Archive for the ‘naomi klein’ Category

OCCUPY WALL STREET: THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN THE WORLD NOW

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

"I was honored to be invited to speak at Occupy Wall Street on Thursday night (October 6). 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 ...

LOOTING WITH THE LIGHTS ON

Sunday, August 21st, 2011

We keep hearing England's riots weren't political - but looters know that their elites have been committing daylight robbery. By activist and writer Naomi Klein. I keep hearing comparisons between the London riots and riots in other European cities - window-smashing in Athens or car bonfires in Paris. And there are ...

NAOMI KLEIN: PUBLIC REVOLT BUILDS AGAINST RIP-OFF RESCUE PLANS FOR THE ECONOMY

Friday, February 13th, 2009

Governments that respond to a crisis created by free-market ideology with the same bad ideas will not survive to tell the tale. By activist and writer Naomi Klein. Watching the crowds in Iceland banging pots and pans until their government fell reminded me of a chant popular in anti-capitalist circles in ...

WANT TO END THE VIOLENCE IN GAZA? BOYCOTT ISRAEL

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

Every day that Israel pounds Gaza brings more converts to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions cause, and talk of cease-fires is doing little to slow the momentum. Support is even emerging among Israeli Jews. By activist and writer Noami Klein. It's time. Long past time. The best strategy to end the ...

CAN OBAMA STOP THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION’S FINAL ECONOMIC HEIST?

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

The first order of business for the Obama presidency, and one which cannot wait, must be halting the robbery-in-progress known as the 'economic bailout'. As activist and writer Naomi Klein writes, Obama must stop this transfer of billions of public wealth into the hands of politically connected corporations. To understand the ...