For Immediate Release:
Thursday, May 28, 2015
This release is online at http://www.gp.org/newsroom/press-releases/details/4/810
Contacts:
Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-904-7614, mclarty@greens.org
Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, starlene@gp.org
Green Party leaders to be featured at Left Forum, May 29-31 in New York City
• Green Party 2015 Annual National Meeting in St. Louis, Mo., July 23-26: http://2015greenpartyconvention.org
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Green Party leaders, public officeholders, and candidates will participate in Left Forum (http://www.leftforum.org), which will take place Friday, May 29 to Sunday, May 31 at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, in New York City.
Members of the Green Party of New York State and several other state Green Parties will speak on panels throughout the event. The list of prominent Greens includes Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala, 2012 Green nominees for the White House; 2014 New York gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins; and Bruce Dixon, managing editor of Black Agenda Report and a member of the Georgia Green Party.
Two panels at Left Forum are sponsored by the Green Party of New York State: "Climate Justice and Energy Democracy" and "Is It Time for a Major Independent Party of the Left?"
Left Forum "is the culmination of the creative efforts of thousands of participants, panel and workshop organizers, and hundreds of volunteers who engage the gamut of conference organizing activities, from helping generate artistic events and panels, to outreach and involvement of a rainbow of organizations and individuals. The 2014 gathering involved 4,500 participants, 1,200 speakers and hundreds of panels, workshops, and events... Left Forum convenes the largest annual conference of a broad spectrum of left and progressive intellectuals, activists, academics, organizations and the interested public."
Participants in previous Left Forum conferences include Noam Chomsky, Arundhati Roy, Angela Davis, Harry Belafonte, Naomi Klein, Michael Moore, Cornel West, Bolivian Vice President Álvaro García Linera, Amy Goodman, Slavoj Zizek, Grace Lee Boggs, RoseAnn DeMoro, Marina Sitrin, Nnimmo Bassey, Immortal Technique, and Oliver Stone.
Many of the panels will cover electoral participation, including campaigns for President, Congress, and other public offices. The Green Party intends to run hundreds of candidates in 2016 at all levels.
Below is a list of Green Party members and the panels on which they'll speak (subject to change). For a complete list of panels, panel participants, and their credentials, click here (http://www.leftforum.org/panels/approved/2015).
Jim Brash, Green Party
• Toward a Mass Left Party
Lenni Brenner, Green Party of Connecticut
• Palestine/Israel and the 2016 Election
Colia L Clark, former Green candidate for the U.S. Senate in New York
• 'Selma'.... : Action Lessons for Concrete Outcomes for the 'Black Lives Matter' Movement and Progressive Empowerment - Insights of Black Women Activists
• A Trial By Fire: From Moniyhan to Today -- Black Women Continue Fight for Human Rights in 21st Century
Betty Davis, Green Party, Chair of New Abolitionist, Free Lynne Stewart, Free Mumia
• A Trial By Fire: From Moniyhan to Today - Black Women Continue Fight for Human Rights in 21st Century
• Public Schools VS. Charter Schools -- The Legacy of the NYC Community Control Struggle: The True Debate Must Be Education VS. Mis-education
• Women Who Walk On the Tongues of Lions
Bruce Dixon, editor of Black Agenda Report
• Is It Time for a Major Independent Party of the Left?
• Concerning Violence
• Liberation Politics in the Post Obama World
Mark Dunlea, State Committee of the Green Party of New York State, Green Education and Legal Fund
• Campaign for 100% Green Energy in NYS by 2030
• Climate Justice and Energy Democracy
• Integrating City, State and Federal to Reduce Carbon - Obstacles and Successes
Bob Fitrakis, co-chair of the Ohio Green Party, Political Science Professor at Columbia State
• Computerized Vote Theft and the Subversion of Democracy
Anthony Gronowicz, Green Party of New York State
• Public Schools VS. Charter Schools -- The Legacy of the NYC Community Control Struggle: The True Debate Must Be Education VS. Mis-education
Howie Hawkins, 2014 Green candidate for Governor of New York
• Climate Justice and Energy Democracy
• Is It Time for a Major Independent Party of the Left?
• Public Schools VS. Charter Schools - The Legacy of the NYC Community Control Struggle: The True Debate Must Be Education VS. Mis-education
Cheri Honkala, 2012 Green vice-presidential nominee, chair of the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign, and Global Climate Convergence organizer
• A People's Climate Strike: Transformative Justice Through Collaborative Strike Action
Brian Jones, 2014 Green candidate for Lt. Governor of New York
• Is It Time for a Major Independent Party of the Left?
Peter LaVenia, Green Party of New York State
• From Syriza to Syracuse: How Can Elected Radicals Fight Austerity from Above?
• Radical Elections: How To Organize and Win
Gloria Mattera, Green Party of New York State
• Campaign for 100% Green Energy in NYS by 2030
• Resist, Reclaim, Restructure: A Call for Transition and Energy Democracy
• Should the Left Support Bernie Sanders?
Justine McCabe, former co-chair of the Green Party's International Committee
• Palestine/Israel and the 2016 Election
Michael O'Neil, chair of the Green Party of New York State
• From Syriza to Syracuse: How Can Elected Radicals Fight Austerity from Above?
• Radical Elections: How To Organize and Win
Ursula Rozum, former Green candidate for the U.S. House in New York
• Radical Elections: How To Organize and Win
Tom Siracuse, Green Party of New York State
• Haiti: The People vs the Empire
Jill Stein, 2012 Green Party nominee for President
• Climate Justice and Energy Democracy
• Is It Time for a Major Independent Party of the Left?
Linda Thompson, co-chair of the Green Party of Connecticut
• Patriarchy and Revolution
Julia Willebrand Chair, Green Party of New York State, former co-chair of the Green Party's International Committee
• Palestine/Israel and the 2016 Election
Bahram Zandi, co-chair of the Green Party's International Committee
• Fundamentalism in Iran and Israel: Compare and Contrast in the Context of Turmoil in the Greater Middle East
• Mondragon Cooperatives: Humanity at Work
• Vietnam : A Brief Review of History and Today's Situation at 85th Birthday of Communist Party of Vietnam (1930-2015)
