Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses and criticism of corporate globalization and of corporate capitalism. She first became known internationally for No Logo The Take, a documentary film about Argentinas occupied factories that was written by Klein and directed by her husband Avi Lewis and The Shock Doctrine , a critical analysis of the history of neoliberal economics that was adapted into a sixminute companion film by Alfonso and Jons Cuarn, as well as a featurelength documentary by Michael Winterbottom. This Changes Everything Capitalism vs. the Climate was a New York Times nonfiction bestseller and the winner of the Hilary Weston Writers Trust Prize for Nonfiction in its year. In 2016 Klein was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize for her activism on climate justice. Klein frequently appears on global and national lists of top influential thinkers, including the 2014 Thought Leaders ranking compiled by the Gottlieb Duttweiler

Naomi Klein was born in Montreal, Quebec, and brought up in a Jewish family with a history of peace activism. Her parents were selfdescribed hippies who moved to Montreal from the U.S. in 1967 as war resisters to the Vietnam War. Her mother, documentary filmmaker Bonnie Sherr Klein, is best known for her antipornography film Not a Love Story. Her father, Michael Klein, is a physician and a member of Physicians for Social Responsibility. Her brother, Seth Klein, is director of the British Columbia office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

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