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Community service is a good first step, but only grassroots political advocacy can save American democracy from corporate interests, Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader told an audience of 200 at MIT Monday...
...Nader, a lawyer and consumer advocate who made his name in the '60s by exposing American cars as unsafe, urged civic-minded students to get involved in politics...
...Nader ran for president as a Green in 1996, but he spent only $5,000, leading to grumbles that his heart wasn't in the campaign...
...part, Nader's not worried about handing the election to Bush. He's down on Gore: "He's plastic man. He used to be the man you went to on civil justice and biotech. Now he's just corporate power." Even though he's in competition with Buchanan, Nader says the racist rap against his opponent is unfair. Indeed, the icon of liberalism vows to reach out to conservatives. A Lebanese-American from small-town Connecticut, he rails like a Puritan. Childhood, he says, is being "corporatized by video games, junk food, undermining parental authority...Bill Bennett stuff...
Vowing to run differently, Nader says he'll hold "time raisers" instead of fund raisers, where citizens offer effort, not cash. Can an itinerant senior citizen create a movement? The answer lies with trade. Bush and Gore have similar pro-trade views; the public is wary of a one-world economy. For now, the big boys aren't sweating Nader. But they may want to buckle...