Workers with Disabilities: A Conversation about Confronting and Overcoming Challenges
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesThe East Side Freedom Library invites you to Workers with Disabilities: A Conversation about Confronting and Overcoming Challenges on Tuesday, January 9 @ 7:00PM-8:30PM. Join us as we learn about the challenges faced by workers with disabilities AND the ways that these workers are organizing to confront and overcome these challenges. Come to hear from Macalester College Psychology Professor […]
What’s Happening to Labor at the University of Minnesota?
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesThe East Side Freedom Library invites you to What’s Happening to Labor at the University of Minnesota? on Wednesday, January 10 @ 7:00PM. The University of Minnesota is one of the largest employers and one of the largest recipients of tax-payer dollars in the state of Minnesota. How are they treating their workers? How does their […]
Town Hall Meeting with Representative Tim Mahoney
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesThe East Side Freedom Library invites you to a Town Hall Meeting with Representative Tim Mahoney. Please join Rep. Tim Mahoney and your neighbors to discuss what you value and the priorities you want represented at the Legislature in 2018. What: Town Hall Meeting with Tim Mahoney; When: Thursday, January 11th from 6:30 p.m. to […]
Music & Movements: The Rise of the Minneapolis Sound
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesThe East Side Freedom Library and A Greener Read Bookstore invite you to our second exploration of Music & Movements: The Rise of the Minneapolis Sound on Saturday, January 13 @ 3:00PM. Come hear local author Andrea Swensson discuss her new book, Got to Be Something Here: The Rise of the Minneapolis Sound, just published by the University […]
“At the River I Stand”: MLK Day Screening/Discussion
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesThe East Side Freedom Library invites you to “At the River I Stand”: MLK Day Screening/Discussion on Monday, January 15 @ 7:00PM-9:00PM. For East Side Freedom Library's commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, we will screen and discuss "At the River I Stand," the award-winning documentary about the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike, […]
Neighbors Meet Neighbors: Student Series
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesThe East Side Freedom Library invites you to join us for Neighbors Meet Neighbors, a three part series of monthly forums centered around the stories and experiences of students from immigrant communities on the East Side. Join us to hear from Immigrant Students from Hmong, Somali, Oromo, Karen, and Mexican Communities - January 16th @ […]
Hmong Pioneers, Honoring the First Wave: A Documentary Film Screening
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesJoin us for a screening and discussion of the documentary film, "Hmong Pioneers: Honoring the First Wave." In 1975, at the tumultuous close of the Vietnam war, the Hmong people in Laos fled their homes, livelihoods, and culture and began to arrive in the U.S. as refugees. Since that time, St. Paul, Minnesota has become […]
The Politics of the Pantry: A Book Talk with Author Emily Twarog
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesThe East Side Freedom Library invites you to The Politics of the Pantry: A Book Talk with Author Emily Twarog on Saturday, January 20, 1:00PM-3:00PM. Join us for a discussion with author Emily Twarog about her new book, THE POLITICS OF THE PANTRY: HOUSEWIVES, FOOD, AND CONSUMER PROTEST IN TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICA. Emily teaches History and […]
Sports, Social Justice, Labor and Race: The Window Opened by the Super Bowl
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesThe East Side Freedom Library invites you to Sports, Social Justice, Labor and Race: The Window Opened by the Super Bowl on Wednesday, January 24 @ 6:30PM. Join the inter-generational and multi-racial organizers of the upcoming "Take a Knee Nation" conference, which will highlight "Race, Police Violence, and the Right to Protest." The conference will […]
Nidoto Nai Yoni: Opening Reception of John Matsunaga’s Photography Exhibition
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesTitle: Nidoto Nai Yoni: Forgetting and Remembering the Wartime Incarceration of Japanese Americans Artist Statement: This exhibit presents photographs of the physical remnants of the ten American concentration camps that were used to incarcerate Japanese Americans during World War II. In 1942, approximately 110,000 Japanese Americans that lived within the western United States were forcibly removed from […]
“Writers Who Dare,” with Sherry Quan Lee and Seven Writers
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesThe East Side Freedom Library invites you to "Writers Who Dare,” with Sherry Quan Lee and Seven Writers on Saturday, January 27, 1:00PM-2:30PM, @ East Side Freedom Library. How Dare We! Write: A Multicultural Creative Writing Discourse offers a much needed corrective to the usual dry and uninspired creative writing pedagogy. The collection asks us […]
“Mooz-lum”: A Black History Month Film Screening/Discussion
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesThe East Side Freedom Library and Metropolitan State University invite you to “Mooz-lum”: A Black History Month Film Screening/Discussion on Monday, January 29 @ 7:00PM-9:00PM. Join us for a screening of the film Mooz-lum in commemoration of Black History Month. Assistant professor of English and Africana studies Salamishah Tillet reviews Mooz-lum as follows: “a thoughtful new drama written and […]
“The Sound of Torture”: A Black History Month Film Screening/Discussion
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesThe East Side Freedom Library and Metropolitan State University invite you to “The Sound of Torture”: A Black History Month Film Screening/Discussion on Saturday, February 3 @ 1:00PM-3:00PM. Join us for a screening of the international, award-winning documentary The Sound of Torture in commemoration of Black History Month. Since Europe closed its borders in 2006, thousands of Eritrean refugees […]
Experiences of Wartime Displacement, Dispossession, and Confinement: the Japanese American Incarceration and Beyond
"Experiences of Wartime Displacement, Dispossession, and Confinement: the Japanese American Incarceration and Beyond" is a discussion panel that will include members of Minnesota’s Japanese American, immigrant, and refugee communities discussing their communities’ experiences of confinement, displacement, and eventual resettlement in Minnesota. Audience members will be encouraged to share their experiences. Hear from a panel including […]
Music & Movements: Trans Roots of Punk Rock
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesThe East Side Freedom Library and A Greener Read Bookstore invite you to our third exploration of Music & Movements: Trans Roots of Punk Rock on Saturday, February 10 @ 4:00PM. Venus de Mars is the iconic front person and founding member of the long standing Minneapolis glam-punk/trans-band: Venus de Mars & All The Pretty […]
Neighbors Meet Neighbors: Student Series
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesThe East Side Freedom Library invites you to join us for Neighbors Meet Neighbors, a three part series of monthly forums centered around the stories and experiences of recent student immigrants to the east side communities. Join us to hear from Immigrant Students from Hmong, Somali, Oromo, Karen, and Mexican Communities - January 16th @ […]
The Labor Movement and the Struggle for Democracy in Minnesota
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesThe East Side Freedom Library and St. Paul Public Schools Community Education Program invite you to The Labor Movement and the Struggle for Democracy in Minnesota on Tuesdays from February 13 through March 20 @ 6:00PM-8:00PM. East Side Freedom Library invites you to participate in a learning opportunity through the St. Paul Public Schools Community Education Program. We cannot […]
“Mother of George”: A Black History Month Film Screening/Discussion
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesThe East Side Freedom Library and Metropolitan State University invite you to “Mother of George”: A Black History Month Film Screening/Discussion on Thursday, February 15 @ 7:00PM-9:00PM. Join us for a screening of the film Mother of George in commemoration of Black History Month. NPR’s Tomas Hachard reviews Mother of George as follows: “From the start, Mother […]
After the End of the World and the Black Feminist Book Mobile: A Talk with Alexis Pauline Gumbs
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United StatesThe East Side Freedom Library invites you to After the End of the World and the Black Feminist Book Mobile: A Talk with Alexis Pauline Gumbs on Friday, February 16, 7:00PM-8:30PM. Alexis Pauline Gumbs is the Winton Chair in the Liberal Arts for 2017-18 and 2018-19 at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She is […]
Representing and Resisting Historical Injustices through Art
East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St. Paul, MN, United States“Representing and Resisting Historical Injustices through Art” will be a panel of artists from diverse communities joining featured artist John Matsunaga in a conversation about how they have used their artistic practices to engage the historical injustices which have challenged their communities. The artists Nikki McComb, Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay, and Alessandra Williams will bring the experiences of […]