Consumer rights activists

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Chapters: Ralph Nader, Harvey Washington Wiley, Mark J. Green, Medea Benjamin, Harvey Rosenfield, Nelson A. Miles, David Cobb, Florence Kelley, Michael Young, Baron Young of Dartington, Pat LaMarche, Les Henderson, Betty Furness, Meglena Kuneva, Stanley Aronowitz, Michael Pertschuk, Phil Edmonston, Robert B. Choate, Jr., Katherine Albrecht, Ruth Y. Goldway, Michael Vernon, Alan Morrison, Jonathan Greatorex, David Horowitz, Sybil Niden Goldrich, Joan Claybrook, Marc Kasky, Esther Peterson, Sheila McKechnie, Dale Goldhawk, Herb Denenberg, Arnold Díaz, H. D. Shourie, Joe Carcione, Frederick J. Schlink, Tappy Phillips, Kenneth Hecht, David Lazarus, Colston Warne, Arthur Kallet. Excerpt: Ralph Nader ( ; born February 27, 1934) is a Lebanese American progressive political activist. Nader is a five-time candidate for President of the United States, having run as a write-in candidate in the 1992 New Hampshire Democratic primary, as the Green Party nominee in 1996 and 2000, and as an independent candidate in 2004 and 2008. He is also an author, lecturer, and attorney. Areas of particular concern to Nader include consumer protection, humanitarianism, environmentalism, and democratic government. Nader came to prominence after publishing his book Unsafe at Any Speed, a critique of the safety record of American automobile manufacturers in general, and most famously the Chevrolet Corvair. In 1999, an NYU panel of journalists ranked Unsafe at Any Speed 38th among the top 100 pieces of journalism of the 20th century. Some people claim that Nader acted as a third-party spoiler in the 2000 U.S. presidential election, while others, including Nader, dispute this claim. Nader in 1975Nader was born in Winsted, Connecticut. His parents, Nathra and Rose Nader, were immigrants from Lebanon. His family's native language is Arabic, and he has spoken it along with English since childhood. His sister, Laura Nader, is an anthropologist. His father worked in a textile mill and later owned a bakery and restaurant where he talked politics with his customers. Nader graduated from The Gilbert School in 1951, followed by Princeton University four years later and then Harvard Law School. He served six months on active duty in the United States Army in 1959, then became a lawyer in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a professor of history and government at the University of Hartford from 1961 to 1963. In 1964, Nader moved to Washington, D.C., where he worked for Assistant Secretary of Labor Daniel Patrick Moynihan and also advised a United States Senate subcommittee on car safety. Nader has served on the faculty at the American University Washington College of Law. Nader's first consume