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Planning to work in the corporate sector?
Want to understand corporate rights and their constitutionality?
Come hear David Cobb, a lawyer and political activist, discuss the Constitution as it pertains to corporate personhood
and corporate constitutional rights!
Corporations exert a substantial degree of power in contemporary American society. A controversial point of discussion is whether the constitutional rights afforded to corporations are legitimate in the context
of today’s society. As National Projects Director of Democracy Unlimited, David Cobb has spearheaded a movement against corporate polluters in order to effect necessary systemic social change. This Wednesday, as a part history lesson and part heart-felt-call
to action, Cobb will
tell the story of the American creation myth and the Constitution as it pertains to corporate personhood and illegitimate but legal corporate constitutional rights. He will discuss the history of corporations, the creation of corporate personhood in America,
and the Amendment and Democracy Movement as a potential solution.
TODAY -- 4:30 to 6PM in Rocky 003
Followed by a FREE PoliTalk dinner with the speaker @ 6PM.
David Cobb is National Projects Director of Democracy Unlimited. He is a lawyer and political activist. Cobb has sued
corporate polluters, lobbied elected officials, run for political office himself, and has been arrested for non-violent civil disobedience. He truly believes we must use ALL the tools in the toolbox to effect
the systemic social change we so desperately need.
Cobb was born in San Leon, Texas and worked as a laborer before going to college. He graduated from the University of Houston Law School in 1993 and maintained a successful private law practice in Houston for several years before devoting himself to full time
activism to achieve real democracy in the United States.
In 2002 Cobb ran for Attorney General of Texas, pledging to use the office to revoke the charters of corporations that repeatedly violate health, safety and environmental laws. He did not win the office, but the Green Party of Texas grew dramatically during
his campaign from four local chapters to twenty-six. In 2004, he ran for President of the United States on the Green Party ticket and successfully campaigned for the Ohio recount.