Naomi Klein: Say No to the Shock Doctrine
By Naomi Klein, Red Pepper
The reason I am highlighting Puerto Rico is because the situation is so urgent. But also because it’s a microcosm of a much larger global crisis, one that contains many of the same overlapping elements: accelerating climate chaos; militarism; histories of colonialism; a weak and neglected public sphere; a totally dysfunctional democracy; and overlaying it all, the seemingly bottomless capacity to discount the lives of huge numbers of black and brown people.
The Twelve Days (and Months) of Climate Justice Day Seven: Take a Leap toward Climate Justice
By John Foran, Naomi Klein, Resilience.org
The Leap is a manifesto that aspires to spark and inform a movement. I was one of hundreds who attended a meeting where it was presented to a global audience at COP 21 in Paris in December of 2015. There was real enthusiasm in a room of intergenerationals, much of it for a chance to hear Klein and her husband Avi Lewis, whose film based on the book, and is also titled This Changes Everything, had just been released.
This Changes Everything: Naomi Klein & Avi Lewis Film Re-imagines Vast Challenge of Climate Change
By Amy Goodman, Naomi Klein, Democracy Now!
We speak to the duo behind the new film, "This Changes Everything," which re-imagines the vast challenge of climate change.
The Leap Manifesto: A Call for Caring for the Earth and One Another
By Naomi Klein, Common Dreams
Canadian activists and artists call for action.
Change Everything or Face A Global Katrina
By Naomi Klein, Common Dreams
For me, the road to This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate begins in a very specific time and place.
Naomi Klein: Obama Makes Strides Toward Reducing Coal—But We Still Have a Long Way to Go
By Amy Goodman, Naomi Klein, Democracy Now
As scientists warn 2015 is on pace to become the Earth’s hottest year on record, President Obama has unveiled his long-awaited plan to slash carbon emissions from U.S. power plants.
Reading I.F. Stone on Earth Day: Why we still won’t get anywhere unless we connect the dots
By Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything
It is in this joyous and self-congratulatory atmosphere [of the first Earth Day] that a curmudgeonly I.F. Stone, by now a full-fledged icon on the left, takes the stage. And he unapologetically rains on the parade, accusing Earth Day of providing cover for escalating war and calling for a movement willing to demand “enormous changes—psychological, military, and bureaucratic—to end the existing world system, a system of hatred, of anarchy, of murder, of war and pollution.”
‘Fighting for the places we love’: a vision for the climate battles to come
By Naomi Klein, May Boeve, Common Dreams
It is not preordained that low oil prices will either hurt or help the climate movement. If we do nothing, then it’s more likely that low oil prices will work against sensible climate action, just for simple economic reasons. When oil is cheap, people feel able to buy more of it.