Naomi Klein Urges Civil Disobedience at COP15 Protests

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/12/15/Klein_Gives_Monsanto_Award_for_Worst_Climate_Lobbyist

Journalist Naomi Klein discusses her hopes for the ongoing COP15 protests. She explains that the protests are expressly nonviolent, and says violence will only shift the focus away from the real issues and onto "a very boring discussion about cops versus protesters." "We want to talk about the violence of climate change," says Klein.

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Author and journalist Naomi Klein reveals Monsanto as the winner of the 2009 Angry Mermaid Award for the worst corporate lobbying group. She, along with Paul de Clerck from Friends of the Earth International and Dorothy Guerrero from Focus on the Global South, discuss the effects of corporate lobbying on the global climate debate. - COP15

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, author, and filmmaker. Her first book, the international bestseller No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, was translated into twenty-eight languages and called "a movement bible" by The New York Times.

She writes an internationally syndicated column for The Nation and The Guardian and reported from Iraq for Harpers Magazine. In 2004, she released The Take, a feature documentary about Argentina's occupied factories, co-produced with director Avi Lewis.

She is a former Miliband Fellow at the London School of Economics and holds an honorary Doctor of Civil Laws degree from the University of Kings College, Nova Scotia.

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[orange343434]

People who protest corporations are always demonized in the media.

Corporations that take our resources and control our governments aren't even talked about.

[FlowerClown]

Protests don't do crap in the USA what we need is a nation wide strike.

STOP for a DAY or two of a week until the government knows we will not put up with the corps running the government.

[n5ifi]

In 1975, the Environmental Fund warned" The World as we know it will likely be ruined by the year 2000." Harvard University biologist George Wald in 1970 warned, "civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind." That was the same year that Sen. Gaylord Nelson warned, that by 1995 "somewhere between 75 and 85 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct." Doomsayers have always been wrong.

[uturniaphobic]

@allgoo19 Well trash is filling up in the streets of Paris. State garbage collectors don't like the new "austerity" rules as many there do not, so they're all on strike right now. is that one ok? but what I'm saying is organized "consumer" boycotting is non-existent and could be the most powerful.

[allgoo19]

@uturniaphobic

"I suggest watch Greece, Ireland.."

Why don't you post some of them real examples if you know them so much?

[uturniaphobic]

@allgoo19 I suggest watch Greece, Ireland, Spain, perhaps England too. not sure what the outcomes will be. but it should be interesting.

to be "real" would be to know that standard long-term investing is dead. these companies are possibly more vulnerable now, through trigger happy and tightly-wound traders looking desperately for ways to turn profits by either helping or killing any given corp on any given day. that is real but no one will exploit it because they all seem to think as you do.

[allgoo19]

@uturniaphobic

"yes I mentioned Germany boycotting .."

You are talking about something worked once or twice(not yet confirmed) in a hundred years and claiming it's a effective tool?

Get real.

Name 3 of them happened int last 3 years, that was my original request.

I'm waiting.

[uturniaphobic]

@allgoo19 yes I mentioned Germany boycotting in the 1930s I left out specifics. But how about the Coal Mining wars right here in the US back in about 1890s or so in Virginia. it came to an actual war and ended in mining unions which subsequently (like all else) became corrupt too. Strikes are labor boycotts. Refusing to buy from a place is consumer boycott. We need that one. Imagine a website so powerful that if a corp names winds up on it the shareholders panic and bail. instant death.

[allgoo19]

@cooperbry

"perhaps it will be too much salt in your diet.."

You have no idea how the natural selection works, do you?

It's not the climate change itself that kills the species, it's the starvation caused by the climate change.

One accusation about email is not going to change the facts that backed by evidence you decided to look away.

Google, "Nile sea rising", "Pakistan flood" and not to mention our own Katrina 2005.