Dear JR: This year, is the 50th anniversary of Unsafe at Any Speed, which unleashed fresh energies and sparked the creation of numerous advocacy organizations leading to major consumer, environmental and worker safety protections. I would like to personally invite you to join us for an unprecedented renewal of civic spirit and resolve at the Breaking Through Power Conference from May 23rd-26th, 2016 at Constitution Hall in Washington, DC. The theme of this conference will be elaborating ways to break through power to secure long-overdue democratic solutions made possible by a civic nexus between local communities and Washington, D.C. Throughout the Convention, speakers will present innovative ideas and strategies designed to take existing civic groups to higher levels of effectiveness. Breaking Through Power: How it’s Done—May 23, 2016 will feature presentations by seventeen citizen advocacy groups. Over decades these activists have produced amazing accomplishments against powerful odds. These civic leaders will demonstrate how, with modest budgets and stamina, they have improved the health, safety and economic well-being of the people and focused public opinion onto decision-makers and opponents. Breaking Through Power: The Media—May 24, 2016, brings together also for the first time a large gathering of authors, documentary filmmakers, reporters, columnists, musicians, poets and editorial cartoonists. All of these presenters have documented or depicted entrenched wrongdoing by the corporate state, the cruel impacts of corporate crimes and abuses, the absence of governmental law enforcement, and the harmful effects of concentrated corporate power. Breaking Through Power: War—May 25, 2016 is dedicated to enhancing the waging of peace over the waging of war. We will assemble leading scholars having military and national security backgrounds, veterans groups such as Veterans for Peace, to explain how peace is more powerful than war. The speakers will address the horrors of war, its huge costs here and abroad to innocents. Breaking Through Power: Congress—May 26, 2016 will unveil a new Civic Agenda to be advanced by engaged and enraged citizens in each Congressional district. The Civic Agenda includes recognized necessities ignored by Congress for decades. The planks of this Civic Agenda will be presented by nationally-recognized advocates—a veritable brain trust for the well-being of present and future generations. More information on the Daily Agenda can be found at Breakingthroughpower.org, and in addition to help publicize the event can you also: Distribute this invitation on our behalf to other interested people Post Information on Breaking through Power (BTP)on your facebook page Follow us on twitter and retweet BTP information Donate or sponsor others to attend BTP.
I hope to see you there. For Justice,
 Ralph Nader P.O. Box 19367 Washington D.C. 20036 202-387-8030 | 
