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Heeb Issue #2 : FeaturesRock the Boat
A Conversation with Naomi Klein
(exerpted from original article)
It is not hard to imagine. Naomi Klein in high school, folding shirts at the Esprit store in Montreal. But at that particular moment in the 1990s—when the brand-obsessed teen sewed alligator decals to her non-Izod polo shirts — it would have been hard to picture her as the future face of the anti-corporate globalization movement. Klein’s politics, post-Esprit, have led her to a frenetic and famous career denouncing multinational corporations and their colonization of public space, articulated in her book No Logo, which the London Observer called “the Das Kapital of the governing anticorporate movement.” The 31-year-old Canadian activist and author spoke with Heeb in the midst of a global road trip that had just taken her to South America to promote the rights of imprisoned Argentinean dissidents, unemployed laborers, and others whose lives were destroyed by the International Monetary Fund’s tooling south of the equator. As evidenced by her prolific output of lectures and columns for the Toronto Globe and Mail and The Guardian, it seems that as long as there’s strife in the world, Klein will always have something to say.
It is not hard to imagine. Naomi Klein in high school, folding shirts at the Esprit store in Montreal. But at that particular moment in the 1990s—when the brand-obsessed teen sewed alligator decals to her non-Izod polo shirts — it would have been hard to picture her as the future face of the anti-corporate globalization movement. Klein’s politics, post-Esprit, have led her to a frenetic and famous career denouncing multinational corporations and their colonization of public space, articulated in her book No Logo, which the London Observer called “the Das Kapital of the governing anticorporate movement.” The 31-year-old Canadian activist and author spoke with Heeb in the midst of a global road trip that had just taken her to South America to promote the rights of imprisoned Argentinean dissidents, unemployed laborers, and others whose lives were destroyed by the International Monetary Fund’s tooling south of the equator. As evidenced by her prolific output of lectures and columns for the Toronto Globe and Mail and The Guardian, it seems that as long as there’s strife in the world, Klein will always have something to say.
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