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Urban Engagement Book Club
"...a socially conscious collection of bookworms,
where every book leads to a lively debate.”
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Dallas Observer
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RSVP to Reserve Your Seat
(Event is free but seating is limited to 100)
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When
First Thursdays at Noon.
See full schedule to the right.
What
Lunch and great
conversation about issues that matter to our community:
poverty,
society, economics, faith, politics and more. For a list of previous
topics,
click here.
Free child care provided to the first
five people who RSVP to
Lisa Goolsby and request child care.
However, children must be picked up promptly at 1:00 p.m.
Who
Around 80-100 smart, interesting people who care about our
community.
Where
 Highland Park United Methodist
Room 386
3300 Mockingbird Lane
Dallas, TX 75205
Enter on the
Northwest corner of the church and take the
elevator to floor three. Take a right, and
go left at the first hall. The room is on
the left
Free
parking in North lot or across Bishop in the
Meadows Museum garage.
How
Just
show up - and bring a friend! No reading
required, and lunch is provided. However, books can
be ordered through the
Central Dallas
Bookstore (a portion of all
proceeds benefit CDM).
Contact
Send questions, comments
and RSVPs to
Lisa Goolsby at 214-823-8710 x 138.
RSVP Here.
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Get Engaged!
Contact your local representative to
advocate on behalf of the poor and the
voiceless. Download the list of
Dallas city council representatives
here
( ).
To find your state and national
leaders, please visit:
http://www.fyi.legis.state.tx.us/
2008 Calendar
January 3, 2008 (two books)
Joel Fleishman, The
Foundation: A Great American Secret; How
Private Wealth is Changing the World.
Public Affairs (2007).
Download handout here ().
Incite! Women of Color
Against Violence, The Revolution Will
Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit
Industrial Complex. South End Press
(2007).
Download handout here ().
February 7, 2008
Dowell Myers, Immigrants
and Boomers: Forging a New Social Contract
for the Future of America. Russell
Sage Foundation Publications (2007).
Download handout here ().
March 6,
2008
Ron Hall and Denver Moore,
Same Kind of
Different as Me.
Thomas Nelson (2006).
Download handout here ().
April 3,
2008
Bill Clinton, Giving:
How Each of Us Can Change the World.
Knopf (2007).
Download handout here ().
May 1,
2008
Paul Jargowsky, Poverty
and Place: Ghettos, Barrios, and the
American City. Russell Sage Foundation
Publications (1998).
Download handout here ().
June 5,
2008
Jonathan Kozol, Letters
to a Young Teacher. Crown (2007).
Download handout here ().
July 3,
2008
Jay MacLeod, Ain't No
Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a
Low-Income Neighborhood. Westview
Press, Inc. (1995).
Download
book handout here ().
Download advocacy handout here ().
August 7,
2008
Robert Frank, Falling
Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms the
Middle Class (The Aaron Wildavsky
Forum for Public Policy). University of
California Press (2007).
September 4,
2008
Bill Cosby and Alvin F.
Poussaint, Come On People: On the Path
from Victims to Victors. Thomas Nelson
(2007).
October 2,
2008 (two books)
Jim Collins, Good to
Great: Why Some Companies Make the
Leap…and Others Don’t. Harper Collins
Publishers Inc. (2001).
Jim Collins, Good to
Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph
to Accompany Good to Great. Harper
Collins Publishers Inc. (2005).
November 6,
2008
Michael Phillips, White
Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion
in Dallas, 1841-2001. University of
Texas Press (2006).
December 4,
2008 (two books)
Shannon Daley-Harris,
Jeffrey Keenan, and Karen Speerstra,
Our Day to End Poverty. Berrett-Koehler
Publishers (2007).
Bono, On the Move.
Thomas Nelson (2007).
(Click here
for the list of previous books)
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