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Title: A lecture by Naomi Klein
START DATE: 2/22/2005
START TIME: 6:00 PM
Duration: 2 Hours
Location: University of California, Riverside
Location Details:
University Lecture Hall 1000
University of California, Riverside
Event Topic: Iraq
Event Type: public lecture
Contact Name: Kenneth Barr
Contact Email: kenneth.barr@ucr.edu
Contact Phone: 951.827.4203
DESCRIPTION:
Naomi Klein, the award-winning journalist, author of the international best seller NO LOGO, and one of Canada's leading public intellectuals, will be speaking on the Economy and the Struggle for Social Justice in IRAQ at the University of California, Riverside. This talk is free and open to the public.

Lecture Title: ?War and Fleece: How Economic ?Shock Therapy? Backfired in Iraq.?

Pr?cis: We hear a lot about the military and political conditions in Iraq, but rarely about the economic conditions. Naomi Klein traveled to Baghdad in the Spring of 2004 to research a plan to transform Iraq into a gleaming show room for laissez-faire economics, a neo-conservative utopia such as the world had never seen. First came the ?shock and awe? military onslaught, then came the ?shock therapy?: mass layoffs, huge tax cuts, open borders, plans to privatize the entire economy. But all did not go according to plan. Many of these measures were illegal under international law. They were also enormously unpopular and fueled the armed resistance that has made Iraq lethal territory for foreign investors. After telling the story of these failures, this lecture will also look at concrete ways for social justice activists to support the struggle for genuine freedom and sovereignty in Iraq.

Klein Bio: Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist and author of the international best seller No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies. Translated into 27 languages and with over a million copies in print, The New York Times called No Logo ?a movement bible.? In 2000, The Guardian Newspaper short-listed it for its First Book Award, and in 2001, No Logo won the Canadian National Business Book Award, and the French Prix M?diations. Ms. Klein writes an internationally syndicated column for The Nation, The Guardian and The Globe and Mail. A collection of her work, entitled Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate, was published in October 2002. In 2004, she released The Take, a film about Argentina?s occupied factories, co-produced with director Avi Lewis. She is a former Miliband Fellow at the London School of Economics and is presently the Freda Kirchway Fellow of the Nation Institute. Ms. Klein lives in Toronto.

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