Green Party candidate to speak twice at USC June 14

David Cobb, the leading candidate for the 2004 Green Party presidential nomination, will make two appearances at USC June 14.

At 3:30 p.m., Cobb will meet with faculty and students for an informal discussion in Room 429 of Gambrell Hall. Then, at 7:30 p.m. in the same room, he will give a public presentation and answer questions about his candidacy and the role of the Green Party in the 2004 presidential election.

On a nationwide tour, Cobb has a reputation as a powerful speaker and an articulate spokesperson for green ideas. He has been traveling the country since October 2003, seeking to add to his lead in delegates to the Green Party national convention, which will be held in Milwaukee June 24–28. Cobb has appeared on the ballot in every contested Green Party primary and in all state caucuses.

Cobb has a long history of activism within the Green Party, serving as the general counsel for the Green Party of the United States (www.gp.org) and running as the Green Party candidate for attorney general in Texas in 2002.

The grandson of a Baptist minister, Cobb graduated from the University of Houston Law School in 1993. He received awards in Moot Court and Mock Trial competitions, served on the Law Review, and worked in the Public Interest Law Clinic. He had a successful law practice until early 2000, when Ralph Nader asked him to manage the Green Party effort in Texas. He coordinated the ballot access drive in Texas that collected over 76,000 signatures in 75 days. When he ran for attorney general there were four local chapters of the Green Party of Texas. At the conclusion of his campaign, there were 26 chapters.

Cobb lectures and facilitates "Rethinking Corporations/Rethinking Democracy" seminars and workshops across the country, exploring the social, legal, and historical context of how corporations have become the dominant institution of our times. These seminars focus on how corporations have become unelected governing institutions, and how we can provoke (and win) a nonviolent democratic revolution in response.

For more information, contact David Whiteman at 7-4548 or whiteman@sc.edu.

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