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Basic Information!• Born in Canada• Holds an honorary Doctor of Civil

Laws from the University of King’s College, Nova Scotia

Professional Career!• Written three books:

– No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies

– Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate

– The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Professional Career Continued!

• Wrote a regular column for The Nation and The Guardian

• Reported for Harper’s Magazine while in Iraq– Reporting won her the James Aronson

Award for Social Justice Journalism

Professional Career x3!• The Take (2004)- Released a

feature documentary about Argentina’s occupied factories– Won the Best Documentary Jury Prize

at the American Film Institute’s Film Festival in Los Angeles.

Books!• No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand

Bullies– Synopsis: Brands began to expand passed

their mere logos (2000)• Targeted youth demographic• Klein argues marketing of a brand name is more

important than the product itself

– Four Sections:• No Space, No Choice, No Jobs, No Logo

Books Continued!• Fences and Windows: Dispatches

from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate (2002)– Synopsis: Showcases the

development of the ‘anti-globalization’ movement from the Seattle World Trade Organization in 1999 through Sept. 11

Books Continued Again!

• The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007)– Synopsis: Argues that the free-market

policies of the Chicago School of Economics and Milton Freedman have greatly influenced countries including the United States, Chile and Russia

• Stresses America’s reliance and fixation on shock and how the military has used certain techniques on prisoners

The Shock Doctrine• Six minute companion film to the

book– Co-created by Alfonso Cuaron,

director of Children of Men

Research files needed to make The Shock Doctrine

Sources!• Naomi Klein Web Site

Naomi writing The Shock Doctrine