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Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of eight critically acclaimed books published in over 30 languages. Senior Correspondent at The Intercept. The inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair at Rutgers University.
Naomi Klein
JOURNALIST | AUTHOR |
FILMMAKER | ACTIVIST
Naomi Klein is an internationally bestselling author of eight books translated in over 30 languages. An award winning journalist and columnist, she is currently Senior Correspondent at The Intercept and on faculty at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
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How to Change Everything: The Young Human’s Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other
“Naomi Klein’s work has always moved and guided me. She is the great chronicler of our age of climate emergency, an inspirer of generations” – Greta Thunberg
Young people are fighting for their right to a future on a really basic level. That is at the heart of the climate strikes: the right to a future that is more than fleeing from a series of disasters. The right to a future is also what young people are fighting for when they stand up for Black lives and against police violence. And they are also fighting for their right to a future when they call for gun control that will protect them from shootings at their schools. The right to a future free from violence and unending disasters connects all of these movements. Young activists are demanding large-scale, systemic changes in how we live, work, consume resources, and interact with the natural world and with each other. When it comes to working for a cause, young activists are ready and willing to use all the tools they can get their hands on, from voting (for those who are old enough) and civil lawsuits to art and gardening. This book is a celebration of their creativity and courage.
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- JUST ANNOUNCED: Naomi will be joining the Geography Department at the University of British Columbia in September 2021. She will be the inaugural Chair of the Centre for Climate Justice. UBC official announcement here
- New book alert! How To Change Everything: The Young Human’s Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other available now! Check Events page for upcoming virtual events!
- Naomi announced as an inaugural Marielle Franco Fellow of the Social Justice initiative, Portal Project at University of Chicago.
- Watch our new film and read Naomi’s new essay in The Intercept: Message from the Future II: the Years of Repair. Featuring storytelling by Naomi and co-written and produced by Opal Tometi and Avi Lewis and narrated by Nnimmo Bassey, Gael Garcia Bernal, Emma Thompson and Opal Tometi.
- Watch the Global Launch Event for Message from the Future II: Years of Repair, from October 1, 2020
- Naomi has written a new Foreword during the Covid-19 Pandemic for the paperback of, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal
- Message from the Future, conceived by Naomi and co-written and narrated by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been viewed over 10 million times and was nominated for a 2020 Emmy (News and Doc)!
- Watch Naomi’s video about the still-unfolding Covid-19 crisis and Coronavirus Capitalism on The Intercept.
- Watch the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival Conversation on Youth for Change between Greta Thunberg, Autumn Peltier, moderated by Naomi
- Listen to Naomi guest host the Intercepted podcast during the Covid-19 Pandemic about how the pandemic is making us rethink the way we live
- Watch Naomi with Greta Thunberg at the Right to a Future Event hosted by The Intercept on Sept 9th, 2019 in New York City.
- Naomi is the Inaugural Gloria Steinem Chair for Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ)
Latest
News
Special Announcements
- JUST ANNOUNCED: Naomi will be joining the Geography Department at the University of British Columbia in September 2021. She will be the inaugural Chair of the Centre for Climate Justice. UBC official announcement here
- New book alert! How To Change Everything: The Young Human’s Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other available now! Check Events page for upcoming virtual events.
- Naomi announced as an inaugural Marielle Franco Fellow of the Social Justice initiative, Portal Project at University of Chicago.
- Watch our new film and read Naomi’s new essay in The Intercept: Message from the Future II: the Years of Repair. Featuring storytelling by Naomi and co-written and produced by Opal Tometi and Avi Lewis and narrated by Nnimmo Bassey, Gael Garcia Bernal, Emma Thompson and Opal Tometi.
- Watch the Global Launch Event for Message from the Future II: Years of Repair, from October 1, 2020
- Naomi has written a new Foreword during the Covid-19 Pandemic for the paperback of, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal
- Message from the Future, conceived by Naomi and co-written and narrated by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been viewed over 10 million times and was nominated for a 2020 Emmy (News and Doc)!
- Watch Naomi’s video about the still-unfolding Covid-19 crisis and Coronavirus Capitalism on The Intercept.
- Watch the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival Conversation on Youth for Change between Greta Thunberg, Autumn Peltier, moderated by Naomi
- Listen to Naomi guest host the Intercepted podcast during the Covid-19 Pandemic about how the pandemic is making us rethink the way we live
- Watch Naomi with Greta Thunberg at the Right to a Future Event hosted by The Intercept on Sept 9th, 2019 in New York City.
- Naomi is the Inaugural Gloria Steinem Chair for Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ)
Latest News
Special Announcements
- JUST ANNOUNCED: Naomi will be joining the Geography Department at the University of British Columbia in September 2021. She will be the inaugural Chair of the Centre for Climate Justice. UBC official announcement here
- New book alert! How To Change Everything: The Young Human’s Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other available now! Check Events page for upcoming virtual events.
- Naomi announced as an inaugural Marielle Franco Fellow of the Social Justice initiative, Portal Project at University of Chicago.
- Watch our new film and read Naomi’s new essay in The Intercept: Message from the Future II: the Years of Repair. Featuring storytelling by Naomi and co-written and produced by Opal Tometi and Avi Lewis and narrated by Nnimmo Bassey, Gael Garcia Bernal, Emma Thompson and Opal Tometi.
- Watch the Global Launch Event for Message from the Future II: Years of Repair, from October 1, 2020
- Naomi has written a new Foreword during the Covid-19 Pandemic for the paperback of, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal
- Message from the Future, conceived by Naomi and co-written and narrated by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been viewed over 10 million times and was nominated for a 2020 Emmy (News and Doc)!
- Watch Naomi’s video about the still-unfolding Covid-19 crisis and Coronavirus Capitalism on The Intercept.
- Watch the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival Conversation on Youth for Change between Greta Thunberg, Autumn Peltier, moderated by Naomi
- Listen to Naomi guest host the Intercepted podcast during the Covid-19 Pandemic about how the pandemic is making us rethink the way we live
- Watch Naomi with Greta Thunberg at the Right to a Future Event hosted by The Intercept on Sept 9th, 2019 in New York City.
- Naomi is the Inaugural Gloria Steinem Chair for Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ)
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Intercepted: Stealing Children to Steal the Land
June 16, 2021
By Naomi Klein
LAST MONTH, the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation uncovered a mass grave of 215 children on the grounds of a former residential school in British Columbia, Canada.
On Intercepted: Naomi Klein speaks with residential school survivor Doreen Manuel and her niece Kanahus Manuel about the horrors of residential schools and the relationship between stolen children and stolen land. Doreen’s father, George Manuel, was a survivor of the Kamloops Indian Residential School, where unmarked graves of children as young as 3 years old were found. Kanahus’s father, Arthur Manuel, was also a survivor of the Kamloops residential school. This intergenerational conversation goes deep on how the evils of the Kamloops school, and others like it, have reverberated through a century of Manuels, an experience shared by so many Indigenous families, and the Manuel family’s decades long fight to reclaim stolen land.
Warning: This episode contains highly distressing material. If you are a former residential school student in distress, or need help, contact the 24-hour Indian Residential Schools Crisis Line: 1-866-925-4419.
A Climate Dystopia in Northern California
May 7, 2021
By Naomi Klein
California’s divided and fire-scarred cities, reeling from climate disasters, need a Green New Deal.
IT’S A RITUAL that has been repeated many times over the coldest months of Northern California’s winter. The Chico police arrive between 9 a.m. and noon on a Thursday, perhaps in the hopes of catching people when they are home. Home, in this case, being flimsy tents, draped in tarps, many of them strung up between pine trees, secured to fences, or hidden beneath highway overpasses. The cops read out orders and sometimes hand out flyers: You have 72 hours to clear all of your belongings or they will be destroyed.
Before the deadline, volunteers usually show up with trailers and pickup trucks to help with the move. They load up bicycles, coolers, and cats, as well as clothing stuffed in suitcases, plastic laundry baskets, and garbage bags. Then they drive around this scrappy city in the Sacramento Valley looking for a new place to set up camp — only to have police show up a few days or weeks later and repeat the whole wrenching eviction again.
