• June 10, 2023 | 9:00 am to 5:00 pm

• Registration Now Open

Join us for the Missouri Green Party (MOGP) annual state convention. Anyone can join, but you must be a member in good standing to vote.

Agenda:

Morning Schedule

9:00 - 9:20 Morning Chat, Login, Breakfast (BYO)

9:20 - 9:30 Welcome, Review Agenda: Barbara Chicherio

9:30 - 10:00 "Nicaragua, What's Really Going On" presented by author, activist, lawyer and International Relations Professor at University of Pittsburgh, Dan Kavolik. (Please read and review information about his book by following this link.)

https://popularresistance.org/nicaragua-a-history-of-us-intervention-and-resistance/

10:00 - 11:00 Unpacking The Plastics Pandemic with Bob Grove

DESCRIPTION

One moment we’re revolutionizing the future and the next we’re swimming in a forever land of nondegradable microplastics and the cornucopia of toxic forever chemicals used to make them.  It’s on the ground and in our oceans.  It’s in the air, in our food and in our water.  It’s in our guts, lungs, and blood streams.  It’s in placentas and breast milk.  You breath it.  You drink it.  You eat it and you wear it.  Bob Grove, activist and author of “Grove’s FIELD GUIDE to Climate Change” will help you unpack the plastics pandemic.

11:00 - 11:05 - Break

11:05 - 12:35 - "Threats to Waters of the World, and Missouri, Too" Panel Discussion with Henry Robertson, Barbara Chicherio, Susan Armstrong, Don Fitz

12:35 - 1:05 - Lunch (Short music videos by Mike Stout and "Refuse, Reduce, Re-use and Recycle" video by Mike Stout, retired steelworker, Green Party activist from Pittsburgh, Pa.)

Afternoon Schedule

1:05 - 1:35 - "Can I interest you in Signing this Petition" by Outreach chair of Greens KC, Nathan Kline. Moderator Jo Ann Greenberg.

1:35 - 2:05 - "Working with Local Governments on Pesticide Legislation" with Daniel Romano

2:05 - 2:35 - "Dangers of Alternative Energy and the Green New Deal" with Don Fitz

2:35 - 3:05 - Built-in time in the event workshops go a bit longer than the schedule allows.

3:05 - 3:10 - Break

3:10 - 3:40 Party Reports

Treasurer's Report: Joe Civettini - 5 minutes
State Report: Sue Edward - 5 minutes
Elections Report: Jerome Bauer - 5 minutes
KC Report: Daniel Karam - 5 minutes
St. Louis Report: Don Fitz - 5 minutes
US Green Party Delegate Report: Cris Mann - 5 minutes

3:35 - 3:45 Officer and National Committee Delegate Elections - 10 minutes

3:45 - 3:55 - Wrap up - 10 minutes

3:55 - 5:00 - Happy Hour!