Loyola University New Orleans - New Orleans, LA, USA - The Gillis Long Poverty Law Center and Loyola University New Orleans will host a lecture by award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, and author
Naomi Klein, on Saturday, August 25, at 6 p.m. in the Loyola University College of Law, Room 405. Her lecture is entitled, “Katrina Disaster Capitalism.”
Naomi Klein is the international bestseller of No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies. In 2000, the Guardian short-listed No Logo for its First Book Award. In 2001, it won the Canadian National Business Book Award and the French Prix Médiations. In 2004, Klein’s reporting from Iraq for Harper’s magazine won the
James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism. She writes a regular column for the Nation and the Guardian that is syndicated internationally by the New York Times Syndicate. A collection of her work, Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate, was published in 2002. In 2004, she released The Take, a feature documentary about Argentina’s occupied factories, co-produced with director
Avi Lewis. The film won the Best Documentary jury prize at the American Film Institute’s Film Festival in Los Angeles and was an official selection of the Venice Biennale, a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years in Venice, Italy.
