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NADER WEBCAST> Ralph Nader to appear -National Press Club Tues. June 5, NOON CT |
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04 Jun 2001
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Ralph Nader is to appear at the National Press Club Tuesday June 5th, 2001 at Noon Central Time. Some NPR radio stations will carry the address live and/or re-broadcast (see NPR Station Listings at the NPR website link provided below-AFAIK, not on WILL), and the address will be webcast from the websites listed here. |
The National Press Club:
http://npc.press.org/
Consumer Advocate, Ralph Nader Ralph Nader, Consumer Advocate and Green Party Presidential candidate will discuss "Conceit and Consent: The Two Party Duopoly" at an NPC Luncheon on Tuesday, June 5th. Have a question for the speaker? Email a short question. We may select it for inclusion in the program.
Video by ConnectLive:
http://www.connectlive.com/events/pressclub/npcluncheons.shtml
Live Audio from National Public Radio:
http://www.npr.org/programs/npc/
June 5, 2001 1 p.m. ET/Noon CT/10 a.m. PT Webcast With Ralph Nader, Consumer Advocate
AUDIO LINK
Conceit and Consent: The Two Party Duopoly
Ralph Nader has never hesitated when it comes to taking on entrenched interests, wherever they may be. In the last two presidential elections, he’s mounted a challenge to the U.S.’s two-party political system by running as the Green Party candidate. He is also the individual who can take much of the credit for launching the country’s consumer rights movement.
This fierce and vocal advocate of the "little guy" has spent the past four decades holding corporate and political misbehavior up to the spotlight, and turning the resulting public indignation into support for major business and government reforms.
Over the years, he; along with the "Nader’s Raiders" activists and the many organizations he has founded; have addressed consumer protection issues, congressional reform, safe and renewable energies, and food and drug safety and product liability protection, and have pushed for consumer-friendly reforms in insurance, banking and pension law.
They drummed up support for the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Freedom of Information Act, and have fought against international trade agreements they believe would allow other countries to evade environment, labor, and consumer protection laws. Most recently, Nader has turned his attention to Internet fraud and the need for competition in the airline industry.
An unknown lawyer working in Washington, D.C., in 1965, Nader rocketed onto the public’s radar screen with his best-selling book on General Motors and the U.S. auto industry, Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile. General Motors’ attempt to discredit him backfired when he sued them for invasion of privacy. The head of GM was forced to admit wrongdoing to a Senate committee, and a year later Congress passed laws forcing the auto industry to build safer vehicles.
In 1971, Nader founded Public Citizen, one of his most influential advocacy groups. He was also behind the creation of the Center for Study of Responsive Law, the Center for Auto Safety, the Clean Water Action Project, the Disability Rights Center, and the Project for Corporate Responsibility, and a number of other groups.
Born in 1934 in Winsted, Connecticut to Lebanese immigrants, Nader graduated magna cum laude from Princeton in 1955. Three years later he earned his law degree from Harvard Law School, where he first began exploring the unorthodox legal topic of dangerous automobile design. That research became a 1959 article called "The Safe Car You Can’t Buy," which was published in The Nation. He has since authored, co-authored or sponsored more than a dozen books.
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