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SUMMARY:JOB SEEKING 101: RESUME & INTERVIEW PREPARATION
DESCRIPTION:Level up your job search …. for FREE. \nJoin us April 16th\, 6–8 PM at East Side Freedom Library for a hands-on job readiness workshop designed to help you show up confidently and strategically in today’s job market. \nHere’s what you’ll walk away with:\n A stronger\, ATS-ready resume\n Strategies to communicate your skills with impact\n Interview tools to help you walk in prepared & walk out confidentWhether you’re entering the workforce or making a career pivot\, this space is for YOU. \n April 16th | 6–8 PM\n East Side Freedom Library — 1105 Greenbrier St\, Saint Paul\, MN\n Light food & refreshments provided\n FREE to attend \nRegister Here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeuuKM-Q2ziEWYXeL0P2N_NOUlyK_nxvJIf7xwmXNgEa8FGIQ/viewform
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SUMMARY:Freedom to Breathe: Conversations about Environmental Justice in the Twin Cities
DESCRIPTION:Please register (not required!) ahead so we know numbers and can stay in touch about this event. \nIn our pursuit of solidarity\, justice\, and equity for all\, fights for environmental justice illuminate collaborative paths toward a better future. Twin Cities environmental justice leaders across St. Paul and Minneapolis will lead a conversation about using our collective power to hold industrial polluters accountable. \nThis event takes place on the tenth day of a hunger strike led by the Zero Burn Coalition to catalyze the closure of the Hennepin Energy Recovery Center\, a trash incinerator in North Minneapolis that has harmed residents for nearly four decades. \nWe will also hear from community members on the front lines\, including activists fighting Northern Iron\, an industrial foundry located next to residential homes in a low-income\, racially diverse neighborhood on Saint Paul’s East Side. \nOur borders do not define us. We all share a common struggle against environmental injustice. Join us for an evening of conversation\, solidarity\, and action.
URL:https://eastsidefreedomlibrary.org/event/freedom-to-breathe-conversations-about-environmental-justice-in-the-twin-cities/
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SUMMARY:Indigenous Short Film Festival!
DESCRIPTION:Indigenous Short Film Festival! \nApril 26th\, 11:00am\nTriLingua Cinema @\nEast Side Freedom Library\n1105 Greenbrier Street\, St Paul \nTriLingua Cinema in collaboration with Z Puppets Rosenschnoz presents 45 minutes of free\, family-friendly short films by local Indigenous artists. \nSee animation\, puppetry\, comedy and drama on screen through a Native lens. \nHosted by Dagsi Turtle & Jisdu Wabbit\, the dynamic duo from Z Puppets’ musical adventures into Cherokee Futurism. \nFREE admission and FREE popcorn!\nRecommended for ages 6-adults. \nNOTE:\nSpace is limited. Please arrive early to get a seat.\nDoors open at 10:30 a.m. \nThis same program will also be screened a day earlier at 11a.m. & 7:00 p.m. @ Z Puppets’ Studio in Minneapolis\nThis event is made possible with support by Metropolitan Regional Arts Council. \nThanks also to the City of Minneapolis Arts & Cultural Affairs Department.
URL:https://eastsidefreedomlibrary.org/event/indigenous-short-film-festival/
LOCATION:East Side Freedom Library\, 1105 Greenbrier St\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55106
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SUMMARY:Book talk with author Scott Kurashige\, with Bao Phi and Bo Thao-Urabe - AMERICAN PERIL: THE VIOLENT HISTORY OF ANTI-ASIAN RACISM
DESCRIPTION:SUNDAY\, MAY 17th from 1PM to 3PM\nat the East Side Freedom Library \nPlease register (not required!) ahead of time so we know numbers and can stay in touch about this event. \nJoin East Side Freedom Library\, the Minnesota Historical Society\, and the Japanese American Citizens League for a powerful conversation between American Peril author Scott Kurashige and local luminaries Bao Phi and Bo Thao-Urabe. \nCopies of the book will be available for sale via the XIA Books mobile bookstore! \nAmerican Peril is a probing account that shines a new light on the problem of anti-Asian violence and inspires us to build lasting solidarity. \nAward-winning scholar Scott Kurashige presents an expansive dive into anti-Asian violence and connects domestic and global events that have been erased from the official record. Going beyond victimhood\, the book also traces the rise of Asian American community protest and activism and argues that hope lies in grassroots activism for multiracial solidarity.⁠ \nScott Kurashige is the author of The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles and coauthor\, with Grace Lee Boggs\, of The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century. \n“American Peril will become a mainstay in classrooms and libraries\, and on the shelves and nightstands of any who want to understand the pernicious role that white supremacy has played in shaping what it means to be American: carving off\, cutting out\, excluding and sometimes executing those who it judges do not belong in this nation.”—Jeff Yang\, author of The Golden Screen and coauthor of New York Times bestseller Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now
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SUMMARY:The First Rainbow Coalition - Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:This film will be screened for free as part of our Reel Stories: Housing Justice in Film series\, presented in collaboration with Trilingua Cinema\, East Side Freedom Library and East Side Housing Justice. \nMay 21st\, 7:00pm\nEast Side Freedom Library\n1105 Greenbrier Street\, St Paul \n \n“You can kill a revolutionary\, but you can’t kill the revolution.” \n-Fred Hampton \nJoin us with our partners at East Side Freedom Library for a free screening of The First Rainbow Coalition about Fred Hampton and the Chicago Black Panther Party. Then stick around for a post-screening discussion about what lessons might be drawn from the film with present day Twin Cities tenant organizers. \nSynopsis \nIn 1969\, the Chicago Black Panther Party\, notably led by the charismatic Fred Hampton\, began to form alliances across lines of race and ethnicity with other community-based movements in the city\, including the Latinx group the Young Lords Organization and the working-class young southern whites of the Young Patriots. Finding common ground\, these disparate groups banded together in one of the most segregated cities in postwar America to collectively confront issues such as police brutality and substandard housing\, calling themselves the Rainbow Coalition. The First Rainbow Coalition tells the movement’s little-known story through rare archival footage and interviews with former coalition members in the present-day. \nThis film is rated TV-PG. \nThis film will be screened in English with English subtitles. \nTrailer \n \nThis activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council\, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
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LOCATION:East Side Freedom Library\, 1105 Greenbrier St\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55106
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SUMMARY:East Side Community Night with Upstream Minnesota
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, June 17 | 5:30–7:30 PM East Side Freedom Library | 1105 Greenbrier Street\, Saint Paul Free | RSVP here\n(RSVP not required\, but if you would\, it will help us ensure we have enough food and drinks for everyone. ) \nJoin us for a community evening hosted by our partners at Upstream Minnesota\, a storytelling organization dedicated to capturing and sharing the voices and histories of communities across the state. \nOn June 17th\, Upstream Minnesota brings its Storystream Trailer to the East Side Freedom Library to record stories from neighbors who want to share them. Come talk about your East Side stories\, projects\, gardens\, and the places you love. The evening includes food\, music\, and East Side trivia. \nWe’ll close out the night with live music from Obsidian James\, an Afro-Indigenous singer-songwriter from Harlem who now calls Minnesota home.
URL:https://eastsidefreedomlibrary.org/event/east-side-community-night-upstream-minnesota/
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SUMMARY:Book Launch - Without Terminus: untraining an archive by chaun webster
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, June 27\, 2026 | 2:00 PM East Side Freedom Library\nIn collaboration with the Community Digital Repository at ESFL \n\n\nJoin us for an afternoon of reading\, conversation\, and fellowship with poet and sound artist chaun webster and archival curator and artist Davu Seru. \nchaun webster’s third collection\, Without Terminus: untraining an archive\, is a philosophically rigorous and deeply moving work — part elegy\, part archival detective story\, part visual poem. Drawing on his family’s history as Pullman porters\, webster explores Black rest\, memory\, and the labor that grief demands of the living. \nKirkus Reviews calls it “a virtuoso work of literary experimentation in the service of a forgotten history.” Kao Kalia Yang\, author of Where Rivers Part\, describes it as “an act of revolution cloaked in the language of poetry\, wielding a heart full of courage.” \nThis is a free event. \nWe’d love to know you’re coming: register here if you’re comfortable doing so.\nIt’s never required\, and walk-ins are always welcome. \n\n\nMore praise for Without Terminus: untraining an archive\n\n“Without Terminus tracks chaun webster gone further into that which won’t stop\, even for that last\, bleak station. In his third work\, the poet considers the possibility of Black rest without Black death\, the labor that memory demands of the living\, and Black life as both fuel and lubricant for the U.S. progress engine. This work demands of Webster new grammars\, a hauntology\, a means of being without\, which is to say a praxis of knowing with grief even that which you can barely mourn. Deeply intimate and tirelessly self-interrogating\, Without Terminus is webster at his best. Phenomenal!”\n—Douglas Kearney\, author of I Imagine I been Science Fiction Always \n“A beautifully lyrical rumination on unknowing. For webster\, ‘without terminus’ doesn’t mean forever\, as in elongated emptiness\, but ‘frayed edges’ as a reclamation and new space\, the limits as haven. This book is a marvel\, a language and image train to travel with.”\n—Victoria Chang\, author of With My Back to the World \n“Without Terminus is an unflinching document of familial love and the legacy of Blackness in America. It is an act of revolution cloaked in the language of poetry\, wielding a heart full of courage.”\n—Kao Kalia Yang\, author of Where Rivers Part \n\nA Glimpse Inside the Book\nFrom page 5 of Without Terminus: untraining an archive:\n“i am the grandchild and great-grandchild of railworkers. both of them porters of the sleeping car\, both of them having demands placed upon their bodies that interdicted their rest. during their employment they were both suspended in the irony of the sleeping car\, which stole their ability to sleep\, that robbery of rest a down payment for the ease of white train passengers. it is a familiar formula.” \n  \nSpeaker Bios\nchaun webster is a poet and graphic designer living in Minneapolis whose work is attempting to put pressure on the spatial and temporal limitations of writing\, of the english language\, as a way to demonstrate its incapacity for describing blackness outside of a regime of death and dying. webster’s books include\, Gentry!fication: or the scene of the crime (Noemi Press\, 2018)\, and Wail Song: wading in the water at the end of the world\, (Black Ocean Press\, 2023). Both books were awarded the Minnesota Book Award for Poetry. \nDavu Underwood Seru is the Curator of the Givens Collection of African American Literature and Life and co-author of the book Sights\, Sounds\, Soul: The Twin Cities Through The Lens of Charles Chamblis\, which was a finalist for the 2017 MN Book Award. He has published articles on literature\, music\, history and culture in American Book Review\, The Walker Art Center online magazine MnArtist.org and the French jazz magazine Les Allumés du Jazz. He is currently working on a book project with the artist Seitu Ken Jones.
URL:https://eastsidefreedomlibrary.org/event/book-launch-without-terminus-chaun-webster/
LOCATION:East Side Freedom Library\, 1105 Greenbrier St\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55106
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