Ballot Access News:
The Philadelphia Inquirer of March 11 has this editorial, focusing attention on the fact that the challenge to Ralph Nader’s 2004 Pennsylvania petition was illegally carried out with state resources and state employees. Petition challenges in Pennsylvania are brought by private individuals, yet the people who challenged Nader’s petition used government assets. Nader [...]

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If you’re in California, check out ballot access reform advocate and Libertarian candidate for California Secretary of State Christina Tobin’s newly announced schedule (Tobin is also getting help from some of the more prominent and respected ballot access reform advocates in the nation, like Richard Winger and Ralph Nader):
Christina Tobin Announces Schedule of Speaking Events [...]

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On March 9, Ralph Nader appeared on Curtis Sliwa’s NYC radio talk show. Nader was asked if he would consider running for office again.

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posted at Nader.org:
Our just published In the Shadow of Power is a penetrating collection of 92 black and white photographs about life in Washington, DC, by Venezuelan photographer Kike Arnal.
After scores of books and reports by our groups over forty-five years, where the premise was that “a thousand words is worth one picture,” I [...]

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Posted at Nader.org:
The Honorable Senator Christopher Dodd
Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs
448 Russell Building
Washington, DC 20510
Dear Senator Dodd:
On January 19, 2010, I wrote to you about news reports that you were considering dropping the proposal to create an independent and free-standing Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA). In the last few days news reports indicate [...]

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By Ralph Nader
Nader.org
The twin swelling heads of Empire and Oligarchy are driving our country into an ever-deepening corporate state, wholly incompatible with democracy and the rule of law.
Once again the New York Times offers its readers the evidence. In its February 25, 2010 issue, two page-one stories confirm this relentless deterioration at the expense of [...]

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On Truthdig, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges recently wrote an opinion piece advocating that people join the Green Party.  Read the full thing here.
We owe Ralph Nader and Cynthia McKinney an apology. They were right about Barack Obama. They were right about the corporate state. They had the courage of their convictions and [...]

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Counterpunch publishes an article by Don Santina, suggesting that rank-and-file Democrats break with the Democrats-In-Charge and join the Green Party. Includes comments on the myth that Nader cost Gore the election in 2000.

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From the Poughkeepsie Journal:
MILLERTON — Ralph Nader will be in the area Feb. 27 to read from his new book, “Only the Super Rich Can Save Us!”
He will be at Oblong Books and Music on 26 Main St. in Millerton at 3 p.m. and at Oblong Rhinebeck, 6422 Montgomery St., at 7:30 p.m.
For more information, [...]

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Daily Freeman
By Mid-Hudson News Network
NEW PALTZ — Ten years to the day that he declared his candidacy for United States president as a Green Party member, Ralph Nader had some critical words for the current president on Sunday.
“I think he’s failing pretty badly,” said Nader of President Barack Obama. “It’s not that he didn’t warn [...]

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Jack Zaleski
http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/269801/group/Opinion/
I’m a Ralph Nader fan. The man who almost single-handedly changed the way Americans think about auto safety has been on the public policy scene for more than four decades, and has not lost his edge. He’s the unpleasant, uncompromising gadfly he was from the beginning. He’s as sure of his beliefs now as [...]

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posted at Nader.org:
President Obama’s support of loan guarantees for the construction of new nuclear power plants is a monumental mistake. It is a decision that is bad for consumers and taxpayers, and it is wrong-headed from an environmental and national security perspective.
Providing $8.3 billion in loan guarantees to help the Southern Company build two reactors [...]

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The Bangor Daily News is a newspaper in Bangor, Maine, which has former Green Party Vice Presidential candidate Pat Lamarche as a columnist and where the Greens have had moderate success.  In an editorial, the paper stated:
It’s a long shot, but the two-party standoff would end if another party asserted itself. The Tea Party may [...]

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By Ralph Nader
Nader.org
King Obesity sat grandly on a huge hassock atop a throne composed of solidified animal fat surveying his domain. The last thirty years have been bullish for Obesity, during which the number of seriously overweight children in America tripled. Eating fat, sugary and salty food while sitting for hours daily looking at video [...]

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In an Op-Ed piece for the Wall Street Journal, Ralph Nader writes:
The disparities between individual contributions and available corporate dollars mock any pretense of equal justice under the law. A total of $5.2 billion from all sources was spent in the 2008 federal election cycle (which includes 2007 and 2008), according to the Center for [...]

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