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Ruth Conniff reports on Ralph Nader’s “Breaking Through Power” conference, which begins this Monday, May 23rd, in Washington D.C. The conference will address breaking through the media, war, and Congress. Nader says it only takes a small percent of citizens, “the other one percent,” to break through…
SOURCE: Common Dreams…
“Fifty years ago, Ralph Nader published Unsafe at Any Speed, the book that exposed General Motors, changed the government’s approach to auto safety, and launched a thousand public-interest crusades. […] Persuading people that they can face down power, grab the levers of democracy, and make change is still Nader’s cause. To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of his groundbreaking book, Nader has organized a four-day Breaking Through Power conference of public interest advocates, experts, and citizens at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., in the hopes of kick-starting a movement to revitalize civic life. The event runs May 23 through 26, and…
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I’ve always had a lot of respect for Nader. He’s done a lot of work behind the scenes that few people are aware. He’s the one that got all of Microsoft’s competitors together and supported them in approaching the Dept of Justice about Bill Gates’ systematic violation of anti-trust laws. It was also his group Public Citizen that spearheaded the organizing (in early 1998) for the massive anti-WTO protests in Seattle in Nov 1999.
Thanks for sharing that bit of back history, Dr. Bramhall. I didn’t know that he’s the founder of Public Citizen. It’s one of the few organizations that I subscribe to.
“If you don’t turn on to politics, politics will turn on you”, said Nader in the late 90s. Interesting man indeed.
Nader was so right. In ways we may not be aware of, politics affects our day-to-day lives.
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