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DESCRIPTION:THE SHOCK DOCTRINE is Naomi Klein’s groundbreaking unofficial story of 
 how the “free market” came to dominate the world, from Chile to Russia, 
 China to Iraq, South Africa to Canada.  Radically different from the story 
 normally told, Klein’s book focuses on how violence and 
 shocks—perpetuated on people, on countries, on economies— have laid the 
 foundation for economic “shock therapy” for more than three decades.  
 Guaranteed to be one of the most talked-about and debated books of the fall 
 season, THE SHOCK DOCTRINE explodes the myth that the global free market 
 triumphed democratically, and that unfettered capitalism goes hand in hand 
 with democracy.  \n\nTwo years ago, while reporting on the Asian tsunami, 
 Klein coined the term “disaster capitalism” to describe a pattern of 
 the use of catastrophe to seize public assets for private profit, combined 
 with the privatization of the response to the disaster itself.  Tracing the 
 intellectual origins of disaster capitalism back fifty years to the 
 University of Chicago under Milton Friedman, THE SHOCK DOCTRINE exposes a 
 cycle of mutually reinforcing “shock therapies,” drawing new and 
 surprising connections between economic policy, “shock and awe” 
 warfare, and covert CIA-funded experiments in electroshock and sensory 
 deprivation in the 1950s, research that helped write the torture manuals 
 used today in Guantánamo Bay. Drawing on breakthrough historical research 
 and four years of on-the-ground reporting in disaster zones, Klein shows 
 how the same techniques used to “soften up” and “break” prisoners 
 are being used to reengineer entire societies.\n\n“Naomi Klein has 
 written a brilliant, brave, and terrifying book. It’s nothing less than 
 the secret history of what we call the ‘free market’… compulsory 
 reading!” —Arundhati Roy\n \n“Naomi Klein’s exposé of neoliberal 
 economics is certain to be sensational. She rips away the ‘free trade’ 
 and globalization ideologies that disguise a conspiracy to privatize war 
 and disaster and grab public property for the rich few… a long-needed 
 analysis of our headlong flight back to feudalism under the guise of social 
 science and ‘freedom’.” —Chalmers Johnson \n\nTickets: $10 advance, 
 $13 door. Available at independent bookstores (East Bay: Analog Books, 
 Cody’s, Black Oak, DIESEL A Bookstore, Pegasus, Pendragon, Global 
 Exchange store, Walden Pond, Moe’s Books; San Francisco: Modern 
 Times)\nand at www.globalexchange.org/events/naomiklein\nTelephone ticket 
 order: 415.255.7296 X244  \n\nBenefits: Global Exchange and KPFA Radio 94.1 
 FM\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/09/05/18445950.php
SUMMARY:Naomi Klein: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
LOCATION:First Congregational Church in Oakland, 2501 Harrison St, Oakland
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/09/05/18445950.php
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