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For a letter written on September 12, 2013 click here.. For a followup letter written on September 19, 2013 click here..
Read MoreDear Richard, Notwithstanding the efforts of non-profit groups, including ours, reporters in the mainstream press have indicated they do not think this is a serious beat without you, Obama, Pelosi and Reid exerting serious efforts. Such is their top down mentality – instead of reporting and giving voice to the 30 million workers in the…
Read MoreRemarks by Ralph Nader on the Passing of Helen Thomas July 20, 2013 There will never be another Helen Thomas. She shattered forever one anti-woman journalistic barrier after another in the Washington press corps and rose to the top of her profession’s organizations. Helen Thomas asked the toughest questions of Presidents and White House press…
Read MoreJuly 17, 2013 Mayor Vincent Gray 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Suite 316 Washington, D.C. 20004 Dear Mayor Gray: As you gather the relevant information for your decision on the Large Retailer Accountability Act (passed by the D.C. Council which would require big box stores pay a $12.50 (minus benefits) minimum wage) please consider one reply…
Read MoreDear Mr. and Mrs. Clinton: Think back to 1968. Did you expect that there would be thirty million American workers making less in 2013, inflation adjusted, then workers made in 1968? Would you have thought that this decline in real income would occur when in the intervening years, you, William Jefferson Clinton, were a two-term…
Read MoreRemarks by Ralph Nader on the occasion of receiving the Connecticut Bar Association Distinguished Public Service Award Hartford, Connecticut, June 17, 2013 Today, we gather as both attorneys and lawyers to contemplate our privileged profession. The many specialized workshops today are largely designed to better our role as “attorneys” – as attorning for our clients.…
Read MoreNader “Told Us So” about the Problems with the San Onofre Nuke Plant Friday, June 7, 2013 Southern California Edison announced today that it will be permanently shutting down its troubled San Onofre nuclear plant. Ralph Nader’s response was “It’s about time.” Nader has been pushing to close this and other risky and costly nuclear…
Read MoreDUBAI, UAE – As we walked through the historical collections of books, manuscripts, periodicals, and rare reference materials at the Juma Al-Majid Center for Culture and Heritage in the growing Arab metropolis of Dubai (with the world’s second busiest airport), I kept thinking of a recent book written by my sister, Laura Nader, who teaches…
Read MoreRalph Nader will be appearing on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal this Monday morning (3/25/2013) from 8:30 to 9:15 AM to discuss wage inequality in America. Please tune in to hear more about the fight to raise the minimum wage to $10.50 per hour (what it was in 1968, adjusted for inflation.) There will be a segment…
Read MoreBy Ralph Nader Hillary Clinton has completed her four-year tenure as Secretary of State to the accolades of both Democratic and Republican Congressional champions of the budget-busting “military-industrial complex,” that President Eisenhower warned about in his farewell address. Behind the public relations sheen, the photo-opportunities with groups of poor people in the developing world, an…
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