Her granddaddy was fired for labor organizing at Disney. Her father Michael, the md, was the Vietnam War resistor who fled to Canadthe & became a member of Physicians for Social Responsibility. Her film-maker mother, Bonnie, won fame sustaining her ground-innovational anti-pornography film, Non the Romance. Her brother Seth is director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Naomi Klein's writing career began early, contributing to The Varsity, one of a University of Toronto's student newspapers. She credits her wake higher-up call for to feminism as the 1989 butchery of female engineering students by Marc Lépine.

Inside 2000, just of these year when protesters close up the WTO Meeting of 1999, Klein published the book No Logo, which for many became the manifesto of the anti-globalization movement. the book lambasts a blackball results of brand-oriented consumer culture by describing a operations of big corporations which survive single to peddle a brand. Their products, she argues, turn population into walking hoarding. These corporations come besides typically shamed of exploiting workers in the globe's poorest countries inside pursuit of ever-greater successfully. Klein criticized Nike such in a book that it became one of the number one publications to receive feedback from either Nike.[http://web.archive.org/web/20010618162615/http://nikebiz.com/labor/nologo_let.shtml]

Inside 2002 Klein published Fences and Windows, a collection of articles & speeches she'd written in behalf of a anti-globalization movement (tons yield from either the book attend profit activistic organizations through The Fences and Windows Fund). Klein besides contributes to The Nation, In These Times, Canada's The Globe and Mail, This Magazine, and The Guardian.

She has continued to write of various todays issues, like a occupation of Iraq. Within the September 2004 article for ''Harper's Magazine'' entitled "Baghdad Year Zero: Pillaging Iraq in pursuit of a neocon utopia", she argues that, contrary to popular belief and criticisms, the Bush Administration did have a clear plan for post-invasion Iraq, which was to build a fully unconstrained free market economy. She describes plans to allow foreigners to extract wealth from either Iraq, & a methods utilized to achieve victims goals.

Klein gave a annual Dalton K. Camp Lecture in Journalism on October 28, 2004 at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick. She likewise spoke at a tenth day of remembrance celebration of Stauffer Library at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario on November 4, 2004, and at the Navigating A New World Conference on November 6, along with Lloyd Axworthy, Linda McQuaig, Roméo Dallaire, Thomas Homer-Dixon, and Irshad Manji.

As well around 2004, Klein & her hubby, American television journalist Avi Lewis, released the documentary called The Take, which profiled a class action of laid off auto-parts workers inside Argentina who took back control of their plant and turned it into the cooperative.