RALPH NADER
Ralph Nader (born February 27, 1934) is an American political activist, author, lecturer, and attorney, noted for his involvement in consumer protection, environmentalism, and government reform causes. Following the publication of Unsafe at Any Speed, Nader led a group of volunteer law students — dubbed “Nader’s Raiders” — in a groundbreaking investigation of the Federal Trade Commission, leading directly to that agency’s overhaul and reform. Nader’s activism has been directly credited with the passage of several landmark pieces of American consumer protection legislation, including the Clean Water Act, the Freedom of Information Act, the Consumer Product Safety Act, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the Whistleblower Protection Act, and the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act. He has run for President of the United States on several occasions as an independent and third party candidate, using the campaigns to highlight under-reported issues and a perceived need for electoral reform. (More from Wikipedia)
After several dates on the West Coast, with two New Yorkers in the line-up the Corvairs moved East, where they stayed together for nearly a decade. A planned 22-song retrospective called Unsafe at Any Speed – also the title of Ralph Nader’s famed book Unsafe at Any Speed on the ill-fated Chevrolet car – was to have come out in 2006 on PreFab International Recordings but has not yet been released.
(March 2015)
