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: The Guardian, et al

Email: c/o Debra Levy at [mailto:debra@naomiklein.org debra@naomiklein.org]

Website: Naomi Klein.org | shock-doctrine.org | Guardian.co / Naomi Klein

Blog: Comment is free...

Agent: contact Naomi Klein

Networks: Facebook page | MySpace details



Biography:
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:

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

TV/Radio/Video: Naomi Klein.org: video-audio; IMDb
 * Guardian Unlimited: Naomi Klein: What is The Shock Doctrine? - 'No Logo' author Naomi Klein explains the argument underpinning her new book (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

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

Current debate: 

Articles:

 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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)
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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)



Latest 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