Haruna,
                        
                        Drills. Fillings. Root canals. Extractions.
                        
                        Dentures.
                        
                        I like my dentist. He provides terrific care to me and my family. But I’d be lying if I said I actually enjoy everything he does.
                        
                        What’s this have to do with Public Citizen?
                        
                        Our legal team recently filed a lawsuit challenging a form many dentists and doctors require their patients to sign. The form prohibits patients from sharing how they were treated with friends and neighbors via websites like DoctorBase, Facebook or Yelp.
                        
                        You may have unwittingly signed one of these forms yourself just trying to complete all the paperwork before you or your child could get treated for an aching tooth or a sprained ankle.
                        
                        The very day after we filed the lawsuit, the company that markets the form announced that it will stop doing so.
                        
                        That’s the reach and power of Public Citizen.
                        
                        Whenever and wherever the rights of consumers or the principles of democracy are in peril, Public Citizen will remain — as it has for generations — as vigilant and effective an advocate for justice as you’ll find.
                        
                        And when people power is backed by financial power, our progress can’t be stopped. Contribute $150 or more to Public Citizen’s year-end campaign today and build the power!
                        
                        Don’t forget to choose as our thanks a DVD from a selection of progressive films including Battle in Seattle, The Cove, Erin Brockovich and Michael Moore’s Sicko.
                        
                        Public Citizen takes on the biggest challenges, challenges that many think impossible, challenges that demand relentless perseverance.
                        
                        And we win.
                        
                        Like the years we spent fighting auto industry opposition to airbags. Now, you can’t buy a car without them.
                        
                        Like the years we’re prepared to spend fighting the Supreme Court’s misguided Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling that corporations are entitled to the same First Amendment rights as people. I make this pledge to you: Public Citizen will not stand by while Big Business tries to take over our democracy.
                        
                        Public Citizen also takes on challenges that, if less well known, are no less critical in the ongoing struggle against the erosion of fundamental tenets such as fairness and freedom.
                        
                        Like being able to exercise your real-person-non-corporate-actually-in-the-Constitution free speech rights so that you can do something as basic as commenting online about your latest trip to the dentist.
                        
                        Public Citizen steps up — at our own expense, when there is no monetary gain to be had, where others dare not tread — to vigorously and without compromise fight back when the rights of people are sacrificed for no better reason than to fatten profits.
                        
                        Please give $150 or more right now and stake your claim in the legacy and continuing work that is Public Citizen.
                        
                        It’s the time of year when we give gifts to show our appreciation for the people and causes we cherish.
                        
                        I know you cherish Public Citizen and the strength you endow us with to protect the genuine First Amendment rights of people and protest the concocted “money as speech” claims of Corporate America and its cronies in government.
                        
                        You know that Public Citizen accepts absolutely no funding from corporations or the government — that everything we accomplish together depends on the commitment and generosity of individual donors.
                        
                        Like you.
                        
                        Thank you for standing with me.
                        
                        
                            
                                
                                    
                                    


                                    
Sincerely
                                    
                                    Robert Weissman
                                    President, Public Citizen
                                
                            
                        
                        
                        P.S. Remember to choose a DVD with your gift of $100 or more.
                        
                        P.P.S. If you’ve contributed recently, thank you. If you can, please consider an additional donation so that Public Citizen starts the New Year with as much power as possible to continue key projects like overturning Citizens United v. FEC and safeguarding consumer rights.

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