Naomi Klein: OWS (Transcript)

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Naomi Klein: Protesters Are Seeking Change in the Streets Because It Won’t Come From the Ballot Box


Among the thousands at last night’s Occupy Wall Street protest here in New York City was award-winning journalist and author Naomi Klein. She is the author of the bestselling book, "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.” She also wrote "No Logo," a book that has become a cultural manifesto for critics of unfettered capitalism worldwide. Klein joins us to discuss the Occupy Wall Street movement and why it is being belittled in the corporate media. “My biggest fear was that the Obama presidency was was going to lead this generation of young people into political cynicism and political apathy,” Klein says. “But instead, they are going to where the power is. They are realizing the change is not coming in Washington because politicians are so controlled by corporate interest, and that that is the fundamental crisis in this country.”

AMY GOODMAN: Ana Tijoux, "Shock", just got this week from Chile. It’s about the student protests there, inspired in part by, The Shock Doctrine, the book by our next guest, Naomi Klein. This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman with Juan Gonzalez.

JUAN GONZALEZ: Among the thousands at last night’s Occupy Wall Street protests here in New York was award-winning journalist and author, Naomi Klein. She’s the author of the bestselling book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. She also wrote, No Logo, a book that has become a cultural manifesto for critics of unfettered capitalism worldwide. Tonight she will be speaking at the Occupied Wall Street encampment. She traveled from Canada to participate in the protest.

AMY GOODMAN: Last month Naomi was in Washington, D.C. where arrested along with more than 1200 other people in a two-week campaign of civil disobedience outside the White House against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry oil from Canada’s tar sands to Gulf Coast refineries. We’re going to talk about that in a minute, but, Naomi, you came here to New York to occupy Wall Street, so, tell us about what you found.


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