion 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 […]
History Book Club: When They Blew the Levee
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesHistory Book Club: When They Blew the Levee a virtual event, via Zoom Wednesday, August 19, 2020, 1 p.m. (Copies of the book are available from the Ramsey County Library or your local, independent bookstore) Join the East Side Freedom Library, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and the Ramsey County Library at Roseville for the August […]
5th Annual Union Job & Resource Fair
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 110 1330 Conway Street, Saint Paul, MNThe annual Union Job & Resource Fair has been postponed to August 20th. The organizers have created a virtual bulletin board for current job openings and resources to expand career opportunities. We encourage you to look at the the opportunities available there and to share this page with your networks! The fifth annual Union Job and Resource Fair […]
Stories for (Little) People
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesThis new program is geared toward young people of preschool and early elementary grades. Kate Derickson, assisted by Harry Potter and Orso the Library dog, will read books that feature all kinds of families and children and people of diverse backgrounds, cultures, and experiences. Kate teaches in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Geography […]
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 history is more than the uncovering of untold stories. It also involves the reinterpretation of subjects that we might think we already know. Jimmy Hoffa, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 an octopus to depict the ways they saw capitalist greed grasping control over work, business, community, and political life. Today, it is hard to imagine […]
Stories for (Little) People
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesThis new program is geared toward young people of preschool and early elementary grades. Kate Derickson, assisted by Harry Potter and Orso the Library dog, will read books that feature all kinds of families and children and people of diverse backgrounds, cultures, and experiences. Kate teaches in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Geography […]
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!
Let’s Sit Together (with Urban Monk Marc Anderson)
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesEvery Tuesday evening from 7-8pm until November 4, 2020 Before we assume our various identities there is the basic human experience of the air, the water, the earth. We are all children of this place and given life through these resources. And, in America, we are all part of the democratic experiment and have 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 […]
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 […]
Stories for (Little) People
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesThis new program is geared toward young people of preschool and early elementary grades. Kate Derickson, assisted by Harry Potter and Orso the Library dog, will read books that feature all kinds of families and children and people of diverse backgrounds, cultures, and experiences. Kate teaches in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Geography […]
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 […]
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 […]