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Our lawless President and his Congressional cohorts are pushing legislation that would significantly erode Americans’ last defense against corporate crimes and frauds; the civil justice system. With a bill scheduled to reach the Senate floor next week, our freedom to redress harms in courts of law is in danger. S. 5, a proxy for last…
Washington, D.C. — Senate bill S. 5 is anything but fair to the many individuals harmed each year by corporate wrongdoers. This bill would block significant access to the civil justice system. To do so in the middle of a corporate crime wave is simply irresponsible. Those damaged by pollution and environmental harms would have…
Last year, the Super Bowl halftime “wardrobe malfunction” led to an intense level of public outrage. The performance of Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake prompted over a half-million complaints to the Federal Communications Commission, leading to increased fines against indecent broadcasters. While the nationally televised flash of a woman’s breast was shocking, the potential for…
The “Compromise” Class Action Legislation is Nothing More Than a Chamber of Commerce wish list. Senators Dodd, Schumer and Landrieu Cave to Business Interests, Ignore State Judges, and Defy Judicial Council Suggestions with Legislation That Will Wrestle Power Away From State Judiciaries. This Legislation Would Greatly Diminish the Prescribed Checks and Balances of American Government.…
The controversy over going ahead with the nine Inaugural balls’ huge fireworks and party bashes, to which mostly the rich and powerful have been invited, has not been restricted to talk radio shows. Deep in the White House deliberations last year, some of the BBBs (the brainy big backers), who are selected to give policy…
Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defines a “bigot” as “One obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his own church, party, belief or opinion.” George W. Bush has not turned, overtly at least, his war on Iraq and America’s civil justice system into his religion. But he has folded his “party, belief and opinion” into a relentless pattern of…
Some organizations Ralph Nader founded or helped start: American Antitrust Institute Appleseed Foundation Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest  Aviation Consumer Action Project Capitol Hill News Service Center for Auto Safety Center for Insurance Research Center for Justice and Democracy Center for Science in the Public Interest Center for Study of Responsive Law…
Books by Ralph Nader and his associates: Unsafe at Any Speed Action for a Change(with Donald Ross, Brett English, and Joseph Highland) Whistle-Blowing (with Peter J. Petkas and Kate Blackwell) Corporate Power in America (with Mark Green)u and Your Pension (with Kate Blackwell) The Consumer and Corporate Accountability Corporate Power in America Taming the Giant…
Ralph Nader presents a variety of books to help promote government and corporate accountability, to help consumers and to enhance democracy. Books Only The Super-Rich Can Save Us! by Ralph Nader In “ONLY THE SUPER-RICH CAN SAVE US!” (Seven Stories Press; September 22, 2009) the public advocate, presidential candidate, and bestselling author Ralph Nader…
He calls himself a “compassionate conservative”óthis commander in chief of the carnage fields in Iraq. But when one of the world’s greatest natural disastersóthe giant tsunami waves of destructionóstruck South Asia’s millions of human beings on Sunday morning, George W. Bush was AWOL for over three days. On vacation again, Bush had delegated the representation…