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| | Ralph Nader, born on 27th February, 1934 is an American lawyer and political activist. Nader supported the rights of consumers, feminism, humanitarianism, environmentalism and democratic government. In last decade, Nader also criticized foreign policy of the USA, which, Nader considers corporative, imperialistic and not keeping fundamental values of democracy and human rights intact. His activism played an important role in formation of series of state and nongovernmental organizations, such as EPA, OSHA, Public Citizen, PIRG groups and many more.
Thrice Nader participated in presidential elections of the USA (1996, 2000 and 2004). In 1996 and 2000, he was candidate of the Green Party; his candidate for vice-president ship was Winona LaDuke. In 2004, he was an independent candidate with green activist Peter Miguel Camejo as candidate for the post of vice-president.
Apart from English and Arabic, Nader is comfortable with Spanish, Chinese and Russian languages.
Hundreds of young activists, inspired by work of Nader, have joined his projects. They became known as “Nader's Raiders”. Lead by Nader, the activists investigated corruption cases in the government and published dozens of books with results.
In 1971, Nader formed nongovernmental organization “Public Citizen” as "Umbrella" for all these projects. As on today, “Public Citizen” has more than 140000 members and carries out set of investigations on activities of congress, public health services, use of environment, etc. Activity of organization, in particular, facilitated in signing of “Safe Drinking Water Act” and “Freedom of Information Act”, and also in formation of Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), EPA (United States Environmental Protection Agency, EPA) and Consumer Product Safety Commission, CPSC. |
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This Sunday, Arab American attorney and political activist Ralph Nader has announced that he is running for President these elections. Nader stated that many Americans are sick of corporate interests represented by Republicans and Democrats, and they need a third party candidate who is not a corporate marionette, and will represent the interests of American people.
This is Nader's fifth attempt to run for US President - he had already run in 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004. Nader is often said to have cost Al Gore the 2000 election, by siphoning the votes from Gore.
Ralph's native language is Arabic - his parents, Nathra and Rose Nader, were Lebanese immigrants.
