Naomi Klein

Profile: Full name: Naomi Klein Area of interest: Economics, World Affairs and Politics: especially in regard to Globalisation, Anticorporate Activism and Corporate Social Responsibility, Social Justice Journals/Organisation: The Guardian Email: c/o Debra Levy at debra@naomiklein.org Personal website: http://www.naomiklein.org | shock-doctrine.org Website: Guardian.co / Naomi Klein Blog: Comment is free... Representation: contact Naomi Klein Networks: https://twitter.com/#!/naomiaklein | Facebook page | MySpace details

Biography: About: Education: University of Toronto Former 'Miliband Fellow' at the London School of Economics; Doctor of Civil Laws citation from the University of King’s College, Nova Scotia Career: Naomi Klein.org: biography Current position/role: Columnist - regular column for The Guardian and The Nation, syndicated internationally by The New York Times Syndicate also writes/written for: In These Times, The Globe and Mail, This Magazine, Huffington Post Other roles/Main role: Other activities: author and activist, best known for her political analyses of corporate globalization Disclosures: Viewpoints/Insight: Common Dreams.org: Hand-To-Brand-Combat: A Profile Of Naomi Klein by Katharine Viner, originally published on Saturday, 23rd September, 2000 in the Guardian/UK The Huffington Post - HuffPost Video: John Cusack Interviews Naomi Klein 25th September 2007 Broadcast media: Naomi Klein.org: [1] | IMDb Video: You Tube: The Shock Doctrine by Alfonso Cuarón and Naomi Klein Controversy/Criticism: Economist.com: Naomi Klein and her flawed brand of anti-brandism 7th November 2002 Awards/Honours: Reporting from Iraq for Harper’s Magazine won the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, 2004 Ranked eleventh in the The 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll, a list of the world's top 100 public intellectuals compiled by Prospect magazine (UK) and Foreign Policy magazine Scoops: Other: Married to documentary filmmaker and current-affairs show host Avi Lewis

Books & Debate: Fences and windows: dispatches from the front lines of the globalization debate OCLC 50681860 , 2002 No logo: taking aim at the brand bullies OCLC 45308700 , 2000 'No logo: taking aim at the brand bullies' won the Canadian National Business Book Award, 2000 and the French Prix Médiations, 2000 Latest work: The shock doctrine: the rise of disaster capitalism OCLC 128236664 , 2007 Speaking/Appearances: Naomi Klein.org: tour-dates Debate:

Articles: The fight against climate change is down to us - Our movement differs from previous anti-globalisation protests. To change society's values we must stay together for years - 8th October 2011 Looting with the lights on - The riots in Britain were political – and they are part of a wider global anger at governments that commit daylight robbery - 17th August 2011 Let's take no orders to slash and burn from this G20 club - An institution dreamed up by finance ministers is trying to hand over the bill for the banking crisis to society's poorest - 30th June 2010 Bolivia's fight for survival can help save democracy too - The people's summit to tackle climate change is a radical, transformative response to the failure of the Copenhagen club - 23rd April 2010 Milton Friedman did not save Chile - To say the late economist deserves credit for the country's building codes shows a lack of knowledge of pre-coup Chile - 4th March 2010 Forgiveness for Haiti? We should be begging theirs - The very idea of Haiti as debtor needs to be abandoned. We in the west should pay arrears for years of violations - 12th February 2010 Copenhagen's failure belongs to Obama - The American president has been uniquely placed to lead the world on climate change and squandered every opportunity - 22nd December 2009 (see Copenhagen 2009) Better to have no deal at Copenhagen than one that spells catastrophe - The only offer on the table in Copenhagen would condemn the developing world to poverty and suffering in perpetuity - 18th December Copenhagen's policing by design - The Danish need for control is a real problem at the climate talks, where protesters should be able to connect with delegates - 14th December 2009 The Seattle activists' coming of age in Cophenhagen will be very disobedient - The climate conference will witness a new maturity for the movement that ignited a decade ago. But that does not mean playing it safe - 13th November 2009 Obama isn't helping. At least the world argued with Bush - For all the global love-in, the new president has led rich nations to neglect principled action and row back from climate deals - 16th October 2009 Capitalism doesn't care that centuries of pillage will pull the world apart - Sarah Palin's dangerous lie, that there's always somewhere left to drill, will push our climate past the point of no return - 31st July 2009 Hopebroken and hopesick, Obama fans need a new start - The penny has dropped: hope alone won't save the world. Time for a fresh lexicon. And to hope less, demand more - 17th April 2009 ¡Que se vayan todos! - that's the global backlash talking - It's not just governing elites that the world is rising up against - it's the entire model of deregulated capitalism - 6th February 2009 Enough. It's time for a boycott - The best way to end the bloody occupation is to target Israel with the kind of movement that ended apartheid in South Africa - 10th January 2009 Ditch the smooth transition. The people voted for change - Instead of accepting the corrupted bail-out and reassuring Wall Street, Obama's team must start doing the hard stuff now - 14th November 2008 The Bush gang's parting gift: a final, frantic looting of public wealth - The US bail-out amounts to a strings-free, public-funded windfall for big business. Welcome to no-risk capitalism - 31st October 2008 Free market ideology is far from finished - But with Wall Street rescued by government intervention, there's never been a better time to argue for collectivist solutions - Guardian.co.uk - 19th September 2008 Obama got Gustav wrong - The Democrat gave his rival the chance to score points as the hurricane approached New Orleans - 6th September 2008 The Olympics: Unveiling Police State 2.0 - 7th August 2008 Disaster Capitalism: State of Extortion - 3rd July 2008 Beware the Chicago boys - Obama's vow of love for free markets gives reason to fear a replay of Bill Clinton's 1993 U-turn - 14th June 2008 In the wake of catastrophe comes the whiff of unrest - The natural disasters in Burma and China have loosened the repressive grip the countries' rulers exert on their people - 16th May 2008 China's All-Seeing Eye - With the help of U.S. defense contractors, China is building the prototype for a high-tech police state. It is ready for export - 14th May 2008 Financial Times Diary: Smoke and Memories in Buenos Aires - 4th May 2008 An Essay by Tom Englehardt: 12 Reasons to Get Out of Iraq - 28th April 2008 Players, Not Cheerleaders - "So?" So said Dick Cheney when asked last week about public opinion being overwhelming against the war in Iraq. "You can't be blown off course by polls." - 26th March 2008 It's no slur to be called a Muslim - The turban photos affair was a missed chance for Obama. If he really is to repair the world, he must tackle this Islamophobia - 1st March 2008 Obama, Being Called a Muslim Is Not a Smear - 28th February 2008 Police and Tasers: Hooked on Shock - 11th February 2008 Class is back in the US as the ownership society crumbles - 1st February 2008 Disowned by the Ownership Societ - 31st January 2008 Why The Right Loves A Disaster - 27th January 2008 An Essay by Juan Santos: The Face of Fascism in a Global System Heading for Collapse - 8th January 2008 The Shock Doctrine in Action in New Orleans - 21st December 2007 Zapatista Code Red - 20th December 2007 Guns Beat Green: The Market Has Spoken - 29th November 2007 Shocked in Death, Shocked in Life: More than a Taser Story - 21st November 2007 Rapture rescue will airlift you to safety. If you can afford it - The booming business of privatised disaster services in the US goes against the principle that every life is of equal value - 3rd November 2007 The business press and me: a case of unrequited love - Finance journalists have attacked my book, but I remain devoted to their papers. After all, they supplied the facts I used - 25th October 2007 Thanks a million, Ayn Rand, for setting the greedy free - The trickle-down theory beloved of Greenspan and his ilk is less a philosophy than a handy excuse for avarice - 29th September 2007 (compiled from Guardian.co / Naomi Klein and Naomi Klein.org articles)

News & updates: A Note From Naomi About Cancelled Speeches - By Naomi Klein, 2nd March 2009

Links: Interview with Sathnam Sanghera, The Times, 25th February 2009 The Nation: articles by Naomi Klein (archive) In These Times: articles by Naomi Klein (archive) Wikipedia bio