In today's program you'll hear the interview, which at the end of November, our editorial team gave Naomi Klein, Canadian journalist and activist, anti-globalization movement, author of the book "No Logo", " walls or barriers and gaps and opportunities "and the recently released" The Shock Doctrine. " Naomi Klein answered questions about the challenges for social movements, carries the current global financial crisis, the political situation after the recent presidential elections in the United States, and well here is what the human rights in economic and social. She spoke also about the Polish transformation process after 1989 and a sense memory of "Solidarity".
For many years, Naomi Klein describes in its publications, the dark side of modern global capitalism: is it an aggressive commercialization of life and public space in the rich countries of the North, or severe exploitation and misery in the South. At the same time reveals the social activities which respond to these destructive processes. Published in 2000 (in Poland: 2004) the book "No Logo" coincided with the outbreak of the first wave of protests against the politics occurring alterglobalists institutions imposing a global trading and financial system: the World Trade Organization (WTO), World Bank, the IMF and the G8 summits. The book "The walls and the gaps or barriers and opportunities", which appeared in 2002 (in Poland: 2008) is a collection of reports and essays describing this wave of activism, direct action blocking the WTO summit in Seattle after the protests in Prague and Genoa, from groups of anti-poverty and homelessness in Toronto after Indian peasants in Chiapas, the action against genetically modified food on the organization of social centers in Italy. In its last year in the world, and more recently in Poland, the book "The Shock Doctrine" author of Weapons thesis that the proliferation of the neoliberal economic model over the last 30 years was possible thanks to a landmark historical situations - coups, przewrotom political system, wars and natural disasters - and the confusion of societies undergoing economic policy impinging on their rights.
Naomi Klein visited Poland on 18-21 November, took part in two open meetings at the universities of Warsaw, also gave interviews to television and newspapers, including the editorial board of the Academic Altergodziny Radio LUZ.
Broadcast Gawlicz lead Catherine and Martin Starnawski.
