Fences And Windows

Naomi Klein gives readers a backstage pass to the global revolt against corporate power, from the Seattle World Trade Organization protests in 1999 through the crackdown on dissent post-September 11. Bringing together columns, speeches, essays, and front-line reportage, Klein builds a case that globalization has not been about taking barriers down, but about putting new fences up - turning borders into militarized zones, making governments into gated communities, and putting virtually all of the planet's wealth under patent. In the face of these fences, Klein argues, a global network of activists has launched a liberation movement, one intent on opening up windows - spaces for non-corporate culture, independent media, and most of all, for meaningful democracy.