Politicians and Lawyers
Bernard Sanders (born September 8, 1941) is an American politician serving as the junior United States Senator from Vermont since 2007. The longest-serving independent in congressional history, he was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1990 and caucuses with the Democratic Party, enabling his appointment to congressional committees and at times giving Democrats a majority. He was born and raised in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, and graduated from the University of Chicago in 1964. While a student he was an active protest organizer for the Congress of Racial Equality and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee during the civil rights movement. A self-described democratic socialist and a New Deal-era American progressive, Sanders is pro-labor and emphasizes reversing economic inequality.[2][3] Some political observers consider his views more in line with social democracy[4][5][6][7]; Sanders has often called for a Scandinavian-style welfare state in the United States.[8][9][10]
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Jill Ellen Stein (born May 14, 1950) is an American physician, activist, and politician. She was the Green Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 and 2016 elections and candidate for governor of Massachusetts in 2002 and 2010. As a medical doctor, Stein became increasingly concerned about the connection between people's health and the quality of their local environment, and decided to turn to activism in 1998, when she began protesting the "Filthy Five" coal plants in Massachusetts.[6][7] Since 1998, she has served on the board of the Greater Boston chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility.[4] She received Clean Water Action's "Not in Anyone's Backyard Award" in 1998 and its "Children's Health Hero Award" in 2000, Toxic Action Center's "Citizen Award" in 1999, and Salem State College's "Friend of the Earth Award" in 2004.[8][9][10]
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Ronald Ernest Paul (born August 20, 1935) is an American author, physician and retired politician who served as the U.S. Representative for Texas's 22nd congressional district from 1976 to 1977 and again from 1979 to 1985, and for Texas's 14th congressional district from 1997 to 2013. On three occasions, he sought the presidency of the United States: as the Libertarian Party nominee in 1988 and as a candidate in the Republican primaries of 2008 and 2012. Paul is a critic of the federal government's fiscal policies, especially the existence of the Federal Reserve and the tax policy, as well as the military–industrial complex, and the War on Drugs. He has also been a vocal critic of mass surveillance policies such as the USA PATRIOT Act and the NSA surveillance programs. He was the first chairman of the conservative PAC Citizens for a Sound Economy[2] and has been characterized as the "intellectual godfather" of the Tea Party movement.[3][4]
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Brooksley E. Born (born August 27, 1940) is an American attorney and former public official who, from August 26, 1996, to June 1, 1999, was chairperson of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the federal agency which oversees the futures and commodity options markets. During her tenure on the CFTC, Born lobbied Congress and the President to give the CFTC oversight of off-exchange markets for derivatives in addition to its role with respect to exchange-traded derivatives,[4] but her warnings were ignored or dismissed, and her calls for reform resisted by other regulators.[5] Born resigned as chairperson on June 1, 1999, shortly after Congress passed legislation prohibiting her agency from regulating derivatives.[6][7]
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Also see... FRONTLINE: The Warning @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACkiKVtF3nU
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Also see... FRONTLINE: The Warning @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACkiKVtF3nU
Ralph Nader
Thomas Lindzey is the co-author, alongside Anneke Campbell, of the book Be the Change: How to Get What You Want in Your Community. Linzey grew up in Mobile, Alabama in a family filled with environmentalists and surrounded by animals, which was instrumental in his decision to go into environmental law and lead the fight against environment-destroying corporations. During his first-year law student at Widener Law School in PA, persuaded a former lawyer for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to take him on as a research assistant. This experience opened his eyes to state statutes which allow a state's attorney general to revoke a corporate charter in the event of wrongdoing, though he realized that governments, in reality, have no interest in actually taking part in such activity. Inspired by this experience, in the spring of 1995, Linzey created the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) to help people in communities research environmental laws, or in short, to understand the things he learned during his legal internship at the EPA.
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Carl E. Person (born July 20, 1936) is an American attorney and politician. He founded the Paralegal Institute in the early 1970s and played a pivotal role in creating the paralegal field. Person has run unsuccessfully for various political offices. He was a candidate for the 2012 presidential nomination of the United States Libertarian Party, and sought the nomination of the Reform Party for Mayor of New York City in the 2013 mayoral election. In 1968, Person started his own law practice, and has been an individual practitioner ever since. Person's law practice from the start has focused on litigation in federal and state courts. His first case, an antitrust action, was brought against General Motors, Ford Motor Company, Chrysler Corporation and others, and lasted 18 years. Person's litigation experience includes civil rights, antitrust, mortgage foreclosure defense, securities fraud, copyright, trademark, age discrimination, price discrimination, employment termination, franchise termination, and other cases in which individuals and/or small businesses have claims against major corporations or government agencies.
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