No Is Not Enough: Defeating the New Shock Politics

by Naomi Klein

‘An essential handbook for all people, especially young people, who want to understand the economic, social, and political forces that produced the current crisis we are facing – and how we can effectively organize to win a better world’ Danny Glover, actor

I’m not looking to overthrow the American government, the corporate state already has. —JOHN TRUDELL Santee Dakota activist, artist, and poet (1946–2015)

Donald Trump understands exactly how little needs to be behind the promise—whether on renegotiating trade deals or bringing back manufacturing—if the desperation is great enough.

media executives acknowledging

largely abandoning the traditional journalistic task of delving into policy specifics and explaining how different candidates’ positions on issues such as health care and regulatory reform will play out in voters’ lives.

Trump didn’t create the problem—he exploited it.

You need to love something first, before you can protect and defend it.

With so many lives on the line, there is nothing to be gained by ranking issues by urgency and playing “my crisis is bigger than your crisis.”

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”

when a young woman confronted Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail and asked her if—given the scale of the global warming crisis—she would pledge not to take any more money from the fossil fuel interests that are supercharging it. Up to that point, Clinton’s campaign had received large sums of money from employees and registered lobbyists of fossil fuel companies—about $1.7 million, according to Greenpeace’s research. Clinton looked disgusted and snapped at the young woman, saying she was “so sick” of this issue coming up.

Eva Resnick-Day,

As the American historian and writer Rebecca Solnit has so eloquently described, disasters have a way of bringing out the best in us. It is in such moments that we often see some of the most moving displays of mutual aid and solidarity.

be: if you wouldn’t want it in your backyard, then it doesn’t belong in anyone’s backyard.

in the face of the rocky future we have already locked in.

public scarcity in times of unprecedented private wealth is a manufactured crisis,