Ramtin Arablouei
speaker
199 appearances
5 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 29 Mar
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All around him, Nader could see how people were being sold shoddy goods.
And expected to live and work in unsafe conditions.
So Nader used his newly found fame to bring these issues to the forefront and galvanize people into taking action as consumers and form a movement.
It started off small, with Nader calling law students, including from his alma mater, Harvard, in search of people eager to make change.
It worked. These students knew who he was, and they wanted in.
Nader had plenty of work for them, and thanks to a settlement with GM, he had money to fund it.
These young idealistic lawyers and students came to be called experts. Nader's Raiders.
Joan Claybrook, looking to get out of government work for a while, believed in Nader and joined.
They started with the Federal Trade Commission.
Then they went after the Food and Drug Administration.
And kept going all the way to the halls of Congress.
The driving force of the consumer movement was a reinvigorated view of democracy, where everyone was a consumer and everyone participated. People really responded to this message. Across the country, local consumer groups popped up.
It wasn't long before Congress began to respond to Ralph Nader and the public's demands for change.
They got what now might seem like common sense protections passed.
OSHA. The Clean Air Act. Laws that have made American life healthier and safer. And it wasn't just environmental protections. Nader also fought to strengthen the Freedom of Information Act to increase the public's access to federal data and records.
A few months after their softball game in Georgia, Jimmy Carter wins the presidential election. At the election celebration, he promised to be a president for the people.
And it looked like a real win for the consumer rights movement. Many former Nader's raiders actually joined Carter's administration. But not Nader.
Former allies like Joan Claybrook, who he publicly accused of going too easy on the car industry's rollout of airbags.
Nader wasn't going to hold back against friends or foes. He was still fighting for the consumer, and his number one goal was to finally get the consumer protection agency he'd been fighting for four years created.
The build created had come close several times, but never quite made it through. The hope was that Carter would be able to push it through.
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