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THE SHAFEEK NADER TRUST FOR THE COMMUNITY INTEREST PRESENTS THE ANNUAL JOE A. CALLAWAY AWARD FOR CIVIC COURAGE ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2011 at 6 p.m.The awardees are:Harry Kelber Grassroots labor organizer and reformer, pamphleteer and authorIn recognition of his 75 years of union participation and criticism of trade unions to fight harder for workers,…
Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader Encourages #OccupyWallStreet Protesters to Challenge Wall Street Abuses Statement by consumer advocate, Ralph Nader October 8, 2011 The frustration seen in the protests on Wall Street over the past few weeks demonstrates a widespread and growing citizen discontent with the two political parties in Washington, D.C. and with a political system…
Masters of the repeated lying sound byte, the craven Congressional Republicans are feasting on the health and safety of the American people with gleeful greed while making the corporate and trade association media swoon. “Job-killing regulations,” exudes daily from the mouths of Speak John Boehner, his Wall Street-licking side-kick Eric Cantor and Senate minority leader,…
The fast developing predator drone technology, officially called unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs, is becoming so dominant and so beyond any restraining framework of law or ethics, that its use by the U.S. government around the world may invite a horrific blowback. First some background. The Pentagon has about 7,000 aerial drones. Ten years ago…
Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader Calls the U.S. Postal Service’s Financial Problems a Manufactured Crisis Calls on Congress to Take Quick, Easy Action to Prevent Further Service Cuts, Post Office Closings, and Job Cuts In a letter to Senator Joseph Lieberman and Congressman Darrell Issa, Mr. Nader proposed simple solutions to fix the U.S. Postal Service’s…
Imagine a private meeting between President Barack Obama and 25 mega barons of U.S. business at the White House Indian Treaty Room. President Obama: “Gentlemen and Lady, I’ve invited you here today to give you a preview of an address I will deliver in a month before the national convention of the National Association for…
How easy it is to miscommunicate. I did not ask to speak at the rally opposing the Keystone XL devastator. On Friday, I went to the area in front of the White House to express my support for this extraordinary demonstration. Assistants to Bill McKibben asked me to return on Saturday and address the rally.…
Bill McKibben, well-known environmental activist, wrote a response to Nader’s article earlier this week: “Obama’s Pipeline Quagmire.” (You can read that column here) McKibben: Mr. Nader didn’t get to talk at the rally because everyone else there had gotten arrested; they’d put their bodies on the line. As for not criticizing the president, we just…
It was the most extraordinary citizen organizing feat in recent White House history. Over 1200 Americans from 50 states came to Washington and were arrested in front of the White House to demonstrate their opposition to a forthcoming Obama approval of the Keystone XL dirty oil pipeline from Alberta, Canada down to the Gulf Coast.…
Nader’s Update #2 to Upset Cisco Shareholders September 9, 2011 Dear Cisco Shareholder: On Tuesday, September 13, 2011 you can register for a live webcast on Cisco’s upcoming Financial Analyst Conference led by CEO John Chambers. Since my last letter to you on June 30, 2011, we have all read the second quarter earnings report…