Wash dC FREE - Ralph Nader Left Right Conference Tuesday May 27

[tangent4ronpaul]

Join us Tuesday May 27, 2014 for an unprecedented one day gathering that will convene leading experts from the Left and Right (such as Jim Hightower, Judson Phillips, Medea Benjamin, Bruce Fein, Ron Unz and more) to find common ground on many of the key issues of our time.


Admission is free and a complimentary light breakfast and lunch will be served.

Issues to be discussed at the event are:
* Civil liberties
* The minimum wage
* The commercialization of childhood
* Corporate welfare
* The imperial perpetuation of America’s wars
* Trade
* The unpunished crimes and misdeeds of Wall Street
When and Where:

Tuesday, May 27, 2014
9AM-5PM
Carnegie Institute of Washington
1530 P Street NW
Washington, D.C.
Sponsored by the Center for Study of Responsive Law.
Please RSVP to Matthew Marran at mmarran@csrl.org.
In his new book Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State, Ralph Nader explores the emerging political alignment of the Left and the Right against converging corporate-government autocracy and crony capitalism.

The purpose of the gathering is to convene unlikely allies to tackle the bold ideas of convergence presented in Unstoppable and turn them operational.

The full agenda is below.

Hope to see you there.

best

Matthew Zawisky

Unstoppable Right/Left Convergence Event Agenda
Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Carnegie Institute of Washington
1530 P Street NW
Washington, D.C

8:30 AM Registration

9:00 AM Opening Remarks by Ralph Nader

9:10 AM Jim Hightower Remarks

9:20 AM Wall Street Crime and Misdeeds 30 min.
Moderator: Russell Mokhiber, Editor, Corporate Crime Reporter
Bill Black, UMKC School of Law
Zachary Kitts, K&G Law Group, PLLC

10:00 AM Minimum Wage 30 min.
Moderator: James Glassman
Ron Unz via Skype
Jim Hightower

BREAK

11:00 AM Civil Liberties 30 min.
Moderator: Marc Rotenberg, EPIC
Fred Smith, Competitive Enterprise Institute
Heidi Bogoshian, National Lawyers Guild

11:40 AM Corporate Welfare 50 min.
Moderator: Ryan Alexander, Taxpayers for Common Sense
Lisa Gilbert, Public Citizen
Greg LeRoy , Good Jobs First
Pete Sepp, National Taxpayers Union
James T. Bennett , George Mason University

12:30 PM
LUNCH

1:30 PM Defense Budget 50 min.
Moderator: Angela Canterbury, POGO
Daniel McCarthy, American Conservative
Chris Preble, Cato
Miriam Pemberton, Institute for Policy Studies (IPS)
Dan Smith, US PIRG.


2:30 PM Trade 30 min
Moderator: Ralph Nader
Lori Wallach, Global Trade Watch
Judson Phillips, Tea Party Nation

3:10 PM Empire 50 min.
Moderator: Ralph Nader
Medea Benjamin, CODE PINK
Bruce Fein

4:10 PM Commercialization of Childhood 30 min.
Moderator: Ralph Nader
Jim Metrock, Obligation, Inc.
Josh Golin, Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood

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[ClydeCoulter]

That just might be interesting.

[tangent4ronpaul]

Nader has a new book:Unstopable. 25 issues where conservatives, liberals and libertarians can come together.
These are all "off the table" by the 2 parties, and i can't think of a better reason that Rand should make a lot of them his platform.

Audit the DoD annually and disclose all budgets.
Establish rigorous evaluation procedures for businesses looking for gvmt handouts. which would end most corporate welfare and bailouts.
Promote efficiency in gvmt contracting and spending.
Adjust the min wage to inflation.
Introduce specific kinds of tax reform and push to collect uncollected taxes. (targets corporations)
Break up the "too big to fail" banks
Expand contributions to charity, using them to create jobs and drawing on available dead money
Allow taxpayers the right to sue. Especially immunized governments and corporations.
Further direct democracy. Referendums, initiatives and recalls for starters.
Push community self reliance
Clear away the obstacles to a competitive electoral process.
Defend and extend civil liberties.
Enhance civic skills and experiences for students.
End unconstitutional wars and enforce article 1, sec 8 of the constitution which includes congresses exclusive role of declaring war.
Revise trade agreements to protect US sovereignty and resume congressional full discussion, ending fast track.
protect children from commercialization and it's physical and mental exploitation and harm.
end corporate personhood
Control more of the commons that we already own.
Get tough on corporate crime. providing penalties and enforcement budgets.
Ramp up investor power by strengthening investor protection laws and by creating a penny brigade to pay for an investor watchdog agency.
Oppose the patenting of life forms including human genes.
End the ineffective war on drugs.
Push for environmentalism.
reform health care.
create convergent institutions.

A poll on these items might be good here, but there are 25 of them. Bryan - wanna lift the question limit briefly.

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[charrob]

This gives hope to unite on common issues-- civil liberties, foreign interventionism, corporatism and cronyism, trade pacts, the police state, the out of control prison complex, and the drug war.

And although many on the left will not agree, there are also quite a few who do agree on the second amendment and immigration.