The Ralph Nader Reader

This landmark collection brings the writings of consumer and workers's rights advocate Ralph Nader together for the first time, creating a remarkable portrait of the activist.

Ralph Nader is a citizen advocate, a lawyer, and an author. Nader has co-founded numerous public interest groups, including Public Citizen, Essential Information, Commercial Alert, the Center for Auto Safety, and the Center for Women's Policy Studies. Green Party Presidential candidate for the year 2000, Ralph Nader continues to be a relentless force for grassroots activism and democratic change in the United States

foreword

ix

Barbara Ehrenreich

on the presidency and democracy

Statement of Ralph Nader Announcing His Candidacy for the Green Party's Nomination for President (2000)

3

(10)

Perspective on the Presidential Race: A Way Out of the Corporatist Grip (1996)

13

(3)

The Greens & The Presidency: A Voice, Not an Echo (1996)

16

(5)

Democratic Revolution in an Age of Autocracy (1993)

21

(13)

Citizen-Side Politics: Breaking Out of the Two-Party Rut (1992)

34

(6)

The Concord Principles: An Agenda for a New Initiatory Democracy (1992)

40

(7)

Knowledge Helps Citizens, Secrecy Helps Bureaucrats (1986)

47

(8)

on the corporate state and the corporatizing of america

Why Microsoft Must Be Stopped, co-authored by James Love (1998)

55

(2)

U.S. Companies Should Pledge Allegiance (1996)

57

(3)

Bank Mergers Skip Along Right Past the Customers (1995)

60

(3)

Taming Corporations: How Clinton Can Build Democracy (1992)

63

(4)

Run the Government Like the Best American Corporations (1988)

67

(10)

Corporations Are Not Persons, co-authored by Carl J. Mayer (1988)

77

(3)

The Megacorporate World of Ronald Reagan (1984)

80

(12)

Reforming Corporate Governance (1984)

92

(8)

Corporate Power in America (1980)

100

(4)

Is Bigness Bad for Business? co-authored by Mark Green (1979)

104

(7)

How To Recognize Capitalists and Corporatists (1978)

111

(3)

Who Rules the Giant Corporation, co-authored by Mark Green and Joel Seligman (1976)

114

(14)

Introduction to The Company State: Ralph Nader's Study Group Report on DuPont in Delaware (1971)

128

(5)

Taming the Corporate Tiger (1966)

133

(14)

on corporate welfare

Cutting Corporate Welfare: Testimony Before the Committee on the Budget, U.S. House of Representatives (1999)

147

(7)

It's Time to End Corporate Welfare As We Know It (1996)

154

(5)

Looting the Medicine Chest: How Bristol-Myers Squibb Made OffWith the Public's Cancer Research, co-authored by James Love (1993)

159

(6)

Rip-Off, Inc. (1991)

165

(4)

How to Put the Punch Back in Politics (1990)

169

(9)

Corporate Welfare State is On a Roll (1990)

178

(4)

No More Bailouts! (1990)

182

(4)

Remarks Before the Conference on Property Tax Reform (1970)

186

(11)

on opposing the world trade organization (wto)

Reject This Flawed Treaty (1994)

197

(2)

Trade in Secrets (1994)

199

(3)

WTO Means Rule By Unaccountable Tribunals (1994)

202

(3)

A Pull-Down Trade Agreement: Global Corporations Push WTO Declaration of Dependence (1994)

205

(4)

on consumer rights

Unsafe at Any Altitude (1999)

209

(6)

The Consumer Movement Looks Ahead (1984)

215

(14)

The Burned Children: 4000 Fatal Fabric Fires (1971)

229

(6)

The Great American Gyp (1968)

235

(16)

Keynote Address Presented to the Consumer Assembly (1967)

251

(10)

We're Still in the Jungle (1967)

261

(5)

The Safe Car You Can't Buy (1959)

266

(9)

on tort reform

Ralph Nader on Tort Reform (1995)

275

(5)

Tort `Reform' Would Aid Wrongdoers (1995)

280

(3)

The Assault on Injured Victims' Rights (1988)

283

(18)

`Brown Lung': The Cotton-Mill Killer (1971)

301

(6)

They're Still Breathing (1968)

307

(6)

on citizen action and social change

Making a Difference (1995)

313

(3)

Princeton's Class of `55's Gift Is for the Students and the World (1994)

316

(3)

Children: Toward Their Civic Skills and Civic Involvement (1992)

319

(6)

Introduction to More Action For A Change (1987)

325

(11)

Introduction to A Public Citizen's Action Manual (1973)

336

(6)

Toward an Initiatory Democracy (1972)

342

(9)

We Need a New Kind of Patriotism (1971)

351

(6)

on practicing law

Opinion (1997)

357

(4)

Leadership and the Law (1991)

361

(18)

Ralph Nader Asks Law Students to Change (1972)

379

(9)

Crumbling of the Old Order: Law Schools and Law Firms (1969)

388

(11)

on the information age

Supersonic Brain Shredder (1998)

399

(4)

Digital Democracy in Action (1996)

403

(3)

The Dossier Invades the Home (1971)

406

(13)

Remarks Before the Public Affairs Symposium on ``The Invasion of Privacy in Our Computerized Society'' (1971)

419

(8)

on the media

A Response to Robert W. McChesney's Proposal for Media Reform (1998)

427

(3)

Microradio: Opening the Airwaves for More Democracy (1999)

430

(3)

Public is Not Served by Media's Refusal to Ask Specific Questions (2000)

433

(2)

TV News Failing in Its Mission (1996)

435

(2)

Let's Put the Audience on the Air (1987)

437

(3)

Must Candidates Avoid Free TV? (1984)

440

(3)

About the Authors

443

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The Ralph Nader Reader

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