Ralf Hotchkiss, Carol Miller

Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Ralph Nader

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4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2015

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Ralf Hotchkiss is a wheelchair-rider, engineer, inventor and for 35 plus years a wheelchair designer, builder, and trainer. In 1989 he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and has been the recipient of countless other honors and awards. Mr. Hotchkiss has worked in 42 countries teaching people who need wheelchairs how to build and maintain them for themselves.

Carol Miller, who is a longtime peace activist and nuclear abolitionist. She is president of the Peaceful Skies Coalition of northern New Mexico and Colorado, which was founded to fight the US Air Force and its plans to turn 94,000 square miles of the Rocky Mountains into a low altitude spying and warfare training area. Peaceful Skies Coalition networks with and supports other community based, anti-militarization groups across the US as well as in other countries.

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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.
0:05.7	Stand up, stand up.
0:07.8	You've been sitting way too long. Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan along with David Feldman and the man of the hour, Ralph Nader on the show show today we are going to hear from someone who is
0:25.0	fighting the United States Air Force. That's Carol Miller, the president of the Peaceful
0:29.5	Sky's Coalition out of New Mexico. That sounds like a pretty formidable task, so I'm interested to hear what that's all about.
0:36.0	We're also going to hear from Russell Macabre on our new feature, the Corporate Crime Reporter Minute.
0:41.0	We'll try to get some more of your Facebook questions. But before we
0:44.0	get all of that, David, introduce us to our first guest. In the late 60s
0:48.3	there was a famous photo taken on the steps of the United States Capitol of
0:51.9	Ralph Nader standing at the head of a United States capital of Ralph Nader's Raiders.
0:56.1	One of the people in that picture was our first guest.
0:58.5	His name is Ralph Hotchkiss.
1:00.2	He is the co-founder of Whirlwind Wheelchairs.
1:03.8	Mr Hotchkiss is a wheelchair writer, engineer, inventor,
1:08.1	and for 35 plus years a wheelchair designer, builder, and trainer. In 1989, he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation
1:16.2	Fellowship and has been the recipient of countless other honors and awards. Mr. Hotchkiss has worked
1:22.2	in 42 countries teaching people who
1:24.8	need wheelchairs how to build and maintain them for themselves. We are
1:29.7	delighted he could join us today. Welcome, Ralph Hotchkiss.
1:33.0	Thank you. Another welcome, Ralph Hotchkiss. We go back a long way. I was once speaking at
1:39.5	Oberlin College and as I was walking out of the auditorium I heard somebody walking after me and
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