East Side Freedom Library

Cracked Walnut Presents: "Expressions!" and Writers for Democratic Action Featuring Diane Jarvenpa, Margaret Hasse, Kathryn Kysar, Michael Kleber-Diggs and Donna Isaac Thursday, September 18, 7:00-8:30 p.m. East Side Freedom Library, 1105 Greenbrier St., St. Paul, MN 55106 The East Side Freedom Library is thrilled to host the latest installment of this year's Cracked Walnut Poetry […]

Join us for a panel discussion featuring MAPE activists, and take part in a conversation about how we can make our unions stronger while fighting for more time for ourselves. This past year, members of the Minnesota Association of Professional Employees (MAPE) launched an internal campaign to educate and organize members about the possibilities of […]

Event hosted at the EAST SIDE FREEDOM LIBRARY, in collaboration with our dear friends of TriLingua Cinema. Tod Browning’s notorious 1932 film Freaks remains one of the most unsettling and radical movies Hollywood ever produced. Banned for decades, the film shocked audiences with its depiction of circus performers whose community, bonds, and dignity stand in stark contrast […]

East Side Freedom Library Monday, October 6, 2025, 7pm Join historian Marcus Rediker, author of the new book, FREEDOM SHIP: THE UNCHARTED HISTORY OF ESCAPING SLAVERY BY SEA, for a conversation about the many ways that enslaved men and women, and their accomplices, resisted slavery in the United States, and how this is relevant to […]

Friday, October 24th from 6:00-8:00pm at the East Side Freedom Library   Join us at ESFL for a hands-on button-making workshop! Create your own Anti-Fascist button and explore examples from the Buttons of the Left archive, which document struggles for peace, justice, and equality. All supplies provided, no registration necessary. BUTTONS OF THE LEFT is an archive and […]

Labor activist and author Jaz Brisack will lead a discussion about their new book, Get on the Job and Organize: Standing Up for a Better Workplace and a Better World. Jaz, a former Starbucks worker from Buffalo, NY, will be presenting the key ideas in their book and they will be in conversation with a panel of local labor organizers. […]

Union November 20th, 7:00pm East Side Freedom Library 1105 Greenbrier Street, St Paul, MN 55106 FREE SCREENING, RESERVE YOUR SPOT HERE: Join us for a celebration of solidarity and storytelling and a special screening of the film UNION on Thursday, November 20th, at The East Side Freedom Library. Synopsis Through intimate cinema vérité, UNION chronicles the […]

Public Reading of new writing by Refugee Writers Cohort, mentored by award-winning author Kao Kalia Yang Wednesday, December 3rd, from 6-8pm at the East Side Freedom Library  Over the past seven months, a group of seven writers—Minnesota’s first-ever Refugee Writers Cohort—have been gathering monthly at ESFL to develop new work under the mentorship of award-winning […]

Sometimes we need to look back at history to find strength to continue the struggles for justice we are currently facing. Along with our siblings at Trilingua Cinema, we invite you this Thursday, January 15th at 6pm for a free screening at ESFL of the epic film MATEWAN. This film will be screened for free […]