Great Moments In Pie Throwing: Ralph Nader
That’s how you do it: Apologies for the low video quality, but it was the only actual footage we could find of this — when a pie-wielding troublemaker took aim at Ralph Nader in 2003, Nader knew exactly what to do. If you’re going to throw a pie, you should be able to take a pie, too. source
“The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.”
Ralph Nader, quoted in Linda Botts, ed., Loose Talk, 1980
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“Hello!”
“There are plenty of progressive champions lobbying, rallying, exposing, suing and organizing at the national, state and local level.”
In a letter To The New York Times, Ralph Nader takes issue with the paper’s editorial asserting that Tea Party victories show there is “no progressive champion” for the poor and powerless.
The problem, he says, is that the mainstream media, including The New York Times, fails to cover their efforts.
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Ralph Nader comments on whether he’ll run for president again and who he’d like to see run for president.
- CSPAN
Ralph Nader is An Unreasonable Man.
I can’t recommend this documentary highly enough.
I second that.
“Ralph Nader: “What should be the sanctions [for Bush and Cheney]?”
Fox News’ senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano: “They should have been indicted. They absolutely should have been indicted for torturing, for spying, for arresting without warrant.”
Excerpt from the Nader/Napolitano interview here
Entire interview here
“Social change does not come through voting. It is delivered through activism, organizing and mobilization that empower groups to confront the hegemony of the corporate state and the power elite. The longer socialism is identified with the corporatist policies of the Democratic Party, the longer we allow the right wing to tag Obama as a socialist, the more absurd and ineffectual we become. The right-wing mantra of “Obama the socialist,” repeated a few days ago to a room full of Georgia Republicans, by Newt Gingrich, the former U.S. speaker of the House, is discrediting socialism itself. Gingrich, who looks set to run for president, called Obama the “most radical president” the country had seen in decades. “By any standard of government control of the economy, he is a socialist,” Gingrich said. If only the critique was true.”
heh
Ralph Nader may run for US Senate in Connecticut
Many people have called on Nader to jump into the hotly contested race to challenge Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd, who has been struggling in recent polls. Nader said he’s getting increasingly more requests from Connecticut Green Party members, independents and supporters of Ned Lamont, the upstart Democrat who challenged Sen. Joe Lieberman in the 2006 election.
“I’m just absorbing a lot of the feedback before I make a decision,”
continue reading…Raw Story
