Bad typography makes this collection of articles and essays on globalisation much harder to read than it should be.

Compelling writings that are very much of their time. It also made me appreciate how good of a writer Klein is today - these pieces are strong but the deftness and precision of her language today is not present.

This was put together after No Logo but chronicles events over a wide period of time, such as the nascent WTO protests in 1999 Seattle. There is so much subject matter in this book from Zapatistas, Commons, IMF and The World Social Forum. Looking back it would read a book of its time but well worth a read if interested in the anti capitalist movement of the 90s and early 00s. Comparable with Arundhati Roy and Noam Chomsky.

This amazing collection of articles discusses the movement against corporate globalization and for self-determination and local democracy. Really moving and just left me wanting more - updates on all these local and international fights.

Over twenty years after publishing and it seems things have only gotten worse in our world. That being said, the lessons learned from this book remain important and applicable to advocacy and organizing today. As usual, Klein writes beautifully and accessibly - her essays reflect the struggles of millions worldwide and synthesize the pieces of a decentralized movement clearly. Despite the apparent lack of progress between the turn of the century and now, Klein's words inspire hope and action in me!

more writings on the evils of corporations and globalization. good stuff

I bought this a couple months ago off a clearance rack. I kept telling myself that I was going to read this, but for some reason I didn't. I'm reading through Naomi Klein's books and I started with No Logo which I liked. This follow up isn't as good as No Logo but I did enjoy reading it.

The book is a collection of many articles profiling globalization, protests, Canadian politics and social organizing. I found the sections on the criminalization of protesting and the weaponization of terrorist rhetoric to be fascinating. The chapter on Subcomandante Marcos was particularly interesting to me.

Reading this in 2019 certainly dates many of the topics in the book. Many of the pre 9-11 topics seem to be lost in history. I feel like next to no one anymore talks about anti-globalization and neoliberalism in the fashion mentioned in this book.

inspiring and recommended to those who need some good news for a change.

I found this to be real hit and miss and mostly miss, there was a lot of forgettable pieces in here, pieces about the world social forum and the Zapatistas. I found Klein to be a little too enamored with the idea of a decentralized network as the precursor of a revolution

Very good counter argument to globalisation, but don't use this book alone to found your opinion on the debate. The short storied are easy to read, and if one bores you (unlikely as that may seem), it is possible to skip the vignette and move onto the next without a loss of understanding.

It's an eye opening book about where and how our food comes from, how capitalism affects the poorer classes on a global scale so that most of us can live more comfortably--or rather how big corporations exploit the poor and undeveloped to increase profits. It's not as good as "No Logo" or "Shock Doctrine," but it still gets you thinking about how to help change the global economy before the entire planet is destroyed.

An extremely provocative and insightful view of the hidden world politics and policies that secretly ravage the well-being of the world's poorest of the poor nations, and how the wealthy nations thrive off of this imbalance.