Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein is a professor, journalist, filmmaker and author known for her roles in the Global Justice Movement and Occupy Movement. Her works focus on criticism of corporations, neoliberalism, advertising as well as discussions around environmentalism and workplace democracy.

Life

Family

Naomi's family is of German Jewish heritage, and her grandparents were outspoken communists with a strong interest in racial equality. Her mother was a documentary filmmaker with a strong focus on feminism, and her father was a doctor, both of whom described themselves as hippies. They both grew up in the USA (In Newark and Philadelphia) but moved to Montreal, Canada in 1967 to avoid the draft for the Vietnam War.

Early Life

Naomi actively rejected politics as a child and teenager, finding it daunting to have a famous feminist mother. She embraced a life of consumerism and spent her teenage years within shopping malls.

Political Development

Naomi developed an interested in politics for two reasons:

1. Her mother having a stroke and having to care of her when she was only 17, taking a year off school to do so.
2. The 1989 École Polytechnique massacre of female engineering students by an anti-feminist triggered a 'wake up call to feminism'.

Works

Documentaries

• The Take (2004)
• The Shock Doctrine (2009)
• This Changes Everything (2015)

Books

• No Logo (1999)
• Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate (2002)
• The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007)
• This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (2014)
• No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need (2017)
• The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists (2018)