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Naomi Klein (born 1970) is a Canadian journalist, author and activist. She was born into a political family in Montreal, Quebec, and now lives in Toronto with her husband Avi Lewis.

Her grandfather was fired for labor organizing at Disney. Her father Michael, a physician, was a Vietnam War resistor who fled to Canada and became a member of Physicians for Social Responsibility. Her film-maker mother, Bonnie, won fame with her ground-breaking anti-pornography film, Not a Love Story. Her brother Seth is director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Klein's writing career started early with contributions to The Varsity, a University of Toronto student newspaper. She credits her wake-up call to feminism as the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre of female engineering students.

In 2000, Klein published the book No Logo, which for many became a manifesto of the anti-globalization movement. This movement had shut down the WTO Meeting of 1999 one month before the release of No Logo. The book lambasts the negative effects of brand-oriented consumer culture by describing the operations of large corporations which exist only to peddle a brand. Their products, she argues, turn people into walking billboards. These corporations are also often guilty of exploiting workers in the world's poorest countries in pursuit of ever-greater profits. Klein criticized Nike so much in the book that it became one of the first publications to receive feedback from Nike.[1]

In 2002 Klein published Fences and Windows, a collection of articles and speeches she had written on behalf of the anti-globalization movement (all proceeds from the book go to benefit activist organizations through The Fences and Windows Fund). Klein also contributes to The Nation, In These Times, Canada's The Globe and Mail, This Magazine, and The Guardian.

She has continued to write on various current issues, such as the occupation of Iraq. In a September 2004 article for Harper's Magazine entitled "Baghdad Year Zero: Pillaging Iraq in pursuit of a neocon utopia", she argues that, contrary to popular belief and criticisms, the Bush Administration did have a clear plan for post-invasion Iraq, which was to build a fully unconstrained free market economy. She describes plans to allow foreigners to extract wealth from Iraq, and the methods used to achieve those goals.

Klein gave the annual Dalton K. Camp Lecture in Journalism on October 28, 2004 at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick. She also spoke at the tenth anniversary celebration of Stauffer Library at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario on November 4, 2004, and at the Navigating A New World Conference on November 6, along with Lloyd Axworthy, Linda McQuaig, Roméo Dallaire, Thomas Homer-Dixon, and Irshad Manji.

Also in 2004, Klein and her husband, Canadian television journalist Avi Lewis, released a documentary film called The Take, which profiled a group of laid off auto-parts workers in Argentina who took back control of their plant and turned it into a cooperative.

In October 2005, Naomi Klein was ranked 11th on the list of the world's top 100 public intellectuals in a poll conducted by Prospect magazine [2] in conjunction with Foreign Policy magazine.

External links

Writings and Interviews

• Archive of Naomi Klein's articles at The Guardian
• Archive of Naomi Klein's articles at The Nation
• Baghdad Year Zero: Pillaging Iraq in pursuit of a neocon utopia
• The No Logo website
• Big Picture TV Free video clips of Naomi Klein
• Interview with Naomi Klein about her article "James Baker's Double Life"
• Download Ms. Klein's talk at Queen's University on November 4, 2004 in mp3 format here.
• Watch Naomi Klein's Feb, 2005 speech in Vancouver titled "Democratic Rights in Wartime."
• PBS Frontline online interview with Naomi Klein
• Alternet Interview with Naomi Klein

Positive writings about Klein

• An Introduction to Naomi Klein's No Logo, a Flash animated movie

Criticism of Klein

• Face Value: Why Naomi Klein needs to grow up, an opposing view by the Economist magazine

Misc.

• The Take - Klein wrote the script of this movie.

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