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Saturday 12 November
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
For Naomi Klein, climate change represents a ‘civilisational wake-up call. A powerful message – spoken in the language of fires, floods, droughts, and extinctions – telling us that we need an entirely new economic model and a new way of sharing this planet.’
Provocative, polemical and resolute – Klein has dedicated herself to scrutinising the global economic system and imagining ways to make it cleaner, fairer and sustainable. With bestselling books including No Logo and The Shock Doctrine, the Canadian writer and activist has made arguments for a fundamental overhaul of the status quo.
Most recently, through her book and international campaign, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate, Klein’s focus has been on the urgent question of climate change. At home in Canada, these ideas have found expression in the Leap Manifesto – an alliance of writers, artists and activists proposing urgent, radical restructure of trade and energy policy.
In Australia to receive the 2016 Sydney Peace Prize, Klein will appear in conversation at the Athenaeum Theatre in Melbourne. What are the specifics of Klein’s ideas for a new economic model? In the Australian context, how does Klein see climate action intersecting with other social justice causes, such as the Indigenous land rights movement? And how can the threat of climate change build unity and create momentum for change?
In conversation with Aamer Rahman.
Presented in partnership with the Sydney Peace Foundation.
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Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author most recently of the critically acclaimed bestseller, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate, first published in September 2014. She is also the author of 2007’s The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism and the 2002 collection Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate. Her first book, No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, was published in 1999 and remains influential and popular.
Klein is a contributing editor for Harper’s and reporter for Rolling Stone, and writes a regular column for the Nation and the Guardian that is syndicated internationally. Additionally, her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, Los Angeles Times, Globe and Mail, El Pais, L’Espresso and New Statesman, among many other publications.
She is a member of the board of directors for 350.org, a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis. She is a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at the Nation Institute and a former Miliband Fellow at the London School of Economics. In 2004, her reporting from Iraq for Harper’s won the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism. In 2014 she received the International Studies Association’s IPE Outstanding Activist-Scholar award and in 2015 she received the Izzy Award honouring outstanding achievement in independent journalism and media. She holds an honorary Doctor of Civil Laws from the University of King’s College, Nova Scotia.
This Changes Everything was an instant New York Times and international bestseller. It was the 2014 winner of the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-fiction and was named to multiple Best of 2014 lists, including the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2014. This Changes Everything is being translated into over 25 languages.
In 2007 Naomi published the New York Times and #1 international bestseller, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. The Shock Doctrine has been published in over 30 languages with more than a million copies in print. It appeared on multiple ‘best of year’ lists including as a New York Times Critics’ Pick of the Year.
No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies was also an international bestseller, translated into over 25 languages with more than a million copies in print. In 2011, Time Magazinenamed it as one of the Top 100 non-fiction books published since 1923. In 2016, The Guardian listed it as one of the Top 100 Non-Fiction books of all time. The Literary Review of Canada has named it one of the 100 most important Canadian books ever published. The tenth anniversary edition of No Logo was published worldwide in 2009. A collection of her writing, Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate was published in 2002.
In September 2015, This Changes Everything, the acclaimed feature documentary inspired by the book and narrated by Naomi, had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2015 and is now in release worldwide. In 2007, the six-minute companion film to The Shock Doctrine, created by Alfonso Cuaron, Oscar award winning director of Gravity, was an Official Selection of the Venice Biennale, San Sebastien and Toronto International Film Festivals. The Shock Doctrine was also adapted into a feature length documentary by award winning director Michael Winterbottom and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010.
In 2004, Naomi Klein wrote The Take, a feature documentary about Argentina’s occupied factories co-produced with director Avi Lewis. The film was an Official Selection of the Venice Biennale and won the Best Documentary Jury Prize at the American Film Institute’s Film Festival in Los Angeles.
Aamer Rahman
Aamer Rahman is an Australian comedian whose work covers politics, race relations, and the War on Terror. He has performed sold-out shows at some of the world's largest festivals including the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and Edinburgh Fringe.
Rahman's work has been covered by media outlets such as The Huffington Post, NBC, Slate, Colorlines, Afropunk, AlterNet, VICE and Essence Magazine.
He has supported legendary standups such as Dave Chappelle, and performed alongside critically acclaimed Hip-Hop artists Brother Ali and Lowkey. In 2014 he was named one of the Guardian newspaper's top 10 live comedy shows of the year.
He has appeared in conversation with public intellectuals and activists such as Dr Cornel West and Professor Angela Davis.