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Nader/Gonzalez to Protest Oil Industry Price Gouging
Fed up with paying $70 to fill up your car with gasoline?
What to do?
If you are in corporate occupied territory (read: our nation’s capital) next Tuesday, join with Ralph Nader and the Nader/Gonzalez team to protest oil industry speculation, manipulation, and conglomeration that is driving gasoline prices over $4 a gallon.
The protest will be held at noon on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 at oil industry lobby headquarters (American Petroleum Institute) at 1220 L Street, NW, Washington, D.C. (Corner of 13th and L Streets, NW)
We are also inviting the Obama, Clinton and McCain campaigns to join with us at this protest.
Continue reading ...Mr. Underwood Goes to Googleland
While most of us sit in front of screens typing and searching, Ralph Nader still types out his prose on a manual Underwood typewriter.
On Monday, Mr. Underwood traveled to Google headquarters in Mountain View, California.
Nader is not easily dazzled by technological wonders.
Throughout his career, Nader has confronted head-on the downside of nuclear, automobile, genetic engineering and other industrial advances.
And now he's questioning the enormous amount of time we spend in front of our computers.
Has Google and the information revolution that it leads made our society better?
Or is it just another mass diversion from the reality of the corporate takeover of our democracy?
At Googleland, Nader took questions for an hour.
And then sat down for an eight-minute interview with Youtube.
Continue reading ...Nader v. Obama
We were thrilled to hear that Barack Obama is open to debating Ralph Nader.
On Meet the Press on May 4, Senator Obama told Tim Russert that he was willing to debate with "any of my opponents about what this country means, what makes it great."
Senator Obama!
What a breath of fresh air!
Finally!
A Democratic presidential candidate who is willing to debate the corporate takeover of our democracy!
Can't wait.
Nader v. Obama.
Nader and Obama could barnstorm the state - can you say Lincoln-Douglas? - debating public health insurance, curbing the excesses of the oil industry, reversing U.S. policy in the Middle East, and the corporate takeover of our democracy.
What a breath of fresh air!
Did we say that already?
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