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🗓️ 5 September 2015
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Ralph talks to former protégé, Mitchell Rofsky, who founded the “Better World Club,” an eco-friendly alternative to AAA. And we also check in with Rick Newman, the executive director of The American Museum of Tort Law about the importance of preserving our civil justice system.
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0:00.0 | From the K-P-F-K Studios in Southern California, |
0:03.6 | it's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. |
0:06.0 | Stand up, stand up. |
0:08.1 | You've been sitting great to jump. Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan, back with you this week and for the foreseeable future. |
0:24.6 | I'm sure you're all happy about that. |
0:26.0 | My co-host is David Feldman and the man of the hour is Ralph Nader. |
0:31.2 | On today's show we're going to be talking about protecting your right to have |
0:34.3 | your day in court with the executive director of the new Museum of Tort Law, |
0:38.6 | Mr Rick Newman. We will also hear as always from the corporate crime reporter Russell Mo Kiber, but first we're going to talk about how you can make this a better world, a more environmentally friendly world, by, get this this driving your car I'm actually very excited to hear about |
0:55.6 | this because I had no idea David explain to the good people what I'm talking |
0:59.5 | about you're talking about America's only echo-friendly auto club. It's called the Better World Club and our first guest is Mitchell |
1:07.3 | Rofsky. He's the president of Better World Club Inc. an environmentally responsible |
1:12.3 | alternative to AAA. |
1:14.8 | Mr. Rofsky has been a lawyer at public citizen. |
1:17.4 | He later helped to provide the initial financing for the socially responsible working |
1:22.3 | assets mutual fund and became its president in 1991. |
1:27.1 | He was the first chair of business for social responsibility and the 1996 founded American Consumer Insurance, which is now better world |
1:36.4 | insurance in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Welcome Mitchell Rofsky. |
1:40.8 | Hey, great to be here. Good to talk with you again, Mitch. |
1:45.0 | For the audience's information, Mitch works with us in the late 70s in Washington, D.C. |
1:51.8 | And he was a extremely effective advocate to get enacted the National Consumer |
1:57.2 | Cooperative Bank, which was then the only bank that provided loans and developmental advice to start consumer |
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