From the K-P-F-K Studios in Southern California,

it's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

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You've been sitting way too long. Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan. I'm here with the man of the hour.

Ralph Nader. Hello, Ralph. Hello Steve. I hope you had a very good Memorial Day weekend.

Well I always watch the ceremonies and I spent some time with the Veterans for Peace.

An organization I belong to with World War II, Korean Vietnam, Iraq War, Afghan veterans and they are brilliantly

devoted to waging peace which is something that you don't hear much about on Memorial Day.

Sure, yes. I actually, I have to brag a little.

My Memorial Day weekend was spent at my daughter Julia's college graduation from Oberlin College and it was quite interesting

because the legendary activist Marion Wright-Elderman was the commencement speaker and First Lady

Michelle Obama received an honorary degree and she also spoke so it was kind of

star-studded because it also marked the 50th anniversary of a commencement address given by

Dr Martin Luther King at Oberlin which was entitled

remaining awake during a great revolution and I think a lot of what we try to do here

on the show is to wake people up and call to account the powers

to be.

So that was my weekend.

Oberlin was the real pioneer, as you know, the underground railroad, the first college to admit minorities it's also the

fountain head of the politically incorrect movement which started out as a source of

humor among Oberlin students but then became a very conforming doctrine.

Yes, I've had some discussions with my daughter about that kind of thing, but Oberlin was not only on the cutting edge of the civil rights movement,

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