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Think Big to Overcome Losing Big to Corporatism
By Ralph Nader January 7, 2022 The progressive citizen groups, that in the sixties and seventies, drove through Congress the key environmental, worker, and consumer legislation, since unmatched, must feel nostalgic. Those were the years when legislation throwing cruel companies on the defensive was signed by arch-corporatist, President Richard Nixon, because he read the political…
Read MoreStatement on the Passing of Karen Ferguson
December 23, 2021 Statement by Ralph Nader: For nearly 50 years Karen Ferguson was the great, tireless champion leading the fight to protect endangered worker pensions from the greed and looting of corporations. Unassuming and unsung, she was both the brains and the national networker of efforts behind pension law reform. Her quiet, authoritative influence…
Read MoreRalph Nader’s Holiday Season Top Reading Recommendations
By Ralph Nader December 22, 2021 The most important books exposing real injustices are often the least read. Nearly all of the hundreds of thousands of neighborhood book clubs insist on only reading and discussing works of fiction. They don’t want hard feelings over disagreements. Major book awards and prizes rarely select books addressing corporate…
Read MoreRare Unionizing Opportunity in Big Box and Retail Chains
By Ralph Nader December 17, 2021 This is the most opportune time for millions of workers in Big Box retail stores and fast-food outlets to form unions. McDonald’s, Walmart, Amazon, Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts, Burger King, and other giant chains are having trouble finding enough workers. Some of these companies are even paying signing bonuses and…
Read MoreFor Year End Charitable Giving—Some Worthy Organizations
There are many active, serving citizen groups that further the cause of, by and for the people. Perhaps you may be interested in the following list of groups which we have donated to recently. They are all 501(c)(3) organizations and therefore tax deductible. If you can, give them a lifting hand. Best wishes for the…
Read MoreLetter to Tim Cook 12.17.21
December 17, 2021 Tim Cook, CEO Apple, Inc. One Apple Park Way Cupertino, CA 95014 Dear Tim Cook, By now you and your colleagues may have noticed the full page ad by your competitor Samsung in the December 16, 2021 issue of the New York Times. The headline declares: “How to Keep Your Devices Out…
Read More“Trump’s Next Coup Has Already Begun: January 6 Was Practice.”
By Ralph Nader December 13, 2021 “Trump’s Next Coup Has Already Begun…” is the title of an article in the Atlantic, just out, by Barton Gellman, a Pulitzer Prize winner and author of many groundbreaking exposés. He describes the various maneuvers that Trump-driven Republican operatives and state legislators are developing to overturn elections whose voters…
Read MoreCritical Exposés Everywhere as the Corporate State Worsens
By Ralph Nader December 3, 2021 Franklin Delano Roosevelt in his 1938 message to Congress warned that when private power becomes stronger than the democratic state itself, we have Fascism. There are many ways to witness the intensifying domination toward a corporate state. One way is to compare exposé books in the 1960s and the…
Read MoreThanksgiving Thanks for The Early “Nader Raiders”
By Ralph Nader November 24, 2021 They didn’t pontificate or boast. They just improved the health, safety, and economic conditions for the American people. The Washington Post called them Nader’s Raiders – law, medical, graduate, undergraduate, and even high school students came to Washington between 1969 and 1973 to join with me in important drives…
Read MoreThe Corporate Demolition of Our Pillars of Freedom
By Ralph Nader November 19, 2021 The disposition of the Boeing maslaughtering of 346 trusting passengers and crew in the 737 MAX crashes (Indonesia – 2018 and Ethiopia – 2019) further weakens the system of tort law and individual pursuits of justice after wrongful deaths. Federal District Court Judge in Chicago, Jorge L. Alonso, couldn’t…
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