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As Government Information Moves Online, Millions of Americans Disconnected and Left Behind Report Calls for the Government Printing Office to Receive Adequate Funding to Perform Its Duties Ralph Nader’s Center for Study of Responsive Law today released a new report, The Peoples’ Printer: Time for a Reawakening, by Tom W. Ryan with Jeff Musto. In…
August 29, 2012 Honorable Andrew M. Cuomo State Capital Albany, NY 12224 Dear Governor Cuomo: I am writing today to urge you to reject the industry-led push to allow “Fracking” in New York State. The rush to drill is frought with known and expected problems. Fracking poses threats to: drinking water sources, air quality, worker…
Dear Sen. Reid, Rep. Boehner, Sen. McConnell, and Rep. Pelosi: We are reaching out to you today to ask you to support raising the federal minimum wage to $10 per hour. Ten dollars per hour would be slightly less than the minimum wage of 1968, adjusted for inflation. Hard-working Americans across the country cannot afford…
Dear President Obama: Labor Day 2012 is approaching. Besides your usual Labor Day message, you should consider making this a major event dedicated to America’s workers. The meaning of Labor Day has been overtaken by the commercialists who see it as a day for shopping and sales. With your bully pulpit there are strong leadership…
By Ralph Nader The media coverage of the Presidential campaigns is a dreary repetition of past coverage. Stuck in a rut and garnished by press cynicism and boredom, media groupthink becomes more ossified every four years. This massive mental motion-sickness confines reporters, editors and producers to the following all too predictable patterns: 1. They follow…
By Ralph Nader The cruel impoverishment of the debate among the presidential and congressional candidates took a gigantic leap into the pits with Mitt Romney’s selection of 42-year-old Rep. Paul Ryan from the deindustrialized town of Janesville, Wisconsin. Ryan is invariably described by reporters as “an intellectual leader of the conservative movement” and by fellow…
Dear Plaintiff Trial Lawyers of America: The common law of torts, which came from England to the Thirteen Colonies, has been elaborated in tens of thousands of judicial decisions with one basic message – if a person suffers a wrongful injury or harm, he or she can seek redress in court with a trial by…
By Ralph Nader Calling Obama, Pelosi, Reid and the rest of the Democratic Party, elected officials, political operatives and labor’s leader Richard Trumka. Thirty million American workers want and need a federal minimum wage of $10 per hour which is slightly less than their predecessors got in 1968 – yes 1968 – adjusted for inflation.…
Chairman Reince Priebus Republican National Committee Phone number:202-863-8500 Fax number: 202-863-8773 Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz Democratic National Committee: Phone number: 202-479-5100 Fax number: 202-226-2052 Dear Chairpersons: The tough times in America continue. Tens of millions of Americans are feeling the squeeze and are suffering diminished livelihoods. More than 15 million children go to bed…
By Ralph Nader Ever visit a major prison? The vast majority of Americans have not, despite our country having by far a higher incarceration rate per capita than China or Iran. Out of sight is out of mind. Imagine the benefits of the average taxpayer touring a prison. The lucrative prison-industrial complex would definitely not…