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"