“Hey Robert, what does Public Citizen have in store for 2023?”
Great question!
Here are just some of Public Citizen’s priorities for the coming year in our ongoing mission — we’ve been at this for half a century and counting — to fight corporate power, hold government accountable, and defend democracy.
- Continue our decades-long campaign to win Medicare for All. America is the only rich country on Earth that leaves millions and millions of its citizens at the mercy — or lack thereof, more accurately — of private, for-profit insurance companies. We will not stop until every American has affordable, quality health care.
- Press the Department of Justice to get far more serious about investigating and prosecuting corporate crime, which takes a truly immeasurable toll on our society — monetarily and in terms of injury and death — even as street crime dominates headlines and Republican fear-mongering.
- Build even more support — at the grassroots and within the corridors of power — for legislation like the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act to protect voting rights and secure our democracy.
- Win a rule from the Federal Trade Commission to crack down on Big Tech surveillance and privacy incursions.
- Through ongoing advocacy directed at the White House, see to it that President Biden uses his existing authority and issues an executive order requiring companies that do business with the federal government to disclose their political spending.
- Block Republican attempts to privatize and cut Medicare or to repeal Medicare’s authority to negotiate drug prices.
- Build on recent successes to demand that more banks and insurers stop propping up fossil fuel projects.
- Get more states (we already have 22) to pass resolutions in support of a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court’s anti-democratic Citizens United ruling.
- Confront Big Pharma’s immoral price gouging head on by pushing the Biden administration to authorize generic competition for cancer drugs that taxpayer dollars helped develop in the first place.
- Get across the goal line in our decade-long drive for OSHA to put commonsense rules in place to protect workers from extreme heat on the job. (Did you know that heat kills more people in America each year than floods, hurricanes, and tornadoes combined?)
- Oppose fossil fuel exports that are hurting American consumers and the planet we all live on just to put more money in Big Oil’s already overflowing pockets.
- Grow the movement to roll back bloated and wasteful Pentagon spending.
- Keep standing up to Republican voter suppression schemes and win protections for state and local election workers.
- And much, much more. We are going to be VERY busy.
So there you go.
Some examples of where we’re going to focus our collective power in 2023 by working together as part of this shared project called Public Citizen.
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- Robert Weissman, President of Public Citizen
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