Ralph Nader Radio Hour

When I was 14 years old, I heard Ralph Nader say that box cereal was less nutritious than the box it came in, and you'd get more nutrition out of tearing up the box and pouring sugar and milk over it, and eating that for breakfast. That's the kind of genius that Ralph Nader produces constantly, and why his ideas changed the world for Americans more than perhaps any political thinker of the late 20th century. He remains more relevant than virtually every other political thinker currently on the scene.

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Listener Questions, Breaking Through Power 2
October 1, 2016

On SF 49er Colin Kaepernick's national anthem protest: "I think he's standing up for the Constitution."

On the role of third parties in the 2016 election: "Jill Stein is not Trump's secret weapon. Hillary Clinton is Trump's secret weapon."

On the North Dakota pipeline protest: "It's a great solidarity movement."


Ralph answers a whole slew of your questions, ranging from the Colin Kaepernick protest to voting your conscience to living off the grid. And we also feature two clips from the Breaking Through Power Conference, featuring Janine Jackson talking about the nature of corporate media and Robert Weissman, who tells us how the country is not as divided as the pundits would have you believe.
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BREAKING THROUGH POWER - 26, 27, 28, 29 SEPTEMBER 2016
Washington, DC


DAY 1, PART 2, SEPTEMBER 26, 2016


DAY 2, PART 2, SEPTEMBER 27, 2016


DAY 3, PART 2, SEPTEMBER 28, 2016


DAY 4, PART 1, SEPTEMBER 29, 2016
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BREAKING THROUGH POWER - 26, 27, 28, 29 SEPTEMBER 2016
Washington, DC

OCTOBER 1ST, 1PM AT POLITICS AND PROSE
Ralph Nader discusses BREAKING THROUGH POWER: IT'S EASIER THAN WE THINK

OUR SPEAKERS

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MARY ALEXANDER
Attorney

Most lawyers take on a case – a few take on a cause. Over the past 30 years, Mary Alexander has earned a national reputation for her work protecting consumer rights, winning the respect of clients and colleagues alike. A past president of both the Association of Trial Lawyers of America and the Consumer Attorneys of California, Mary’s career – both in and out of the courtroom – has focused on one thing: ensuring that those who have been harmed by the negligent, preventable actions of others get their day in court – and get the answers, and justice, they deserve.

But it’s not just the results that have made Mary one of California’s most sought-after trial attorneys. It’s also a unique combination of capabilities and compassion that few lawyers can bring to their cases – or their clients. A scientist before she studied law, Mary leverages her technical background in every matter she takes on, and is well known for her ability to explain complicated theories to juries – and for using high-tech courtroom exhibits that help make difficult points easy to comprehend. She’s taken on cases other lawyers won’t, or can’t – such as child sex abuse cases – and assisted clients from all walks of life.

Along the way, Mary, a graduate of Santa Clara University Law School, has been recognized repeatedly by her peers, and the press, for her work.

http://www.maryalexanderlaw.com/

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 2:10 pm - 2:50 pm
Trial Lawyers for Justice
Constitution Hall


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TODD ANDERSON
Father, Victim Advocate, Writer, Corporate Executive

Todd Anderson is father of Skyler Justice Anderson-Coughlin, an amazing young man who succumbed to a preventable tragedy. Todd Anderson has advocated for improved vehicle recall processes, including speaking at National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) public hearing on vehicle safety defects. He has appeared in numerous newspapers, TV news reports and documentaries, in an effort to increase vehicle transportation safety, and in particular, the recall process.

Todd Anderson has an extensive business background with a BA in Business-Economics (SUNY Oneonta) and MBA in Marketing (University of New Haven). Todd has over 30 years’ experience in the corporate world, primarily in logistics for large multi-national corporations. Todd launched a number of entrepreneurial ventures with his son, Skyler. Currently, Todd is developing a nonprofit which is dedicated to fine art preservation, education and charity.

Todd is an avid writer. He has contributed to multiple books, including Imagine: The Spirit of Twentieth-Century American Heroes, and American Countercultures: An Encyclopedia of Nonconformists, Alternative Lifestyles, and Radical Ideas in U.S. History

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 11:00 am - 11:40 am
Plantiffs for Justice
Constitution Hall


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SAMAN AZIMI
PIRG Student Leader, UConn

Saman is a sophomore dual degree in finance and the classics at the University of Connecticut. Hailing from Mansfield, CT, he is UConn born and bred, and is working to improve the place that’s so long been a part of his life through UConnPIRG. His primary interests (apart from soccer) are environmental sustainability, political engagement, and campaign finance reform. Being only in his second year, he’s optimistic that significant positive change will come to UConn in the coming years.

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016 9:20 am - 9:40 am
Empowering Students
Constitution Hall


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LAURA BARRETT
Executive Director, Center for Health, Environment and Justice

Laura Barrett became the Executive Director of CHEJ in 2015. Previously she served as the campaign director for Gamaliel, an international community organizing training network, where she headed the Transportation Equity Network. Laura worked as a field organizer for the Center for Community Change, and served as director of Housing Comes First, the Missouri Public Interest Research Group (MoPIRG), and the Campaign for Jobs and Housing. She was the campaign manager for a ballot initiative that resulted in the passage of the largest per capita housing trust fund in America, the St. Louis Housing Trust Fund. She has helped groups to win millions of dollars in public transportation funding and negotiated community benefits agreements and positive workforce development policies at the local, state and federal levels. Laura is the recipient of the Women Who Move the Nation from the Council of Minority Transportation Officials (COMTO). She holds a Master’s Degree in Social Work from Washington University.

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016 11:20 am - 11:40 am
How Events Spark the Creation of Organizations
Constitution Hall


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WILLIAM BLACK
University of Missouri- Kansas City School of Law

William Kurt Black (born September 6, 1951) is an American lawyer, academic, author, and a former bank regulator. Black’s expertise is in white-collar crime, public finance, regulation, and other topics in law and economics. He developed the concept of “control fraud”, in which a business or national executive uses the entity he or she controls as a “weapon” to commit fraud.

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?opt ... umival=795

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 27, 2016 3:00 pm - 3:20 pm
Turning the Lights Out on Major Financial Fraud
Carnegie Institution of Washington


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F. PAUL BLAND
Executive Director, Public Justice

Mr. F. Paul Bland, Jr. is the Executive Director of Public Justice, which fights injustice and ensures equal access to the courts. Paul has argued and won more than 30 cases that led to reported decisions for consumers, employees or whistleblowers in six of the U.S. Courts of Appeals and the high courts of nine different states. Paul has testified in both houses of Congress, several state legislatures and administrative agencies; has been quoted in more than 100 periodicals throughout the country and has appeared in several radio and TV stories.

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 2:10 pm - 2:50 pm
Trial Lawyers for Justice
Constitution Hall


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JOHN BOGLE
The founder and former CEO of The Vanguard Group

John C. Bogle, 87, is Founder of The Vanguard Group, Inc., and President of Vanguard’s Bogle Financial Markets Research Center. He created Vanguard in 1974 and served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer until 1996 and Senior Chairman until 2000. He had been associated with a predecessor company since 1951, immediately following his graduation from Princeton University, magna cum laude in Economics. He is a graduate of Blair Academy, Class of 1947.The Vanguard Group is the largest mutual fund organization in the world. Headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania, Vanguard comprises more than 160 mutual funds with current assets totaling more than $3.4 trillion. Vanguard 500 Index Fund, the largest fund in the group, was founded by Mr. Bogle in 1975. It was the first index mutual fund.

http://johncbogle.com/wordpress/

FIDUCIARY DUTIES AS IF SHAREHOLDERS MATTERED
SEPTEMBER 27, 2016 1:20 pm - 1:40 pm
Fiduciary Duties as if Shareholders Mattered
Carnegie Institution of Washington


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CARL T. BOGUS
Professor of Law at Roger Williams University

Carl T. Bogus is a Professor of Law at the Roger Williams University School of Law in Bristol, Rhode Island. He teaches Torts, Products Liability, Antitrust Law, and other courses. He has held visiting positions at the Rutgers-Camden, Drexel, and George Washington University law schools. Professor Bogus has written and spoken extensively about torts and the civil justice system, gun control and the Second Amendment, and political ideology. He is the author of Buckley: William F. Buckley Jr. and the Rise of American Conservatism (Bloomsbury Press) and Why Lawsuits Are Good for America: Disciplined Democracy, Big Business, and the Common Law (NYU Press), and the editor of The Second Amendment in Law and History: Historians and Constitutional Scholars on the Right to Bear Arms (The New Press). In addition to many professional journals, his writings have appeared in newspapers including USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Washington Times, and the Providence Journal; in The Nation, American Prospect, American Conservative, and Tikkun magazines; and on the National Review and CNN websites.

http://law.rwu.edu/carl-t-bogus

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 10:10 am - 10:30 am
Why Lawsuits are Good for America
Constitution Hall


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DAVID BOLLIER
Co-founder of the Commons Strategies Group, Senior Fellow at the Norman Lear Center at the USC Annenberg School for Communication

David Bollier is an author, activist, blogger and consultant who spends a lot of time exploring the commons as a new paradigm of economics, politics and culture. His work on the commons takes many forms — as an author and blogger; frequent international speaker; conference and workshop organizer; contributor to book anthologies; designer of courses on the commons; and advisor and strategist. He taught “The Rise of the Commons” course at Amherst College as the Croxton Lecturer in 2010; and served an expert witness for the “design commons” in a trademark lawsuit. He was Founding Editor of Onthecommons.org and a Fellow of On the Commons from 2004 to 2010.

http://www.bollier.org/

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 27, 2016 2:20 pm - 2:40 pm
Controlling What We Own—Defending the Commons
Carnegie Institution of Washington


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BERT BRANDENBURG
President, Appleseed Network

Bert became President of Appleseed in August 2015. For more than a decade he was the Executive Director of Justice at Stake, a national, nonpartisan partnership to keep courts fair, impartial and independent. Bert was the U.S. Justice Department’s Director of Public Affairs and chief spokesperson under Attorney General Janet Reno, where he supervised media strategy and press relations for the Department, the FBI, DEA, INS, and 93 U.S. Attorney’s offices. He served in policy and communications positions for the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, the National Performance Review, the 1992 Clinton-Gore campaign and presidential transition team, Congressman Edward Feighan, and the Progressive Policy Institute. Bert also serves as President of the National Institute on Money in State Politics, on the board of the Loth Roth Endowment, and as a fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He holds a J.D. and B.A. from the University of Virginia.

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016 9:40 am - 10:00 am
Building Alumni Civic Organizations
Constitution Hall


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ELLEN BROWN
Founder, Public Banking Institute

Ellen Brown is the founder of the Public Banking Institute and the author of a dozen books and hundreds of articles. She developed her research skills as an attorney practicing civil litigation in Los Angeles. In the best-selling Web of Debt (2007, 2012), she turned those skills to an analysis of the Federal Reserve and “the money trust,” showing how this private cartel has usurped the power to create money from the people themselves and how we the people can get it back.

In The Public Bank Solution (2013) she traces the evolution of two banking models that have competed historically, public and private; and explores contemporary public banking systems globally. She has presented these ideas at scores of conferences in the US and abroad, including in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Canada, Iceland, Ireland, Switzerland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany, Croatia, Malaysia, Mexico and Venezuela.

Brown developed an interest in the developing world and its problems while living abroad for eleven years in Kenya, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua.

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 27, 2016 3:20 pm - 3:40 pm
Public Banking
Carnegie Institution of Washington


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MICHAEL BROWN
DC Senator

Michael Donald “Mike” Brown is a shadow senator from the District of Columbia.As a shadow senator, Brown receives no pay from the government, receives no budget from the government, and cannot vote on matters before the Senate. While he does not have an office in the United States Senate, the Government of the District provides the position with an office. Brown lobbies the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives on behalf of the citizens of the District in their attempt to gain full representation in Congress, self-determination, and eventually admittance to the Union as a state. As shadow senator, Brown also works with the District’s delegate, mayor, and council to advance the interest of local residents on Federal issues.

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016 1:35 pm - 2:05 pm
The Case for Statehood—Ending the Colony
Constitution Hall


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JOSH BURCH
Neighbors United for DC Statehood

Josh Burch is a native Washingtonian who was raised in the Brookland neighborhood of NE DC where he presently lives with his wife and two children. After graduating from Virginia Tech with a degree in public and urban affairs, Josh served as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Ghana, West Africa for two years. Upon his return to the District, Josh worked for several small non-profits where he led job training, leadership development, and environmental stewardship activities for out-of-school young people in underserved communities. Josh presently works in the environmental protection field to restore waterways in the District. Josh co-founded a citizen group, Neighbors United for DC Statehood, which focuses on organizing citizens of the District and the country to create a sustained grassroots movement which will bring statehood to fruition.

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016 2:05 pm - 2:55 pm
Mobilizing for Action in The District of Columbia and the Nation—When, How and With What
Constitution Hall


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EDGAR CAHN
Professor of Law, University of District of Columbia

Professor Cahn teaches Law and Justice, and directs the Community Service Program. A co-founder with his late wife Jean Camper Cahn of the Antioch School of Law, UDC-DCSL’s predecessor; the first law school in the United States to educate law students primarily through clinical training in legal services to the poor.

In an effort to involve communities in promoting systems of self-help in the late 1980s, Professor Cahn began the Time Dollars project, a service credit program that now has more than 70 communities in the United States, Great Britain and Japan with registered programs (http://www.timebanks.org). His use of “time dollars” as an economic strategy for addressing social problems is described in his books, Time Dollars (1992) and No More Throw-Away People: The Coproduction Imperative (2004), showing how to mobilize a non-market economy that recognizes and rewards reciprocal contributions of service and caring.

http://www.law.udc.edu/?ECahn

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016 10:00 am - 10:20 am
Building Community through Bartering Time Dollars
Constitution Hall


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BETSY CAVENDISH
DC General Counsel

Elizabeth (Betsy) Cavendish is the General Counsel to the Executive Office of Mayor Muriel Bowser, where she has worked on both budget autonomy issues as well as Statehood. She has a background in field organizing, law, and policy. She was the president of the Appleseed Foundation from 2007 to the end of 2014. She served as interim president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, an American pro-choice advocacy group, during the 2004 electoral cycle, and previously, she served as NARAL’s legal director and on the staff of the Office of Legal Counsel in the Justice Department under Attorney General Janet Reno, as well as in the Civil Frauds section of DOJ. Cavendish has worked in all three branches of government and in academia. She was an assistant professor of law at the University of Illinois College of Law. Cavendish was a law clerk for Judge Gerhard Gesell on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on United States v. Oliver North. She graduated summa cum laude from Yale University and also earned her law degree at Yale.

http://mayor.dc.gov/

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm
The Best DC Constitution, The US Constitution and DC Statehood
Constitution Hall


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LAURA CHRISTIAN
Auto Safety Advocate

Laura, a former government consumer advocate, became a voice for victims of automobile safety defects after her birth daughter Amber Marie Rose died in 2005 when the airbags in her Chevy Cobalt failed to deploy. Amber’s death was one the first of at least 174 deaths linked to series of accidents (and subsequent deaths) due to a faulty ignition switch in General Motors’ vehicles. General Motors failed to protect drivers and passengers, yet were let off with nothing more than a fine and some meaningless oversight penalties – setting a terrible safety precedent for the auto industry in this country.

Laura, through GM Recall Survivors, works to change how the auto industry operates to ensure safety problems are never swept under the rug again by creating greater consumer protections on a federal and state level. The group had its first legislative victory this past year in Maryland and will be working with advocates in other states to promote policy changes.

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 11:00 am - 11:40 am
Plantiffs for Justice
Constitution Hall


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JOAN CLAYBROOK
President Emeritus, Public Citizen

Joan Claybrook is an American lawyer who served as President of Public Citizen from 1982 until December 9, 2008. Previously, she was head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in the Carter administration from 1977 to 1981.

While working in Washington, she met Ralph Nader, and the two became close friends as they both worked on improving highway and auto safety. In 1966, she teamed up with Nader to successfully lobby for passage of the nation’s first auto safety laws – the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act and the Highway Safety Act. These acts empowered the government to establish safety standards for new vehicles and issue recalls for defective vehicles and parts.

Prior to her time with NHTSA, Claybrook ran Congress Watch, worked for the Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), the National Traffic Safety Bureau, the Social Security Administration, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. She earned her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 1973 and currently serves on its Board of Visitors. She also holds positions on the boards of Consumers Union, Citizens for Tax Justice, Trial lawyers for Public Justice, Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, the Goucher College Board of Trustees, and the California Wellness Foundation Advisory Board.

http://www.shesource.org/experts/profile/joan-claybrook

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016 11:40 am - 12:00 pm
How Professions Can Advance the Public Interest
Constitution Hall
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016 10:10 am - 10:30 am
How Congress Really Works
Carnegie Institution of Washington


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JEFFREY CLEMENTS
President of American Promise and co-founder of Free Speech for People

Jeff Clements is president of American Promise and co-founder of Free Speech for People. He works with Americans all over the country for a 28th Amendment to secure the American Promise: Constitutional rights for all human beings; voting rights and representation as equal citizens; and our responsibility for effective self-government. He is the author of Corporations Are Not People: Reclaiming Democracy From Big Money And Global Corporations, and his articles and opinion pieces have appeared widely (US News & World Report, The Hill, The Boston Globe, Fox News, American Constitution Society, Salon, among others). Jeff also is president of Whaleback Partners, LLC, which invests in entrepreneurial businesses building a sustainable local food economy. Previously an Assistant Attorney General and Chief of the Public Protection Bureau in the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office, Jeff led more than 100 staff in the enforcement of environmental, healthcare, financial services, civil rights, antitrust and consumer protection laws. Jeff graduated with distinction in History and Government from Colby College, and magna cum laude from the Cornell Law School.

https://corporationsarenotpeople.com/jeff-clements/

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 27, 2016 11:10 am - 11:30 am
The Perils of Corporate Personhood
Carnegie Institution of Washington


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LLOYD CONSTANTINE
Attorney

Lloyd Constantine is the Counsel of Constantine Cannon LLP, a commercial litigation firm in New York , Washington, D.C. and London with an internationally acclaimed antitrust practice. Lloyd was Senior Advisor to the Governor of New York from January 2007 until April 2008. Lloyd was lead counsel for the plaintiffs in the landmark Visa Check/MasterMoney Antitrust Litigation, which resulted in a $3.4 billion monetary settlement and an historic injunction, which the court valued as providing upwards of $87 billion in benefit for U.S. merchants and consumers. Lloyd is the author of two books: PRICELESS: The Case That Brought Down The Visa/MasterCard Bank Cartel, and JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR: An Insider’s Chronicle Of Eliot Spitzer’s Short And Tragic Reign. Both books were published by Kaplan, 2009 and 2010 and by Skyhorse in revised paperbacks, 2012. He is a frequent contributor to numerous newspapers and periodicals and a regular contributor of legal, political and social commentary to Hearst’s Albany Times Union. Lloyd received his undergraduate degree from Williams College and his J.D. from Columbia Law.

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 27, 2016 12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
A New Approach to Mobilize Shareholders—the Penny Brigade
Carnegie Institution of Washington


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JOHN CONYERS, JR.
Congressman

Congressman John Conyers, Jr. represents Michigan’s 13th Congressional District which encompasses the Detroit metropolitan area. In 2014, Congressman Conyers was elected to his 26th consecutive term, making him the the first African-American to hold the distinction as Dean (most senior member) of Congress.

Congressman Conyers is the current Ranking Member and a former chair of the House Committee on the Judiciary . Previously, he served as Chair of the Committee on Government Operations (now the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform). Congressman Conyers is a Founding Member and Dean of the Congressional Black Caucus.

In Congressman Conyers’ 50 years of public service, he has been a major proponent of more than 100 pieces of critical legislation including the original Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Violence Against Women Act of 1994, the Motor Voter Bill of 1993, the Alcohol Warning Label Act of 1988, and the Jazz Preservation Act of 1987. Congressman Conyers was also the driving force behind the Help America Vote Act of 2002.

On April 8, 1968, four days after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. passed away, Congressman Conyers introduced the original Martin Luther King Holiday Act of 1983. After 15 years, the bill would eventually pass into law, making the third Monday of January as an official Federal holiday.

Congressman Conyers, born in Detroit, MI, attended Northwestern High School. Upon graduation, he matriculted to Wayne State University for his undergraduate and legal studies. Congressman Conyers served in the National Guard and the United States Army Corps of Engineers during the Korean War. Congressman Conyers is married to Monica, and they have two sons John III and Carl Edward.

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016 4:15 pm - 4:45 pm
Making Statehood a Presidential Priority—Mobilizing for Statehood Nationwide
Constitution Hall


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HARRY DEITZLER
Attorney

Harry Deitzler has been a practicing attorney since 1976. For the past 25 years he has been a partner in the Charleston, West Virginia law firm Hill, Peterson, Carper, Bee & Deitzler, PLLC. Mr. Deitzler previously served as president of the West Virginia Prosecuting Attorneys’ Association, president of the West Virginia State Bar, and president of Public Justice. In 2001 he founded and funded the Deitzler Foundation, Inc, a 501(c)(3) charitable family foundation.

Mr. Deitzler and his co-counsel were recognized as “Trial Lawyers of the Year” by Public Justice for work in a precedent setting case involving recovery for victims of DuPont Corporation’s perfluorooctanoic acid (C8) groundwater pollution in areas surrounding Parkersburg, West Virginia. The class action settlement immediately resulted in cleanup of six community water systems and the creation of a comprehensive medically verified community health study which gathered medical histories and blood samples from nearly 70,000 affected residents. The data from that study revealed that DuPont and other corporate giants were effectively poisoning the world. Toxic C8 is now in the blood of virtually every human being on the planet.

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 2:10 pm - 2:50 pm
Trial Lawyers for Justice
Constitution Hall


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ANDRE DELATTRE
Executive Director, U.S. PIRG

Andre Delattre is Executive Director of U.S. PIRG and the U.S. PIRG Education Fund, and the National Campus Director for the Student PIRGs. He oversees all aspects of the PIRGs’ programs, including program implementation and administration.

Prior to becoming the U.S. PIRG Executive Director in 2007, Mr. Delattre was the National Campus Director for the Student PIRGs. During his tenure, the campus program grew in both scope and impact. Ninety staff currently work with more than 1200 student interns and 12,500 volunteers on more than 100 campuses. Since 1997, the PIRGs have added new chapters at nine new campuses, increased funding for the program through student membership dues, and attracted grant support from such foundations as The Pew Charitable Trusts, the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Open Society Institute.

Mr. Delattre has also played an integral role in training and working with new staff for the organization. Among them: Dave Rosenfeld, who started with MASSPIRG in 1995 and now serves as executive director of OSPIRG; Allison Cairo, who started with Massachusetts Community Water Watch, worked as the executive director of NJPIRG, and now serves as deputy director of USPIRG; Sarah Bennett, who started with NJPIRG and is now the Recruitment and Training director for Corporate Accountability International; Kathleen Barr, who started with the Student PIRGs’ Hunger campaign, was the Campaigns Director for MoveOn.org, and is currently the Chief of Staff for UltraViolet; and Tiernan Sittenfeld, legislative director for the League of Conservation Voters.

Mr. Delattre is a 1989 graduate of the University of California at Berkeley. While attending the school, he volunteered with CALPIRG and was elected chair of CALPIRG’s student board of directors in 1986.

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016 9:20 am - 9:40 am
Empowering Students
Constitution Hall


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JOANNE DOROSHOW
President and Executive Director of the Center for Justice & Democracy, New York Law School

Joanne Doroshow is President and Executive Director of the Center for Justice & Democracy at New York Law School, which she is an Adjunct Professor of Law. CJ&D is the only consumer organization in the nation dedicated exclusively to fighting attacks on the civil justice system. She is also co-founder of Americans for Insurance Reform (AIR), a coalition of 100 consumer groups from around the country working to strengthen oversight of liability insurance industry practices.

Joanne is an attorney who has worked on civil justice issues since 1986, when she first directed a project for Ralph Nader on liability and the insurance industry. In that capacity, she developed some of the first educational materials used to fight tort reform around the country. At CJ&D, Joanne has written or co-authored several major CJ&D studies, including Premium Deceit: The Failure of “Tort Reform” to Cut Insurance Prices, The CALA Files: The Secret Campaign by Big Tobacco and Other Major Industries to Take Away Your Rights, Repeat Offenders: How the Insurance Industry Manufactures Crises and Harms America, The Racial Implications of Tort Reform (25 Wash. U. J.L. & Pol’y 161, 2007), Tort Litigation and Juries: By the Numbers, and Medical Malpractice: By the Numbers. She also edited Lifesavers: CJ&D’s Guide to Protect Us All, and co-wrote numerous other CJ&D studies and White Papers. She has testified many times before Congress and state legislatures.

Joanne is the recipient of the AAJ Partnership Award, 2016; the Distinguished Service Award, Kansas Association for Justice, 2012; Consumer Advocate of the Year, Consumer Attorneys of California, 2009; Esther Weissman Award, Worker Injury Law and Advocacy Group, 2008; Consumer Education Award, Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, 2005; Certificate of Recognition, California State Assembly, 2005; Consumer Advocacy Award, Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys, 2003; Consumer Advocate of the Year, Trial Lawyers Association of Metropolitan Washington, DC, 2003; and the Hoosier Freedom Award, Indiana Trial Lawyers Association, 2000.

Joanne was a member of the New York State Medical Liability Advisory Task Force in 2007. In 1991, Joanne was a member of the Steering Committee of the Brookings Institute/American Bar Association’s Advisory Committee on the Future of the Civil Jury, and was an invited participant in the American Judicature Society’s Conference on the Future of the American Jury System in 1999. She was also selected by the Stern Family Fund as the Public Interest Pioneer for 1999, and honor that was accompanied by two $100,000 grants.

Joanne has extensive film and television experience, as well. She was an Associate Producer of the highest grossing documentary in history, Fahrenheit 9/11, winner of the 2004 Cannes Film Festival Palme D’or. She was also Associate Producer of the 2007 Oscar-nominated documentary, Sicko. And she was a producer of The Panama Deception, which won the 1993 Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. She has worked on the theatrical, broadcast and video distribution of this and other films. In 1994 and 1995, she was Coordinating Producer and a segment producer for TV Nation, the Emmy Award-winning humorous political magazine show with Michael Moore.

THE AGENDA FOR ADVANCING JUSTICE
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 4:50 pm - 5:10 pm
The Agenda for Advancing Justice
Constitution Hall


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JULIAN DOTSON
President and CEO, D.C. Urban Debate league

Julian Dotson is the President and CEO of the D.C. Urban Debate league; he coaches several debate teams in the public and private schools in the DC area. He taught English and Debate for 14 years until he fully devoted his time to expanding the debate league in the Metropolitan region. He is a screenwriter, graphic designer, lyricist and poet, and avid fisherman who loves to tackle tough ideas and approach education with a world view. This Jack of All trades credits his father for forcing him to do what it takes to be self sufficient, his mother for teaching him how to honor his wife, and his wife of 12 years, Rana Dotson for seeing the good in the human spirit. He has three children, Isaiah, Caleb and Jaina, who all attend the Maya Angelou French Immersion School in Temple Hills, Maryland.

http://www.dcudl.org/

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016 2:40 pm - 3:20 pm
Teaching Civics—A View from the Classroom
Carnegie Institution of Washington


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PETER DREIER
Chair of Urban & Environmental Policy Department, Occidental College

Peter Dreier writes widely on American politics and public policy for The Nation, American Progress, Dissent, Huffington Post, and newspaper op-ed pages. His latest book is The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century: A Social Justice Hall of Fame (Nation Books). He is also co-author of three books about cities and urban policy, including The Next Los Angeles: The Struggle for a Livable City. He works with many community organizing groups and unions and led the successful minimum wage campaign in Pasadena, California. Dreier joined the Occidental faculty in 1993 after serving as housing director at the Boston Redevelopment Authority and senior policy advisor to Boston Mayor Ray Flynn.
http://www.oxy.edu/faculty/peter-dreier

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016 1:40 pm - 2:00 pm
Public Sentiment and Social Change—What it Takes
Carnegie Institution of Washington


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JORDAN ESTEVAO
Senior Strategist, National People's Action

Jordan Estevao has been a community organizer for 15 years – on the neighborhood, city, state and national levels in the US and the UK. He has organized successful campaigns on neighborhood infrastructure, immigrants’ rights, workers’ rights, and Wall Street reform. As Bank Accountability Campaign Director at National People’s Action, Jordan has been deeply involved in current campaigns for financial industry reform.Jordan and NPA take particular pride in a deep commitment to leadership development and aggressive, creative direct action. Like building a bridge over the moat surrounding a recent JPMorgan Chase shareholder meeting and storming across dressed as Robin Hood and his merry men.

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016 2:00 pm - 2:20 pm
Training for Change
Carnegie Institution of Washington


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WENDY FIELDS
Executive Director, Democracy Initiative

Wendy Fields joined the Democracy Initiative/Democracy Initiative Education Fund as Executive Director following extensive experience working in broad-based coalitions. Prior to beginning at the Democracy Initiative/Democracy Initiative Education Fund, Wendy was the Vice President of Strategic Campaigns and Partnerships at Common Cause for two years, where she focused on linking economic inequity and racial equity to the democracy agenda.

Earlier in her career, Wendy spent 17 years at United Automobile Workers (UAW) in Detroit, Michigan, where she served as both Executive Administrative Assistant and then Chief of Staff to UAW President Bob King. The first woman to hold the highest non-elected position, Wendy’s role included formulating policies on organizing, collective bargaining in the auto sector, and political action.

http://www.democracyinitiative.org/

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016 3:20 pm - 3:40 pm
Building A Movement
Carnegie Institution of Washington


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LUCINDA FINLEY
Professor, Vice Provost, SUNY Buffalo Law School

Lucinda M. Finley, is the Frank Raichle Professor of Law at the University of Buffalo School of Law. Her research and teaching areas include tort law, women and the law, reproductive rights, employment discrimination, and First Amendment and equal protection law.

She is the author of numerous law review articles and book chapters on tort law and women and the law, and is the co-author of a leading casebook, Tort Law & Practice (Lexis Publications, third edition 2006). Her recent research focuses on tort reform caps on non-economic damages, and analyzes how caps disparately affect women, the elderly and children. Finley is also active as a litigator and appellate advocate in the federal courts, and frequently testifies before the U.S. Congress and state legislative committees. She was the first female lawyer from Western New York to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court.

She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Barnard College and an honors graduate of Columbia University Law School. She served as law clerk to Judge Arlin Adams on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and then practiced law with the Washington, D.C. firm Shea and Gardner. Prior to joining the SUNY Buffalo Law faculty, she taught at Yale Law School.

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 4:30 pm - 4:50 pm
How Tort “Deform” Harms Us
Constitution Hall


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JOHN FOX
Federal Tax Policy Expert

John O. Fox was a tax lawyer in Washington, D.C. from 1964 to 2000 and a Visiting Professor at Mount Holyoke College from 1985 through 2011, where he taught “Winners and Losers,” a seminar on U.S. tax policy, as well as a seminar on poverty in the United States. He also is in the process of preparing materials, that will be free online, on five 50-minute classes for high school teachers to consider using: two on the federal individual income tax, two on the federal corporate income tax, and one on Social Security and Medicare.

Mr. Fox is the author of If Americans Really Understood the Income Tax (Westview, 2001), and, for the 2012 election, 10 Tax Questions the Candidates Don’t Want You to Ask. Mr. Fox has commented frequently about tax issues on radio and television, and his articles on what’s right and wrong with the U.S. revenue system have appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, and many other newspapers.

10taxquestions.com

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016 9:50 am - 10:10 am
Teaching Taxes—Politics and Practice
Carnegie Institution of Washington


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S. DAVID FREEMAN
Senior advisor, Friends of the Earth, Former Head of TVA

S. David Freeman is a senior advisor with Friends of the Earth’s nuclear campaign, which works to reduce the risk of nuclear power to the public. He has more than four decades of experience directing federal, regional and local energy policies. He was appointed chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority by Jimmy Carter in 1977, where he stopped the construction of eight large nuclear power plants and pioneered a massive energy conservation program. Subsequently, Mr. Freeman served for two decades as general manager of several large public power agencies including the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the New York Power Authority and the Sacramento Municipal Utility District. He is a renowned expert on clean energy, efficiency and the risks of nuclear power. He holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Georgia Tech, and an L.L.B. from the University of Tennessee. He wrote Energy: The New Era in 1974, and Winning Our Energy Independence: An Energy Insider Shows How in 2007, and more recently, All-Electric America.

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016 9:30 am - 9:50 am
Power for the People—What Our Energy Policy Should Be
Carnegie Institution of Washington


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MITCHELL GARABEDIAN
Attorney

Mitchell Garabedian is the founder of the firm and since 1979 has focused on helping individuals and representing victims of sexual abuse. Mitchell Garabedian has successfully argued that the First Amendment of the United States Constitution does not bar clergy sexual abuse cases. He has successfully argued that state statute of limitations have not expired in cases brought by adults who were sexually abused when they were young children. In his advocacy work, Mitchell Garabedian has successfully represented individuals in Massachusetts trial and appellate courts, as well as in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. He has personally represented hundreds of victims of clergy sexual abuse, and his legal work has encouraged thousands more to come forward. He drafted legislation that added clergy to the list of mandatory reporters of child abuse. He continues to represent sexual abuse victims and support changes in legislation.

http://www.garabedianlaw.com/

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 2:50 pm - 3:10 pm
Case Study the Power of Tort Law to Break through Secrecy and Entrenched Coverups
Constitution Hall


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FRANKLIN GARCIA
DC Representative

Franklin Garcia was elected US Representative (Shadow) for the District of Columbia on November 4, 2014. He is working to bring full democracy to more than 650,000 people in our nation’s capital by helping make the District of Columbia the 51st State in the union. He is part of a Statehood Congressional Delegation that includes two Senators and one US Representative.

Representative Garcia is the former President and founder of the DC Latino Caucus, and current President of the non-profit DC Latino Leadership Council. He has held key positions in the campaigns of Hillary Clinton, former DC Mayor Adrian Fenty, Dominican President Leonel Fernandez, and other politicians. Representative Garcia serves on a number of Boards and Committees and served on the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington Host Committee.

He is the founder of the DCiReporter TV Show, writes for a Spanish language newspaper and is a Huffington Post and Examiner blogger. He is an active member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and lives in the Woodrige neighborhood in Ward 5.

http://franklinfordc.com/about/

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016 1:35 pm - 2:05 pm
The Case for Statehood—Ending the Colony
Constitution Hall


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PAMELA GILBERT
Partner, Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca, LLP

Pamela Gilbert has been a named partner in Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca, LLP, and its immediate predecessor firm since 2003. Ms. Gilbert has over twenty-five years of experience in consumer advocacy in Washington, DC.

Ms. Gilbert served as Executive Director of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (1995-2001), the agency’s senior staff position. She supervised a staff of approximately 500, including 25 attorneys; was responsible for the full range of government management issues; and helped persuade Congress and the administration to increase funding to the agency by nearly 40 percent.

Ms. Gilbert also served as Consumer Program Director at the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (1984-1989) where she specialized in civil justice and consumer protection issues. She worked for Public Citizen’s Congress Watch (1989-1994), one of Washington’s largest consumer advocacy organizations, first as Legislative Director and then as Executive Director.

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 1:00 pm - 1:20 pm
Using and Defending Class Action Litigation
Constitution Hall


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THOMAS V. GIRARDI
Attorney

Thomas Vincent Girardi is a founding partner of Girardi & Keese a downtown Los Angeles law firm. In 1970, Girardi became the first attorney in the state of California to win a $1 million-plus award for a medical malpractice case. Girardi has handled major cases against the former Lockheed Corp (now the Lockheed Martin Corp.), Pacific Gas & Electric Co, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and Hollywood’s seven major movie studios. In one of his better known cases against Pacific Gas & Electric, the utility company agreed to pay $333 million to 650 residents of the desert community of Hinkley, California. The residents blamed incidents of cancer and other diseases on contaminated water leaked from a gas pumping station. This case was the inspiration for the film Erin Brockovich starring Julia Roberts. Girardi graduated from Loyola High School (Los Angeles) in 1957. He received his undergraduate degree from Loyola Marymount University in 1961, his LL.B. from Loyola Law School in 1964, and an LLM from New York University in 1965.

http://www.girardikeese.com/

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 11:40 am - 12:00 pm
Litigating for Justice
Constitution Hall


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ANDREW GUTHRIE FERGUSON
Professor of Law, UDC School of Law

Professor Ferguson joined the law faculty at UDC in 2010. He was granted tenure and promoted to the rank of Full Professor in 2015. His articles have appeared in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the California Law Review, the Cornell Law Review, the Minnesota Law Review, the Northwestern Law Review, the University of Southern California Law Review, the Notre Dame Law Review, and the Emory Law Journal among others.

Professor Ferguson’s book Why Jury Duty Matters: A Citizen’s Guide to Constitutional Action (NYU Press) is the first book written for jurors on jury duty. (Book Review). He stars in the “Welcome To Jury Duty Video” in D.C. Superior Court seen by more than 30,000 citizens annually.

His legal commentary has been featured in numerous media outlets, including CNN, NPR, The Economist, the Washington Post, USA Today, the ABA Journal, The Atlantic (digital), The Huffington Post, and other national and international newspapers, magazines, and media sites.

Professor Ferguson has been voted “Professor of the Year” three times. In 2016, he received a University-wide Certificate of Commendation for his teaching and service.

http://www.law.udc.edu/?AFerguson

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 10:30 am - 10:50 am
The Historic Role of the Civil Jury—and its Perilous Future
Constitution Hall


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J. MARIA GLOVER
Professor of Law, Georgetown Law

Professor Glover teaches and writes on civil procedure, complex litigation, and the interplay between private litigation and public regulation. Before coming to Georgetown in 2012, she was a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. Previously, she clerked for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and practiced in the Supreme Court and Appellate practice group at Mayer Brown LLP in Washington, DC. She is a graduate of Vanderbilt Law School, where she was Senior Articles Editor of the Vanderbilt Law Reviewand was awarded the Cecil D. Branstetter Litigation and Dispute Resolution Program Award.

PRIVATE ENFORCEMENT: MYTH OR REALITY
SEPTEMBER 27, 2016 2:00 pm - 2:20 pm
Private Enforcement Myth or Reality
Carnegie Institution of Washington


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Re: Ralph Nader Radio Hour

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REV. GRAYLAN HAGLER
Director of Faith Strategies: a collective of clergy consulting, advising and organizing to bring justice issues into the heart of the faith community.

Rev. Graylan Hagler, an African-American pastor and activist. Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. Hagler received a Bachelor’s Degree in Religion from Oberlin College, Ohio, in 1976. Rev. Hagler is presently the Senior Minister of Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ, Washington, D.C., and the Immediate Past National President of Ministers for Racial, Social and Economic Justice (MRSEJ). Rev. Hagler is a long-time social justice advocate and active in the Palestine solidarity movement. He recently returned from an all-Black delegation trip to Palestine consisting of Hip Hop and Spoken Word artists as well as an activist in the labor movement, and academic on Black Liberation and a survivor of the Rwandan genocide.

http://www.plymouth-ucc.org/

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016 2:05 pm - 2:55 pm
Mobilizing for Action in The District of Columbia and the Nation—When, How and With What
Constitution Hall


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OLIVER HALL
Founder, Center for Competitive Democracy

Oliver Hall has used small claims courts to obtain relief for consumers from airlines, car rental companies, cell phone providers and others. He is founder and legal counsel to the Center for Competitive Democracy, a non-profit 501(c)(3) that works to identify and eliminate barriers to political participation and to secure free, open and competitive elections by fostering active civic engagement in the political process.

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016 10:50 am - 11:10 am
Small Claims Courts—the People’s Courts—Why Not Use Them?
Carnegie Institution of Washington


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JAMES HENRY
Senior Fellow, Columbia University Center On Sustainable Investment & Former chief economist at McKinsey & Co

James S. Henry is a U.S. economist, attorney, and investigative journalist who has written extensively about global banking, debt crises, tax havens and economic development. In the corporate world, Henry served as Chief Economist, McKinsey & Co. (NYC global h.q.); VP Strategy, IBM/Lotus Development Corporation (Cambridge), Manager, Business Development, the Chairman’s Office (Jack Welch), GE (Fairfield), and senior consultant Monitor Group,the international consulting firm. He is author of the acclaimed investigative economics book The Blood Bankers, and his articles and citations have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, The Nation, The Conference Board, The Washington Post, Harpers, Fortune, Jornal do Brasil, The Manila Chronicle, La Nacion, and many others.

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 27, 2016 3:40 pm - 4:00 pm
Corporate Tax Dodges and Closing Corporate Tax Loopholes
Carnegie Institution of Washington


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HON. REP. ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON
Delegate to Congress, DC

Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, now in her thirteenth term as the Congresswoman for the District of Columbia, is the Ranking Member of the House Subcommittee on Highways and Transit. She serves on two committees: the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

Congresswoman Norton’s accomplishments in breaking barriers for her disempowered district are matched by her success in bringing home unique economic benefits to her constituents. Among them are senatorial courtesy to recommend federal judges, the U.S. Attorney, and other significant federal law enforcement positions for the District; up to $10,000 per year for all D.C. high school graduates to attend any public U.S. college or university and up to $2,500 per year to many private colleges and universities.

The Congresswoman, who taught law full time before being elected, is a tenured professor of law at Georgetown University, teaching an upper-class seminar there every year.

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016 1:20 pm - 1:35 pm
Getting Statehood through Congress—Strategy and Resources
Constitution Hall


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KATHERINE ISAAC
Author of Civics for Democracy, APWU

Katherine Isaac coordinates the Campaign for Postal Banking and A Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service at the American Postal Workers Union. She serves on the board of the International Labor Rights Forum. Her labor movement work also includes the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union and its effort to create a Labor Party. While at the Center for Study of Responsive Law, Isaac wrote Civics for Democracy: A Journey for Teachers and Students and led the Summer Institute on Teaching Activism to promote activism as a component of civic education.

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016 2:40 pm - 3:20 pm
Teaching Civics—A View from the Classroom
Carnegie Institution of Washington


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JANINE JACKSON
Program Director, FAIR

Janine Jackson is FAIR’s program director and and producer/host of FAIR’s syndicated radio showCounterSpin. She contributes frequently to FAIR’s newsletter Extra!, and co-edited The FAIR Reader: AnExtra! Review of Press and Politics in the ’90s(Westview Press). She has appeared on ABC‘sNightline and CNN Headline News, among other outlets, and has testified to the Senate Communications Subcommittee on budget reauthorization for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Her articles have appeared in various publications, including In These Times and the UAW’s Solidarity, and in books including Civil Rights Since 1787 (New York University Press) andStop the Next War Now: Effective Responses to Violence and Terrorism (New World Library). Jackson is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and has an M.A. in sociology from the New School for Social Research.

http://fair.org/about-fair/staff-biographies/

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016 10:30 am - 10:50 am
A Citizen’s Guide to Freeing the Press
Carnegie Institution of Washington


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MICHAEL JACOBSON
President, Center for Science in the Public Interest

Michael Jacobson holds a PhD in microbiology from MIT and has dedicated his life to advocating sound nutrition and food safety policies. He co-founded CSPI, serves as president, and has written numerous books and reports. He’s been honored with such awards as: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Hero Award (2010); American Public Health Association’s David P. Rall award for advocacy in public health (2011); Food Marketing Institute’s Esther Peterson Consumer Service Award (1992).

https://cspinet.org/about/staff

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016 11:30 am - 11:50 am
Organizing for Safe Food
Carnegie Institution of Washington


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ANISE JENKINS
Free DC movement

Anise Jenkins, is a proud native Washingtonian, executive director of Stand Up! for Democracy in DC (Free DC) – a grass-roots organization whose mission is to realize full American citizenship rights for DC resident through DC Statehood. A two-time graduate of Howard University (BA in political science and Masters in Business Administration); passionately committed to all forms of equal civil and human rights causes.

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016 2:05 pm - 2:55 pm
Mobilizing for Action in The District of Columbia and the Nation—When, How and With What
Constitution Hall


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MARY ANN KARTH
Traffic Safety Advocate

Marianne Karth served as a VISTA Vounteer in the position of Chapter Director of a nursing home patient advocacy organization, Citizens for Better Care, after graduating from college in 1977. Later, after obtaining her Master in Public Health, she worked for a variety of non-profit organizations in program administration before raising and teaching her nine children at home.

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 11:00 am - 11:40 am
Plantiffs for Justice
Constitution Hall


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DENNIS KELLEHER
President and CEO, Better Markets

Dennis M. Kelleher is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Better Markets, Inc., a Washington, D.C. based independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that promotes the economic security, opportunity and prosperity of the American people by advocating for the public interest in the US and global financial markets and by fighting for a stable, balanced financial system that supports the real economy and rising living standards.

He has held several senior staff positions in the United States Senate, most recently as the Chief Counsel and Senior Leadership Advisor to the Chairman of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee. Previously, he was a Deputy Staff Director and General Counsel to a Senate Committee as well as a Legislative Director for a senior member of the Senate. Mr. Kelleher was also a litigation partner with the international law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, where he had a U.S. and European practice specializing in the securities and financial markets as well as corporate conduct/misconduct.

Mr. Kelleher is an internationally sought expert on financial reform, financial markets, economics, regulation, legal issues, and their intersection with political matters. In addition to testifying in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, he also speaks frequently in the US and Europe on these matters at conferences, seminars and symposiums as well as on all media platforms.

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 27, 2016 9:50 am - 10:10 am
Reinvigorating the SEC
Carnegie Institution of Washington


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KESHINI LADDUWAHETTY
Chair, DC for Democracy

Kesh Ladduwahetty immigrated to the United States from Sri Lanka when she was 11 and has lived in Washington, D.C. since 1989. After working as a software developer and business analyst for twenty years at several Information Technology firms, she launched her second career in 2009 by founding her own business, Art for Activists. She performs graphic design and illustration services in print and digital media, with a particular focus on nonprofit clients and educational projects.

Since 2003, Kesh has devoted a considerable amount of her time to volunteering for political causes. Most of her volunteerism is at DC for Democracy, a leading local group in the Democracy for America (DFA) community, and where she serves as Chair. She works on a wide range of progressive reform campaigns and electoral campaigns in the DC metro area, including statehood for the people of Washington, DC and campaign finance reform.

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016 2:05 pm - 2:55 pm
Mobilizing for Action in The District of Columbia and the Nation—When, How and With What
Constitution Hall


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WILLIAM LAZONICK
Professor of Economics, UMass Lowell

William Lazonick is professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where he directs the Center for Industrial Competitiveness. He is co-founder and president of The Academic-Industry Research Network. Previously, Lazonick was assistant and associate professor of economics at Harvard University, professor of economics at Barnard College of Columbia University, and distinguished research professor at INSEAD in France.. Professor Lazonick’s research focuses on the theory of innovative enterprise and the social conditions of innovation and development. His book, Sustainable Prosperity in the New Economy? Business Organization and High-Tech Employment in the United States (Upjohn Institute for Employment Research 2009) was awarded the 2010 Schumpeter Prize by the International Schumpeter Society. Lazonick’s “Profits Without Prosperity: Stock Buybacks Manipulate the Market and Leave Most Americans Worse Off,” Harvard Business Review, September 2014 has received widespread attention.

http://www.theAIRnet.org

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 27, 2016 10:10 am - 10:30 am
Stock Buybacks and Executive Pay
Carnegie Institution of Washington


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Re: Ralph Nader Radio Hour

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WILLIAM LERACH
Shareholder Advocate

William Lerach is a lawyer who specialized in private securities class action lawsuits. The $7.12 billion he obtained as the lead plaintiff’s attorney in the case against Enron is currently the largest sum ever recovered in a group of securities class-action lawsuits in U.S. history. Following the bankruptcy of Enron, Lerach was the lead attorney who sued banks, law firms, accounting firms and related entities involved in the fraud.

About 75% of the class action suits filed and led by Lerach typically brought charges of insider trading, stock fraud and stock manipulation against corporate officers and directors of the largest corporations in the US. Over his legal career, Lerach was the lead counsel in recovering approximately $45 billion on behalf of defrauded shareholders.
Lerach was involved in many securities class action and corporate derivative suits in recent years, including Enron, Dynegy, Qwest, WorldCom, Citibank, Drexel Burnham, Tyco, Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, Disney, Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse First Boston, Global Crossing, AT&T, Hewlett-Packard, Apple Computer, ExxonMobil, R.J. Reynolds, Arthur Andersen, and AOL Time Warner.

Lerach earned his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Pittsburgh. The University of Pittsburgh bestowed one of its highest awards on Lerach, designating him a “Legacy Laureate” reserved for the University’s most outstanding graduates.

In August 2002, The Nation published a cover story by William Greider featuring Lerach with the title “Is This America’s Top Corporate Crime Fighter?”

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 27, 2016 1:40 pm - 2:00 pm
Curbing Abuse of Shareholders through Litigation
Carnegie Institution of Washington


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ROBYN LINGO
Executive Director, Mikva Challenge DC

Robyn is the Executive Director of Mikva Challenge DC. She brings almost fifteen years of youth empowerment, non-profit management, curriculum development and youth facilitation experience to her role as Executive Director for Mikva Challenge DC. A native of the Washington, DC area, Robyn is passionate about providing authentic spaces for DC youth to investigate, affect and change the world around them. She looks forward to building more opportunities to bring youth voice into local decision making and to highlight young people’s ability to be engaged citizens and community leaders.

http://www.mikvachallenge.org/

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016 2:40 pm - 3:20 pm
Teaching Civics—A View from the Classroom
Carnegie Institution of Washington


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AYO MAGWOOD
Upper School teacher, Maret School

Ayo Magwood is an Upper School teacher at Maret School, an independent school in Washington DC. She currently teaches U.S. History and an elective entitled “Mapping Inequity in DC”.

She teaches US History with a mind to preparing future citizens to be able to engage in respectful and informed dialogue on current issues. She consistently shows students how the same ideological value tensions that lie under historical debates and developments, also underlie current and future issues. She strives to show them how to understand and respect opposing viewpoints and to counter them with informed evidence, rather than with partisan sound bites.

She also teaches history through a strong social justice lens. For example, this year she is upending the usual US History chronology and starting the year with a 4-week “1960s-present” unit entitled “Understanding the Rise of Trumpism and Black Lives Matter.” The underlying objective is to help the students come to an understanding about the rise of income and racial inequality.

https://www.maret.org/

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016 2:40 pm - 3:20 pm
Teaching Civics—A View from the Classroom
Carnegie Institution of Washington


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CARL MAYER
Attorney

Carl J. Mayer is the founding member of Mayer Law Group LLC. A graduate of Princeton University (magna cum laude), the University of Chicago Law School (Law Review) and Harvard Law School, Mr. Mayer has served as Special Counsel to the New York State Attorney General, as a professor of law, and as a consultant to the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Investigations. Carl literally wrote the book on fighting corporate corruption. His book, Shakedown, is a classic expose of corrupt practices, and he continues to lecture around the world and has given talks at numerous law schools including Columbia, NYU, Seattle Law School and the University of San Diego, to name just a few. His views are sought on a wide variety of legal issues and him as appeared on all the major TV networks and in outlets like the Huffington Post, Democracy Now, Common Dreams, Counterpunch, the Harvard Business Review and many others. The Mayer Law Group has successfully represented class plaintiffs in complex securities, consumer, and constitutional litigations for over twenty years.

http://www.carlmayer.com/

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 1:50 pm - 2:10 pm
How the Supreme Court Coddles Tort Perpetrators
Constitution Hall


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ROB MCGARRAH
Attorney, AFL-CIO’s Office of Investment

He is the labor movement’s chief spokesperson on workers’ compensation. He has an extensive background in health care reform.

Prior to his work at the AFL-CIO, McGarrah was a staff attorney and later director of the first labor union public policy department at the American Federation of State, County and Municipal employees. There, he wrote the original proposal for President Clinton’s Commission on Patients’ Rights and launched the union’s successful drive to organize all clerical and technical workers at Harvard University. McGarrah began his career as one of the original staff attorneys for Public Citizen’s Health Research Group, where he published the first consumer directory of physicians and successfully litigated a First Amendment Challenge to Virginia’s Medical Practice Act.

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 27, 2016 11:50 am - 12:10 pm
Shareholder Resolutions for Justice and Accountability
Carnegie Institution of Washington


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SCOTT MCLARTY
DC Statehood Greens

Scott McLarty has served as media coordinator for the Green Party of the United States and for the DC Statehood Green Party. He has had articles, guest columns, and book reviews published in Roll Call, CommonDreams.org, Z Magazine, Green Horizon, The Progressive Review, In These Times, and several local and community publications and small press. He joined the Green Party in 1996, and in 1998 ran for the Ward 1 seat on the Washington, DC City Council. Mr. McLarty grew up in Long Island, New York, and now lives in Washington, DC.

http://www.gp.org/scott_mclarty

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016 2:05 pm - 2:55 pm
Mobilizing for Action in The District of Columbia and the Nation—When, How and With What
Constitution Hall


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SEAN MCKESSY
Attorney

Mr. McKessy was the first Chief of the SEC Whistleblower Office and helped establish the processes the office follows and the policies that guide the SEC whistleblower program. His office assessed and reviewed whistleblower tips, evaluated whistleblower award claims and made whistleblower award recommendations to the Commission.

During his five-year tenure, he was a tireless advocate for whistleblowers and an outspoken proponent of the SEC program. He played a key role in the SEC’s efforts to protect whistleblowers using Dodd-Frank’s anti-retaliation provisions and to punish employers that discouraged employees from reporting wrongdoing to the SEC through employment agreements and other means.

Under his leadership, the SEC Whistleblower Office was authorized by the Commission to pay whistleblower awards totaling nearly $100 million – a record-setting pace for a government whistleblower reward program. The SEC recovered more than $500 million in sanctions as a result of the whistleblowers’ information and assistance.

The SEC awarded Mr. McKessy its Law and Policy Award in 2011 in recognition of his work implementing the whistleblower program created by the Dodd-Frank Act.

He is now an attorney with the Phillips & Cohen law firm in Washington, DC

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 27, 2016 11:30 am - 11:50 am
Blowing the Whistle on Securities Fraud
Carnegie Institution of Washington


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HON. PHIL MENDELSON
DC Council Chairman

Phil Mendelson was first elected to the Council of the District of Columbia in November of 1998 as an At-Large Councilmember. He served the District in that role until June 2012 when, following the departure of the previous Council Chairman, Phil was selected by his colleagues to take over that role. In November 2012, District voters overwhelmingly elected Phil as Chairman of the Council. He was re-elected as Chairman, again overwhelmingly by District voters, in 2014. Prior to becoming Chairman, Phil served eight years as Chair of the Council’s Committee on the Judiciary. Phil came to the District from Cleveland, Ohio in 1970 to obtain a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from American University. He grew up in a family dedicated to public service. His mother was a national crusader for nursing home reform. His grandmother had been President of the Michigan State League of Women Voters, was appointed by President Roosevelt to the Federal Office of Price Administration, and was a founder of the Grand Rapids Urban League.

http://chairmanmendelson.com/

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016 1:10 pm - 1:20 pm
Why Now is the Time for Statehood
Constitution Hall


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NELL MINOW
Vice Chair, ValueEdge Advisors

Nell Minow is an American film reviewer and writer who writes and speaks frequently on film, media, and corporate governance and investing. Ms. Minow was named one of the 20 most influential people in corporate governance by Directorship magazine in 2007. She was dubbed “the queen of good corporate governance” by BusinessWeek Online in 2003 and has received Lifetime Achievement awards from both the International Corporate Governance Network and Corporate Secretary Magazine.

Minow wrote the “Risky Business” column for BNET and was a member of the board of GMI Ratings an independent research company, until August 2014, when it was acquired by MSCI. She has co-written three books in the field with Robert A.G. Monks and is founder and editor of Miniver Press, a publishing company.

She was formerly Principal of LENS, an “investment firm that bought stock in under-performing companies and used shareholder activism to increase their value.” In addition, she was dubbed “the CEO Killer” by Fortune magazine for her record of ousting non-performing CEOs at companies like Sears, American Express, Kodak, and Waste Management. Furthermore, she “served as general counsel and then President of Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc., a firm that advises institutional investors on issues of corporate governance, and as an attorney at the Environmental Protection Agency, the Office of Management and Budget, and the United States Department of Justice.”

Minow frequently comments on the financial markets in the press and on television, including op-eds in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and USA Today, and on network news broadcasts. She has reportedly “written more than 200 articles about corporate governance” and has contributed to a number of business books.

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 27, 2016 10:30 am - 10:50 am
The Extent and Limits of Shareholder Control Over Management
Carnegie Institution of Washington


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RUSSELL MOKHIBER
Editor, Corporate Crime Reporter

Russell Mokhiber editor of the Washington, D.C.-based weekly newsletter Corporate Crime Reporter. He is also author of Corporate Crime and Violence: Big Business Power and the Abuse of the Public Trust.

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016 9:10 am - 9:30 am
Crime in the Suites, Crime in the Streets and Corporate Personhood—The Big Change
Carnegie Institution of Washington


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ROBERT A. G. MONKS
Co-founder of Institutional Shareholder Services, Lens Investment Management, Lens Governance Advisors and The Corporate Library

Robert Monks is a pioneering shareholder activist and corporate governance adviser, Robert AG Monks, has written widely about shareholder rights & responsibility, government capture, corporate impact on society and global corporate issues.

Mr. Monks is an expert on retirement and pension plans and was appointed director of the United States Synthetic Fuels Corporation by President Reagan, who also appointed him one of the founding Trustees of the Federal Employees’ Retirement System. Mr. Monks served in the Department of Labor as Administrator of the Office of Pension and Welfare Benefit Programs having jurisdiction over the entire U.S. pension system.

Mr. Monks was a founder of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), now the leading corporate governance consulting firm. He also founded Lens Governance Advisers and co-founded GMI Ratings (formerly The Corporate Library). He is a shareholder in and advisor to Trucost, the environmental research company.

Mr. Monks was featured part of the documentary film, The Corporation, and was the subject of the biography, A Traitor to His Class by Hilary Rosenberg.

http://www.ragm.com/

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 27, 2016 10:50 am - 11:10 am
Shareholder Activism—Past, Present, and Future
Carnegie Institution of Washington


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ALAN MORRISON
Professor of Law, George Washington School of Law

Alan B. Morrison is the Lerner Family Associate Dean for Public Interest & Public Service at GW Law. He is responsible for creating pro bono opportunities for students, bringing a wide range of public interest programs to the law school, encouraging students to seek positions in the non-profit and government sectors, and assisting students find ways to fund their legal education to make it possible for them to pursue careers outside of traditional law firms.

For most of his career, Dean Morrison worked for the Public Citizen Litigation Group, which he co-founded with Ralph Nader in 1972 and directed for over 25 years.

He currently teaches civil procedure and constitutional law, and previously taught at Harvard, NYU, Stanford, Hawaii, and American University law schools. He is a member of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers and was its president in 1999–2000. He is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law.

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm
The Best DC Constitution, The US Constitution and DC Statehood
Constitution Hall


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Re: Ralph Nader Radio Hour

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RALPH NADER
Author and Consumer Advocate

Named by The Atlantic as one of the hundred most influential figures in American history, and by Time and Life magazines as one of the most influential Americans of the twentieth century, Ralph Nader has helped us drive safer cars, eat healthier food, breathe better air, drink cleaner water, and work in safer environments for more than four decades. The iconic champion of consumer rights first made headlines in 1965 with his pioneering bestseller Unsafe at Any Speed, a devastating indictment that lambasted the auto industry for producing unsafe vehicles. The book led to congressional hearings and automobile safety laws passed in 1966, including the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act. Nader was instrumental in the creation of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration. By starting dozens of citizen groups, Ralph Nader has created an expectation of corporate and governmental accountability. Nader’s recent books include Unstoppable, Return to Sender, The Good Fight, and the bestseller, Seventeen Traditions. Nader writes a syndicated column, has his own radio show, and gives lectures and interviews year round.

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 9:00 am - 9:10 am
The Underutilization of Tort Law – Our Freedom Tool for Justice
Constitution Hall
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 5:10 pm - 5:30 pm
Getting Serious About Restoring Tort Law and its Availability for the Wrongfully Injured
Constitution Hall
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016 9:00 am - 9:20 am
Opening Remarks and Proposals for a Secretariat to Prevent War, Organizing the Patrons of Advocacy and Creating an Audience Network
Constitution Hall
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016 1:00 pm - 1:10 pm
Ending the Servitude and Abolishing the Colony
Constitution Hall
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016 4:45 pm - 5:30 pm
The Winning Strategy—And a Proclamation
Constitution Hall
SEPTEMBER 27, 2016 9:00 am - 9:30 am
Turning Long Established, Commonly Held Assets into the Common Good
Carnegie Institution of Washington
SEPTEMBER 27, 2016 4:00 pm - 4:20 pm
The Power of Knowing and Doing
Carnegie Institution of Washington
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016 9:00 am - 9:10 am
Galvanizing Democratic Energies for Justice and Posterity
Carnegie Institution of Washington
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016 2:20 pm - 2:40 pm
Overcoming Civic Apathy
Carnegie Institution of Washington
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
The New Citizen Library
Carnegie Institution of Washington
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016 4:30 pm - 4:50 pm
The Other “One Percent” for Making Change
Carnegie Institution of Washington


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RICHARD NEWMAN
Executive Director, American Museum of Tort Law

Mr. Newman practiced trial law with the firm of Adelman Hirsch and Newman, LLP in Connecticut. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin School of Law, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Mr. Newman is the co-author of the standard treatise on Connecticut Law of Torts and served in 2004-2005 as President of the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association.

https://www.tortmuseum.org/

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 9:10 am - 9:30 am
The Need to Educate the Public on The Importance of Tort Law
Constitution Hall


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LEAH M. NICHOLLS
Staff Attorney, Public Justice

Leah Nicholls joined Public Justice’s D.C. office in September 2012 as the Kazan-Budd Attorney. She was previously senior staff attorney for civil rights and general public interest at the Georgetown University Law Center’s Institute for Public Representation. Leah had also been a teaching fellow and adjunct law professor at the Law Center. Prior to that, she was the Supreme Court Assistance Project Fellow at Public Citizen Litigation Group and clerked for Texas Supreme Court Justice Harriet O’Neill. She has also clerked for the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs at the Arizona Center for Disability Law. Leah is a magna cum laude graduate of Duke University Law School. Leah is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Virginia (inactive) only.

http://www.publicjustice.net/team/leah-m-nicholls/

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016 10:40 am - 11:20 am
Sustainable Funding Models for Organizing- CUBs & Cy pres
Constitution Hall


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ANDREW NURKIN
Princeton AlumniCorps

Andrew serves as the Executive Director of Princeton AlumniCorps, an independent nonprofit organization that inspires and builds civic leadership among college and university alumni across generations. Prior to joining AlumniCorps in 2012, he was on the staff of the Pace Center for Civic Engagement at Princeton University, where he developed and managed public leadership and civic action programs that engage undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, staff, and alumni. He previously served as the Executive Director of Fine By Me, an organization dedicated to promoting equality for LGBTQ people on campuses and in communities across the country. Originally from Atlanta, Andrew hold a M.Div. from Yale Divinity School, a MFA in poetry from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and a BA in English from Duke, where he served a three-year term on the Board of Trustees. He currently serves on the national advisory board of DukeEngage and as a trustee of the Petey Greene Program, which provides educational support to incarcerated students.

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016 9:40 am - 10:00 am
Building Alumni Civic Organizations
Constitution Hall


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TOM O’BRIEN
Assistant Director, United Steelworkers

Tom O’Brien worked for Congress Watch and the Center for Study of Responsive Law in the late 70’s and the early 80’s. It was there he learned that generous and timely campaign contributions beat a raft of CBO studies nearly every time, and that power politics really meant corporations creating the kind of relationship with Congress that dealers have with addicts.

Tom went on to a Boston-area manufacturing and marketing strategy firm, Canadian Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and the New Democratic Party at the Canadian Parliament.

For the last 22 years, Tom has campaigned in the labor movement in both Canada and the US. He developed and managed communications campaigns that won historic raises for Canadian nurses, and raised public awareness of toxic toys imports in the America.

He’s long been an advocate within Canadian and US labor for the abandonment of orthodoxy in strategy, and for the use of psychology, marketing, advertising to counter the membership loss that has nearly reduced US labor to a picture on a milk carton.

Today, Tom works for the United Steelworkers at their headquarters in Pittsburgh.

usw.org

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016 10:40 am - 11:20 am
Sustainable Funding Models for Organizing- CUBs & Cy pres
Constitution Hall


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JACK OLENDER
Attorney

Jack H. Olender is president of the malpractice law firm Jack H. Olender and Associates, PC. He has served as president of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia, the Trial Lawyers Association, D.C., the American Board of Trial Advocates, D.C., and the George Washington American Inn of Court. Mr. Olender was the first lawyer in the District of Columbia certified as a Civil Trial Specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. Since winning the nation’s first multi-million dollar obstetric malpractice verdict in 1976, he has won or settled more than 200 cases upwards of $1 million each.

Mr. Olender is a diplomate of the American Board of Trial Advocates, American College of Trial Lawyers, International Academy of Trial Lawyers, American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys and Inner Circle of Advocates (limited to 100 of the very best malpractice and personal injury lawyers in the country). He is listed in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, Who’s Who in Law, Who’s Who in America, and Who’s Who in the World.He and his law firm have a rating of “AV,” the highest possible grade for legal ability from Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory.

http://www.olender.com/

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 4:10 pm - 4:30 pm
Fighting Malpractice and the Attempts to Limit the Rights of Injured Patients
Constitution Hall


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KIM O’NEIL
Past President, National Council for the Social Studies

Kim O’Neil is a National Board Certified Teacher in Middle Childhood/Generalist. Prior to joining the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards in 2013, O’Neil was an elementary and middle school teacher in Liverpool, New York, for 35 years and served on the National Board Middle Childhood/Generalist Standards Committee.

Currently O’Neil sits on the board of directors for the National Council for the Social Studies and the Commissioner’s Advisory Panel for the New York State Social Studies Education Department. She is a key writer for the instructional guide, Let’s Explore Modern Germany: Instructional Strategies for Elementary Educators.

O’Neil earned a Certificate of Advanced Studies in education from State University of New York at Oswego and a Master’s in library science from the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University. She graduated from State University of New York at Potsdam with a Bachelor of Arts in English and minor in education and serves on the School of Education Alumni Advisory Board.

http://www.nbpts.org/kim-oneil-nbct

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
The New Citizen Library
Carnegie Institution of Washington


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JOSEPH PAGE
Professor Emeritus, Georgetown Law

Joseph Page is a Professor Emeritus at the Georgetown University Law Center. Professor Page’s academic work lies in the fields of torts, products liability, and food, drug and cosmetics regulation. His most recent scholarship includes a book entitled Torts: Proximate Cause (2003); articles entitled “Roscoe Pound, Melvin Belli and the Personal-Injury Bar: The Tale of an Odd Coupling,’ in 26 Thomas M. Cooley Law Review 639 (2009), and “The Voice of Reason: The Products Liability Scholarship of Gary T. Schwartz,” in 53 South Carolina Law Review 797 (2002); and chapters entitled “American Tort Law and the Right to Privacy,” in Personality Rights in European Tort Law (G. Bruggemeier et al. Eds., 2010), and “Reflections on Pain-and-Suffering Damages in the United States,” in Liability in the Third Millennium (A. Ciacchi et al. Eds., 2009). He is also a co-director of the Products Liability Study undertaken as part of the Common Core of European Private Law Project.

Professor Page has engaged in advocacy promoting consumer product safety and workplace health and safety before committees of Congress and in the national media, has served on the Board of Directors of Public Citizen, Inc., and is currently the faculty advisor to the Stabile Graduate Law Fellow, dealing with issues relating to the safety of personal-care products.

He is also the Director of the Center for the Advancement of the Rule of Law in the Americas at the Law Center, and a member of the Associated Faculty of the Latin American Studies Program at Georgetown University.

https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/ ... seph-a.cfm

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 9:50 am - 10:10 am
The Important History of Evolving Tort Law
Constitution Hall


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MATTHEW PAWA
Board of Trustees, Center for International Environmental Law

Matt Pawa has represented governments, environmental organizations and conservation groups, citizens, businesses, and injured persons in a wide range of legal matters. Many of his cases involve issues of national importance and cutting edge legal issues. Mr. Pawa has extensive trial court experience and has argued numerous appeals. He has represented the State of New Hampshire in MTBE litigation since 2003, which resulted in over $130 million in pre-trial settlements from the nation’s largest oil companies and a jury verdict of $236 million against ExxonMobil in 2013. In addition to his trial court responsibilities in the MTBE litigation, Mr. Pawa argued and prevailed in three appeals in the New Hampshire Supreme Court. Mr. Pawa was recognized as a Massachusetts Lawyer of the Year in 2013 for his work on the MTBE case. In 2014, in the Lobsterboat Blockade case he obtained dismissal of all criminal charges against global warming protestors who had used a tiny lobster boat to block a massive coal shipment.

Mr. Pawa is a regular speaker at law schools and at legal symposia and bar association meetings and is frequently quoted in national news outlets. He has taught an environmental law course at Boston College Law School. Mr. Pawa pioneered the field of global warming litigation, having worked closely with eight state attorneys general and the City of New York on the first ever global warming tort case. Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Pawa served as a Deputy State’s Attorney in Burlington, Vermont, where he prosecuted a high profile case that entailed an emergency appeal to the Vermont Supreme Court, garnered national media attention, and ultimately resulted in a conviction.

Mr. Pawa attended the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he served on the law review, graduated with honors, and won a national prize for legal writing. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University.

Mr. Pawa is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Center for International Environmental Law. He is also a member of the Boston Triathlon Team and competes in triathlons from spring through fall.

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 3:10 pm - 3:30 pm
The Frontiers of Tort Law—Climate Change
Constitution Hall


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MARK PLOTKIN
Political Commentator

Mark Plotkin is a contributor to the BBC on American politics. In addition he is a columnist to TheHill.com and a columnist for the Georgetowner.

From January 2012 to September of 2013 he was local Fox 5’s Political Analyst in Washington, D.C. Mr. Plotkin was the political commentator and analyst for WTOP Radio from 2002 to 2012 and was heard each Friday morning on The Politics Program with Mark Plotkin. He did commentary and analysis throughout the day on breaking stories. Mr. Plotkin came to WTOP after ten years on the Washington, DC NPR affiliate WAMU.

A Chicago native, Mr. Plotkin graduated from George Washington University in 1969 with a degree in American history. He taught in public schools in Chicago and Washington from 1969 through 1971. He was an advance man and congressional district coordinator for the 1972 campaigns of Edmund Muskie, Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern. He served as deputy finance director for Morris Udall in 1976 and for Ted Kennedy in 1980. He also served as a deputy finance director for the Gary Hart for President campaign in 1984.

Mr. Plotkin has been an active participant on the District’s political scene since the late 1960s. He was twice elected to the D.C. Democratic State Committee and served from 1984 until 1989. He served from 1981 until 1985 as an elected member of the Advisory Neighborhood Commission 3B and chaired the commission for two years. He is widely known as an outspoken advocate of District self-governance and full congressional representation for DC residents in Congress. He played a decisive role in negotiating the return of the District’s city hall, the John A. Wilson Building, to city ownership in 1999, and the adoption of the new DC license plates bearing the slogan “Taxation Without Representation.”

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016 1:35 pm - 2:05 pm
The Case for Statehood—Ending the Colony
Constitution Hall


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ANDREW F. POPPER
Law Professor, American University

Andrew F. Popper teaches Torts, Administrative Law, Government Litigation (a seminar), and Advanced Administrative Law at American University’s Washington College of Law. He was associate dean of the law school between 1988 and 1995.

Professor Popper is the author of more than 100 published books, articles, papers, and public documents. Since 2007, he has published two novels, REDISCOVERING LONE PINE (West, 2009), and BORDERING ON MADNESS: AN AMERICAN LAND USE TALE (Carolina Academic Press, 2008), and two casebooks, ADMINISTRATIVE LAW: A CONTEMPORARY APPROACH (West, 2009, with McKee), and, A COMPANION TO BORDERING ON MADNESS: CASES, SCHOLARSHIP, AND CASE STUDIES (Carolina Academic Press, 2008, with Avitabile and Salkin). He has served as a consumer rights advocate and pro bono counsel for the Consumers Union of America, testified before various Congressional committees, and authored amicus curiae briefs before the United States Supreme Court. Prior to coming to the Washington College of Law, he held an endowed chair at the University of Denver, School of Law. Before going into teaching, he practiced law in Washington, DC.

https://www.wcl.american.edu/faculty/popper/

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 9:30 am - 9:50 am
Celebrating Tort Law
Constitution Hall


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PAT QUINN
41st Governor of Illinois

Pat Quinn served as the 41st Governor of Illinois from Jan. 29, 2009 to Jan. 12, 2015. When Governor Quinn took office, he faced three immediate crises: an ethics crisis in state government, the worst recession since the Great Depression, and a fiscal crisis in the state of Illinois.

Pat Quinn’s newest project is Take Charge Chicago, a petition drive to put two referendums on the ballot: a term limit on the Mayor of Chicago and the creation of a new citywide elected office, the Consumer Advocate. Of the ten largest cities in the United States, only Chicago has no term limit on its mayor.

Quinn has served the people of Illinois for more than 40 years as both a citizen and a public official. He has organized grassroots petition drives signed by more than 4 million voters, walked across the state in support of decent health care for all, and proposed historic tax reform for working families. In the 1980s, he spearheaded the creation of the Citizens Utility Board, the first-of-its-kind consumer group that is now the largest in the state. He was elected Lieutenant Governor in 2002 and re-elected in 2006, serving until his succession as Governor in January 2009, and served as State Treasurer from 1991 to 1995. He also served as commissioner of the Cook County Board of (Property) Tax Appeals and as revenue director for the City of Chicago.

Quinn was born in Chicago and raised in Hinsdale and graduated from Northwestern University School of Law and Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. He is the father of two sons.

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016 10:40 am - 11:20 am
Sustainable Funding Models for Organizing- CUBs & Cy pres
Constitution Hall
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Re: Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Postby admin » Tue Oct 04, 2016 1:54 am

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MARGARET JANE RADIN
Law Professor

Margaret Jane Radin is the author of Boilerplate: The Fine Print, Vanishing Rights, and the Rule of Law (Princeton University Press, 2013). This book, winner of the Scribes Book Award for 2014, explores the problems posed by standardized fine-print contracts and how those problems might be ameliorated. Radin also has written two books exploring the problems of propertization: Contested Commodities (Harvard University Press, 1996) and Reinterpreting Property (University of Chicago Press, 1993), as well as co-authored a casebook on Internet Commerce. Radin is retired from chaired professorships at the University of Michigan and at Stanford University, having previously held a chaired professor at the University of Southern California. She has also taught at Harvard University, the University of California at Berkeley, New York University, and Princeton University, where she was the inaugural Microsoft Fellow in Law and Public Affairs. Radin is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Law Institute, where she serves on the Advisory Board for the Restatement 3d of Consumer Contracts.

https://www.law.umich.edu/FacultyBio/Pa ... ID=mjradin

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 3:30 pm - 3:50 pm
Tort law and Mass Deception by Fine Print
Constitution Hall


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MITCH ROFSKY
President, Better World Club

Mitch Rofsky has devoted his entire career to socially responsible business.
Mitch was present at the creation of a number of important progressive business institutions: the National Cooperative Bank, Working Assets, Business for Social Responsibility, and Better World Club.

Mitch lobbied Congress for Ralph Nader’s Public Citizen where he was associated with a string of legislative victories, including creation of the National Cooperative Bank.

He moved to The Co-op Bank and provided the funding that started a number of well-known businesses, including Working Assets and Green America. Mitch later became President of Working Assets, one of the nation’s leading socially-screened mutual fund families..

Mitch is President of Better World Club, the only green alternative to AAA. Better World stands apart from AAA’s “highway lobby” policy agenda, and offers many services/discounts, including the nation’s only nationwide bicycle roadside assistance.

Mitch was the first Chair of Business for Social Responsibility.

Mitch’s writing has been published by The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and The Huffington Post among others (including Better World Club’s eNewsletter, Kicking Asphalt.) He is a graduate of the Wharton School of Business and the Law School of the University of California, Los Angeles.

MY SESSIONS
The Responsibility of Business Leaders
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016 3:40 pm - 4:00 pm
The New Economy – the Responsibility of Corporate Leaders
Carnegie Institution of Washington


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RAY ROGERS
Founder and director of New York City based Corporate Campaign Inc

Ray Rogers is founder and director of New York City based Corporate Campaign Inc. (CCI), which has championed labor, human rights and environmental causes for four decades. He graduated from the University of Massachusetts in 1967 and spent two years working in Tennessee as a VISTA volunteer. From 1976 to 1980, while on the staff of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers, he devised and led its pioneering Corporate Campaign against the notoriously anti-union J.P. Stevens & Co. on which the Academy Award winning film “Norma Rae” was based.

Ray has developed winning strategies and campaigns for private and public sector unions representing migrant farm workers and workers in the airline, clothing & textile, construction, food & beverage, paper manufacturing and utilities industries and state and municipal office and transit employees. Corporate Campaign’s websites describing present efforts fighting for victims seeking justice against Corrupt attorneys, Deutsche Bank, Loyola University New Orleans; and The Coca-Cola Company are:
http://www.TheClientKiller.org;
http://www.StopEstateFraud.org;
http://www.CleanUpLOYNO.org;
http://www.KillerCoke.org;
http://www.CorporateCampaign.org

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and other big business interests have launched unsuccessful efforts to outlaw the strategies and tactics Rogers coined a “Corporate Campaign.”

The Boston Herald described Rogers as labor’s most innovative strategist and “one of the most successful union organizers since the CIO sit-down strikes of the 1930s.” Time magazine said Rogers has “brought some of the most powerful corporations to their knees, and his ideas are spreading.” Business Week described Rogers as a “legendary union activist” and the Financial Times called Rogers The Coca-Cola Company’s “fiercest foe.”

In 2014, Ray Rogers, following in the footsteps of previous recipients including Howard Zinn, Fr. Roy Bourgeois and Rev. David Dyson, was presented the White Dove Award in Rochester, NY:

http://www.corporatecampaign.org/ray_rogers_bio.php

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 27, 2016 9:30 am - 9:50 am
Taking on Corporate Abuses by “Confronting Power With Power”
Carnegie Institution of Washington


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HARVEY ROSENFIELD
Founder, Consumer Watchdog

Mr. Harvey Rosenfield is one of the nation’s foremost consumer advocates and founder of Consumer Watchdog, a nationally recognized citizen group that serves as a voice for the American consumer and taxpayer. Trained as a public interest lawyer, Rosenfield authored Proposition 103 and, with the crucial support of Ralph Nader, organized the campaign that led to its passage by California voters in 1988 despite over $80 million spent in opposition (still a record). He has co-authored groundbreaking initiatives on HMO reform (Proposition 216, 1996), utility rate deregulation (Proposition 9, 1998) and health insurance rate regulation (Proposition 45, 2014). Rosenfield is the author of the book, Silent Violence, Silent Death: The Hidden Epidemic of Medical Malpractice. Rosenfield worked for the Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. Congress, as a staff attorney for Public Citizen Congress Watch and as the Program Director for the California Public Interest Research Group (CalPIRG) before establishing Consumer Watchdog in 1985, where he is now of counsel, as well as several other non-profit advocacy organizations. Rosenfield graduated magna cum laude from Amherst College and obtained a joint Law and Masters degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 10:50 am - 11:00 am
The Need to Build Citizen Support for Tort Law
Constitution Hall
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 11:00 am - 11:40 am
Plantiffs for Justice
Constitution Hall


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DONALD ROSS
Attorney

Donald K. Ross is a founding partner and principal of Malkin & Ross. Ross has been helping shape public policy since 1970 when he joined Ralph Nader as a consumer attorney, then as director of Nader’s Citizen Action Group. He went on to organize many of the nation’s Public Interest Research Groups and served nine years as director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, which, under Ross, grew to be the largest state-based citizen action group in the country. Ross has headed up numerous major public events, including two of the largest anti-nuclear rallies in U.S. history. He has authored various studies on public policy issues, including two books on citizen advocacy. Ross’ extensive work on behalf of foundations has led him to form a new firm to advise individual donors and small philanthropies on grant-making strategies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_K._Ross_(author)

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016 9:20 am - 9:40 am
Empowering Students
Constitution Hall


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KNUT ROSTAD
President, Institute for the Fiduciary Standard

Knut A. Rostad, MBA co-founded and chaired the Committee for the Fiduciary Standard and co-founded and is president of the Institute for the Fiduciary Standard, a nonprofit formed in 2011 to advance the fiduciary standard through research, education and advocacy. He served as the regulatory and compliance officer at Rembert Pendleton Jackson, a registered investment adviser in Falls Church, Virginia, for ten years until early in 2015.

The Institute for the Fiduciary Standard seeks to advance fiduciary principles in investment advice. The Institute has established the Institute’s Six Core Fiduciary Duties, the Fiduciary Declaration, Fiduciary September, the Frankel Fiduciary Prize, and advocates for a true fiduciary standard before the SEC and DOL. Rostad has authored numerous articles, papers and regulatory comment letters.

Rostad earned a BA in Political Science at the University of Vermont and an MBA from the Norwegian School of Management

http://www.thefiduciaryinstitute.org/knut/

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MICHAEL L. RUSTAD
Professor, Suffolk University Law School

Michael Rustad is a law professor at Suffolk University Law School, an author and television commentator. He received a BA from University of North Dakota, an MA from the University of Maryland, College Park, a Ph.D from Boston College, a Juris Doctor from Suffolk University Law School, and an LL.M from Harvard University. Rustad clerked with Judge William E. Doyle of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. After working for Foley, Hoag & Eliot, he became an associate professor at Suffolk Law School in 1988. In 1991 he became a full professor at Suffolk. Rustad previously taught at Wellesley College and Boston College.

http://www.suffolk.edu/law/faculty/MichaelRustad.php

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 3:50 pm - 4:10 pm
Cybertorts
Constitution Hall


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NEIL SELDMAN
Senior Staff, Waste to Wealth Initiative, Institute for Local Self Reliance

Neil Seldman, Ph.D., co-founded the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and serves as Senior Staff of the Waste to Wealth Initiative. He specializes in helping cities and counties recover increasing amounts of materials from the waste stream and add value to the local economy through new processing and manufacturing facilities. Neil also serves on ILSR’s Board of Directors. Since 1974, Neil has proven that local solutions to a community’s problems are not only doable, but preferable to top-down remote impositions of power.

You can read Neil’s work here https://ilsr.org/author/neils/.

MY SESSIONS
SEPTEMBER 26, 2016 11:10 am - 11:30 am
Community Business is Revolutionary
Carnegie Institution of Washington


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HILARY SHELTON
Washington Bureau Director, NAACP

Hilary 0. Shelton, presently serves as the Director to the NAACP’s Washington Bureau / Senior Vice President for Advocacy and Policy. The Washington Bureau is the Federal legislative and national public policy division of the over 500,000- member, 2,200-membership unit, national civil rights organization. In this capacity, Hilary is responsible for advocating the federal public policy issue agenda of the oldest, largest, and most widely recognized civil rights organization in the United States to the U.S. Government. Hilary’s government affairs portfolio includes crucial issues such as affirmative action, equal employment protection, access to quality education, stopping gun violence, ending racial profiling, abolition of the death penalty, access to comprehensive healthcare, voting rights protection, federal sentencing reform and a host of civil rights enforcement, expansion and protection issues.

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a family of 6 brothers and sisters, Hilary holds degrees in political science, communications, and legal studies from Howard University in Washington, D.C., the University of Missouri in St. Louis, and Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, respectively.

Hilary presently lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife Paula Young Shelton and their three sons, masters Caleb Wesley, Aaron Joshua, and Noah Ottis Young Shelton.

http://www.naacp.org/pages/hilary-o.-shelton

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Voter Suppression
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BILL SHERNOFF
Founding Partner, Shernoff Bidart Echeverria,LLP

William M. Shernoff is the founding partner of Shernoff Bidart Echeverria,LLP a law firm specializing in insurance bad faith litigation. A longtime consumer advocate, Mr. Shernoff has made a career of representing insurance consumers in their cases against insurance companies. In 1979, he persuaded the California Supreme Court to establish new case law that permits plaintiffs to sue insurance companies for bad faith seeking both compensatory and punitive damages when they unreasonably handle a policyholder’s claim (Egan v. Mutual of Omaha).

Often called the “pioneer” of bad faith insurance law, Attorney William Shernoff is a nationally recognized authority in the field with decades of experience representing individual and business insurance consumers. A frequent lecturer and writer, Mr. Shernoff co-authored the legal textbook, “Insurance bad Faith Litigation,” which has become the field’s definitive treatise, as well as “How to Make Insurance Companies Pay Your Claims . . . . And What To Do If They Don’t,” “Payment Refused” and “Fight Back and Win – And How To Make Your HMO Pay Up.” Mr. Shernoff has also been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, and on “60 Minutes.” Mr. Shernoff, who maintains offices in Beverly Hills and Claremont California, has authored over 50 articles on insurance issues and is featured in the Rutter Group Seminar entitled “The Shernoff Insurance Bad Faith Seminar.”

Mr. Shernoff is handling lawsuits accusing health insurance carriers of routinely and illegally denying patients’ medical claims on the grounds that such treatments were not medically necessary even when recommended by treating doctors. He is also involved in fighting on behalf of seniors who have suffered financial elder abuse by insurance companies who are denying legitimate insurance claims of seniors.

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Recognizing New Torts: The Case Study of Bad Faith Litigation
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GERSON SMOGER
Attorney, Ph.D., J.D. Smoger & Associates

Dr. Smoger has represented a wide range of clients in consumer and personal injury litigation. His special emphasis in personal injury has been in birth and early childhood injuries, injuries related to the brain and neurological system, and injuries caused by errant pharmaceuticals or environmental exposure, including their carcinogenic and adverse immunological properties.

In 2012, Dr. Smoger was named Public Justice’s national “Trial Lawyer of the Year” after his success in trying the case of Alexander v. Fluor for more than three months against a lead smelter that had poisoned young children,. He was previously named a finalist for Public Justice’s “Trial Lawyer of the Year” award for his role in the trial of Price v. Philip Morris, involving the fraud of “light” cigarettes. He has served as lead counsel in a number of other significant cases, such as the representation of the people of Times Beach in Missouri, groundwater contamination by Teledyne, Fairchild, and IBM in Silicon Valley, chlorine gas exposure in Alberton, Montana, childhood lead contamination in Herculaneum, Mo., and numerous consumer class actions. After representing the late Admiral Zumwalt and the Agent Orange Coordinating Council to advocate for veterans’ benefits, he successfully argued before the U.S. Supreme Court the right of Vietnam veterans to bring suit for Agent Orange exposure, although the case was later dismissed Always on a pro bono basis, he has represented many amici before the U.S. Supreme Court, including the editors of the New England Journal of Medicine, the AMA, the Center for Auto Safety, the American Legion, the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, the VVA, AAJ, Public Justice and Public Citizen.

Dr. Smoger currently serves on the boards of Public Justice (as a past President), as Secretary of the Board of Physicians for Human Rights, on the board of Public Citizen, and as a Trustee of the Pound Civil Justice Institute. Previously, he served on the Board of Governors of the American Association for Justice (AAJ) (1996 – 2006), as a Vice-Chair of the American Bar Association’s Toxic Torts, Hazardous Substances and Environmental Law committee (1993-2001) and from 2009 – 2012 and 2015 – 2017 as AAJ’s Chair of Legal Affairs. He co-sponsors a national law school competition under the auspices of Public Citizen (the “Hogan/Smoger Access to Justice Essay Contest”). In 2012, he was named Missouri’s Environmentalist of the Year. He has been acknowledged every year as a “SuperLawyer” since that program began in 2003. He has also co-written the musical play, “Some People Hear Thunder.”

Dr. Smoger earned his Bachelor’s Degree from Lycoming College (Summa Cum Laude) before he undertook graduate studies at Stanford University and the U. of Pennsylvania, where he passed his orals with distinction at the age of 21 and subsequently was awarded his Ph.D. He received his Juris Doctor’s Degree from the U. of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the bars of CA, TX, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 2:10 pm - 2:50 pm
Trial Lawyers for Justice
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SHANIN SPECTER
Attorney

Shanin Specter has obtained more than 200 verdicts and settlements in excess of $1 million, including jury verdicts of $153 million against a major automaker and $109 million against a western Pennsylvania power company. In all, he has achieved 16 eight- or nine-figure verdicts, among them news-making cases involving medical malpractice, defective products, medical devices, premises liability, auto accidents and general negligence.

Specter waged an epic battle against the Ford Motor Co. on behalf of the family of Walter White, a three-year-old boy who was run over and killed when the parking brake in his father’s F-350 spontaneously disengaged. Specter won two verdicts inWhite v. Ford — for $153 million and $52 million — and continued to litigate the case to a settlement. His efforts were chronicled in the book Bad Brake.

Beyond winning substantial monetary compensation for his clients, many of Specter’s cases have prompted changes that provide a societal benefit, including improvements to vehicle safety, nursing and hospital procedures, the safe operation of police cars, training for the use of CPR at public institutions, and inspections, installation and maintenance of utility power lines. The Goretzka case even spurred the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission to create a new Electric Safety Division to investigate reported electrical injuries. Most recently, Specter’s lawsuit – plus television appearances calling for action – on behalf of the victims of a fire escape collapse helped move the City of Philadelphia in June 2016 to enact an ordinance that for the first time will require all fire escapes to be regularly inspected by an independent structural engineer.

http://www.klinespecter.com/specter.html

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Opportunities and Responsibilities of a 360 degree Legal Practice
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