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Cretin-Derham Hall: Hockey Players Visit East Side Freedom Library
January 31, 2020 On January 24, members of the CDH Boys Hockey team took advantage of the day off to visit the East Side Freedom Library for help with their History Day projects. Sophomores Drew Fisher, Kevin Odlaug, Gabe Rasmussen, Jake Sondreal and Zach Sondreal all...
MinnPost: First authors for second Wordplay announced; Art Shanty Projects to open this weekend
Pamela Espeland | January 17, 2020 Wordplay authors, from left to right: Kate DiCamillo, Natalie Diaz, Samantha Irby and Jeff VanderMeer. Brrr! It’s a good day to look ahead to Saturday, May 9, when the second annual Wordplay festival will bring authors and book...
Rain Taxi: Reinventing the People’s Library
By Paul Buhle | Fall 2019 Click here to read.
East Side Freedom Library wins 2017 Arts Achievement Award
At the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council Annual Board Meeting last week the MRAC Board of Directors announced and presented the 2017 Arts Achievement Awards. This year, the East Side Freedom Library was given a cash award of $5,000 for its outstanding achievements...
East Side Financial Center interview with Peter Rachleff
Q&A: Peter Rachleff (Written and posted by the East Side Financial Center on November 28, 2016) Peter Rachleff’s political philosophy incorporates picket lines and dog parks, direct action and opera, labor strikes and weaving circles. He believes in equity and...
Coffee House Press: In the Stacks interview with ESFL
(Originally published by Coffee House Press: In the Stacks) EAST SIDE FREEDOM LIBRARY: A CATALOG OF THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE CHP In the Stacks: An interview with educators and historians Peter Rachleff and Beth Cleary, founders of the East Side Freedom Library CHP:...
Second anniversary coverage from Twin Cities Daily Planet
We are so grateful to our friends at Twin Cities Daily Planet for this fantastic article and video about our first two years. We're reposting their article below, but please be sure to visit them online! Building a radically engaged library: East Side Freedom...
Freedom Rings at East Side Freedom Library!
"In something like the Miracle on Greenbrier Street the power of vision, passion and grit have transformed an abandoned public library building on St. Paul’s East Side. Phoenix-like, the once forlorn Carnegie Library is reborn as the East Side Freedom Library, a...
Workday Minnesota: East Side Freedom Library celebrates second anniversary
By Steve Share | May 31, 2016 A historic Carnegie Library building located on St. Paul’s East Side, formerly the Arlington Hills Public Library, now is bustling with new life as a center for labor and immigrant history and social justice activism. The East Side...
Union Advocate: In Minnesota, public-sector workers building power from the inside out
Wonderful article from the Union Advocate about the February 18 event discussing the Friedrichs case, the impact on unions, and how labor moves forward in a post-Scalia court. Great pictures and reporting!