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 […]
Cracked Walnut Poetry Workshop
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesCracked Walnut Literary Workshop is open to anyone interested in having a poem critiqued. Meet at the East Side Freedom Library, 1105 Greenbrier St., St. Paul, on Saturday, August 8th, 10:00 am-12:00 pm. We will meet outside (weather permitting) to social distance. Feel free to bring blanket or chair. Masks required if we need to […]
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 […]
The Kaleidoscope Project Reading #2: An Afro-Asian Creative Reflection on Solidarity, Culture, COVID-19 and Uprising
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesThe Kaleidoscope Project: Readings #2 Tuesday, August 11 7:00 p.m. Watch via ESFL’s YouTube Channel and Facebook Live! An Afro-Asian Creative Reflection on Solidarity, Culture, COVID-19 and Uprising Ashawnti Sakina Ford | Patti Kmeya | Atlese Robinson | Sunny Thao The Kaleidoscope Project is a three-part creative writing and intercultural discourse experience developed and facilitated […]
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: 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 A Conversation with Dr. Martha S. Jones Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University Wednesday, August 12, 2020, 7pm Amidst all the turmoil of 2020, it […]
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 page and YouTube channel Immigration is a hot topic today. What can we learn from studying the experiences of immigrants a century ago? What challenges […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]