The bestselling author of "No Logo" argues that by capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, the disaster capitalism complex now exists as a booming new economy, and is the violent culmination of a radical economic project that has been incubating for 50 years.
An analysis of the invasion of our personal lives by logo-promoting, powerful corporations combines muckraking journalism with contemporary memoir to discuss current consumer culture.
The book that offers a cure for affluenza, 'No Logo' is one of those rare books that defines a generation, the most significant one since Douglas Coupland's 'Generation X'. By the time you're twenty-one, you'll have seen or heard a million advertisements. But you won't be happier for it. This is a book about that much-maligned, much ...
Bringing together columns, speeches, essays, and reportage, the author of "No Logo" 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.
Adamant, opinionated, funny, and always engaging, Flanders chronicles the changing voting patterns that are happening across America. She asserts that progressives are coming after the conservative establishment and are intent on building a new movement.
After big business suffered several spectacular media defeats, from the Mclibel suit where McDonalds won the suit but lost the war, to Monsanto's underestimation of resistance to genetically modified organisms, corporations are fighting back. Hard. From surveillance to legal suits, from lobbyists crafting laws to PR groups' greenwashing crimes ...
No Logo, el anterior bestseller de Naomi Klein traducido a veintitres idiomas, daba forma a las preocupaciones de toda una generacion y constituia la cronica de un nuevo movimiento. Tras el exito de este libro, Klein ha seguido contribuyendo incansablemente al actual debate sobre la globalizacion, su impacto y su futuro, hasta dar forma al ...
The worker-run factories of Argentina offer an inspirational example of a struggle for social change that has achieved a real victory against corporate globalization. Lavaca is an Argentine editorial and activist collective. Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist and author of No Logo.Avi Lewis is an author and filmmaker. Klein and Lewis co ...
Contrary to today's news headlines, there always was a detailed plan for what would happen to postwar Iraq. But it had little do with the banners under which the American and British governments cynically marketed their invasion of Iraq - democracy, freedom and fighting terrorism. As if in a giant hostile takeover, the real intentions of the Iraqi ...
This is a history of the rise of the anti-globalization movement, from Seattle to September 11th, 2001. The text charts the group's most notable successes and its failures and is international in scope, covering everything from the Zapatistas' rebellion in Mexico to the Social Centres in Italy, from the biggest peaceful protest demos since the ...
By the time you're 21, you'll have seen or heard a million advertisements, but you won't be happier for it. This is a book about that much-maligned, much-misunderstood generation coming up behind the slackers, who are being intelligent and active about the world in which they find themselves. It is a world in which all that is "alternative" is ...
This book brings together two years of commentary written at demonstrations and summits around the world-eyewitness reports from the front lines of the globalization debate. It brings us up to date on the protests and possibilities, the hopes for change and the barriers raised against it.
Como paso Bill Gates de trabajar en un garaje a convertirse en un magnate mundial?Por que el nombre de Nike suele identificarse con el trabajo clandestino y la explotacion laboral?Por que algunas de las marcas mas respetadas del mundo se estan viendo acosadas por virulentas campanas en su contra?Que significa todo esto en el contexto del marketing ...
David Ransom and Vanessa Baird have gathered a passionate group of writers, activists, leaders and thinkers, all eager to seize this opportunity to replace deep-rooted problems with well-founded solutions. "People First Economics" buzzes with inspiration and action. Bolivian President Evo Morales promotes his 10-step programme to save the world, ...
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