She has always downplayed her place within the movement, but in fact her influence is as considerable as her press clippings proclaim. For puzzled outsiders grasping to understand why bands of youths had begun following the World Trade Organization wherever it went, brandishing oversize puppets and occasionally smashing up the local Starbucks, Klein was there to explain. In 2001, Time proclaimed that the anti-globalization movement had become the “defining cause” of a new generation, and that the spokesperson for the cause was the Canadian writer and activist Naomi Klein.
It seems like a very long time-though in truth only a few years have passed-since the most sinister force on the planet that the left could imagine was Nike.
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