A man whose name is synonymous with the fight for consumer rights and an 89 year old woman who walked across the United States to support campaign finance reform will speak at two upcoming banquets.

Consumer activist Ralph Nader has been honored by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential Americans of the 20th Century. His ground breaking work on auto safety is well known . If anyone you know has been in a car accident and survived, Nader may well have helped save that person’s life. Nader went on to work on a breadth of issues affecting almost every area of modern life, and was instrumental is creating OSHA, the EPA, and the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Ralph Nader

"To go through life as a non-citizen would be to feel there’s nothing you can do, that nobody’s listening, that you don’t matter," Nader has said. "But to be a citizen is to enjoy the deep satisfaction of seeing pain prevented, misery avoided and injustice decline."

Nader will be keynote speaker at CAC’s consumer rights banquet, which will be held Dec. 9 in Indianapolis. Earlier that day, CAC will also hold it’s annual State Convention. Please call CAC at (800) 201-1210 for reservations and information.

Common Cause is a close friend of CAC which has fought for open, honest, and accountable government for three decades. The Indiana chapter will hold it’s thirtieth anniversary banquet at 6 pm on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2000 at the Ramada Inn South in Indianapolis.

"Granny D"

Common Cause’s keynote speaker will be Doris "Granny D" Haddock, who in 1999 achieved national fame as she walked across the U.S. to publicize the need for campaign finance reform. "If we lose control of our government, then we lose our ability to dispense justice and human kindness," Haddock has said. "Our first priority today, then, is to defeat utterly those forces of greed and corruption that have come between us and our self-governance."

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