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Citizens’ Debate Commission

January 17, 2004
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You have heard, no doubt, about Michael Jackson’s troubles, but have you heard about a new Presidential Citizens’ Debate Commission being established that could give Americans more choices and voices when they watch these debates later this autumn?Probably not. This is the trouble with the media’s sense of what is news and what is important…

The CAFE Standards

January 11, 2004
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T.S. Elliot once wrote, “April is the cruelest month. . . .” He wasn’t referring to the unfilled promise of The New York Auto Show – which is featuring “advances” in automotive engineering this week at the Javits Convention Center in New York City. But anyone who has visited this event knows – the distance…

Deeper and Deeper in Debt

January 9, 2004
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Rising consumer debt- much of it fueled by deceptive credit card operations, predatory lending and other “easy credit” schemes-is casting a dark cloud across the national economy. The numbers paint a sad picture of low, moderate and middle income citizens caught in impossible burdens of debt plus mounting fees and late charges. In the Public…

Citizen Action and Other Big Ideas By David Bollier — Chapter One The Beginnings

January 9, 2004
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In 1963, Ralph Nader, then an unknown twenty-nine-year old attorney, abandoned a conventional law practice in Hartford, Connecticut…

Chapter 2 Nurturing the “Consumer-Side” Economy

January 7, 2004
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By the early 1970s, Nader’s many task forces had exposed dozens of outrages committed by the “supply-side” of the American economy

Chapter 3 The Office of Citizen

January 6, 2004
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For this army of Harvard graduates about to enter the moral narcosis of the Reagan years, Nader issues a provocative challenge…

Chapter 4 Let the Information Flow

January 5, 2004
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Secrecy, collusion among self-selected elites, and public relations hocus-pocus were common practices among the governing class.

Chapter 5 Corporate Abuses, Consumer Power

January 4, 2004
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Over the past twenty years, one Nader advocacy group after another has tried to help the law catch up with the march of corporate abuses.

Chapter 6 The Art of Public Interest Litigation

January 3, 2004
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Morrison first met Nader in 1971 through a law student who had worked for Nader the previous summer.

Chapter 7: The Politics of Health

January 2, 2004
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It has been said that Sidney M. Wolfe, M.D., has a waiting room packed with 240 million patients.