In 1971, conservative corporate lawyer and later Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell issued the notorious “Powell Memorandum” urging the reactionary forces of right-wing corporatism to rally against the social movements that swept the nation in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Now Powell’s wildest dreams have come true via the enactment of many of Powell’s suggestions and adoption of proposals in the Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025”. 54 years later, Ralph Nader is issuing a response to the Powell Memorandum.
This response lays out the state of play for citizen group movements and charts a path forward to restore democracy to the American political economy. See: