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Author Event, Author Signing Ralph Nader will be returning to our store to talk about his new book Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State. He will be available to sign copies of his new book, as well as his past books. Saturday June 07, 2014 1:00 PM Canton The Shoppes at…

Join us Tuesday (May 27, 2014) for an unprecedented one day gathering that will convene leading experts from the Left and Right (such as Jim Hightower, Judson Phillips, Medea Benjamin, Bruce Fein, Ron Unz and more) to find common ground on many of the key issues of our time. Admission is free and a complimentary…

by Harold Evans May 14, 2014 5:45 AM EDT National party politics are dead, but Ralph Nader argues in Unstoppable that there’s life after death in new political alliances that actually get things done. Is Ralph Nader dreaming? When you hear what he has to say in Unstoppable about the emergence of a new bipartisan…

UNSTOPPABLE: THE EMERGING LEFT-RIGHT ALLIANCE TO DISMANTLE THE CORPORATE STATE We are at one of the most pivotal moments in our country’s political history: Americans are more disillusioned with their political leaders than ever before and large majorities of citizens tell pollsters that big corporations have too much political power. The ever-tightening influence of big…

On January 14, 2014, Ralph Nader sent letters to the CEOs of the top 10 institutional shareholders of Sirius XM Radio regarding the recent purchase of a majority of shares by John Malone’s Liberty Media Corporation. In this letter, Mr. Nader notes that as a growing company, Sirius has a 4 star rating by S&P…

  1. Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons by David Bollier (New Society Publishers) David Bollier is a leading writer and advocate for all those real-life commons – what we own, from the public lands, public airwaves, online information and local civic assets. He calls the commons a…

Shareholders are the majority owners of many of the world’s largest, most powerful corporations. Despite this fact, the muscle of shareholder ownership is often far too soft to affect the actions of greedy corporate decision-makers. Shareholders are relatively powerless to protect their share values from decline under questionable or outright poor corporate management. This is…

“Over the generations, Peter Lewis was, is and will be – through his many enduring legacies and generosities to a wide range of human betterment from civil liberties to the arts, from responsive politics to higher education facilities. His passing is the nation’s loss, especially when it comes to the individual’s freedom from arbitrary abuses…

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SHUTDOWN – blared the Washington Post headline. None of the powers-that-be could stop a small faction of Republicans in the House of Representatives from shutting down many federal government operations starting on October 1. Suddenly the powerful Business Roundtable and U.S. Chamber of Commerce are powerless, along with two hundred corporate trade associations, who see…