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The Illinois Green Party endorsed Ralph Nader for President at its Nominating Convention on March 18th. Winona LaDuke is Ralph Nader's Vice-Presidential choice . Both were the Green Party's candidates in 1996. |
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Ralph Nader for President
From 1961 to 1963, he lectured on history and government at the University of Hartford. In 1967, he was named one of ten Outstanding Young Men of the Year by the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce. In 1967 and 1968, he returned to Princeton as a lecturer, and he continues to speak at colleges and universities across the United States.
Since the publication of Unsafe at Any Speed in 1965, Nader has alerted the public, Congress, and the media to countless health, safety, economics, environmental pollution, worker rights issues proposing constructive reforms and prompting the enactment of corrective and beneficial laws and regulations.
The nation's foremost consumer advocate, he founded many consumer advocacy groups including the Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), the Center for Auto Safety, Public Citizen, Center for Women's Policy Studies, Connecticut Citizen's Action Group, the Disability Rights Center, the Pension Rights Center, and the Multinational Monitor, a monthly magazine.
Since his best selling Unsafe at Any Speed in 1965, he has authored, co-authored or edited many books, including: Action for a Change, 1972, Whistle-Blowing: The Report on the Conference of Professional Responsibility, 1972 , You and Your Pension, 1973 , Corporate Power in America, 1973 , Taming the Giant Corporation, 1976 , Verdicts on Lawyers, 1976, The Menace of Atomic Energy, 1976, The Lemon Book, 1980, ,Who's Poisoning America, 1981, The Big Boys, 1986, Winning the Insurance Game, 1990, Collision Course: The Truth About Airline Safety, 1993, No Contest: Corporate Lawyers and the Perversion of Justice in America, 1996
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Winona LaDuke for Vice President
LaDuke began working on Indian issues at a young age, and spoke in front of the United Nations when she was 18 years old. While attending Harvard, she began research into the health impacts of uranium mining on the Navajo reservation.
After graduation from Harvard, LaDuke accepted the job of reservation principal of the local school and became involved in a lawsuit to recover lands that had been taken by the federal government and the logging industry from the White Earth Reservation. After losing the suit, LaDuke founded the White Earth Land Recovery Project and began the work of recovering the 800,000 acres that had been taken from the reservation. The WELRP has purchased 1,000 acres and expects to acquire an additional 30,000 acres.
In the 1980's, LaDuke was a leader of the successful opposition to the James Bay hydroelectric projects and was named "the most prominent Native American environmental activist" by several publications. She next founded the Indigenous Womens' Network which she led to last year's World Conference on Women in Beijing. The IWN works on a variety of projects, including the investigation of small sustainable industries, such as rice production and solar and wind energy sources for use on the reservation.
Winona LaDuke publishes the journal Indigenous Women and serves as a program officer for a Native American controlled foundation. She was recently in Chiapas, working with indigenous peoples' of the region and attending an international conference. LaDuke has published numerous articles and her first novel, Last Standing Woman , was published by Voyageur Press in 1997. All Our Relations, Native Struggles for Land and Life was published in 1999. Ralph Nader calls her latest book "…a brilliant, gripping narrative of the corporate state's brutality to the land of its First Natives and the valiant ones who are resisting and rebuilding their culture and identity".
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Consumer advocate, lawyer and author Ralph Nader was born in Winsted, Connecticut on February 27, 1934. He received an AB magna cum laude from Princeton University in 1955 and his LLB from Harvard University in 1958. He began his career as a lawyer in Hartford, Connecticut in 1959.
Winona LaDuke was born in 1959 . She is an Ojibwe activist from the White Earth Reservation in northern Minnesota, where she lives with her two children. A graduate of Harvard, she has been an active organizer for Native American issues in South Dakota, New Mexico and Arizona. In March of 1995 Time Magazine nominated her as one of "50 Leaders for the Future".
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