FENCES AND WINDOWS

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The story of the rise of the movement that wanted accountable, improved globalization.

For two years Naomi Klein wrote a weekly column for Canada's leading newspaper, the Globe & Mail (syndicated worldwide, in the Guardian in the UK). She has, by selecting, rewriting and rearranging these columns, prepared what amounts to a first-hand historical record of the gradual rise to prominence of the anti-global-corporatism movement, and of its most notable successes and failures. It has a truly international scope, covering everything from the Zapatistas' rebellion in Mexico to the Social Centres in Italy, from the biggest peaceful protest demos since the 1960s to the gassings and shootings at Genoa. Naomi analyses developments in local democracy, in law enforcement, in privatisation laws, in capital migrations, in union behaviour, in marketing, in summitry. She gets close to the suited summits - the WTO, the G8, the IMF, NAFTA. She looks at bioterrorism, pollution, hypocrisy, fear and confusion. It is a portrait, or rather the underlying negative, of the planet's torrid time between the Seattle summit and the world-changing events of 11 September 2001. It makes for dramatic, immediate, indispensable history writing, and reading.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• I) Windows of Dissent Seattle Washington, D.C. What's Next? Los Angeles Prague Toronto
• II) Fencing in Democracy: Trade and Trade-Offs Democracy in Shackles The Free Trade Area of the Americas IMF Go to Hell No Place for Local Democracy
• The War on Unions The NAFTA Track Record Higher Fences at the Border Making--and Breaking--the Rules
• The Market Swallows the Commons Genetically Altered Rice Genetic Pollution Foot-and-Mouth's Sacrificial Lambs
• The Internet as Tupperware Party Co-opting Dissent Economic Apartheid in South Africa Poison Policies in Ontario America's Weakest Front
• III) Fencing in the Movement: Criminalizing Dissent Cross-Border Policing Pre-emptive Arrest Surveillance Fear Mongering
• The "Citizens Caged" Petition Infiltration Indiscriminate Tear-Gassing Getting Used to Violence Manufacturing Threats Stuck in the Spectacle
• IV) Capitalizing on Terror The Brutal Calculus of Suffering New Opportunists Kamikaze Capitalists The Terrifying Return of Great Men America is Not a Hamburger
• V) Windows to Democracy Democratizing the Movement Rebellion in Chiapas Italy's Social Centres Limits of Political Parties From Symbols to Substance
• Acknowledgments
• Credits
• Index

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She is an author and social activist, who is known for her political analyses and criticism of corporate globalization. Her books include No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate, and The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. She received the 2014 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction for This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate.

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