Breaking Through Power
It’s easier than we think.
In Breaking Through Power, Nader draws from a lifetime waging—and often winning—David vs. Goliath battles against big corporations and the United States government. In this succinct, Tom Paine-style wake-up call, the iconic consumer advocate highlights the success stories of fellow Americans who organize change and work together to derail the many ways in which wealth manipulates politics, labor, media, the environment and the quality of national life today. Nader makes an inspired case about how the nation can—and must—be democratically managed by communities guided by the U.S. Constitution, not by the dictates of big businesses and the wealthy few. This is classic Ralph Nader, a crystallization of the core political beliefs and commitments that have driven his lifetime of advocacy for greater democracy.
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Event Videos
John Bogle on Social Responsibility and Fiduciary Duties
Michael McPhearson on Veterans for Peace
David Vladeck on Empowering Consumers
Robert Weissman on Corporate Power and Money in Politics
Mike Jacobson on Organizing for Safe Food
Oliver Hall on Small Claims Court
Janine Jackson on Challenging Corporate Media
Joan Claybrook on How Congress Really Works
Ralph Nader on Restoring Tort Law
Lucinda Finley on How Tort “Deform” Harms Us
Al Fritsch on Renewable Technologies in Appalachia
Janet Domenitz on the History, Importance, and Future of Public Interest Research Groups
Nicholas Johnson on the American Broadcast Regulation System
Michael Copps on the Decline of Newsrooms, the Future of Investigative Journalism and Net Neutrality
John Nichols on the Freedom of the Press, Media Monopolies and What the Media Covers
William Hartung and Danielle Brian on the Military Industrial Complex
Thomas Drake, John Kiriakou and Jesselyn Radack on Whistleblowers and Government Overclassification
Colman McCarthy on Peace and Nonviolence
Full Day videos:
Breaking Through Power Day 1
Breaking Through Power Day 2
Breaking Through Power Day 3
Breaking Through Power Day 4
Karen Friedman on Protecting Pensions
Clarence Ditlow on Auto Safety
Robert Fellmeth on Children’s Advocacy
Shawn Armbrust on the Conviction of Innocent People, and Making the Justice System More Just
Robert T. Coulter on Indigenous Rights
Sidney Wolfe on Consumer Health
Mitchell Garabedian on the Power of Tort Law to Break Through Secrecy
Matthew Pawa on The Frontiers of Tort Law and Climate Change
Ralf Hotchkiss on Developing Wheelchairs in Third World Countries
Jim Hightower on Rallying the Public to Defeat the Corporate Elites
Jeff Ruch on the Importance of Public Employees as Environmental Advocates and Stewards
Phil Donahue on His Show, Nader, and What Kind of Media We Want
Patti Smith Live at Breaking Through Power
Mickey Huff on Censorship and the Importance of a Free Press
Ralph Nader on the Mass Commercial Media and American Involvement Overseas
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson on Why We Will Always be at War
Paul Pillar on the United States’ Impulse to Perpetually be at War
Jim Cason on How More Engagement Can Encourage Peacebuilding
Kevin Martin on Nuclear Disarmament
Medea Benjamin on the Drone Program Under Obama, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the Peace Movement
Harvey Rosenfield on the Unconditional Bailout of Wall Street
F. Paul Bland on Corporate Cheating and Predatory Lending
Jamie Love on Ending Drug Monopolies
Lois Gibbs on Challenging Corporate Dominance in the EPA
John Fox on Federal Tax Policy
Michael Jacobson on Nutrition Advocacy
Ralph Nader on the Underutilization of Tort Law
Matt Wuerker on How Political Cartoons Can Help Us Break Through Power
William Binney and Kirk Wiebe on Government Surveillance/Intelligence
Ralph Nader on “Voices” and the Mass Media
Michael McPhearson on if Peace is Possible
Barry Ladendorf on Actions Taken to Advance the Peace Movement
Allan Nairn on US Oppression Overseas
Stephen Kinzer on American Interventionism
Ralph Nader on American Foreign Policy and the Next Step Forward
