Founded in 1982 by Ralph Nader, Essential Information is a non-profit organization involved in a variety of projects to encourage citizens to become active and engaged in their communities. Essential Information provides provocative information to the public on important topics neglected by the mass media and public policy makers. Ralph Nader Ralph Nader (born February 27, 1934) is an activist attorney who opposes the power of large corporations and has worked for decades on environmental, consumer rights, and pro-democracy issues. ... A non-profit organization (often called non-profit org or simply non-profit or not-for-profit) can be seen as an organization that doesnt have a goal to make a profit. ... Mass media is the term used to denote, as a class, that section of the media specifically conceived and designed to reach a very large audience (typically at least as large as the whole population of a nation state). ... According to Thomas A. Birklands book An Introduction to the Policy Process, there is a lack of a consensus definition of public policy. ...

Essential Information publishes a monthly magazine (the Multinational Monitor), books and reports, sponsors investigative journalism conferences, provides writers with grants to pursue investigations and operate clearing houses which disseminate information to grassroots organizations in the United States and the Third World. Founded in 1980 by Ralph Nader, the Multinational Monitor is a monthly magazine (published ten times a year). ... Grassroots democracy is the political processes which are driven by groups of ordinary citizens, as opposed to larger organisations or wealthy individuals with concentrated vested interests in particular policies. ...

Essential Information's Website (http://www.essential.org)
Essential Information's project on Halliburton Company (http://www.HalliburtonWatch.org)