Ralph Nader: Welcome and Introduction
How to counter impact of corporate control of the electoral process
- Bob Edgar – President, Common Cause
- Rob Richie – Executive Director, Fair Vote
(143k pdf of presentation) - Lou Dubose – Editor, The Washington Spectator
- Harvey Wasserman – Anti-Nuclear Activist
(more information) - Theresa Amato – Executive Director, Citizen Works
Holding corporations accountable for their crimes
- Russell Mokhiber – Editor, Corporate Crime Reporter
- Bill Black – Professor, University of Missouri School of Law – KC
- Patrick Burns – Director of Communications, Taxpayers Against Fraud
(74k pdf) - Kent Greenfield – Professor, Boston College Law School
(25k pdf summary of remarks) - Robert Weissman – President, Public Citizen
- Marco Simons – EarthRights
Protecting the “Commons” from the insatiable advocates of privatization
- Phineas Baxandall – Federal Tax and Budget Policy Analyst for US PIRG
(Privatization and the Public Interest and Private Roads, Public Costs) - David Morris – Vice President, Institute for Local Self-Reliance
- Wenonah Hauter – Executive Director, Food & Water Watch
- Jamie Love – Director, Knowledge Ecology International
- Margaret Flowers – Co-chair of MD Physicians for a National Health Program
Occupy the Future – Actions
- Christopher Hedges – TruthDig columnist
- Kevin Zeese – Organizer of the National Occupation of Washington, DC
- Dean Baker – Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research
- Mary Bottari – Center for Media and Democracy
- Carl Mayer – Mayer Law Group
Creating new economic models and launching initiatives
- Gar Alperovitz – Professor of Political Economy, UMD
- Greg LeRoy – Executive Director, Good Jobs First
- Dimitra Doukas – Worked Over: The Corporate Sabotage of an American Community
(71k pdf overview) - Gayle McLaughlin – Mayor, Richmond CA
- Alexis Baden-Mayer – Political Director, Organic Consumers Association
(more information)
Mobilizing for Sustained Action
- Ralph Nader – Consumer advocate
- Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman – Executive Director and Founder, SumOfUs
- Tom O’Brien – United Steelworkers
(1.1MB pdf of presentation) - Michael Gecan – Industrial Areas Foundation
- David Freeman – former head of TVA, SMUD and PASNY