Interview on “extractivism,” why it’s important to talk about memories of the land, and what’s next for Idle No More

The people whose land our founders stole and whose culture they tried to stamp out are rising up, hungry for justice

Interview on climate change and the environmental movement

Wouldn’t it be better to change our behavior — to reduce our use of fossil fuels — before we begin fiddling with the planet’s basic life-support systems?

In 2007, 71 percent of Americans believed in climate change and in 2009 only 51 percent believed—and now we’re at 41 percent

We’re in a unique moment in the development of a movement that’s not only a protest movement against something but also an attempt to build something in its place

Climate change, by putting us on a firm deadline, can serve as a catalyst for profound social and ecological transformation

Our movement differs from previous anti-globalisation protests. To change society's values we must stay together for years

When you rob people of what little they have, in order to protect the interests of those who have more than anyone deserves, you should expect resistance

Montana is in the midst of a fossil fuel frenzy

To fight climate change, "we need to recover the values of the indigenous people"

I recently spent an unforgettable day with the Oakland Climate Action Coalition (OCAC), graciously hosted by the Ella Baker Center

Not for forty years has there been such a stretch of bad news for environmentalists in Washington.

Naomi Klein warns global warming could be exploited by capitalism and militarism.

When I met George Awudi, a leader of Friends of the Earth Ghana, he was wearing a bright red T-shirt that said "Do Not Incinerate Africa."

A sprawling crime scene. That is what Gaza felt like when I visited in the summer of 2009...

I race to the front of the WeatherBird II, a research vessel owned by the University of South Florida. There they are, doing their sleek silvery thing, weaving between translucent waves, disappearing under the boat, reappearing in perfect formatio...

Naomi gave the following talk at the first-ever TEDWomen conference on December 8, 2010, in Washington, DC.

On the evening of Thursday, November 11, Naomi made a special appearance in Toronto with Juno award-winning recording artist Hawksley Workman at a fundraiser for the legal defence costs of G20 arrestees.

As thousands protested in the streets of Toronto, inside the G20 summit world leaders agreed to a controversial goal of cutting government deficits in half by 2013. We speak with journalist Naomi Klein. "What actually happened at the summit is tha...

The Deepwater Horizon disaster is not just an industrial accident – it is a violent wound inflicted on the Earth itself. In this special report from the Gulf coast, a leading author and activist shows how it lays bare the hubris at the heart of ca...

It was 11 am and Evo Morales had turned a football stadium into a giant classroom, marshaling an array of props: paper plates, plastic cups, disposable raincoats, handcrafted gourds, wooden plates and multicolored ponchos. All came into play to ma...

On March 18, continuing a long tradition of pioneering human rights campaigns, the Senate of the Associated Students of the University of California, Berkeley (ASUC) passed "A Bill In Support of UC DIVESTMENT FROM WAR CRIMES." The historic bill re...

If we are to believe the G-7 finance ministers, Haiti is on its way to getting something it has deserved for a very long time: full "forgiveness" of its foreign debt. In Port-au-Prince, Haitian economist Camille Chalmers has been watching these de...

Noam Chomsky, Alice Walker, Naomi Klein, Anthony Arnove on the loss of Howard Zinn.

Contrary to countless reports, the debacle in Copenhagen was not everyone's fault. It did not happen because human beings are incapable of agreeing, or are inherently self-destructive. Nor was it all was China's fault, or the fault of the hapless UN.

The only offer on the table in Copenhagen would condemn the developing world to poverty and suffering in perpetuity.

That piece in Rolling Stone is looking at a growing demand for the repayment of climate debt. This is really a relatively new framing for the climate crisis and is becoming predominantly from the developing world, led by the government of Bolivia ...

The other day I received a pre-publication copy of The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle, by David Solnit and Rebecca Solnit. It’s set to come out ten years after a historic coalition of activists shut down the World Trade Organizatio...

Of all the explanations for Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize, the one that rang truest came from French President Nicolas Sarkozy. "It sets the seal on America's return to the heart of all the world's peoples." In other words, this was Europe's wa...