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Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Earth Day Turns Fifty!

Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Ralph Nader

Government, News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

On the fiftieth anniversary of Earth Day, Ralph welcomes environmental historian, Adam Rome, author of “The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach- In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation.” And the Green Cowboy, S. David Freeman returns to talk about the state of the environment today. Plus, we debut a special song in honor of Earth Day.


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0:00.0

It's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

0:05.0

Stand up, stand up.

0:07.0

You've been sitting way too long.

0:10.0

Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Grovan, along with my co-host David

0:18.0

David. Good morning. And we also have the man of the hour. Ralph Nader, hello, Ralph?

0:23.7

Hello. Ralph, now I think you'd be pleased to know. Last week,

0:29.7

listeners know we spoke to the president of National Nurses United, Jean Ross.

0:35.7

And in the show, Ralph recommended that they do a social distance live protest in front of the White House and they took Ralph's suggestion just a couple of days ago.

0:46.8

So what did you think about that, Ralph?

0:48.8

I thought it was tremendous news coverage was on NBC, Washington Post, USA Today, and the title was

0:55.9

nurses hold White House protest over needs for better protection from COVID-19 and

1:01.3

nurses are very credible and one of the demonstrators Erica Jones

1:06.4

who's a nurse at Washington Hospital Center in District of Columbia told

1:11.3

NBC quote we're here because our colleagues are dying of Columbia, told NBC, quote,

1:12.6

we're here because our colleagues are dying.

1:15.1

She stood silently as the names of 50 nurses

1:18.3

who died from COVID-19 were read aloud

1:20.6

in the shadow of the White House.

1:22.6

And then she went on to say that this protest

1:26.8

by the National Nurses United was focusing

1:30.6

on the lack of protective equipment for the health care workers.

1:35.0

And she said, quote, I think that people right now think of us as heroes,

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