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SUMMARY:History Day Help at East Side Freedom Library
DESCRIPTION:  \nRIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES IN HISTORY\nThe 2025 National History Day theme asks students to think about how rights have been won and exercised and how they connect to responsibilities as members of society. Are students interested in racial justice\, labor activism\, women’s rights\, immigrant history\, GLBTQ+ movements\, environmental activism\, and more? Send them to the East Side Freedom Library to find rich resources (books\, art\, music\, and more) for their research and experienced mentors eager to help them shape their project. We have worked effectively with local students for the past ten years. \nEVERY SATURDAY MORNING\, 10AM TO NOON\nBEGINNING NOVEMBER 16 \nWe encourage students to make an appointment by emailing Peter Rachleff at peter@eastsidefreedomlibrary.org. Students should be prepared to follow our safety protocols\, including wearing a mask if asked (as we are unsure what our precautions will be as we get deeper into the fall). After their initial mentoring consultation\, they will be welcome to come at other times to use our resources\, and our mentors will be available for one-on-one conversations\, in person or remotely. If you would like to speak with us\, feel free to call us at 651-207-4926. We look forward to working with you and your students.
URL:https://eastsidefreedomlibrary.org/event/history-day-help-at-east-side-freedom-library/2025-02-01/
LOCATION:East Side Freedom Library\, 1105 Greenbrier St\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55106
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SUMMARY:History Day Help at East Side Freedom Library
DESCRIPTION:  \nRIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES IN HISTORY\nThe 2025 National History Day theme asks students to think about how rights have been won and exercised and how they connect to responsibilities as members of society. Are students interested in racial justice\, labor activism\, women’s rights\, immigrant history\, GLBTQ+ movements\, environmental activism\, and more? Send them to the East Side Freedom Library to find rich resources (books\, art\, music\, and more) for their research and experienced mentors eager to help them shape their project. We have worked effectively with local students for the past ten years. \nEVERY SATURDAY MORNING\, 10AM TO NOON\nBEGINNING NOVEMBER 16 \nWe encourage students to make an appointment by emailing Peter Rachleff at peter@eastsidefreedomlibrary.org. Students should be prepared to follow our safety protocols\, including wearing a mask if asked (as we are unsure what our precautions will be as we get deeper into the fall). After their initial mentoring consultation\, they will be welcome to come at other times to use our resources\, and our mentors will be available for one-on-one conversations\, in person or remotely. If you would like to speak with us\, feel free to call us at 651-207-4926. We look forward to working with you and your students.
URL:https://eastsidefreedomlibrary.org/event/history-day-help-at-east-side-freedom-library/2025-02-08/
LOCATION:East Side Freedom Library\, 1105 Greenbrier St\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55106
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SUMMARY:History Day Help at East Side Freedom Library
DESCRIPTION:  \nRIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES IN HISTORY\nThe 2025 National History Day theme asks students to think about how rights have been won and exercised and how they connect to responsibilities as members of society. Are students interested in racial justice\, labor activism\, women’s rights\, immigrant history\, GLBTQ+ movements\, environmental activism\, and more? Send them to the East Side Freedom Library to find rich resources (books\, art\, music\, and more) for their research and experienced mentors eager to help them shape their project. We have worked effectively with local students for the past ten years. \nEVERY SATURDAY MORNING\, 10AM TO NOON\nBEGINNING NOVEMBER 16 \nWe encourage students to make an appointment by emailing Peter Rachleff at peter@eastsidefreedomlibrary.org. Students should be prepared to follow our safety protocols\, including wearing a mask if asked (as we are unsure what our precautions will be as we get deeper into the fall). After their initial mentoring consultation\, they will be welcome to come at other times to use our resources\, and our mentors will be available for one-on-one conversations\, in person or remotely. If you would like to speak with us\, feel free to call us at 651-207-4926. We look forward to working with you and your students.
URL:https://eastsidefreedomlibrary.org/event/history-day-help-at-east-side-freedom-library/2025-02-15/
LOCATION:East Side Freedom Library\, 1105 Greenbrier St\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55106
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SUMMARY:Mapping Our Housing Family Trees with East Side Freedom Library Art Lab
DESCRIPTION:Mapping Our Housing Family Trees with East Side Freedom Library Art Lab\nDate and Time: Saturday\, February 15\, 1-2pm\nLocation: Arlington Hills Library\, 1200 Payne Avenue\, Saint Paul\, MN 55130 \nFREE! \nWorkshop Description: Join the East Side Freedom Library’s Art Lab Fellows for an interactive workshop where participants will explore their families’ housing histories and create family trees and maps together! Multigenerational families and children are welcome. All materials will be provided\, but if you have photos of places your family has lived/currently lived\, feel free to bring them as references. \nThe East Side Freedom Library (ESFL) works to mobilize community knowledge for solidarity\, justice\, and equity for all. The ESFL Art Lab is an eight month fellowship focused on creating public art around a shared theme. The inaugural cohort of four artists is focused around the theme of “Housing Justice.” \nThis year’s Art Lab cohort includes:\nLis Sundberg\nSterling Miller\nSophie Wang\nMarcia Rowe \nTHIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE FOR THE CAUSE OF SOLIDARITY! \n  \n \nThis activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board\, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
URL:https://eastsidefreedomlibrary.org/event/mapping-our-housing-family-trees-with-east-side-freedom-library-art-lab/
LOCATION:Arlington Hills Library\, 1200 Payne Avenue\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55130\, United States
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SUMMARY:Exhibit Opening: YOU BETCHA! FARMER-LABOR SOLIDARITY IS POSSIBLE\, Art and History
DESCRIPTION:YOU BETCHA! FARMER-LABOR SOLIDARITY IS POSSIBLE \na moveable monument to history and hope \nEast Side Freedom Library\n1105 Greenbrier Street\nSaint Paul\, MN 55106 \nExhibit runs February 20– May 4\, 2025 \nOpening Reception: Thursday\, February 20th\, 2025\, 7pm\, doors: 6:30pm \nJoin us Thursday\, February 20th\, 2025 for the Opening Reception of “You Betcha! Farmer-Labor Solidarity is Possible!” \nDid you know that Minnesota is home to the most successful third-party movement in U.S. history? 2024 marked the 100th anniversary of the Farmer-Labor Party and the remarkable movement of solidarity that supported it. In honor of this centennial celebration and in partnership with Monument Lab’s Re-Generation initiative\, the Farmer-Labor Education Committee (FLEC) commissioned Gita Ghei to create a permanent traveling sculpture\, commemorating the Farmer-Labor movement in Minnesota. She and her team engaged with people throughout the state to inform permanent art that commemorates this important history in a whimsical artwork! \nExperience this Moveable Monument\, a tangible\, touchable\, playable monument! \nCelebrate with us! \nGita Ghei is a metal sculptor\, specializing in public art and teaching.
URL:https://eastsidefreedomlibrary.org/event/exhibit-opening-you-betcha-farmer-labor-solidarity-is-possible-art-and-history/
LOCATION:East Side Freedom Library\, 1105 Greenbrier St\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55106
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SUMMARY:History Day Help at East Side Freedom Library
DESCRIPTION:  \nRIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES IN HISTORY\nThe 2025 National History Day theme asks students to think about how rights have been won and exercised and how they connect to responsibilities as members of society. Are students interested in racial justice\, labor activism\, women’s rights\, immigrant history\, GLBTQ+ movements\, environmental activism\, and more? Send them to the East Side Freedom Library to find rich resources (books\, art\, music\, and more) for their research and experienced mentors eager to help them shape their project. We have worked effectively with local students for the past ten years. \nEVERY SATURDAY MORNING\, 10AM TO NOON\nBEGINNING NOVEMBER 16 \nWe encourage students to make an appointment by emailing Peter Rachleff at peter@eastsidefreedomlibrary.org. Students should be prepared to follow our safety protocols\, including wearing a mask if asked (as we are unsure what our precautions will be as we get deeper into the fall). After their initial mentoring consultation\, they will be welcome to come at other times to use our resources\, and our mentors will be available for one-on-one conversations\, in person or remotely. If you would like to speak with us\, feel free to call us at 651-207-4926. We look forward to working with you and your students.
URL:https://eastsidefreedomlibrary.org/event/history-day-help-at-east-side-freedom-library/2025-02-22/
LOCATION:East Side Freedom Library\, 1105 Greenbrier St\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55106
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SUMMARY:August Nimtz: Marx\, Douglass and the Fight for Racial Equality: a Panel with Kyle Edwards
DESCRIPTION:August Nimtz: Marx\, Douglass and the Fight for Racial Equality: a Panel with Kyle Edwards \nWednesday\, February 26\, 2025\, 7 p.m.\nEast Side Freedom Library\, 1105 Greenbrier Street\, Saint Paul\, MN 55106 \nSign up here for this free virtual event \nJoin the East Side Freedom Library with noted University of Minnesota scholar August Nimtz and his coauthor Kyle Edwards as we explore the present-day themes illuminated in their book The Communist and the Revolutionary Liberal in the Second American Revolution: Comparing Karl Marx and Frederick Douglass in Real-Time. \nWhat sort of politics leads to real emancipation? This question led Nimtz and Edwards back to the Civil War and Reconstruction. Their work engages a conversation with two competing political perspectives\, liberalism and Marxism\, examining the biggest breakthrough for the millennial-old democratic quest after the French Revolution occurred – the abolition of chattel slavery in the United States. But it does so with a purpose for today. As CLR James said\, “You can study history and understand where we are today and why and where we are going tomorrow.” \nAugust H. Nimtz\, Ph.D.\, is a nationally renowned professor of political science and African American and African studies in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota. He specializes in Marxism\, political economy\, politics of race\, class & ethnicity\, and African politics. \nKyle A. Edwards is a Curriculum Associate at the University of Minnesota. He is a member of AFSCME 3800 and author of “Those Deluded\, Ill-Starred Men: Frederick Douglass\, the New National Era\, and the Paris Commune.” \nThey will be joined by Jack McKivigan and Sidney Carlson White. \nJack McKivigan received his Ph.D. in History from the Ohio State University. He began work at the Frederick Douglass Papers at Yale University under its founding editor John W. Blassingame in 1979 and took over as the project’s director  in 1994. Under his direction the project has published seven volumes with Yale University Press and has only three more to go to finish the most complete scholarly edition of an African American in history. McKivigan is also the author of important books and articles on various elements of radical history including abolitionism\, civil rights\, and labor history. \nSidney Carlson White is a member of Marxist Unity Group\, a caucus of Democratic Socialists of America. He is on the Organizing Committee of the Central Brooklyn Branch of the New York City DSA. He has worked on mayoral and state legislative campaigns in New York\, fighting for candidates who will be accountable to the socialist movement that supports them. Outside of his organizing work\, his scholarship is in the areas of twentieth and twenty-first century American culture and its intersections with race and empire. \nTHIS VIRTUAL EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE FOR THE CAUSE OF SOLIDARITY! SIGN UP FOR YOUR LINK HERE!
URL:https://eastsidefreedomlibrary.org/event/august-nimtz-marx-douglass-and-black-america-a-panel-with-kyle-edwards/
LOCATION:East Side Freedom Library\, 1105 Greenbrier St\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55106
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SUMMARY:Chavonn Williams Shen: Readings and Conversations!
DESCRIPTION:Chavonn Williams Shen: Readings and Conversations!\nwith Carolyn Holbrook and Gen Del Raye \nEast Side Freedom Library\n1105 Greenbrier Street\, Saint Paul\, MN 55106\nThursday\, February 27\, 2025\, 7:00 p.m. \nJoin the East Side Freedom Library for a reading from Chavonn Williams Shen and her guests Carolyn Holbrook and Gen Del Raye. \nChavonn’s first collection of poetry\, Still Life with Rope and River explores racism through a chorus of voices surrounding Emmett Till’s murder. Through research in combination with emotional truth\, Williams Shen uses persona poems to dive deep into the psyche of both common and lesser known people and objects regarding Till’s lynching. Williams Shen also weaves in their own narrative and family history of how Blackness is dissected and dismissed\, illustrating how the past is a ghost to the present.  \nChavonn Williams Shen (she/they) is from Minneapolis\, Minnesota. She was a 2022 McKnight Writing fellow and a first runner-up for The Los Angeles Review Flash Fiction Contest. She was also a Best of the Net Award finalist\, a Pushcart Prize nominee\, a winner of the Loft Literary Center’s Mentor Series\, a fellow with the Givens Foundation for African American Literature\, and an instructor for the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop. A Bread Loaf\, Tin House\, VONA\, and Hurston/Wright workshop alum\, her writing has appeared in: Diode\, Anomaly\, AGNI\, and others. Her debut book\, Still Life with Rope and River\, is published by Finishing Line Press. \nCarolyn Holbrook is founder and Artistic/Executive Director of More Than a Single Story. Her memoir\, Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify\, won the 2021 Minnesota Book Award for Memoir and Creative Nonfiction. She is co-editor with David Mura of the anthology\, We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World (Minn 2021)\, and is co-author with Arleta Little of civil rights icon\, Dr. Josie R. Johnson’s memoir\, Hope In the Struggle (Minn 2019) and Ordinary People\, Extraordinary Journeys: How the St. Paul Companies Leadership Initiatives in Neighborhoods Program Changed Lives and Communities (2015). Her essays have appeared in numerous anthologies\, including Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota (MNHS 2015) and A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota (MNHS 2016). Her TEDx talk\, “The Life you Live is the Legacy You will Leave” was presented at Concordia College\, Moorhead\, MN (2022). \nGen Del Raye is half Japanese and was born and raised in Kyoto\, Japan. His writing has appeared in the Gettysburg Review and Poetry Northwest\, among others\, and has been anthologized in The Best Small Fictions 2017 and Best New Poets 2019. His debut collection of short stories\, Boundless Deep\, and Other Stories\, won the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction and is available from the University of Nebraska Press. \n  \nTHIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE FOR THE CAUSE OF SOLIDARITY!
URL:https://eastsidefreedomlibrary.org/event/chavonn-williams-shen-readings-and-conversations/
LOCATION:East Side Freedom Library\, 1105 Greenbrier St\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55106
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