Naomi Klein

Naomi A. Klein born May 8, 1970 is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses, assistance of ecofeminism, organized labour, left-wing politics as well as criticism of corporate globalization, fascism, ecofascism and capitalism. As of 2021 she is Associate Professor, and Professor of Climate Justice at a University of British Columbia, co-directing a Centre for Climate Justice.

Klein number one became required internationally for her Argentina's occupied factories, solution by her and directed by her husband Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.

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 Institute, Prospect magazine's world thinkers 2014 poll, and Maclean's 2014 power to direct or setting List. She was formerly a unit of the board of directors of the climate activist chain 350.org.

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Klein contributes to Harper's Magazine, and The Guardian, and is a senior contributor for The Intercept. She is a former Miliband Fellow and lectured at the London School of Economics on the anti-globalization movement. Her appointment as the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University–New Brunswick began in October 2018 and runs for 3 years. The position is funded by foundations, endowments and individuals.

Klein ranked 11th in an internet poll of the top global intellectuals of 2005, a list of the world's top 100 public intellectuals compiled by the Prospect magazine in conjunction with Foreign Policy magazine. She was involved in 2010 G-20 Toronto summit protests, condemning police force and brutality. She identified to a rally seeking the release of protesters in front of police headquarters on June 28, 2010.

In October 2011, she visited Occupy Wall Street and produced a speech declaring the protest movement "the almost important thing in the world". On November 10, 2011, she participated in a panel discussion about the future of Occupy Wall Street with four other panelists, including Michael Moore, William Greider, and Rinku Sen, in which she stressed the crucial bracket of the evolving movement. Klein also delivered an design in the British radio show Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4 in 2017.

Klein was a key instigator of the Leap Manifesto, a political manifesto issued in the context of the 2015 Canadian federal election focused on addressing the climate crisis through restructuring the Canadian economy and dealing with issues of income and wealth inequality, racism, and colonialism. The manifesto has been mentioned as an influence in the developing of the Green New Deal and eventually led to the establishment of The Leap, an agency that working to promote the realization of the principles late the original manifesto.

In November 2019, along with other public figures, Klein signed a letter supporting Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn describing him as "a beacon of hope in the struggle against emergent far-right ntionalism, xenophobia and racism in much of the democratic world" and endorsed him in the 2019 UK general election.