Naomi Klein on Global Neoliberalism

Big Think

Published on Apr 23, 2012

Naomi Klein on the end of “El Modelo.”

Question: Why did you write Shock Doctrine?
Naomi Klein:It came out of reporting that I was doing in Iraq after the invasion the first year of occupation. But I guess it dates back earlier than that. I happen to have been in Argentina making a documentary film when the war in Iraq began. And it was a really amazing time to be in Latin America. This was 2002, 2003. And this was, I guess, the beginning of what we now think of as this pink tide that has swept Latin America. But it was a moment in Latin American history — certainly a moment in Argentinean history — where the economic model that Latin Americans call neo-Liberalism, Americans call the free market. But these policies of privatization; free trade . . . the so-called free trade deregulation in the interest of corporations; deep cuts to social spending; healthcare and education cuts; things like that, in Argentina they actually just call this “el modelo” — the model. Everybody knows what the model is. It’s the so-called Washington Consensus. It’s the policies that have been imposed on Latin America first through military dictatorships, then as conditions attached to loans that were needed during economic crises . . . the so-called “debt crisis” of the 1980s.

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Naomi Klein – The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

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Uploaded on Apr 24, 2011

Award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author, Naomi Klein, talks about her latest book, “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism”.

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Producer: William Seaman

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Author/Activist Naomi Klein Receives Rainforest Action Network Challenging-Business-As-Usual Award – YouTube

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Uploaded on Dec 14, 2011

Author/activist Naomi Klein, straight from the Occupy Wall Street protests, receives RAN’s Rainforest Award for Challenging-Business-As-Usual. In her acceptance speech, Klein inspires RAN staff and supporters with what she sees as the promise and potential of the Occupy movement. And how does this relate to an environmental group? As Klein put it: “The same logic that is destroying our economy is also destroying our environment.”

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Rainforest Action Network – REVEL 2012

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Published on Oct 1, 2013

Rainforest Action Network campaigns for the forests, their inhabitants and the natural systems that sustain life by transforming the global marketplace through education, grassroots organizing and non-violent direct action.

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Netanyahu: Israel Won’t Allow Nuclear-armed Iran

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Published on Oct 1, 2013

Israel’s prime minister declared Tuesday that his country will never allow Iran to get nuclear weapons, even if it has to act alone. (Oct. 1)

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China’s Ghost Cities…

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Uploaded on Apr 23, 2011

Vast new cities of apartments and shops are being built across China at a rate of ten a year, but they remain almost completely uninhabited ghost towns.

It’s all part of the government’s efforts to keep the economy booming, and there are many people who would love to move in, but it’s simply too expensive for most.

Video journalist Adrian Brown wanders through malls of vacant shops, and roads lined with empty apartment buildings… 64 million apartments are said to be empty across the country and one of the few shop owners says he once didn’t sell anything for four or five days.

So are the efforts to boost the economy going to end up having the opposite effect and creating a financial crisis for China?

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Slavery in the Chocolate Industry

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Uploaded on Jan 23, 2011

Although slavery is no longer legal there are still millions of people living in slavery today. One place and industry where slaves still exist is the cocoa industry. This documentary takes a deeper look at that industry with disturbing and challenging eyes.

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Inequality for All: Robert Reich Warns Record Income Gap Is Undermining Our Democracy.

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Published on Sep 13, 2013

http://www.democracynow.org – Five years ago this weekend, the Wall Street giant Lehman Brothers collapsed triggering the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Today, the divide between the 1 percent and the 99 percent is as great as ever. According to one recent study, the top 1 percent has captured about 95 percent of the income gains since the recession ended. “Since the recovery, almost all of the gains have gone to the very, very top. People who are in the top 1 percent are doing even better than they did before the Great Recession, better than they have done since 1928,” says former Labor Secretary Robert Reich. “Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median wage in the United States, adjusted for inflation, keeps on dropping.”

Watch Part 2 of this interview:

Reich is the focus of the new film, “Inequality for All.” In this interview, he also talks about Syria, the second anniversary of Occupy Wall Street on September 17, Obama’s healthcare plan and Milton Friedman’s connection to the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile.

Part 3

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Another way is possible: fair trade, cooperation and solidarity

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Uploaded on Feb 22, 2012

As the Eurozone plunges into meltdown, innovative new ideas based on relationships of solidarity between countries are being put into practice in the Latin America countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of our America (ALBA). Trade is being turned into a tool to combat poverty, rather than the enrichment of powerful countries at the expense of more impoverished ones. Nicky Hoskyns explains what difference ALBA has made in Nicaragua.

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From Crop to Cup: The LWR Coffee Project

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Uploaded on Sep 23, 2009

(Part 1 of 4)
FROM CROP TO CUP
Join Lutheran World Relief in a cup of fellowship. Travel with us to Latin America to meet coffee farmers who grow and harvest the Fair Trade coffee Lutherans enjoy through the LWR Coffee Project.
This first segment shows the coffee process from growing the coffee plants to pouring your first cup.

This second segment explains the concept of Fair Trade.
(Part 2 of 4)
FAIR TRADE EXPLAINED

(Part 3 of 4)
CARING FOR CREATION
Join Lutheran World Relief in a cup of fellowship. Travel with us to Latin America to meet coffee farmers who grow and harvest the Fair Trade coffee Lutherans enjoy through the LWR Coffee Project.
This third segment explains how Fair Trade, Organic Coffee cares for the environment.

(Part 4 of 4)
CUP OF FELLOWSHIP
Join Lutheran World Relief in a cup of fellowship. Travel with us to Latin America to meet coffee farmers who grow and harvest the Fair Trade coffee Lutherans enjoy through the LWR Coffee Project.
This final segment explains how buying Fair Trade Coffee through the LWR Coffee Project has an even greater impact than just buying it at your local grocery store.

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