You now how most of us want to live in a nice bubble? And when you know you should know things and maybe get involved in things as well. But it´s too damn scary and hard to come out if the bubble. I want to live in the bubble. But I also want to know what is going on in the world. This book (even though it´s already couple years old) breaks your bubble with many things (and things that are relevant today). It´s hard to read because you realise how much there is, that you don´t know about. How many things in this world there is, that you can´t do anything about. This makes me feel "world pain" (maailmantuska). And I want to hide from it. But I am truly grateful that there are people willing to expose these things and are trying to change things. I might not be a protester but I can do something (or I hope I can) with choices I make every day. And to make right choices and need information. So I try to keep out of the bubble as much as I can.

un recull d'articles d'opinio, alguns relats d'accions dels antiglobalització, altres anàlisis del sistema més aprofondits, sempre des de la beligerància típica de naomi klein. Val la pena llegir-lo, mantenint sempre una anàlisi crítica del contingut.

I read this all last night and this morning. I have lots and lots to say about it, thus I will be writing about it on my blog later on today!

3.5

Det är lite konstigt men också kul att läsa essäer och artiklar som har ungefär 20 år på nacken. Många är från 2000-2001 och vissa ännu tidigare. Vissa känns väldigt inaktuella medan andra känns fortfarande aktuella. Jag gillar sättet Klein skriver på och tog min tid att läsa denna.
Det är en bra samling och efter ett tag såg jag det som en historik över globaliseringen på ett sätt, i och med att mycket finns det "facit" på idag.
Läste den på svenska även om jag brukar läsa Klein på engelska och skulle inte ha nämnt det om det inte var för att översättningen är något udda? Eller nej, fel ord, det känns inte som om artiklarna är översatta från engelska till svenska utan från engelska till finlandssvenska. Det är verkligen inget fel med det men det märkes och jag tänkte på ord som "veckoslut" och dylikt under läsningens gång.

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

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.

Amazing collection of true stories of people's resistence all around the world. A lot of writers would criticise how the world is, but would fall short of citing positive examples of how the world can be changed for the better...but not Naomi. She cites examples to live by and draw inspiration from.

while this is a good collection of klein's articles and there are a few standout pieces - chiapas, the social centers of italy - overall i'd rather read her focused non-fiction than this. shock doctrine and no logo blow this one out of the water.

Klein is on point as always, ripping apart arguments for the neoliberal, neocolonial globalisation order, providing some of the most fierce arguments against it while also revealing windows of hope especially in indigenous struggles and showing through articles and speeches the way that mobilisation for a different globalisation - of commons and solidarity - could, and in some instances, does work.

must read, eye opening book about trade, politics, and democracy

- well-written and intelligent (Klein is brilliant, with ideas as revolutionary as Marshall McLuhan's - who was also a Canadian, by the way).
- not rated as highly as her 'No Logo', which was ground-breaking, and the best thing I have ever read on the subject of Corporate Branding...unfortunately 'Fences And Windows:...', although an interesting collection of Klein's essays, speeches, and newspaper-columns - doesn't really introduce any new arguments.
- She does add evidence, and reformulates her description of our current global crisis - the divesting of control on all fronts to unbelievably wealthy and powerful multinational corporations