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.

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.

Internationally acclaimed writer and activist Naomi Klein talks to Riz Khan.