Talk:Ralph Nader

List of organizations Nader has helped found

I saw this list in a version of this article from 2004:

• Capitol Hill News Service
• Corporate Accountability Research Project
• Disability Rights Center
• Equal Justice Foundation
• Georgia Legal Watch
• National Citizens' Coalition for Nursing Home Reform
• National Coalition for Universities in the Public Interest
• PROD (truck safety)
• Retired Professionals Action Group
• The Shafeek Nader Trust for the Community Interest
• Congress Accountability Project
• Citizen Advocacy Center
• Pension Rights Center
• Foundation for Taxpayers and Consumer Rights
• Center for Auto Safety
• 1955: Princeton Project 55
• 1969: Center for the Study of Responsive Law
• 1970s: Public Interest Research Groups
• 1970: Connecticut Citizen Action Group
• 1971: Center for Science in the Public Interest
• 1971: Aviation Consumer Action Project
• 1972: Clean Water Action Project
• 1972: Center for Women's Policy Studies
• 1980: Multinational Monitor (magazine covering multinational corporations)
• 1982: Trial Lawyers for Public Justice
• 1982: Essential Information (encourage citizen activism and do investigative journalism)
• 1983: Telecommunications Research and Action Center
• 1993: Appleseed Foundation (local change)
• 1994: Resource Consumption Alliance (conserve trees)
• 1995: Center for Insurance Research
• 1995: Consumer Project on Technology
• 1997?: Government Purchasing Project (encourage the government to purchase safe and healthy products)
• 1998: Center for Justice and Democracy
• 1998: Organization for Competitive Markets
• 1998: American Antitrust Institute (ensure fair competition)
• 1999?: Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest
• 1999?: Commercial Alert (protect family, community, and democracy from corporations)
• 2000: Congressional Accountability Project (fight corruption in Congress)
• 2001?: League of Fans (sports industry watchdog)
• 2001: Citizen Works (promote NGO cooperation, build grassroots support, and start new groups)
• 2001: Democracy Rising (hold rallies to educate and empower citizens)

I am not sure if they all qualify as notable, but I’ll be checking all of them. Thriley (talk) 18:03, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

Personality and character traits

hello i have a question concerning the entire part of "Personality and character traits"

the question is the following: what?

and i also may add: why?

if you try to describe -for whatever reason and with what ever relevance- a person in 3 sentences, thats framing not scrutiny. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.100.35.1 (talk) 11:52, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

There are 5 independent, secondary sources for this section. None of those sources seem to be writing in a particularly sensationalist or tabloid gossip style. It would seem to be of note that Nader eschews riches, fashion, wealth, and their trappings, along with marriage and family life. This is rather counter-cultural of him and reinforces his message of activism. Elizium23 (talk) 22:23, 15 November 2022 (UTC)

Religious affiliation

There is a source which says Ralph's parents were Lebanese Maronites. The biography of Archimandrite Bassilios, Ralph's uncle, mentions both Antiochian Orthodox and Syrian Orthodox churches, but not Maronite. It would not be surprising for immigrants of that era to sort of fluidly attend parishes in different jurisdictions.

The Syrian Orthodox communion is Oriental Orthodox and would be closely allied with Maronites, while the Antiochan Greek Orthodox would be Eastern Orthodox; ethnically close but, in terms of doctrine and liturgy, separate. Elizium23 (talk) 18:14, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

@B.Andersohn: if you're using info about Ralph's uncle to infer something about Ralph's own religious faith, then that's WP:SYNTH. Elizium23 (talk) 18:47, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

@B.Andersohn: Seconding Elizium23 here; there is absolutely no information on Ralph Nader in that source your provided that states he was Antiochian Orthodox. Sometimes there are mixed Lebanese families, and reliable sourcing asserts him as explicitly Maronite. ~ Pbritti (talk) 18:51, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

@ Elizium23, @ Pbritti "a sort of fluidly re attending parishes in different jurisdictions"!! I'm at loss for words here... You clearly have no knowledge of the issue at hand...

The "Syrian Orthodox communions are Oriental Orthodox Christians and would be closely allied with Maronites"... maybe, BUT the Antiochian Greek Orthodox commuity is not "Oriental", unlike e.g. "Syriacs" or "Chaldeans" or even "Armenian Apostolics" etc.

Ralph Nader's community is actually "Eastern Orthodox" like the e.g. Greeks or Russians etc. You're confusing "Oriental" and "Eastern" Christianity here

Nader's community is also called the Greco-Roman "Meklite" Communion of Syria, Lebanon & Upper Galilee (old-fashioned, comprehensive name), and it has absolutely nothing to do with the Maronite Church ("Oriental Catholics") or the "Oriental Orthodox" Christians of Northern Syria or Eastern Turkey etc

Once again, you're totally confused

The article published by the Antiochian Greek Orthodox Church of America says that Ralph Nader's FATHER was a man named Nathra Nader Saffi, from a small village called Arsoun.

And that Nader Sr. counted many Greek-Orthodox priests and bishops in his family, including his own brother!

Finally, ALL French, American, and Bristish ethnographers of the early 20th C. describe Arsoun's Christians as being "of the Greek faith" or "Antiochian Greek Orthodox". You can check ....