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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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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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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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Live shows are where I can just go off, I do the most. I can recreate songs live and take one element and build on that that for like 40 minutes and I like seeing people's faces when I'm making something live.
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Anybody who claims that they know where this whole thing is all going is just lying.
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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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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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In pragmatic terms, our challenge is less to save the earth from ourselves and more to save ourselves from an earth that, if pushed too far, has ample power to rock, burn, and shake us off completely.
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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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I think there is a danger that an environmental crisis can be used in precisely the same way as the terrorist threat can be used in terms of giving up freedom.
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The parties with the most gain never show up on the battlefield.
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It has no denim-toned house paint. Levi makes what is essentially a commodity: blue jeans. Its ads may evoke rugged outdoorsmanship, but Levi hasn't promoted any particular life style to sell other products.
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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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People without memory are putty.
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Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.
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My favorite sign here says, I care about you. In a culture that trains people to avoid each other's gaze, to say, Let them die, that is a deeply radical statement.
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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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The triumph of economic globalization has inspired a wave of techno-savvy investigative activists who are as globally minded as the corporations they track.
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Why would we build as unequal a renewable energy sector as we have built a fossil fuel sector? The nice thing about renewables is they're everywhere, so you don't have to have monopoly control in the same way.
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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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