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    Naomi Klein Lecture

    Presented by Colorado College at Colorado College - Armstrong Theater

    October 13, 2008


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    Naomi Klein Lecture

    Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author of The New York Times and international best seller, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Her previous book, No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, also was an international best seller. Klein writes a column for The Nation and The Guardian that is syndicated internationally by The New York Times Syndicate....

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    Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author of The New York Times and international best seller, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Her previous book, No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, also was an international best seller. Klein writes a column for The Nation and The Guardian that is syndicated internationally by The New York Times Syndicate. In 2004, her reporting from Iraq for Harper's Magazine won the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism. In 2004, she released 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. She is a former Miliband Fellow at the London School of Economics and holds an honorary Doctor of Civil Laws from the University of King's College, Nova Scotia.

    Read more about Shock Doctrine at: http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine.

    Sponsored by the Daniel Patrick O'Connor Memorial Lectureship Endowed Fund and CC's sociology department.


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    Colorado College - Armstrong Theater

    14 E. Cache La Poudre St.
    Colorado Springs, CO 80903

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    Admission Info:
    Free


    General Day and Time Info:
    7:30 p.m.

    Phone: 719-389-6000


    Accessibility Info: Currently, no accessibility information is available for this event.

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