Award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author, Naomi Klein,
talks about her latest book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster
Capitalism, and takes questions from the audience.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4231109320246838401&hl=en
This program, along with related weblinks to Naomi Klein's books and to the
short film, THE SHOCK DOCTRINE, is also available at the pdxjustice Media
Productions website at www.pdxjustice.org
About Naomi Klein:
Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author
of the New York Times and international bestseller, The Shock Doctrine: The
Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Published worldwide in September 2007, The
Shock Doctrine is set to be translated into 17 languages to date. The six
minute companion film, created by Alfonso Cuaron, director of Children of
Men, was an Official Selection of the 2007 Venice and Toronto International
Film Festivals and was a viral phenomenon, downloaded over a million times.
Her previous book No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies was also an
international bestseller, translated into over 28 languages with more than a
million copies in print. A collection of her work, Fences and Windows:
Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate was published in
2002.
Naomi Klein writes a regular column for The Nation and The Guardian that is
syndicated internationally by The New York Times Syndicate. In 2004, her
reporting from Iraq for Harper’s Magazine won the James Aronson Award for
Social Justice Journalism. In 2004, she released The Take, a feature
documentary about Argentina’s occupied factories, co-produced with director
Avi Lewis. The film was an official selection of the Venice Biennale and won
the Best Documentary Jury Prize at the American Film Institute’s Film
Festival in Los Angeles.
She is a former Miliband Fellow at the London School of Economics and holds
an honorary Doctor of Civil Laws from the University of King’s College, Nova
Scotia.