Honored by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential Americans of the 20th Century, consumer advocate Ralph Nader has devoted his life to giving ordinary people the tools they need to defend themselves against corporate negligence and government indifference.
Nader will open this year's Convocations Series at the University of Minnesota, Morris on Wednesday, Sept. 25. He will speak on " Democracy, Big Business, and the American Duopoly" at 7:30 p.m. in the Edson Auditorium of the UMM Student Center. Nader will be available to sign copies of his books at 6:30 p.m. in Oyate Hall of the Student Center (across the hall from Edson Auditorium). Nader's visit to UMM is co-sponsored by the Campus Activities Council and the Minnesota Public Interest Research Group (MPIRG), both at UMM. The public is cordially invited to attend. Parking is available in any UMM lot.
In 1956, Nader took on the Goliath of the auto industry with his book, Unsafe at Any Speed, an expose of the disregard carmakers held for the safety of their customers. The Senate hearing into Nader's accusations and the life-saving motor vehicle safety laws that resulted catapulted Nader into the public sphere.
Working with lawmakers, Nader was instrumental in creating the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Laws he helped draft and pass include the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Meat and Poultry Inspection Rules, the Air and Water Pollution Control Laws and the Freedom of Information Act. He has worked to empower the average American by forming numerous citizen groups, including the student public interest research groups, one of which MPIRG -- UMM is a part.
Nader likens himself to "a ballplayer in the major leagues. They relish the pressure. It's much more tiring not fighting the good fight."
To go through life as a non-citizen would be to feel that there's nothing you can do, that nobody's listening, that you don't matter," says Nader. "But to be a citizen is to enjoy the deep satisfaction of seeing the prevention of pain, misery and injustice."
The UMM Convocations Series will continue with the following speakers:
Monday, January 27, 2003 7:30 p.m. UMM Edson Auditorium Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu, renowned educator and president of the African American Images, a communications company based in Chicago Co-sponsored by the UMM Black Student Union
Monday, February 10, 2003, 7:30 p.m., UMM Edson Auditorium Sandra Steingraber, ecologist, author and cancer survivor, recognized expert on the environmental links to cancer and reproductive health Co-sponsored by the UMM Commission on Women and Women's Resource Center
Monday, March 24, 2003, 7:30 p.m., UMM Edson Auditorium Timothy Wise, social justice activist, author of Little White Lies: The Truth About Affirmative Action and Reverse Discrimination" Co-sponsored by Black Student Union and World Touch Cultural Heritage Week
The views expressed by the visiting speakers of the UMM Convocations Series do not necessarily reflect the views of the regents of the University of Minnesota, the University of Minnesota, Morris students, staff or faculty, or the UMM Convocations Committee.
Honored by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential Americans of the 20th Century, consumer advocate Ralph Nader has devoted his life to giving ordinary people the tools they need to defend themselves against corporate negligence and government indifference.
Nader will open this year's Convocations Series at the University of Minnesota, Morris on Wednesday, Sept. 25. He will speak on " Democracy, Big Business, and the American Duopoly" at 7:30 p.m. in the Edson Auditorium of the UMM Student Center. Nader will be available to sign copies of his books at 6:30 p.m. in Oyate Hall of the Student Center (across the hall from Edson Auditorium). Nader's visit to UMM is co-sponsored by the Campus Activities Council and the Minnesota Public Interest Research Group (MPIRG), both at UMM. The public is cordially invited to attend. Parking is available in any UMM lot.
In 1956, Nader took on the Goliath of the auto industry with his book, Unsafe at Any Speed, an expose of the disregard carmakers held for the safety of their customers. The Senate hearing into Nader's accusations and the life-saving motor vehicle safety laws that resulted catapulted Nader into the public sphere.
Working with lawmakers, Nader was instrumental in creating the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Laws he helped draft and pass include the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Meat and Poultry Inspection Rules, the Air and Water Pollution Control Laws and the Freedom of Information Act. He has worked to empower the average American by forming numerous citizen groups, including the student public interest research groups, one of which MPIRG -- UMM is a part.
Nader likens himself to "a ballplayer in the major leagues they relish the pressure. It's much more tiring not fighting the good fight."
To go through life as a non-citizen would be to feel that there's nothing you can do, that nobody's listening, that you don't matter," says Nader. "But to be a citizen is to enjoy the deep satisfaction of seeing the prevention of pain, misery and injustice."
The UMM Convocations Series will continue with the following speakers:
Monday, January 27, 2003 7:30 p.m. UMM Edson Auditorium Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu, renowned educator and president of the African American Images, a communications company based in Chicago Co-sponsored by the UMM Black Student Union
Monday, February 10, 2003, 7:30 p.m., UMM Edson Auditorium Sandra Steingraber, ecologist, author and cancer survivor, recognized expert on the environmental links to cancer and reproductive health Co-sponsored by the UMM Commission on Women and Women's Resource Center
Monday, March 24, 2003, 7:30 p.m., UMM Edson Auditorium Timothy Wise, social justice activist, author of Little White Lies: The Truth About Affirmative Action and Reverse Discrimination" Co-sponsored by Black Student Union and World Touch Cultural Heritage Week
The views expressed by the visiting speakers of the UMM Convocations Series do not necessarily reflect the views of the regents of the University of Minnesota, the University of Minnesota, Morris students, staff or faculty, or the UMM Convocations Committee. Honored by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential Americans of the 20th Century, consumer advocate Ralph Nader has devoted his life to giving ordinary people the tools they need to defend themselves against corporate negligence and government indifference.
Nader will open this year's Convocations Series at the University of Minnesota, Morris on Wednesday, Sept. 25. He will speak on " Democracy, Big Business, and the American Duopoly" at 7:30 p.m. in the Edson Auditorium of the UMM Student Center. Nader will be available to sign copies of his books at 6:30 p.m. in Oyate Hall of the Student Center (across the hall from Edson Auditorium). Nader's visit to UMM is co-sponsored by the Campus Activities Council and the Minnesota Public Interest Research Group (MPIRG), both at UMM. The public is cordially invited to attend. Parking is available in any UMM lot.
In 1956, Nader took on the Goliath of the auto industry with his book, Unsafe at Any Speed, an expose of the disregard carmakers held for the safety of their customers. The Senate hearing into Nader's accusations and the life-saving motor vehicle safety laws that resulted catapulted Nader into the public sphere.
Working with lawmakers, Nader was instrumental in creating the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Laws he helped draft and pass include the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Meat and Poultry Inspection Rules, the Air and Water Pollution Control Laws and the Freedom of Information Act. He has worked to empower the average American by forming numerous citizen groups, including the student public interest research groups, one of which MPIRG -- UMM is a part.
Nader likens himself to "a ballplayer in the major leagues they relish the pressure. It's much more tiring not fighting the good fight."
To go through life as a non-citizen would be to feel that there's nothing you can do, that nobody's listening, that you don't matter," says Nader. "But to be a citizen is to enjoy the deep satisfaction of seeing the prevention of pain, misery and injustice."
The UMM Convocations Series will continue with the following speakers:
Monday, January 27, 2003 7:30 p.m. UMM Edson Auditorium Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu, renowned educator and president of the African American Images, a communications company based in Chicago Co-sponsored by the UMM Black Student Union
Monday, February 10, 2003, 7:30 p.m., UMM Edson Auditorium Sandra Steingraber, ecologist, author and cancer survivor, recognized expert on the environmental links to cancer and reproductive health Co-sponsored by the UMM Commission on Women and Women's Resource Center
Monday, March 24, 2003, 7:30 p.m., UMM Edson Auditorium Timothy Wise, social justice activist, author of Little White Lies: The Truth About Affirmative Action and Reverse Discrimination" Co-sponsored by Black Student Union and World Touch Cultural Heritage Week
The views expressed by the visiting speakers of the UMM Convocations Series do not necessarily reflect the views of the regents of the University of Minnesota, the University of Minnesota, Morris students, staff or faculty, or the UMM Convocations Committee.
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