Going to Left Forum? See all the panels with Green Party activists speaking out on a wide variety of issues.
Session 2: Sat 12:00pm - 01:50pm
The 2012 Elections: Lesser Evil or Left Alternative?
Room: Schimmel
Sponsored by: Green Party of NY State
Participants: Gloria Mattera -- Green Party of NY State, Glen Ford -- Black Agenda Report, Margaret Kimberley -- Black Agenda Report, Suren Moodliar -- Encuentro 5, John Nichols -- The Nation, Victor Wallis -- Socialism and Democracy
Challenging Duopoly from Below: How Progressive Third Parties Can Win at the Electoral Grassroots
Room: E320
Participants: Jonathan Martin -- Sociology Department, Framingham State University, Allan Brison -- New Haven Green Party, Susan Hatch Davis -- VT State Representative (VT Progressive Party), Vince Brennan -- Burlington, VT City Councilor and former School Board member (VT Progressive Party)
A Green New Deal: Resolving the Jobs and Climate Crises
Room: LHN
Sponsored by: Green Party of NY State
Participants: Mark Dunlea -- Green Party of NY State, Cecile Lawrence, Fred Magdoff -- Monthly Review, Sarah Manski -- environmental journalist, Sean Sweeney -- Global Labor Institute, Jill Stein -- Green Party presidential candidate
Long Dry White Season: United Nations Out of Haiti
Room: E316
Participants: Kim Ives -- Haiti Libretti, Tom Siracuse -- Manhattan Green Party, Nellie Hestor Bailey -- Occupy Harlem, Colia L. LaFayette Clark -- International Commission of Inquiry on Haiti (USA), Betty Davis -- NY Green Party
Session 3: Sat 03:00pm - 04:50pm
How to Run an Independent Grassroots Campaign
Room: E300
Participants: Peter LaVenia -- Green Party of NY State, Mark Dunlea -- Green Party of NY State, Michael O'Neil -- Green Party of NY State, Morgan Daybell -- VT Progressive Party
One Democratic State in Palestine/Israel
Room: W618
Participants: Lenni Brenner -- US Green Party, Julia Willebrand -- US Green Party, Justine McCabe -- US Green Party, Stanley Heller -- Green Party
The School of Americas Watch Movement - Stopping US Imperialism in Latin America to See Justice Flourish
Room: E323
Participants: Bermie McAleer -- NYC School of Americas Watch, Mara Bard -- Long Island SOA Watch, Ursula Rozum -- Green Party activist
Who Steals My Purse Steals Trash?: Theft in the age of the Internet and #OWS
Room: W603B
Participants: Cecile Lawrence -- TP&J, CPNY, NYRAD, MTA, Janet Burgan -- Folk Singer/Songwriter, Anthony Gronowicz -- NYC Green Party, union leader, Maura Stephens -- Park Center for Independent Media, Ithaca College
Session 4: Sat 05:00pm - 06:40pm
The Anti-War Movement and the Election Campaign
Room: E320
Participants: Lenni Brenner -- United National Anti-War Coalition, Howie Hawkins -- Green Party of NY State, Ralph Poynter -- United Federation of Teachers, Justine McCabe -- Green Party of the US
Austerity v. Prosperity: Framing the Left's Immediate Demands
Room: LHN
Sponsored by: Liberty Tree Journal
Participants: Ben Manski -- Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution, Gar Alperovitz -- Democracy Collaborative, M Adams -- Freedom, Inc., John Nichols -- The Nation, Leesa George Friday -- Move to Amend, Jill Stein -- Presidential candidate, Green Party of the US
Legalized Crime: Fed Bankers and the Creation of Debt-Money
Room: E309
Participants: Julia Willebrand -- US Green Party, Sue Peters, Greg Coleridge -- Northeast Ohio American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Steven Walsh -- American Monetary Institute
Session 6: Sun 12:00pm - 01:50pm
Occupy and Independent Left Electoral Politics: the Green Party, Socialist Party, Progressives and the Movement
Room: E300
Participants: Peter LaVenia -- Green Party of NY State, Howie Hawkins -- Green Party of NY State, Gloria Mattera -- Green Party of NY State, MIchael O'Neil -- Green Party of NY State, Susan Hatch Davis -- VT Progressive Party
Wars of Occupation and Interference in the Affairs of Nations
Room: W624
Participants: Evergreen C. Chou -- Green Party Candidate United States Congress, Don Debar -- CPRmetro, Nellie Hestor Bailey -- Occupy Harlem, Colia LaFayette Clark -- International Commission of Inquiry on Haiti, Omawale Clay -- December 12th Movement, Sandra Rivers -- Community School Board--Central Harlem
Session 7: Sun 03:00pm - 04:40pm
A New Constitution that Serves People, not Profits: the Strategy behind the Move to Amend
Room: E309
Participants: Ben Manski -- Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution, Leesa George Friday -- Move to Amend, Jerome Scott -- League of Revolutionaries for a New America, David Cobb -- Program on Corporations Law and Democracy and 2004 Green Party Presidential Candidate, Cecile Lawrence -- independent scholar
Occupy the Elections
Room: E300
Sponsored by: Black Agenda Report, Green Party of New York
Participants: Betty Davis -- New Abolitionists Movement, Howie Hawkins -- Green Party of NY State, Linda Thompson -- Green Party CT, Margaret Kimberley -- Black Agenda Report, Colia Clark -- Green Party of NY, Morgan Daybell -- VT Progressive Party
U.S. Imperialist Wars, Political Prisoners, Past & Present And The Anti-War Struggle
Room: W609
Participants: Ralph Poynter -- Lynne Stewart Defense Org.& Green Party, Pam Africa -- Free Mumia Coalition, Anne Lamb -- Nyc Chapter: Jericho Movement For Recognition & Amnesty, Matthis Chiroux -- Founding Member Of Disobedient, Ricardo Jimenez -- Puerta Rican Independentista, Jess Sundin -- Twin Cities Anti War Committee
