ActionAid and Naomi Klein
ActionAid supporter and author, Naomi Klein discussed her international best-selling book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism with ActionAid Thursday, July 10th to a packed house at Busboys and Poets.
Naomi Klein discussing her book, "The Shock Doctrine" to a packed house
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Naomi shared her stunning discoveries about people in power who are cashing in on chaos. She exposes the brutal tactics of “shock doctors” who exploit bloodshed and catastrophe to remake our world in their image.
Naomi cites ActionAid’s work in The Shock Doctrine:
A year after the tsunami, the respected NGO ActionAid, which monitors foreign aid spending, published the results of an extensive survey of fifty thousand tsunami survivors in five countries. Governments have largely failed in their responsibility to provide land for permanent housing. They have stood by or been complicit as land has been grabbed and costal communities pushed aside in favor of commercial interests.
Thank you all for the overhewhelming response and interest in this free and public discussion of Naomi Klein’s exposé. For those of you who were not able to make it inside with us, we thank you for your support. We hope to have a video of her talk up on our website next week. Sign up to ensure you receive the link to the video.
We encourage you to read The Shock Doctrine and purchase and support your local independent bookstore. If you are in the D.C. area head on over to Busboys and Poets, who hosted Naomi's discussion, and their bookstore operated by Teaching for Change to pick up your copy now in paperback.
Naomi Klein and ActionAid Executive Director Peter O'Driscoll
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ActionAid was on hand last night sharing our work and information about who actually benefits from the billions of dollars intended to help disaster stricken–communities and with updates about our current work in countries like Myanmar, China, Zimbabwe, Haiti and Ethiopia where people are facing disaster or conflict right now. We encourage you to sign up for our e-newsletter to stay informed and take action against poverty and injustice.
ActionAid works in 50 countries worldwide, alongside more than 25 million poor people, to end poverty and the injustices that cause it. ActionAid’s recovery efforts continue in Tsunami-affected communities and in hundreds of other communities experiencing disasters or conflict around the globe.
Naomi Klein fields questions during the question and answer period
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Thrilling and revelatory, The Shock Doctrine cracks open the secret history of our era. Exposing these global profiteers, Naomi Klein discovered information and connections that shocked even her about how comprehensively the shock doctors' beliefs now dominate our world - and how this domination has been achieved. Raking in billions out of the tsunami, plundering Russia, exploiting Iraq - this is the chilling tale of how a powerful few are making a killing while regular people are getting killed.
Read ActionAid's "Tsunami Response: A Human Rights Assessment"
Press Contact: Anna Gibson 202-370-9924 anna.gibson@actionaid.org
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