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

it's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

Stand up, stand up.

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

I am firing my agent again.

Six times this week.

Yeah, well that's a whole other issue we could talk about.

And we also have the man of the hour, Ralph Nader.

Happy Earth Day, Ralph.

Yeah, listen, he's referring to the fifth anniversary of the Ralph Nader Radio

hour.

We're five years in.

You still have some real progressive community radio stations don't carry it.

WBA in New York, W. P. F. W. W. W. F. W. W. in Washington, D.C. and a big one in Tampa, Florida.

So progressive forces need to pull together more. They learn

lessons from the right wing. But anyway, we have a great show today and it's not going

to tax the listeners the way some of our more intricate shows but it will give them a great historical perspective on how to build democracy.

Right and I mentioned Earth Day earlier Ralph why don't you just give us a little capsule summary of your experience with Earth Day?

Well, I was active in the first Earth Day, April 22, 1970. I did three events from Philadelphia to Buffalo, but there were 1500 events at

colleges and universities. It was launched by Senator Gayler-Nelson, Democrat Wisconsin, who responded to a suggestion by a citizen in Colorado.

And it really put the environmental health and safety issues on the political map and made it part of election dialogues and made the cover of

time in Newsweek Steve David that was a big deal then and the students should get

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