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Thursday, July 31

3:00 pm

Workshops begin at 3:00 pm on Thursday, and begin again at Noon on Friday

7:00 pm

OPENING; Welcome and Candidate Spotlight

Welcome - Jennifer Sullivan and Eddie Espinoza

Candidate Spotlight

The Green Party US has a long history of running candidates for office with over 150 seats held at this time. As we continue working to change the system as well as the electoral process, we will be introducing candidates who are running for upcoming elections. After all, we never go away...the media just stops covering us. To help we that, we will have our "Green Media" that have shows across different platforms interview some of our candidates running for office with the help of the Candidate Coordination Committee (CCC). Please remember to follow all our presenters, especially the candidates, so we can move towards a Greener future. 

Green Media:

Eyde Arndell and Scott Free from the Illinois Green Party - host of the Greenstream on YouTube and Twitter, Wednesdays at 8PM EST and Saturdays at 1PM EST

Landon Dillard - Host of the GreenComradeLandon podcast on YouTube (show times vary)

Kalia Fitzgerald - Host of Green Party Tea 🍵 on TikTok at 6PM EST every Sunday

Candidates:

• Gabriel Medina, Green School Board Trustee in 2024
• Justin Flip, 2024 & 2026 Oregon 4th Congressional District
• Arshia Papari, Green Party candidate for Texas State Representative in House District 49
• Robert Smith, Texas
• Robin Brownfield, New Jersey
• Chibu Asonye, Campaign Manager & Former Candidate IL
• Butch Ware, Candidate for California Governor 

Friday, August 1

7:00 pm – 8:30

This Didn’t Start Yesterday: Legacy, Escalation, and the Fight for Immigrant Justice

Panelists: Seth Kaper-Dale, Glo Vader, Arshia Papari, Mark Elbourno, Lily Benavides, Antonio Rodriguez, and Pooyan Ordoubadi

Moderators: Natalie J. Reyes and Gabriel Medina

This panel brings together community organizers responding to an immigration system in crisis—through faith, campus-based mobilization, and long-term grassroots work in immigrant communities. Together, they’ll discuss the deep roots of the current enforcement landscape, how decades-old tools are being used in increasingly punitive ways, and what it takes to build collective resistance in this moment of escalating fear and surveillance.

What lessons can we take from their organizing to build a nationwide movement—and how might the Green Party help carry that forward?

Latinx Caucus Meeting

9:00 pm

Moderated by Gabe Medina and Natalie J. Reyes of the GPUS Latinx Caucus, this panel brings together community organizers responding to an immigration system in crisis—through faith, campus-based mobilization, and long-term grassroots work in immigrant communities. Together, they’ll discuss the deep roots of the current enforcement landscape, how decades-old tools are being used in increasingly punitive ways, and what it takes to build collective resistance in this moment of escalating fear and surveillance.

What lessons can we take from their organizing to build a nationwide movement—and how might the Green Party help carry that forward?

Saturday August 2

Noon

State and Caucus Officers Roundtables

Hosted by Justin Paglino and Cassandra Lems

All are invited to attend this workshop, to be moderated by GPUS co-chair and CTGP co-chair Justin Paglino.

ALL State Parties & Caucuses are encouraged to select one spokesperson, preferable an officer prepared to answer the following questions about your approach to party-building.

1. Briefly, what are the assigned officer and volunteer roles for your state party and chapters?
2. What standing committees do you have in your state and chapters, and what are their responsibilities?
3. When it comes to outreach and party building, what methods have you found to be the most effective? This might include phonebanking, mailings, social media, social events, tabling, etc: whatever you have found to have worked well.
4. Please expand on how these methods are put into practice, e.g. how the workload is divided up to accomplish your party building.
5. What are the key elements of your party building strategies to which you attribute their success?

At the beginning of the session there will be three presentations from three volunteer parties addressing these five questions (30m). After this, the questions will be posed one at at a time by the moderator, and answered by the spokespeople (30m). Finally, there will be open discussion that all are invited to participate in (30m).

We hope this roundtable will provide a good opportunity for all Greens to learn from each other about party building best practices! 

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Keynote introduction

Jill Stein

Jill Stein is a physician,  an environmental health advocate and an organizer.In 2006, she transitioned from clinical medicine into “political medicine” to help heal "the mother of all illnesses”, our sick political system that’s literally killing us.

She was the Green Party presidential candidate in 2012, 2016 and 2024, where as ran the only pro-worker, anti-war, anti-genocide, climate emergency campaign on the ballot for a majority of voters. That work resulted in the Green Party emerging as the leading people-powered political alternative, receiving over five times the vote count of the next biggest non-corporate alternative.

This work continues now with greater urgency than ever in building the Green Party and laying foundations for solidarity and collaboration across people-powered parties and independents. We have nothing less than a moral responsibility to keep building political momentum to end genocide, dismantle empire, overcome oligarchy & fight fascism.

Keynote

Miko Peled

Miko Peled is an American-Israeli activist and author of The General’s Son: The Journey of an Israeli in Palestine and Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five.

Currently, he is the founder and president of Palestine House of Freedom in Washington, D.C. A non-profit aimed at providing education and understanding with the goal of dismantling the Israeli Occupation and advocating for a free Palestine, from the river to the sea.

3:30 – 4:00 pm

2026 ANM Proposal

Presented by Rita Maniotis; Safia Mahjebin

4:15 – 5:00 pm

National Committee Focus Group Report

Presented by Aly Schmidt

In May 2025 the Annual National Meeting Committee circulated a survey to National Committee delegates, alternates, and observers, asking about their views of the effectiveness and operation of the National Committee. Discussion questions based on the results of that survey were developed, and then two focus groups with National Committee members were held in June 2025.

The results of the survey and focus groups will be summarized in this presentation, and in a written report that will be circulated on the National Committee list afterwards.

What do National Committee members think is going well? What do they want to change? Join this presentation to find out -- or to share your views!

5:30 pm –  6:45 pm

State and Local Candidate and Campaign Staff training

Hosts:
CCC Co-Chairs, Andy Ellis - Maryland, Chibu Asonye - Illinois, Nancy L. Jones - DC Statehood Green Party

8:00 pm

Fundraiser with Ron Placone

This is a separtate fundraising event

On Saturday, August 2nd at 8pm ET, we’re doing a special virtual screening of my new film, Left at Wall. It’s a political satire that pokes the bear we all know needs poking and it’s gonna benefit the Green Party.

Why the Green Party? Because they’re out there actually trying to build something different. No corporate money, no billionaires, just regular folks trying to wrestle power away from the same two parties that keep failing us.

So here’s the deal:

🎬 You’ll get to watch Left at Wall from the comfort of wherever you are.

🎤 I’ll be there live, doing a Q&A afterward. You can ask me anything about the movie, the state of politics, or my cat, Lucy.

💚 And your ticket helps the Green Party keep organizing, running fearless campaigns, and fighting for people, planet, and peace.

Tickets start at just $25, and every dollar goes to fuel the kind of politics we actually need.

👉 Snag your ticket here: gp.org/left_at_wall

Let’s hang out, laugh, maybe get a little righteously fired up and support something real for a change.

See you on August 2nd!
Ron Placone

Sunday, Aug 3

Noon – 1:30 pm

2024 Presidential Campaign Report:
The #1 People-Powered Party!
Much to Celebrate & Grow From

Presented by Jill Stein Campaign, Jill Stein, Mark Elbourno, LeBeau Kpadenou, Georgia Davenport, and Cathy Gilbert

2:00 – 3:00 pm

Elections Database Report

Presented by Mike Feinstein

1. Overview of Green Party election trends 
2. Latest improvements in the Elections Database 
3. Progress on implementing NC Proposal 1244: Creation of a Special Fund to Identify Non-Partisan Candidates in Voter Registration-by-Party States
4. Database-related Proposals coming to the NC:  
   - State Party Reporting Expectations - Ballot Access, Candidates, Officeholders
   - Amend Green Officeholders Network Mission, Operating Rules, Create Special Fund 

3:15 – 4:15

Ballot Access Report

Presented by Tony Ndege and Michelle DeVillier

4:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Committee Reports

5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Closing Ceremony with Kalia Fitzgerald