http://blog.jungle8.com/2007/08/13/the-shock-doctrine/ Branded adventures in and out of the jungle. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:04:27 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://blog.jungle8.com/2007/08/13/the-shock-doctrine/comment-page-1/#comment-353 Yakov Sverdlov Thu, 16 Aug 2007 05:07:40 +0000 http://blog.jungle8.com/2007/08/13/the-shock-doctrine/#comment-353 I also just finished listening to her A.S.A. speech and was deeply impressed. What does this Canadian woman have that guys like Chomsky and Zinn lack? Thanks to Chomsky for reminding us to organize at the end of each talk. Thanks to Zinn for urging us to follow the examples of the past. But with Klein we feel the kinship of a true intellectual who studies the dynamics of mass movements in a way that draws her listeners into an ocean tide. Sure, each person can make a difference, but it takes a speaker of Klein's caliber to make one want to just jump in. I also just finished listening to her A.S.A. speech and was deeply impressed. What does this Canadian woman have that guys like Chomsky and Zinn lack? Thanks to Chomsky for reminding us to organize at the end of each talk. Thanks to Zinn for urging us to follow the examples of the past. But with Klein we feel the kinship of a true intellectual who studies the dynamics of mass movements in a way that draws her listeners into an ocean tide. Sure, each person can make a difference, but it takes a speaker of Klein’s caliber to make one want to just jump in.

]]> http://blog.jungle8.com/2007/08/13/the-shock-doctrine/comment-page-1/#comment-349 lainie Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:55:46 +0000 http://blog.jungle8.com/2007/08/13/the-shock-doctrine/#comment-349 Just finished listening to Naomi Klein's speech at the "Is Another World Possible" the American Sociological Association on Democracy Now about the book. Amazing talk. Here's the link, I urge you to listen to her impassionate speech. http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/15/1432250 Just finished listening to Naomi Klein’s speech at the “Is Another World Possible” the American Sociological Association on Democracy Now about the book. Amazing talk. Here’s the link, I urge you to listen to her impassionate speech. http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/15/1432250

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