User Profile for Steve Cobble (Steve_Cobble)

Bio: Steve Cobble is currently a Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies. He is a founding member of Progressive Democrats of America, and a co-founder of AfterDowningStreet.org, a leading impeachment web site.
Steve has worked in progressive electoral politics since being elected a McGovern delegate at age 20, and has had the good fortune to:
*help Reverend Jackson with his 1996 DNC speech, serve as the National Rainbow Coalition's political director, and work on the Jackson '88 campaign.
*train African National Congress organizers in GOTV in 1991.
*help elect a Latino Governor in New Mexico (Toney Anaya), an African-American DNC Chair (Ron Brown), and a woman African-American Senator in Illinois (Carole Moseley-Braun).
*rally with Lula da Silva and Jesse Jackson in a stadium in Sao Paulo, amidst a sea of waving flags, in 2002; and stand with Jackson and Tim Robbins on the stage in Hyde Park, London, in front of more than a million people marching to stop Bush's war.

The bio of Tim Carpenter, Executive Director of PDA, is here:
http://www.pdamerica.org/about/staff.php

The bio of Laura Flanders, host of RadioNation, is here:
www.lauraflanders.com/pages/bio.html

The bio of Matt Rothschild, editor of the Progressive magazine, is here:
http://www.progressive.org/about

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