Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate
by Naomi Klein
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Author: Naomi KleinEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2002-10-04
ISBN: 0312307993
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Picador
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Book Review: Real democracy is always demanded, never granted
Summary: 5 Stars
This book contains superb comments on strategies, policies and mass demonstrations against the actual way of the world. It poses the right questions (who holds power? who exercises it? who disguises it?) and the right answers (people before profits).
The way of the world
For Naomi Klein, the world is dominated by transnational corporations and investors, who control governments. These governments respond to the needs of the former, not of the people who elected them: affordable housing, medicines, clean water, clean land, basic food, education, sustainable energy sources and independent scientific research.
As someone in Prague said, `communism and capitalism have something in common. They both centralize power in the hands of a few.' Globalization and free trade are corporate-driven. The wealth liberated by them is stuck at the top. For the rest, there is wage stagnation, erosion of basic services, of freedom and civil liberties.
Strategies
Resistance to biased free trade and its globalization should not occur within a big unified movement, a coordinated centralization, because it would in the shortest of time being `incorporated by special interests'. Small units of activists, independent groups should focus on simple, crucial issues. Only those can be effective.
Policies
The policies should focus on the application of universal human rights, real democracy, labor and ecological rights and records, civil liberties, freedom of speech (internet) and independent research (e.g., Frankenstein food).
The IMF(ired) and the World Bank should fiercely be attacked or their doctrine, which takes power away from communities, give it to a central government, who gives it to the corporations through privatization (V.Shiva).
Another target should be the WTO, which dead seriously makes trade-related intellectual property rights its focus point in the face of billions of hungry people.
This extremely hard-hitting book (`for Kamikaze Capitalists, terrorism is just another opportunity to leverage') is a must read for all those wanting to save the planet and mankind.
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Summary of Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate
Naomi Klein's No Logo is an international bestselling phenomenon. Winner of Le Prix Mediations (France), and of the National Business Book Award (Canada) it has been translated into 21 languages and published in 25 countries.Named one of Ms Magazine's Women of Year in 2001, and declared by the Times (London) to be "probably the most influential person under the age of 35 in the world," in Fences and Windows, Naomi Klein offers a bird's-eye view of the life of an activist and the development of the "anti-globalization" movement from the Seattle World Trade Organization protests in 1999 through September 11, 2001. Bringing together columns, speeches, essays, and reportage, Klein once again provides provocative arguments on a broad range of issues. Whether she is discussing the privatization of water; genetically modified food; "free trade;" or the development of the movement itself and its future post 9/11, Naomi Klein is one of the most thoughtful and brilliant activists and thinkers for a new generation.
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