New York Times Bestseller, Naomi Klein, to Speak at Clark U.

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Friday, February 26, 2016

GoLocalWorcester Lifestyle Team

Clark University will host climate activist Naomi Klein on Friday, February 26  when she gives the keynote for the upcoming Climate Change Teach-in at 7 p.m. in Daniels Theater at Atwood Hall. Klein, author of "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate" will speak as part of the President's Lecture Series at the school. 

Klein's talk will precede the University's second annual Climate Change Teach-in to be held on March 23. The Teach-in is a campus wide event that will explore the climate crisis and possible responses to it through a series of panels, presentations and dialogues. 

A live webcast of the event will be shown in Jefferson 320. 

Admission at both locations is free and open to the public,. 

A book signing will follow. 

Naomi Klein 

Klein is the author of The New York Times #1 international bestseller "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism." Klein's recent book "This Changes Everything," became an immediate bestseller, won the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, and was included on The New York Times list of 100 Notable Books of 2014. 

Klein is a member of the board of directors for 350.org, a global grassroots movement to address the climate crisis. 

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Clark University 

Founded in 1887 in Worcester, Massachusetts, Clark University is a liberal arts-based research university addressing social and human imperatives on a global scale. Nationally renowned as a college that changes lives, Clark is emerging as a transformative force in higher education today. 

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