Naomi Klein

Economic Terror, Deep Democracy

 

Thursday, 9 October 2003

7:00 p.m.

Kane Hall, Room 120

University of Washington, Seattle

No charge

Info: 206-221-6374

 

From Iraq to Argentina to our own backyards, corporate globalization and military imperialism have merged into the same project. What kinds of movements can fight economic and military brutality at the same time?

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Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist and author of the international best-seller No Logo:  Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies.

 

Translated into 27 languages, The New York Times called No Logo “a movement bible.”  In 2000, The Guardian Newspaper short-listed it for their First Book Award, and in 2001,   No Logo won the Canadian National Business Book Award, and the French Prix Médiations.

 

Naomi Klein’s articles have appeared in numerous publications including The Guardian,  The New Statesman, Newsweek International, The New York Times, The Village Voice and Ms. Magazine.  She writes an internationally syndicated column for The Globe and Mail newspaper (Canada) and another for The Nation magazine (US).  A collection of her work, entitled Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate was published in October 2002.

 

Ms. Klein is a frequent media commentator and university guest lecturer.  She’s a former Miliband Fellow at the London School of Economics and is presently the Freda Kirchway Fellow of the Nation Institute. 

 

Currently, Ms. Klein is writing/producing a documentary about new forms of direct democracy in Argentina.

 

Ms. Klein lives in Toronto.

 

http://www.nologo.org/

Presented by

Canadian Studies Center

Department of Communication

and the Ursus Social Change Lecture Series at the University of Washington

Co-Sponsors

Canada-America Society, Seattle, Canadian Consulate, Seattle and University Book Store, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, U.W, Institute for Global & Regional Security Studies, U.W., Simpson Center for the Humanities, U.W., World Affairs Council, Seattle