Heroes for a Better World

Naomi Klein
(1970-)

Canadian Journalist, Anti-Globalization Activist

birthdate: May 5
birthplace:
Montreal, Quebec

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When you have genuine conviction standing next to extremely expert and successful marketing, it exposes the latter as marketing.

the anti-war movement should turn itself into a pro-democracy movement

The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.

Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people.

We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other.

When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?

“Terrorism doesn't just blow up buildings; it blasts every other issue off the political map. The spectre of terrorism - real and exaggerated - has become a shield of impunity, protecting governments around the world from scrutiny for their human rights abuses.”

“Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.”

“Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich”

“Ads and logos are our shared global culture and language, and people are insisting on the right to use that language, to reformulate it in the way that artists and writers always do with cultural material."

 


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