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February 7, 2003 The Honorable George W. Bush President of the United States The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20500 Dear President Bush: On behalf of the Chicago City Council and the 75 other local elected bodies that have adopted resolutions urging an alternative to preemptive war against Iraq, I am writing…
Read MoreDespite well-known ties to Big Oil, Bush Administration officials have managed to keep a straight face as they insist that the drive to war against Iraq is motivated only by an effort to eliminate weapons of mass destruction and establish democracy. Tomorrow we’ll see what evidence Secretary of State Powell presents to the United Nations.…
Read MoreJanuary 30, 2003 President George W. Bush The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear Mr. President: We greet you—our President, our nation’s highest military leader, and a member of the community of faith—in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. At a time when our nation, and you as its…
Read MoreToday, President George W. Bush showed the nation a cruel ignorance. 80,000 people will die and hundreds of thousands will be seriously injured this year at the hands of negligent or incompetent physicians and hospitals. President Bush ignored their suffering, and the evidence showing how vital are medical malpractice lawsuits in preventing a worsening of…
Read More“Big Brother isn’t coming. He’s already here.” That is the warning issued in an advertisement in today’s New York Times. The advertisement was taken out by a broad coalition of individuals, including consumer advocate Ralph Nader, Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, Ralph Neas of People for the American Way, Joan Claybrook of…
Read MoreRalph Nader today commended Senator Paul Wellstone for his introduction of legislation designed to directly empower citizens in the fight against corporate crime. Nader predicted that the bill – the Consumer and Shareholder Protection Association Act (S. 3143) – if enacted, will “usher in a new era of governmental and corporate accountability which will provide…
Read MoreControl of our social institutions, our government, and our political system is presently in the hands of a self-serving, powerful few, known as an oligarchy, which too often has excluded citizens from the process. Our political system has degenerated into a government of the power brokers, by the power brokers, and for the power brokers, and is…
Read MoreFrom The American Prospect Publication Date: 25-MAR-02 THE ENRON SUPERMARKET OF CORPORATE crime, fraud, and abuse has engendered its own media frenzy and congressional investigative momentum to document the wrongdoing and the harm to innocents; it will likely also stimulate civil lawsuits and criminal prosecutions. The question that remains is whether federal and state governments…
Read MoreJudge Colleen Kollar-KotellyUnited States District Court for the District of Columbia333 Constitution Avenue, NWWashington, DC 20001 RE: US v. Microsoft proposed final order Dear Judge Kollar-Kotelly, Introduction Having examined the proposed consent final judgment for USA versus Microsoft, we offer the following initial comments. We note at the outset that the decision to push for…
Read MoreThis year marks the 55th anniversary of the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act, one of the great blows to American democracy. The Act, which was drafted by employers, fundamentally infringed on workers’ human rights. Legally, it impeded employees’ right to join together in labor unions, it undermined the power of unions to represent workers’ interests…
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