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Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein, an author, social activist, and filmmaker, is the Gloria Steinem Chair in Media, Culture, and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University. Her books include No Logo (1999), The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007), This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (2014), and, most recently, On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal (2019). (September 2019)

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Sunrise Movement protesters inside the office of Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Capitol, Washington, D.C., December 10, 2018

The Green New Deal: A Fight for Our Lives

People are beginning to grasp that the fight is not for some abstraction called “the Earth.” We are fighting for our lives. And we don’t have twelve years anymore; now we have only eleven. Soon, it will be just ten.

September 17, 2019