The Green Party will be well represented at this year's LeftForum in New York City. Two dozen Greens from around the country will participate in over 20 panels.

Left Forum provides a context for the critical conversations that are essential for a stronger Left and a more just society.

Each spring Left Forum convenes the largest gathering in North America of the US and international Left. Continuing a tradition begun in the 1960s, we bring together intellectuals and organizers to share perspectives, strategies, experience and vision. For the US and the world, revitalizing an American Left has never been more urgent; Left Forum has a critical role to play in that undertaking.

Our work parallels and cross-fertilizes with the renewal of left, progressive, radical and social movement strength elsewhere—from indigenous movements in Bolivia to the South Korean farmers to the electoral gains of European and Latin American left parties. Like many movements abroad, Left Forum seeks to link the critique of neo-liberalism to anti-capitalism and to foster radical alternatives to the established order. Left Forum provides a context for critical engagement by people of different persuasions who, nevertheless, seek common ground.

Greens will be participating in the following panels

Election Integrity I: You Protest. You Resist. You Vote. They Count. They “Win.” They Jeer—ELECTION THEFT and why the Media (and the Democrats) Won’t Go There

Joel Simpson, Left Forum/Independent activist-photographer

Jonathan Simon, Executive Director, Election Defense Alliance

Robert Fitrakis, Political Science Professor in the Social and Behavioral Sciences department at Columbus State Community College, Columbus, Ohio

Mark Crispin Miller, Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, NYU

Marta Steele, Independent author, editor and blogger

Jill Stein, Green Party Candidate for US President, 2012 & 2016, activist for environmental justice and Election Integrity



The Normalization of Evil in the Current Dark Age



Bonnie Keyes, Gotham Greens

John Baldwin, Gotham Greens

Gabe Evans, Gotham Greens

Persephone Smith, Green Party of Brooklyn

Paul Gilman, Gotham Greens





Common Sense Resistance by Veterans

Phillip Reiss, Veterans for Peace (President VFP 152), Member TPF

Victor Madeson, VP of Thomas Paine Friends (TPF), VFP Chapter 152, Lifetime member of VFW, DAV, and VVA. Member: ACLU, Common Cause, Public Citizen, NWU

Vincent Stravino, MD, Veterans for Peace (Treas VFP 152), Member Thomas Paine Friends (TPF), LePoco

Jenny Pacanowski, Member: One Fight, VFP, IVAW,

Skip Moyer, VFP, Green Party





Capitalism Gets Knocked Down (and then gets up again)

Douglas Lain, Zero Books

Michael Roberts, Michael Roberts blog “The Next Recession”

Pete Dolack, Green Party, Zero Books

Terry Tapp, Zero Books (author)



Can the Democratic Party be Reformed?

Dan Durso, Former Co-Director, Bernie Sanders CT Team

Daniel Vila, Chair, Manhattan Green Party

Daniel Adam, Socialist Action

Margaret Kimberly, Editor and Senior Columnist, Black Agenda Report

Melissa Muldoon, Socialist Action



Resisting Trump, Exposing the Democrats

Glen Ford, Executive editor, Black Agenda Report

Bruce Dixon, Georgia Green Party, Black Agenda Report

Margaret Kimberley, UNAC, Black Agenda Report

Nellie Bailey, Harlem Tenants Union

Ajamu Baraka, Green Party

Raymond Nat Turner, Upsurge Jazz ensemble





Reality Check - Why now more than ever, it’s time for radical resistance and independent green-left collaboration ... And how to move it forward

Gloria Mattera, Green Party of New York

Jill Stein, Green Party USA

Chris Hedges, writes an online column for Truthdig.

Margaret Kimberely, Black Agenda Report

Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK





The Radical Jacksonian Left

Tom Ballou, Alliance for the Liberation Left

Sue Peters, American Monetary Institute; Manhattan Green Party Local; National Organization of Raw Materials; NYC Labor Chorus

Allen Smith, The Henry George School of Social Science





Animal liberation, an inevitable outcome of progressive politics: why? and how?

Tracey Lall, Humane Party of NY, State Co-Developer

Elena L. Cohen, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Rafael Epstein, Humane Party of NY, State Co-Developer

Craig Seeman, Green Party Animal Rights Committee, Co-Chair

Jay Shooster, Masiyiwa-Bernstein Fellow, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, NYU School of Law





Building the Greens Into A Mass Based Party of the Left

Howie Hawkins, NY Green Party, Teamsters for a Democratic Union

Bruce Dixon, GA Green Party, Black Agenda Report

Steve Early, Independent journalist





Democrats & Republicans: The twin parties of Imperialist War

Joe Lombardo, UNAC co-coordinator

Jeff Mackler, UNAC, Socialist Action

Ajamu Baraka, Black Alliance for Peace and Green Party

Abayomi Azikiwe, Pan African News Wire, Michigan Emergency Committee Against War and injustice, United National





Cuba-U.S. Relations: Behind the Headlines

Ursula Rozum, Green Party

Arnold August, Author/Journalist Fernwood Publising

Luis Barrios (Ph.D.), John Jay College of Criminal Justice

James Early (Ph.D), Cultural Heritage Policy Smithsonial Institute, Consultant Cultural Democracy and Statecraft Heritage Policy, Institute of Polcy Studies, The Rael News Network and more.

Manolo Enrique De Los Santos, Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO)



Why Black and Latino Independent Election Campaigns are Needed More than Ever

Bruce Dixon, Black Agenda Report, Georgia Green Party

Diamonte Brown, Ujima People’s Progress Party, Executive commit- tee of Voter’s Choice in Massachusetts

Khalid Raheem, New Afrikan Independence Party (NAIP)

Darlene Elias, Green Rainbow Party of Massachusettes



RESIST THE MONEY POWER: 5,000 Years of Struggle

Geraldine Perry, author of “The Two Faces of Money”; thetwofacesofmoney.com

Ann Webre, Member, ACLU, National Resources Defense Council, and WNYC.

Sue Peters, American Monetary Institute; Manhattan Green Party Local; National Organization of Raw Materials; NYC Labor Chorus





Socialists and Greens in the ballot box and in the streets

Adrian Boutureira, Green Party US

Ajamu Baraka, Green Party US

Todd Chretren, International Socialist Organization

Robert Caldwell, Left Elect-Solidarity

Gloria Mattera, Green Party; SCNCC

Eljeer Hawkins, Socialist Alternative





Rigged and Stolen Elections

John Rey, SPUSA / SPNYC ; Occupy Wall Street / Occu_Evolve

Sumumba Sobukwe, OWS Occu_Evolve

Ben Blumberg, Socialist Party USA

Julia Willebrand, Green Party

Wayne Price, Anarkos





Resistance for what and with whom? Who are our allies? Which direction next?

Ralph Poynters, New Abolitionist Movement, Lynne Stewart Org., African People’s Socialist Party, NYC Jericho, NYS Farmer’s Market Assoc., Brownsville Matters, NYS Green Party, NYC Free Mumia Coalition

Joel Meyers

Chris Hedges, Truthdig, Princeton University, New York Times, Contact

Anne Lamb, NYC Jericho Org.

Bob Lederer, WBAI, Justice & Unity ,

Pam Africa, Free Mumia Coalition, MOVE

Ana M. Lopez, Free Oscar Lopez Rivera Campaign

Tom Siracuse, Manhattan Green Party



RESIST THE MONEY POWER: Ending ‘Free’

Geraldine Perry, author of “The Two Faces of Money”; thetwofacesofmoney.com

Jean Giblette, Owner, High Falls Gardens; member, High Falls Foundation Inc.; website member, GreensForMonetaryReform.org

Barbara Simpson, Upper Westside Monetary Reform Group; in both the US and UK -- Ethical Cultural Society, NY An- throposophy Society, British Red Cross Society





Comparing Trump On...

Peter LaVenia, Green Party of New York

Steve Breyman, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Pedro De La Torre III, Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute





From Resistance To Running For Office: How Progressives Can Build Working Class Power At the State & Local Level

Steve Early, Richmond Progressive Alliance, NewsGuild/CWA

Kelly Bellin, Socialist Alternative

Howie Hawkins, Green Party

Isaac Grimm, Rights & Democracy, Our Revolution

Jessica Early, Rights and Democracy, Our Revolution, Vermont Progressive Party campaign coordinator

Nelini Stamp, Working Families Party





RESIST THE MONEY POWER: A New Kind of Money

Geraldine Perry, author of “The Two Faces of Money”; thetwofacesofmoney.com

Donal Butterfield, The American Monetary Institute; Green Party U.S.

Sue Peters, American Monetary Institute; Manhattan Green Party Local; National Organization of Raw Materials; NYC Labor Chorus





Platform for a Left Opposition

Peter LaVenia, Green Party of New York

Gloria Mattera, Green Party of New York

Ajamu Baraka, Green Party US

Robert Caldwell, Solidarity



Empire of Chaos

Bahram Zandi, Green Party US

Younes Benab, Iranian Left Alliance Washington DC

Sassan Dehghan, Iranian Left Alliance Washington DC





Beyond Resistance: Winning the Revolution

Chuck Pennacchio, "The Three-Percent Solution: Out of Crisis Comes Opportunity"

Jenny Isaacs, Quaker, Green, poet, educator, activist & organizer; chair of Bucks County Green Party

Rob Kall publishes the award winning progressive news and opinion site OpEdNews.com which he founded in 2003.

Ben Pennacchio, "Case Study, 2016: The Inaugural Day 217: My Detention, Arrest, and Legal Battle in the Age of Trump"