Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate
By Naomi Klein
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Naomi Klein's No Logo is an international bestselling phenomenon. Winner of Le Prix Mediations (France), and of the National Business Book Award (Canada) it has been translated into 21 languages and published in 25 countries.
Named one of Ms Magazine's Women of Year in 2001, and declared by the Times (London) to be "probably the most influential person under the age of 35 in the world," in Fences and Windows, Naomi Klein offers a bird's-eye view of the life of an activist and the development of the "anti-globalization" movement from the Seattle World Trade Organization protests in 1999 through September 11, 2001. Bringing together columns, speeches, essays, and reportage, Klein once again provides provocative arguments on a broad range of issues. Whether she is discussing the privatization of water; genetically modified food; "free trade;" or the development of the movement itself and its future post 9/11, Naomi Klein is one of the most thoughtful and brilliant activists and thinkers for a new generation.
Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, columnist, and author of the New York Times and international bestsellers The Shock Doctrine, No Logo, This Changes Everything, and No Is Not Enough. A Senior Correspondent for The Intercept, reporter for Rolling Stone, and contributor for both The Nation and The Guardian, Klein is the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture, and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University. She is cofounder of the climate justice organization The Leap.
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Reviews for Fences and Windows
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Well worth reading.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book is a collection of Naomi Klein's articles written from late 1999 to 2001. They give both a powerful description of the political landscape, and a blueprint for an alternative world. Sadly, some 14 years later, the movement has been slight but, in many ways, perhaps things have to get worse before the majority will accept radical surgery to our political systems. Klein makes a powerful case for a diminution of the top down leadership which is prevalent in almost every country. She cites some interesting examples of micro systems and revolutionaries not looking for power and it is possible to espy a better world: the danger is, of course, that the super structures that rule will strangle the new order at birth.This is the best of Klein's books which I have read to date and, even after nearly 15 years, had plenty of ideas to digest. This may not contain the ultimate solution to life, the universe and everything, but it points in a helpful direction.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Naomi Klein updates us with the latest ways Activists are putting up Windows to Democracy when fenced in with the imposed demands of Wild Capitalism with it's attendant manifestation Shock Therapy.
That Capitalism is imposed without any regards to human welfare is made evident by countless illustrations. That Governing Institutions such as the IMF and WTO are forcing through agreements such as NAFTA regardless of consequence is made clear, and first, what appeared innocent and benign by colluding Press (Chomsky) is exposed for what it is, a method and successive Instruments of Social Injustice, Inequality and poverty, which ironically goes against the Consumerist Materialist Consumptionist Ideals of Abstract but dishonestly implemented Economic Theory.
A book every good intelligent person to read who are currently taken in with mainstream Media manipulation in favour of our Free Market Masters. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Not as good as "No Logo" but interesting and informative.