Power to the People!: A Young People’s Guide to Fighting for Our Rights as Citizens and Consumers

$15.95

By Richard Panchyk

 

An important and empowering history of and guide to the battle for our right to safe products and conditions–for younger readers.

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Power to the People! offers a deep understanding of how civil actions work, through many examples and straightforward language for the middle-grade student reader. From Ralph Nader’s 1966 law-changing address to Congress on automobile safety (it’s thanks to Nader that we wear seat belts) to the decades-long battle to raise awareness of the risks of smoking (cigarette and cigar smoke contains over 7,000 chemicals, and has caused the deaths of more than 2.5 million nonsmokers in the last half-century), readers will learn how we must fight to protect ourselves from corporations that are more concerned with profit than our safety. Corporate America will listen, Panchyk argues, but only if we make ourselves heard. Power to the People! explores all the ways we the people can be powerful, too.

Published by Triangle Square, November 2021.  Paperback, 272 pages.