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Thursday, July 31

3:00 p.m.

Arab World Post Colonialism Part 1

Presented by Wissam Charafeddine

Please join for an engaging discussion on how the colonial history of the Arab world gives essential context for current conditions and US foreign policy.

Green activists will learn strategies for communicating with Arab American communities. Green candidates will learn how to discuss the Arab world with nuance, which is essential as we advocate for Palestine and other oppressed peoples.

Graphics and Engagement for Social Media

Presented by Kalia Fitzgerald and Cody Mahar-kjos

This workshop will include topics such as how to design a logo, how to resize and post images on different social media platforms, using graphic content to drive engagement, and sharing content from other chapters/state parties to help everyone grow.

The States Can’t Wait! State-Based Single Payer Movement: How Greens Can Advocate for Universal Healthcare Coverage Now

Presented by Dr. Daniel Lugassy; Emergency Medicine Physician & Healthcare Justice Advocate and Gloria Mattera; Green Party NY Co-Chair

When US healthcare is compared to other similar industrialized nations; we spend more, have worse healthcare outcomes, widespread socioeconomic disparities, don't cover everyone, and rampant medical debt destroys lives. Under the current federal administration, nationwide universal healthcare coverage legislation such as a “Medicare For All” is unlikely to gain political traction, but that does NOT mean we should wait for the next presidential election cycle as thousands die needlessly in our predatory healthcare system.

In recent years, over 20 states have had some type of state based single-payer legislation with varying levels of support and success. Vermont fully passed a state single payer system in 2011, but by 2014 several factors prevented it from coming to fruition. State single-payer bills in New York (NY Health Act) and California (CalCare) continue to have tremendous support in their respective state Assembly and Senate house but several political roadblocks continue to stifle their progress. While there are slight differences and funding structures to each state single payer bill, they all essentially have the following in common; guaranteeing comprehensive, high-quality healthcare for ALL state residents regardless of income, job status, or immigration status. Additionally these bills aim to eradicate premiums, co-pays, deductibles, and abolish medical debt.

Join us in this workshop as we review the history of the current status of state based single payer movement in the US; discuss how state based single payer system would detail lessons learned from Vermont and other state success/failures; and demonstrate how state single-payer could be a path to universal healthcare coverage across the nation.

In this workshop you will also; gain knowledge to debunk common myths about state single payer approach to healthcare coverage; learn strategies on how to connect with Greens and other healthcare advocacy groups in your state; obtain tools necessary to create a structured visit when lobbying your elected representatives while advocating for healthcare access in your state.

4:45 p.m.

Media 101 for Candidates

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Presented by Holly Hart and Ann Link

Engaging multimedia presentation featuring examples from a variety of Green Party campaigns will cover the types of media involved in a campaign, producing campaign materials, media-related roles for campaign staff and volunteers, creating a basic press release and press alert, and presentation tips for candidates. Participants will learn basic media skills that will carry over into other areas of party work including street outreach and public speaking.

Build the Peace Movement: Build the Green Party

Sponsored by the Green Party Peace Action Committee
Presented by Madelyn Hoffman, Patricia Vener-Saavedra, Logan Martinez, and Cris Mann

This workshop will focus on the recently endorsed Green Party US Statement of Global Emergency, one that requires unity between the environmental movement and the peace movement and between and among groups in the US and around the world who resist colonialism and white supremacy.

The workshop will cover the key points of the statement, including the hotspots of conflict in the world that could explode at any time, potentially leading to nuclear war (a disaster for the environment) or WWIII, and in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, where the world continues to need both to work toward stopping the genocide and holding all those accountable who enabled and supported the increasingly brutal (and illegal) extermination and forced displacement that may result from the incessant bombing and starvation of the people.

Our proposed Action Plan includes building coalitions with similarly-minded organizations, be they Muslim, environmental, anti-war, anti-nuclear or pro-diplomacy and negotiations instead of war. We will promote working with the Boycott, Divest and Sanction movement, building support for local resolutions that declare a global environmental and peace emergency, veterans' organizations, other national peace and justice organizations and more.

Our workshop will be interactive, as we review our statement and brainstorm more ways to build the peace movement, identifying state and local pressure points for our collaborative efforts. Remember that 7 or 8 state Green Parties endorsed the statement before the vote. With this workshop, we will identify others who could become a part of these international efforts, whether they are Green Party US Caucuses or state and locally based organizations.

GPAX is made up of people who live in Colombia and Germany and will consciously work to build support from Greens in other countries.

Using Ballot Access Drives to Build your State Party

Presented by Gini Lester,  Chris Blankenhorn, Patrick Roman, Bryan Lamble and Eric LaRue
Moderated by LeBeau Kpadenou 

This workshop will help participants learn two essentials of Party Building:

• How to make sure your candidates are on the ballot, and;
• How to use the process of getting on the ballot to build state and local parties.

We touch on all aspects of ballot access from attracting volunteers for petitioning to working with state elections department staff. We will ask audience members to share what has worked for their states, pitfalls to avoid, as well as their successes and failures.

Friday, August 1

12:00 p.m.

The Environmental Impacts of Regenerative Agriculture

Presented by Mary Rooker and Marci Henzi

Downloads
The Problems with Animal-Based “Regenerative” Agriculture - Executive Summary
Ethics and Politics of Food

Participants will gain a solid understanding of our platform's call for Regenerative Agriculture. Candidates will be able to translate our agricultural platform into specific policies at all levels. Platitudes and generalities are lovely but can't deliver the needed actions that bring deep cultural and political change.

Growing the Green Party by Engaging Young People

Presented by the Young EcoSocialists and Esmée Silverman

Young people are the present and the future, and young Greens are no exception! Join this discussion with Esmée Silverman from the Green Party's Youth Caucus about their work engaging young people in the Green Party, their drive to refresh our party's website & social media for younger audiences, and their ideas for how to build and grow our party. This presentation is for Greens of all ages and backgrounds.

Build & Fight: Using a new 501(c)4 to engage in electoral politics outside of the two corporate parties

Presented by Johanna Epke & David Cobb

Build & Fight was founded to engage electoral politics on our terms, completely independent of the two corporate parties. Part of the Build & Fight electoral strategy is to win and use Ranked Choice Voting, Proportional Representation and other non-reformist reforms to transform how elections work across the United States, thereby reducing spoil effect concerns and other impediments to electing Greens to office.

The Build & Fight C4 is a component of a broader Build and Fight strategy that comes out of, and it is being applied in Jackson, MS and elsewhere through Cooperation Jackson and other nodes of the Peoples Network for Land and Liberation. It emphasizes creating autonomous, cooperative institutions (Build) while simultaneously engaging in organized resistance against oppressive systems (Fight). It promotes grassroots economic self-determination, dual power, and mass mobilization to challenge capitalism, white supremacy, and ecological destruction, fostering a just transition.

The Board of Directors are an impressive list of social change agents with deep history and experience across a broad range of movements: Kali Akuno, David Cobb, Gloria Mattera, Kamau Franklin, Anthony Rogers-Wright, Jasmine Banks, Andrea Nyamekye, Nick Cortez, Mel Figueroa.

Learning Intentions:

Come to learn how this new organization will use a framework of non-reformist reforms to democratize elections, economy and law, how a 501(c)4 can advance Green politics in the United States, and how you can get involved.

Using Ballot Access Drives to Build your State Party

Repeat from Thursday 7/31 4:45 pm

1:45 p.m.

Party Building with Monetary Reform

Presented by Sue Peters, Howard Switzer, and Kevin McCormick
Workshop Materials

Monetary reform is highly relevant to party-building, especially one advocating systemic and cultural change, economic justice at home, and anti-imperialism abroad - all fundamental to the Green Party’s platform.

The U.S. financial system is dominated by Wall Street, the Federal Reserve, and corporate monopolies. Just as Occupy Wall Street woke up the public to the true issue of the 1% and its concentration of wealth and power, monetary reform can be used by our candidates to wake up the electorate to the need to unite against the current system vastly enriching the 1%. This can draw people away from both major parties into the Green Party.

Both major parties refuse to explain to people the nature of our monetary system and how it has rigged our economy to transfer wealth continually from the many to the few. A party with a viable solution that effectively ties economic justice to the monetary system can galvanize working-class and small business Americans to challenge elite power and present a credible alternative to establishment politics.

We will present key strategies, methods and tools for doing so.

Growing Greens with Sunlight on State Crimes and Corruption

Presented by Rita Maniotis and Matthew Arndt
Download: A Case Study

The U.S. public has a general sense that the country is run like a exclusive club of the wealthy, and that no matter which of the main parties you vote for, the will of the people is always ignored. Propaganda is rampant and media generates fear and turns people against each other.

We as Greens are able to see through much of this confusion and the attempts to divert our attention from the underlying corruption that permeates our political system. Green leaders have demonstrated willingness to call out blatant corruption and face uncomfortable situations like Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala getting arrested for merely showing up at a Presidential debate.

Our participation in the political system puts the corruption on display. We as a Party can stand stronger on issues of state crimes and corruption. In this workshop, we will make the case that demanding accountability and being at the cutting edge of exposing state crimes and corruption will attract interest and grow our ranks.

Those who attend this workshop will:

• Be able to describe the corollary surge in Green Party membership when Ralph Nader, who called out corruption in the auto industry and championed consumer protections, ran on the Green Party ticket.
  
  
• Be able to explain a present example of financial and economic injustice in the U.S. designed to impoverish people that is embedded in political corruption down to the local level.
  
  
• Receive resources to further explore the ideas presented
  
  
• Offer suggestions for Whistle-blowing projects

This workshop explores how the Green Party can be a haven for the millions of Americans who are hungry for accountability for corruption at the highest levels.

Committee Chairs Forum

Presented by Philena Farley

This session is a collaborative space for committee co-chairs to connect, share best practices, and discuss challenges related to committee management. Topics include ensuring effective communication with the Steering Committee and National Delegates, maintaining regular reporting, overcoming barriers to participation, and fostering inter-committee collaboration.

The forum will also address how to handle unresponsive co-chairs, clarify the roles of Steering Committee members as facilitators providing accountability without micromanagement, and reinforce the responsibilities of co-chairs as the drivers of committee work. Co-chairs will have the opportunity to provide feedback on improving committee workflows and responses to directives from the National Committee.

Media 101 for Candidates

Repeat of Thursday, 7/31 at 4:45

3:30 p.m.

Beyond the Two-Party Trap: What It Means to Be Green and Growing the Green Movement

Presented by Samantha Hull, J. Weeds, and Dominic Lucero

Are you ready to break free from the limitations of the two-party system and build a truly independent, people-powered movement? This engaging workshop will explore the core values of the Green Party, how we differ from both the Democratic Party and other socialist movements, and the strategies needed to grow our support among workers and progressives.

Through interactive discussions and real-world examples, we’ll address common misconceptions about the Green Party, clarify why we stand apart from establishment politics, and outline a clear vision for grassroots power. The session will also highlight how the Green Party’s commitment to eco-socialism, grassroots democracy, and anti-corporate politics makes it uniquely positioned to challenge the status quo.

This workshop is designed to be accessible and valuable to people of all backgrounds, including activists, union organizers, community leaders, and anyone seeking an alternative to politics as usual. By the end, participants will take the Political Compass test to better understand where they truly stand beyond the traditional left-right divide.

Join us in building a movement that works for people, planet, and peace—outside the influence of corporate money and establishment politics!

Arab World Post Colonialism - Part 2

Presented by Wissam Charafeddine

This a continuation of the Part 1 from Thursday.

Please join for an engaging discussion on how the colonial history of the Arab world gives essential context for current conditions and US foreign policy.

Green activists will learn strategies for communicating with Arab American communities. Green candidates will learn how to discuss the Arab world with nuance, which is essential as we advocate for Palestine and other oppressed peoples.