It's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

Stand up, stand up.

You've been sitting way too long. Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan along with my co-host David Feldman. Hello there David.

Hello. And of course the man of the hour Ralph Nader.

Hello everybody.

On today's program, we welcome back author and activist David Bolier,

who has made recovering, expanding,

as well as vindicating the Commons, his life's work.

Commons is that underappreciated sphere of social and economic life, from land to

airwaves to free software and more,

that's crucial to community all over.

Mr. Bullier's books include, among many others,

Think Like a Commoner, a short introduction

to the life of the Commons,

and last year's free, fair and

alive, the insurgent power of the Commons. Today we'll be discussing the ideas in

Mr. Bullier's upcoming book, The Commoners catalog of change making.

That's the first half of the show.

And in the second half of the show,

we're going to bring you the year and review.

It was a tumultuous year to say the least,

but three major stories dominated the news. There was of course the

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