Reclaiming Democracy!
Ralph Nader Radio Hour
Ralph Nader
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2019
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Ralph welcomes Paul Deslauriers, who with a small dedicated group of fellow activists was able to take over the governing council in his home county of Maui, Hawaii. He’ll take us through that experience and explain how those same techniques can be scaled up to the national level. Plus, Constitutional scholar Bruce Fein and Ralph discuss why Donald Trump’s stonewalling of Congress is an impeachable offense.
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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 Scrovan along with my |
| 0:17.6 | co-host David Feldman. Hello there David. Good morning. Good morning and we have the man of the hour Ralph Nader, low Ralph. |
| 0:25.0 | Hello, we're going to take the democracy movement to a new level today. |
| 0:30.0 | That's right. Are you feeling frustrated because you see that our democracy has fallen apart |
| 0:35.3 | and we now live in primarily a country controlled by large corporations? |
| 0:39.4 | Do you want to change this dysfunction peacefully and rapidly? Do you want to support your health and well |
| 0:44.7 | being as well as of others for generations to come? Do you want to have an |
| 0:49.4 | uplifting experience that brings changes to this dysfunctional system. |
| 0:53.2 | Well, our guest today is going to talk about how we can do all of that in a step-by-step program. |
| 0:59.2 | Our guest is Paul Deloriae, he is a grassroots organizer who founded a group called Reclaim Democracy, a movement |
| 1:05.8 | that seeks to make three big legal changes, reversing corporate personhood, reversing the Supreme |
| 1:11.6 | Court Citizens United decision that equates money with speech, |
| 1:15.5 | and establishing a constitutional right to vote. |
| 1:18.5 | And going against the conventional wisdom, Mr. Deloree thinks with the proper organizing these changes can happen fast. |
| 1:25.0 | He's going to tell us how he and a small dedicated group of activists were able to take over |
| 1:30.0 | the governing council in his home county of Maui Hawaii. |
| 1:33.4 | He'll take us through that experience and explain how those same techniques |
| 1:37.3 | can be scaled up to the national level. |
| 1:39.6 | His book is entitled Seven Steps to Reclaim Democracy and Empowering Guide for Systemic Change. |
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