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Communication is my thing.

Naomi Klein

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Naomi Klein
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: May 5
Author
Climate Activist
Documentary Filmmaker
Economist
Journalist
Screenwriter
Sociologist
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Montreal
Quebec
Communication
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You actually cannot sell the idea of freedom, democracy, diversity, as if it were a brand attribute and not reality -- not at the same time as you're bombing people, you can't.
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The task is clear: to create a culture of caretaking in which no one and nowhere is thrown away, in which the inherent value of people and all life is foundational.
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Regardless of the overall state of the economy, there is now a large enough elite made up of new multi-millionaires and billionaires for Wall Street to see the group as superconsumers, able to carry consumer demand all on their own.
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The world now has a new kind of hero, one who listens more than speaks, who preaches in riddles not in certainties, a leader who doesn't show his face, who says his mask is really a mirror. And in the Zapatistas, we have not one dream of a revolution, but a dreaming revolution.
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If this really is true, then greed really isn't good, after all. It really isn't the way to maximize the best possible outcome. We really do need to come together and act collectively. Government isn't always the problem. It's sometimes the solution. And, so their whole intellectual scaffolding collapses. So, they'd rather deny the science.
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The parties with the most gain never show up on the battlefield.
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Anybody who claims that they know where this whole thing is all going is just lying.
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The creation of today's market society was not the result of a sequence of spontaneous events but rather of state interference and violence.
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The powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on that most rarefied delicacy: impunity.
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Catching Trump out not paying his taxes, treating his employees like garbage - none of this sticks to him because that actually reinforces his power, power over other people, which is this specific kind of power that he's selling.
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Hope has never trickled down, it has always sprung up.
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Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.
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Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people.
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GLHR... has used Greenpeace-style media antics to draw more public attention to the plight of sweatshop workers than the multimillion - dollar international trade union movement has achieved in almost a century.
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Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.
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When it comes to paying contractors, the sky is the limit when it comes to financing the basic functions of the state, the coffers are empty.
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Most of you didn't think that helping people share books would be a subversive act...Yet the fact is that you have chosen a profession that has become radical.
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The anti-war movement should turn itself into a pro-democracy movement
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Our enslavement to oil has required the repression of millions of Arab people. As they shake off their bonds, so must we.
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I am convinced that climate change represents a historic opportunity on an even greater scale.
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