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Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate is a 2002 book by Canadian journalist Naomi Klein and editor Debra Ann Levy. The book is a collection of newspaper articles, mostly from The Globe and Mail, with a few magazine articles from The Nation and speech transcripts. The articles and speeches were all written by Klein in the 30 months after the publication of her first book, No Logo, from December 1999 to March 2002. The articles focus upon the anti-globalization movement, including protest events and responses by law enforcement. The book was published in North America and the United Kingdom in October 2002.
The imagery of fences and windows appear through the work. The fences represent exclusion and barriers while the windows are opportunities for expressing alternative ideas. The book garnered both positive and negative reviews. Two of the articles were singled out by several reviewers as being the exceptional. One, "America is not a Hamburger", discusses the US State Department's attempt to re-brand America's image overseas. The second, "The Brutal Calculus of Suffering", discusses media portrayals of war.
The first section entitled "Windows of Dissent" begins with an article written for The New York Times covering the 1999 Seattle protests, which she calls the coming out party of the anti-globalization movement. The remaining five articles in the section come from The Globe and Mail, with one from The Nation, and cover World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organization (WTO) protests in Washington, D.C., Prague and Toronto from April to September 2000. She describes the protesters as hundreds of decentralized groups with various independent interests, leaderless but organized and searching for a strategy.
The next section, "Fencing in Democracy" consists of articles from The Globe and Mail and the transcript of a speech. The section is divided into two sub-sections. The first explores some of the impacts that economic globalization has had on communities, focusing on Mexico and Argentina, and misconceptions that supporters of the WTO-associated organizations have of the anti-globalization movement. The second focuses on the co-opting of the commons, such as genetics, culture, and public sector infrastructure, for private economic gains.
The next section "Fencing in the Movement" chronicles the escalation of security tactics to counter protesters. Klein finds that police have been removing the distinction between civil disobedience and violence and purposefully normalizing violence so it is the expected outcome, not a rare event. She matches the decline of civil liberties and freedom of speech with the rise of free speech zones, indiscriminate use of tear gas and pepper spray, plain clothes officers, surveillance, and pre-emptive arrests. The fourth section "Capitalizing on Terror" discusses opportunism that used the September 11 attacks to further political and economic objectives. An editorial piece for the Los Angeles Times, Klein argues that the US has sold its image too well as the land of opportunity and plenty and that rising anti-Americanism was the result of the US inability to share this.
The final section "Windows to Democracy" contains two articles written for The Nation, two for The Globe and Mail and one for The Guardian. These articles examine potential directions for the movement to take, focusing upon the World Social Forum, Mexican Zapatistas, and political parties. The final article calls upon the movement to shift from attacking symbols of globalization at protests and use the decentralized local groups to provide alternatives; define themselves as fighting for, rather than against, something.
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Naomi Klein on No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies - Part 7 (2000)by thefilmarchive528 views
american CEO'S uses to only make 43% more than the average worker, after reagan greenspan, and milton friedman got done, 500% what a difference a couple of decades can make
whedonfreak976 7 months ago
America was dramatically changed starting in the eighties. It went glam during that decade, and then it snowballed to PURE INSANITY. It used to be that people were people....not consumers. GREED is not a pretty thing when manifested in a whole culture. TURN OFF TV. DON'T BUY MAGAZINES. SHOP AT THRIFT STORES AND CLOSEOUT STORES.....you are NOT YOUR CLOTHES OR THE THINGS YOU BUY. JUDGING OTHERS ONLY SERVES TO REINFORCE THIS STATUS SICKNESS.
Solablueangel 9 months ago
Don't watch ads. Don't pay attention to them. Parents should not 'teach' (consumer role modeling) label status to their children. I remember a time that was America when labels did not matter, except maybe in HUGE CITIES, then, in the eighties, label status went bizzerk. Before that,,ordinary citizens DID NOT parade labels around as a way of being thought 'cool'. Yes, some kids had nice clothes, and many outfits perhaps...but before the 80s FEW, almost no one cared about labels.
Solablueangel 9 months ago