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The Man Who Planted Trees

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Debate for ALL Candidates rescheduled to Thursday, Oct 23

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McKinney and Nader answer debate questions on Democracy Now!

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Campaign Update 10/17/08

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Nader Displays New Fervor on the Bailout Issue

Published on Friday, October 17, 2008 by The New York Times
Nader Displays New Fervor on the Bailout Issue
by Julie Bosman
"NEW YORK - Standing on the steps of Federal Hall just after noon on Thursday, Ralph Nader was the same familiar tall, rumpled, graying figure, fervently railing against corporate power and greed.
"There are no bailouts for the working people of this country!" said Mr. Nader, 74, addressing a crowd of several hundred people on Wall Street, a mix of cheering fans toting "Jail Time for Corporate Crime" signs, curious workers on their lunch breaks and bewildered tourists snapping pictures. "Just bailouts for the speculative corporations of this country."

Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader speaks at a rally on Wall Street across from the New York Stock Exchange, October 16, 2008. Nader and running mate Matt Gonzalez are on the ballot in 45 states, including California and New York. (REUTERS/Brendan McDermid)In the $700 billion bailout plan for the financial system, Mr. Nader, now on his fourth presidential run, has finally found a real-life event to illustrate what he has made a cause of his career.

"Oh yeah, it's got everything," Mr. Nader said in an interview after the rally. "Taxation without representation, no public hearings. This is the worst yet, procedurally and substantively."

Mr. Nader continues to draw scorn for his role in the 2000 election, when many Democrats felt his long-shot candidacy destroyed Al Gore's chances of becoming president. But this time, some polls in critical swing states like Florida suggest he is drawing votes from Senator John McCain, the Republican nominee.

Mr. Nader has made his opposition to the bailout the cornerstone of his campaign, making appearances in nearly every state, largely under the radar of the national news media. His aides say he has sometimes attracted crowds in the thousands, especially in liberal enclaves like Madison, Wis., and in frontier states, like Colorado and Nevada.

The rally on Thursday was staged across the street from the New York Stock Exchange, where his campaign had set up a 31-piece band to play before his arrival, a large banner reading "Socialism Saves Capitalism" and a 25-foot-tall inflatable pink pig to drive home the message about corporate greed.

According to an article in The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in 2000, Mr. Nader sounded an early warning about the government-sponsored lending institutions known as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

The latest New York Times/CBS News poll showed Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee, with a 14-percentage-point lead among likely voters in a head-to-head matchup with Mr. McCain, but when Mr. Nader was included in the question, the race narrowed, with 51 percent of those surveyed saying they were supporting Mr. Obama, 39 percent supporting Mr. McCain, and 3 percent for Mr. Nader.

In 2000, Mr. Nader received 2.7 percent of the nationwide vote, and in 2004, on far fewer states' ballots, only 0.38 percent.

This year, his campaign said he would be on the ballot in 45 states, everywhere but Georgia, Indiana, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Texas."Published on Friday, October 17, 2008 by The New York Times Nader Displays New Fervor... more

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Ralph Nader: Closing the Courthouse Door

Published on Friday, October 17, 2008 by CommonDreams.org
Closing the Courthouse Door
by Ralph Nader
"Real change comes from the bottom up, not the top down. The genius of the American system has been to let that change flow upward, from neighborhoods to cities to states and then to the federal government." George W. Bush February 26, 2001.

"Unfortunately, the difference between words and deeds in Washington is often shocking even to those who think they have seen it all. Alicia Mundy in the October 15, 2008 edition of the Wall Street Journal reports: "Bush administration officials, in their last weeks in office, are pushing to rewrite a wide array of federal rules with changes or additions that could block product-safety lawsuits by consumers and states."

What President George W. Bush should have said is that he believes in states' rights when they are in the interest of Big Business and their lobbyists in Washington. Mr. Bush and his cronies would like to forget about those harmed by dangerous products or reckless conduct. Indeed, Bush & Company seem to regard the civil justice system as a nuisance that threatens to destroy our economy and way of life. In reality, America's civil justice system plays an indispensable role in our democracy. When the rights of injured consumers are vindicated in court, our society benefits in countless ways: compensating victims and their families for shattering losses (with the cost borne by the wrongdoers rather than taxpayers); preventing future injuries by deterring dangerous products and practices and spurring safety innovation; stimulating enforceable safety standards; educating the public to risks associated with certain products and services; and providing society with its moral and ethical fiber by defining appropriate norms of conduct.

The Center for Progressive Reform has in painstaking detail chronicled the attack on the civil Justice system by the Bush Administration. In "The Truth about Torts: Using Agency Preemption to Undercut Consumer Health and Safety" legal scholars William Funk, Sidney Shapiro, David Vladeck and Karen Sokol write: "In recent years, the Bush administration has launched an unprecedented aggressive campaign to persuade the courts to preempt state tort actions.... Widespread preemption of state tort law would significantly undermine, if not eliminate, the rights of individuals to seek redress for injuries caused by irresponsible and dangerous business practices and to hold manufacturers and others accountable for such socially unreasonable conduct." (See: http://www.progressiveregulation.org).

And, Les Weisbrod, the President of the American Association for Justice (formerly known as the Association of Trial Lawyers of America) hit the nail on the head when he said: "In effect the Bush administration made the safety of Americans secondary to corporate profits." Mr. Weisbrod added: "Big business lobbyists have been on a crusade to destroy state consumer protection laws, and further stack the deck against American consumers." The American Association for Justice has just published a report titled: "Get Out of Jail Free: A Historical Perspective of How the Bush Administration Helps Corporations Escape Accountability" - this report is available at: www.justice.org/getoutofjailfree.
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Texas woman visited by the “Thought Police”

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END WAR, VOTE PEACE! votenader.org

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Ron Paul as the Ralph Nader Factor in 2008 Election

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Overcome Your Apathy, Appease Your Guilt - Nader on Becoming Civically Active

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U.S. Army Prepares to invade U.S. --a history

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Army combat unit to deploy on US soil

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Nader attacks Democrats on bailout bill

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No Debate: How Republicans and Democrats control the election process

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Dennis Kucinich: Someone Sticks Up A Bank They Get A Jail Sentence!

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Nader Blasts Corporate Bailout, Warns of Taxpayer Revolt

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Behind The Deregulatory Curtain by Ralph Nader

by Ralph Nader
Oct 1, 2008
http://www.nader.org/index.php?/archives/2063-Behind-The-Deregulatory-Curtain.html

The current finger pointing by the deregulation crowd in Congress and their ideological soul mates in the media reminds me of the 1939 film classic The Wizard of Oz. It is as though these spin masters want us to pay no attention to the government officials behind the deregulation curtain.

Indeed, the right-wing pundits and the revisionists in Congress are spending an inordinate amount of time falsely claiming that our nation’s current financial disaster stems from the Community Reinvestment Act, a law passed by Congress and signed into law by President Jimmy Carter in 1977. The primary purpose of this modest law is to require banks to report on where and to whom they are making loans. Community organizations have used the data produced as a result of this law to determine if banks were meeting their lending obligations in the minority and lower-income communities in which they do business. Congress passed this law because too many lenders were discriminating against minority borrowers. “Redlining” was the name given to the practice by banks of literally drawing a red line around minority areas and then proceeding to deny people within the red border home loans – even if they were otherwise qualified. The law has been in place for 30 years, but the right-wing fringe claims it somehow is responsible for predatory lending practices that date back just to the beginning of this decade.

Notice what these revisionists are not mentioning.

No “thank you” to former Senator Phil Gramm for pushing the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act.. This law was passed in the wake of the stock market crash of 1929 - and designed to separate banking from securities activities. In 1999, when Congress passed the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and in so doing repealed Glass-Steagall the banks strayed into rough waters by looking for fast money from risky investments in securities and derivatives.

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RALPH NADER AT THE COMMONWEALTH CLUB

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Nancy Pelosi declared Martial Law last night?!?!?!

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Obama Girl endorses Nader?

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