Des Moines For Ralph Nader

Winona LaDuke rejoins Ralph Nader on the Green Party ticket for the 2000 race, as she did in 1996. LaDuke is an enrolled member of the Mississippi Band of the White Earth Anishinaabeg (Ojibway). She resides with her two children on the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota. Along with her local work to restore the land base and culture of White Earth, LaDuke works in a national capacity as Program Director for Honor the Earth, providing vision and leadership for the organization's Regranting Program and its Strategic Initiatives. She also serves as the board co-chair for the Indigenous Women's Network. LaDuke has been profiled in People, Sierra, E, and Minnesota Monthly magazines, and was selected by Time magazine as one of the "50 for the Future"—America's most promising leaders under 40. A graduate of Harvard and Antioch Universities, LaDuke has written extensively on Native issues.



	Ralph Nader was born in 1934 in Winsted, CT to Lebanese immigrants Rose and Nathra Nader. Civic duty had a special meaning in Winsted, the small town in northwestern Connecticut where Nathra ran the Highland Arms Restaurant and engaged his customers in spirited debate about public affairs. Studious, bright and intense, Ralph followed the Yankees, played with David Halberstam, the future journalist, and read back issues of the Congressional Record with equal enthusiasm. By age 14 he had read the early muckrakers—Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, Upton Sinclair and George Seldes—who were to inspire his thinking about the distribution of power in American society and the possibilities of citizenship. (read the rest of Ralph Nader's biography)		Winona LaDuke rejoins Ralph Nader on the Green Party ticket for the 2000 race, as she did in 1996. LaDuke is an enrolled member of the Mississippi Band of the White Earth Anishinaabeg (Ojibway). She resides with her two children on the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota. Along with her local work to restore the land base and culture of White Earth, LaDuke works in a national capacity as Program Director for Honor the Earth, providing vision and leadership for the organization's Regranting Program and its Strategic Initiatives. She also serves as the board co-chair for the Indigenous Women's Network. LaDuke has been profiled in People, Sierra, E, and Minnesota Monthly magazines, and was selected by Time magazine as one of the "50 for the Future"—America's most promising leaders under 40. A graduate of Harvard and Antioch Universities, LaDuke has written extensively on Native issues.