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By Ralph Nader Ask yourself when was the last time you saw any of those tiny ads on Google and Facebook and rushed to buy the products or services. For that matter, ask yourself whether any radio or television advertisements prompted you to go out and buy the product. Sure the newspaper ads announcing short-term…
These are suggested summer readings from Ralph Nader to activate the citizen’s mind: Corporations Are Not People by Jeffrey D. Clements, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, San Francisco, 2012. This book is for corporate accountability and the grossly uneven relationships between corporate personhood and real people. Clear, historically founded, compellingly invigorating and connected to a growing movement (see…
W. Craig Jelinek July 9, 2012 President and CEO, Costco Wholesale Corporate Office 999 Lake Drive Issaquah, WA 98027 Dear Mr. Jelinek, We are writing you today to urge Costco to publicly support raising the minimum wage. In early June, Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. proposed legislation, the “Catching Up to 1968 Act of 2012” (H.R.…
By Ralph Nader If the Democrats in Congress were all drinking water from the same faucet, there might be a clue to their chronic fear of the craven and cruel corporatist Republicans who dominate them. But they don’t, so we have to ask why their fear, defeatism, and cowering behavior continues in the face of…
Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader Calls on Walmart to Support Raising the Minimum Wage, Help Jumpstart Economy and Increase Consumer Spending In 2005, Walmart first expressed its support of increasing the minimum wage. Consumer advocate Ralph Nader sent a letter to Walmart CEO, Mike Duke today calling on the corporation to again support raising the minimum wage…
News Advisory: What: Consumer advocate Ralph Nader and citizen leaders hold news conference to announce a limited general strike to support D.C. Statehood When: Monday, July 2, 2012, 10:30 a.m. Where: Public Citizen headquarters –1600 20th St. N.W., Washington DC Contact: Ralph Nader 202-387-8030 (Washington, D.C.) – Ralph Nader and nine D.C. area-based national and…
By Ralph Nader I’ve been getting a variety of letters from President Barack Obama. The salutation is often: “Dear Ralph.” One of them asks me for $25, adding “Ralph, this is that moment. This is the time to be in with me.” He writes that “I need your voice,” that America needs the “dreams and…
Ralph Nader June 25, 2012 In reversing the judgment of the Supreme Court of Montana [1] that found corporate independent expenditures in elections to be corrupting, the usual “gang of five” majority on the Supreme Court continued its judicial drive to change the meaning of the preamble to our Constitution from “we the people” to “we…
Letter on Corporate Pledge of Allegiance Please click the link above to view the letter written by Ralph Nader to the CEOs of the 20 largest U.S. corporations. ExxonMobil Wal-Mart Stores Chevron Conoco Phillips General Motors General Electric Cardinal Health Fannie Mae Ford Motor Hewlett-Packard AT&T Valero Energy Bank of America Corp. McKesson Verizon Communications…
By Ralph Nader What would happen if we asked the executives of the giant U.S. corporations, whose products constantly surround us, to show some corporate patriotism? After all, General Electric, DuPont, Citigroup, Pfizer and others demand that they be treated as “persons” under our Constitution and our laws. And, they expect unfiltered loyalty from American…