The Independent
May 11th, 2012
By Owen Jones
When I first read Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine a few years ago, I had no idea how prescient the book was. It was a polemic about “disaster capitalism”, arguing that sudden crises are intentionally manipulated to push through extreme free market policies that were otherwise not politically possible.
The Nation
January 9th, 2012
The following conversation between Naomi and Yotam Marom was recently recorded in New York City. Yotam is a political organizer, educator, and writer based in New York. He has been active in the Occupy Wall Street Movement, and is a member of the Organization for a Free Society.
The New York Times
December 8th, 2011
By Andrew Revkin
Naomi Klein, the author of a string of provocative and popular books including “The Shock Doctrine,” recently took on global warming policy and campaigns in “Capitalism vs. the Climate,” a much-discussed cover story for The Nation that has been mentioned by readers here more than once in the last few weeks.
November 14th, 2011
On November 10, 2011, Naomi joined author and filmmaker Michael Moore, The Nation National Affairs correspondent William Greider, Colorlines Publisher Rinku Sen, and Occupy Wall Street Organizer Patrick Bruner at The New School in New York for a panel discussion called “Occupy Everywhere: On the New Politics and Possibilities of the Movement Against Corporate Power.” Here is video of the discussion.
The Nation
November 10th, 2011
There is a question from a gentleman in the fourth row.
He introduces himself as Richard Rothschild. He tells the crowd that he ran for county commissioner in Maryland’s Carroll County because he had come to the conclusion that policies to combat global warming were actually “an attack on middle-class American capitalism.”
The Village Voice
October 13th, 2011
By Nick Pinto
Naomi Klein, the Canadian journalist famous for her anti-corporatist books No Logo and The Shock Doctrine, spoke to the protesters at Occupy Wall Street yesterday evening, telling them their movement can follow through on the promises of the global trade protests she participated in a decade ago.
The Nation
October 6th, 2011
I was honored to be invited to speak at Occupy Wall Street on Thursday night. Since amplification is (disgracefully) banned, and everything I said had to be repeated by hundreds of people so others could hear (a.k.a. “the human microphone”), what I actually said at Liberty Plaza had to be very short. With that in mind, here is the longer, uncut version of the speech.
The New York Times
October 6th, 2011
Naomi was asked by the New York Times to contribute to an edition of “Room for Debate” about Occupy Wall Street: “The protesters are getting more attention and expanding outside New York. What are they doing right, and what are they missing?” Here is her response.
September 27th, 2011
By Arun Gupta
An introduction from Naomi: “Please take a look at this thoughtful essay by my friend Arun Gupta, editor of The Indypendent. If I were in New York (I’m based in British Columbia, Canada at the moment), I would certainly be spending time at the Wall Street occupation, and I urge those of you who do live in the area to go in person to Liberty Park and check it out. Keep in mind that any attempt to create a genuinely open space to share political ideas is necessarily going to be chaotic and at times embarrassing. But Gupta’s point is a crucial one. This is not the time to be looking for ways to dismiss a nascent movement against the power of capital, but to do the opposite: to find ways to embrace it, support it and help it grow into its enormous potential. With so much at stake, cynicism is a luxury we simply cannot afford.” –Naomi
September 27th, 2011
By Arun Gupta
An introduction from Naomi: “Please take a look at this thoughtful essay by my friend Arun Gupta, editor of The Indypendent. If I were in New York (I’m based in British Columbia, Canada at the moment), I would certainly be spending time at the Wall Street occupation, and I urge those of you who do live in the area to go in person to Liberty Park and check it out. Keep in mind that any attempt to create a genuinely open space to share political ideas is necessarily going to be chaotic and at times embarrassing. But Gupta’s point is a crucial one. This is not the time to be looking for ways to dismiss a nascent movement against the power of capital, but to do the opposite: to find ways to embrace it, support it and help it grow into its enormous potential. With so much at stake, cynicism is a luxury we simply cannot afford.” –Naomi
The Los Angeles Times
September 12th, 2011
Naomi was asked by the Los Angeles Times to revisit her early reflections on the September 11 attacks. Here is her short piece for the Times’ “9/11: A Decade After” series.
September 7th, 2011
Naomi gave the following speech at the Tar Sands Action in Washington DC on September 3, 2011. Special thanks to Dahlman Cook Productions.