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Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.
No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies (1999)
I think this is part of a process of delegitimising this sector and saying these are odious profits, this is not a legitimate business model.
If you're not arguing, your coalition isn't wide enough.
conversation with Michelle Alexander and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (2017)
So, if consumers are like roaches, then marketers must forever be dreaming up new concoctions for industrial-strength Raid.
No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies (1999)
When we lack the ability to talk back to entities that are culturally and politically powerful, the very foundations of free speech and democratic society are called into question.
No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies (1999)
The solution to global warming is not to fix the world, but to fix ourselves. p. 279
This Changes Everything (book) (2014)
Whatever happens, it's time to bury neoliberalism. We need genuine wealth + power redistribution. Only a real left can fight fascism.
Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves... The parties with the most gain never show up on the battlefield.
Fascism is capitalism with bared teeth.
Instead of rescuing the dirty industries of the last century, we should be boosting the clean ones that will lead us into safety in the coming century (Green New Deal).
When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?
No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies (1999)
Challenge the extreme ideology... blocking so much sensible action... to show how unfettered corporate power [poses] a grave threat to the habitability of the planet. p.20
This Changes Everything (book) (2014)
Like so much of cool hunting, Hilfiger's marketing journey feeds off the alienation at the heart of America's race relations: selling white youth on their fetishization of black style, and black youth on their fetishization of white wealth.
No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies (1999)
movements, unlike capital, tend to move slowly. This is particularly true of movements that exist to deepen democracy and allow ordinary people to define their goals and grab the reins of history.
The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists (2018)
That's why I talk about basic income ... there has to be a stronger social safety net because when people don't have options, they're going to make bad choices. Let's have better choices on the table.
The resources required to rapidly move away from fossil fuels and prepare for the coming heavy weather could pull huge swaths of humanity out of poverty, providing services now sorely lacking, from clean water to electricity. p. 7
This Changes Everything (book) (2014)
There are all kinds of measures that would lower emissions substantively that could and should be done right now. p. 25
This Changes Everything (book) (2014)
What haunts me is not exactly the absence of literal space so much as a deep craving for metaphorical space: release, escape, some kind of open-ended freedom.
No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies (1999)
Job creation as part of the corporate mission, particularly the creation of fll time, decently paid, stable jobs, appears to have taken a back seat in many major corporations, regardless of company profits
No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies (1999)
Democracy isn't the work of the market's invisible hand; it is the work of real hands.
Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate (2000)