Our Mission:
To Educate, To Agitate,
To Illuminate

In a recent review of two new books on Oskar Schindler and his lifesaving list [Pemper, Mietek: The Road to Rescue & Keneally, Thomas: Searching for Schindler], Ruth Franklin, senior editor at the New Republic, quotes Pemper as arguing that “the ‘crucial accomplishment’ was not the list itself but the ‘multifarious acts of resistance that, like tiny stones being placed into a mosaic one by one, had made the whole process possible.’” It’s a simple and often used simile for the slow and often frustrating process that begins with
a single hand creating, while the larger vision remains in the distance. It is with this in mind that we offer to our members and the public a series of discussions in January and February to digest and deliberate on our current financial crises through the lens of Naomi Klein’s - The Shock Doctrine.

Our Des Moines branch, through the placing of one or more of the stones in a mosaic of conversations on responsibility and action, hopes to develop a vocabulary with which we can help ourselves and others through the morass of mistakes and misjudgments – not to blame, but to act with knowledge and move with clarity. Please join us for this current and critical dialogue.

Mary Hanson Harrison

“Putting the Puzzle Pieces Together”

Wed. Night or Thu. Afternoon Book Club:
Naomi Klein’s - Shock Doctrine

Wednesday Evening 6:00 to 8:00 P.M.
January 7, 21, 28 and February 4, 18, and 28
Plymouth Congregational Church Burling Room

Thursday Afternoon 1:00 to 3:00 P.M,
January 8, 22, 29 and February 5, 19 and 26
Plymouth Congregational Church Cafe

Plymouth Congregational Church is located at 4126 Ingersoll Ave. Parking is available just east of the church.