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Naomi Klein is a person.
- See: Canadian, Leap Manifesto.
References
2015
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Klein
- Naomi Klein (born May 8, 1970) is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses and criticism of corporate globalization and of corporate capitalism.[1] She first became known internationally for No Logo (1999); The Take, a documentary film about Argentina’s occupied factories that was written by Klein and directed by her husband Avi Lewis; and The Shock Doctrine (2007), a critical analysis of the history of neoliberal economics that was adapted into a six-minute companion film by Alfonso and Jonás Cuarón,[2] as well as a feature-length documentary by Michael Winterbottom.[3]
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (2014) was a New York Times non-fiction bestseller and the winner of the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction in its year.[4] In 2016 Klein was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize for her activism on climate justice.[5] Klein frequently appears on global and national lists of top influential thinkers, including the 2014 Thought Leaders ranking compiled by the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute,[6] Prospect magazine's world thinkers 2014 poll,[7] and Maclean's 2014 Power List.[8] She is a member of the board of directors of the climate activist group 350.org.[9]
- Naomi Klein (born May 8, 1970) is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses and criticism of corporate globalization and of corporate capitalism.[1] She first became known internationally for No Logo (1999); The Take, a documentary film about Argentina’s occupied factories that was written by Klein and directed by her husband Avi Lewis; and The Shock Doctrine (2007), a critical analysis of the history of neoliberal economics that was adapted into a six-minute companion film by Alfonso and Jonás Cuarón,[2] as well as a feature-length documentary by Michael Winterbottom.[3]
- ↑ Nineham, Chris (October 2007). "The Shock Doctrine". Socialist Review. http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumber=10110. Retrieved April 25, 2011.
- ↑ "Shock Doctrine: A Film by Alfonso Cuaron and Naomi Klein". September 7, 2007. http://www.theguardian.com/books/video/2007/sep/07/naomiklein.
- ↑ "The Shock Doctrine". The Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1355640/.
- ↑ "2014 Prize Winner". Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. http://www.writerstrust.com/awards/hilary-weston-writers-trust-prize.aspx.
- ↑ "Naomi Klein wins Sydney Peace Prize". SBS. 14 May 2016. http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2016/05/14/naomi-klein-wins-sydney-peace-prize. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
- ↑ "Thought Leaders 2014: the most influential thinkers". Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute. November 27, 2014. http://www.gdi.ch/en/Think-Tank/GDI-News/News-Detail/Thought-Leaders-2014-the-most-influential-thinkers.
- ↑ "World thinkers 2014: the results". April 23, 2014. http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/features/world-thinkers-2014-the-results.
- ↑ "The Maclean's Power List, Part 2". November 20, 2014. http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/the-macleans-2014-power-list-part-2/.
- ↑ "Board of Directors". http://350.org/about/board/.