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Ralph Nader: Al Gore
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Ralph Nader received no air time because the corporations he threatened control all the air time in a very literal sense. He was shown more on television before he announced he was running than after. Something to think about if Hilary Clinton, Barack Obama, Republican A, and Republican B are all being shown on the news.
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CONSUMER crusader Ralph Nader recently visited Moscow, along with the cameras of CBS' 60 Minutes, for a show to be aired this fall. According to an account in New York's Village Voice, Nader was "shocked" when a Soviet official praised free-market economist Milton Friedman. He "protested" that plans to privatize Soviet television might give opportunities to Western corporations. And, taken aback by the complaints of Russian consumers standing in line for hours, he suggested:
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Consumer activist Ralph Nader has been honored by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential Americans of the 20th Century. His ground breaking work on auto safety is well known . If anyone you know has been in a car accident and survived, Nader may well have helped save that person’s life. Nader went on to work on a breadth of issues affecting almost every area of modern life, and was instrumental is creating OSHA, the EPA, and the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
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Nader graduated from Princeton University in 1955 and Harvard Law School in 1958.[11] He served in the United States Army for six months in 1959, then began work as a lawyer in Hartford, Connecticut. Between 1961 and 1963, he was a Professor of History and Government at the University of Hartford. In 1964, Nader moved to Washington, D.C., where he worked for Assistant Secretary of Labor Daniel Patrick Moynihan. He ... advised a United States Senate subcommittee on car safety. In the early 1980s, Nader spearheaded a powerful lobby against FDA approval of mass-scale experimentation of artificial lens implants. Nader also served as a faculty member at The American University Washington College of Law.
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Ralph Nader, who’s promoting his book, The Seventeen Traditions, appeared on NBC’s Today Show this morning. Of note, he refused to rule out a run for president in 2008. When questioned by Meredith Vieira, Nader replied that it was “too early to say.” After being pressed, he said, “Well there’s always a […]
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Nader explained that his campaign is important “pictorially” because the two major parties, left to themselves, will merely consolidate the status quo: there will be no one to pull the political dialogue in a new direction. He spoke of “the domination of multi-national corporations” intent on “erecting a corporate globalization scheme of international autocratic government called WTO and NAFTA.” The avarice and cowardice of the two parties allows this to happen. Invoking the legacy of the populist and progressive movements of the last century, Nader urged the crowd to remember the fighting tradition of ordinary people who stood up to the railroad monopolies and bankers. They didn’t “settle for less,” he declared, and neither should you.
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