Lucas,Public Citizen will never stop fighting to protect you from corporate greed and corruption.
Last week, after eight years of relentless pressure from Public Citizen, the Food and Drug Administration banned Meridia, a weight-reduction drug known to significantly increase blood pressure and heart rate. Since 1997, when the agency bent to the will of the pharmaceutical industry and approved this dangerous drug, countless victims have suffered heart attacks and strokes, while its manufacturer has made millions.
Our successful campaign to get Meridia banned is just one example of our ongoing work to confront the insidious influence that corporations have over the lives of every American.
We can't do this life-saving work alone. We need you by our side. That's why I hope you'll make a generous contribution to Public Citizen today.
We are exposing the real cost, in human suffering and lives, of Big Pharma's blind pursuit of profits, and forcing regulators to honor their responsibility to protect consumers.
We are leading the grassroots effort to overturn the disastrous Supreme Court decision that unleashed unprecedented levels of corporate spending in our elections.
We are working for a new energy policy and to hold the BPs of the world accountable, enforce commonsense financial reforms, and fix flawed trade policies that offshore jobs and weaken our economy.
The corporations have more money, more lobbyists, and more friends in high places. But Public Citizen has you. And together, we are taking a stand and making a difference!
I'm asking for your support today to help sustain Public Citizen's mission to defend We, the People from corporate assault and battery.
When government agencies charged with protecting the American people are held captive by the very industries they are supposed to regulate, when corporate power threatens to overtake our democracy, Public Citizen is here to say "Not on our watch!"
Please contribute what you can today.
Thank you,
Robert Weissman, President