5 Crucial Lessons for the Left From Naomi Klein’s New Book |lo5 Crucial Lessons for the Left From Naomi Klein’s New Book

5 Crucial Lessons for the Left From Naomi Klein’s New Book | Blog | BillMoyers.com

The Change Within: The Obstacles We Face Are Not Just External

The Change Within: The Obstacles We Face Are Not Just External | Common Dreams

Naomi Klein: How science is telling us all to revolt‏

Global capitalism has made the depletion of resources so rapid, convenient and barrier-free that “earth-human systems” are becoming dangerously unstable in response. 
There was one dynamic in the model, however, that offered some hope. Brad Werner -a geophysicist from the University of California, San Diego- termed it “resistance” – movements of “people or groups of people” who “adopt a certain set of dynamics that does not fit within the capitalist culture”. According to the abstract for his presentation, this includes “environmental direct action, resistance taken from outside the dominant culture, as in protests, blockades and sabotage by indigenous peoples, workers, anarchists and other activist groups”.

Naomi Klein - A global Green Marshall Plan

With her newest, yet-to-be named book, Naomi Klein turns her attention to climate change.
Naomi Klein's books and articles have sought to articulate a counternarrative to the march of corporate globalization and government austerity.  She believes climate change provides a new chance for creating such a counternarrative.  "The book I am writing is arguing that our responses to climate change can rebuild the public sphere, can strengthen our communities, can have work with dignity."
Klein came to the idea that climate change could be a kind of a "people's shock," an answer to the shock doctrine – not just another opportunity by the disaster capitalists to feed off of misery, but an opportunity for progressive forces to deepen democracy and really improve livelihoods around the world. 

No Logo: how brand names manipulate public desires while exploiting the people who make their products. 
The Shock Doctrine or how free-marketeers often use crises – natural or manufactured – to ram through deregulatory policies.

Canada's indigenous resistance

Leanne Simpson collecting wild rice.In December 2012, the Indigenous protests known as Idle No More exploded onto the Canadian political scene, with huge round dances taking place in shopping malls, busy intersections, and public spaces across North America, as well as solidarity actions as far away as New Zealand and Gaza. Though sparked by a series of legislative attacks on indigenous sovereignty and environmental protections by the Conservative government of Stephen Harper, the movement quickly became about much more: Canada’s ongoing colonial policies, a transformative vision of decolonization, and the possibilities for a genuine alliance between natives and non-natives, one capable of re-imagining nationhood.

Power Shift - Naomi Klein

Necessary alternatives to attain climate justice.
Naomi Klein deconstructing the climate crises.

Catastroika

Documental - neoliberalism - Russia - Chile - Greece - Paris - California -Naomi Klein, Slavoj Zizek, etc. 

Naomi Klein -US is so damaged, even tiny steps are seen as progress

US bailout greatest heist in monetary history

Naomi Klein -Collective Insanity

Occupy Wall Street changed the conversation in the US
Canada & the Kyoto Protocol

Do not tell us it is not a class war

The entire world seems to be one huge advertisement for The Shock Doctrine. Naomi Klein showed in her book how the corporate-political-military-media complex exploits crises to further impose their harsh right-wing agenda – even when they themselves created the crisis. In a sane world, the economic meltdown and deep recession of the past four years would have led at minimum to stringent regulation of financiers and speculators plus programs to assist their victims. But in this world, you have to be nuts to believe in a sane world.

Naomi Klein - Interview with Occupy Vancouver

Naomi on the Occupy Movement, the tar sands pipeline, and how to prepare for the largest economic shock yet.

Naomi Klein Receives Rainforest Action Network Challenging-Business-As-USual

The promise and potential of the Occupy movement.

"The same logic that is destroying our economy is also destroying our environment."

Naomi Klein -Standing for another kind of society

Naomi Klein speaking in front of Wells Fargo HQ

Occupy SF

Naomi Klein -Occupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now

Occupy New York

Naomi Klein -Occupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now

The beauty of what is being created here. A wide-open space (as well as an idea so big it can’t be contained by any space) for all the people who want a better world to find each other. We are so grateful.

Pro-corporate policies: privatizing education and social security, slashing public services, getting rid of the last constraints on corporate power. Amidst the economic crisis, this is happening the world over.Ten years later, it seems as if there aren’t any more rich countries. Just a whole lot of rich people. People who got rich looting the public wealth and exhausting natural resources around the world.

Seattle in 1999. That was the last time a global, youth-led, decentralized movement took direct aim at corporate power.

Only when you stay put can you grow roots.

Being horizontal and deeply democratic is wonderful. But these principles are compatible with the hard work of building structures and institutions that are sturdy enough to weather the storms ahead.

Naomi Klein

Courage to Ask Questions We Don’t Have Answers For

No Logo -100 Best NonFiction Books

Known as the bible of the alterglobalization movement, Naomi Klein's No Logo catalogs the modern history of branding and casts the labels from your closet and fridge — Coca-Cola, Gap and Nike. These multinationals leave no billboard unplastered, squelch all competition and drive up profits on the backs of the exploited poor of the First and Third Worlds. A string of passionately woven anecdotes, like one about Nike factory workers being beaten with shoe parts in Vietnam, amounted to a call to action in an era known for activism like the protests at the 1999 WTO conference in Seattle. And the Canadian-born journalist is not above the radical's method of elevating bogeymen in the interest of nurturing rage. "Logos have grown so dominant that they have essentially transformed the clothing on which they appear into empty carriers for the brands they represent," she writes.

Naomi Klein on Anti-Union Bills, Climate Justice, and the 'Shock Doctrine' American-Style

Those in power use times of crisis to push through undemocratic and extreme free market economic policies.

"Oil and gas companies privatize the profits from their resource extraction but externalize the costs. They have no intention of paying that cost."

Naomi Klein: Building a Real Left

"We have to build that independent left. It has to be so strong and so radical and so militant and so powerful that it becomes irresistible."

Naomi Klein: The Real Crime Scene Was Inside the G20 Summit

As thousands protested in the streets of Toronto, inside the G20 summit world leaders agreed to a controversial goal of cutting government deficits in half by 2013.