Buried inside the Chicago Tribune’s latest story about the teachers strike that is now stretching into its second week, is this fascinating nugget of information:
Many of CTU’s current leaders helped found the Caucus of Rank-and-File Educators, which started out as a book club to review Naomi Klein’s best-seller “The Shock Doctrine,” which argues that corporate interests have exploited crises to push through agendas that undermine democracy.
Naomi Klein is a Canadian author best known for writing the anti-globalization manifesto No Logo and is also a columnist for the hard-left Nation magazine. She was credited with helping to spark the anti-World Bank, anti-International Monetary Fund protests in the late 1990s and has been a major booster of the Occupy Wall Street movement, calling it a “game changer” that has “opened up space for us to put more radical solutions on the table.”
Incidentally, she is not to be confused with feminist writer Naomi Wolf, a former Al Gore adviser and author, most recently, of Vagina: A New Biography.
UPDATE: Klein responded by email:
UPDATE: Klein tweets this story and ads:
