The 2008 NYC Green Party Conference • 04.28.08
The 2008 NYC Green Conference
www.greenpartynyc.org
Peace • Social & Economic Justice
Grassroots Democracy • Environmental Wisdom
WHO: 
WHAT: The 2008 NYC Green Conference
WHEN: Saturday, May 31st from 9 AM to 6 PM
WHERE:
On Saturday, May 31st, activists, educators, students and community members from across
Members of Iraq Veterans Against the War, the Cornell Global Labor Institute, Physicians for a National Health Program, and FairVote USA — to name just a few — will serve as panelists and guest lecturers. They will focus on uncompromising critiques of the problems facing us and action-oriented strategies that can be built into the larger network of progressive solutions.
Visit the Green Party NYC website (www.greenpartynyc.org) today to RSVP, find out more about the amazing workshops and other events.
9 AM
Registration
9:45 AM
Invocation by Rev. Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping
10–11 AM
General Session 1
“Green Politics in NY: Past, Present, and Future”
A panel of Green political activists and representatives, as well as past candidates, will provide an historical perspective and future strategies for Green politics in New York State, with a focus on New York City.
11:15 AM–12:15 PM
Workshop Session 1
“Sustainability, NYC and the Global Climate Crisis”
Sean Sweeney, Director, Global Labor Institute, Cornell University
Zena Nelson, South Bronx Food Coop
Joel Kovel, author of The Enemy of Nature and 1998 Green Party candidate for US Senate
“Everybody In, Nobody Out: Single Payer Health Care Initiatives”
Gloria Mattera, Co-Chair, Green Party of New York State
Don A. Dayson, MD, Physicians for a National Health Program, NY Metro Chapter & attending physician at Harlem Hospital
Mark Dunlea, New Yorkers for Single Payer Universal Health Care
“Proportional Representation in NYC — Then & Now”
Lynne Serpe, FairVote
12:15 PM
Lunch
1:30–2:45 PM
Delegate Nomination & Election
Voting will take place to decide who will represent Region 2 (New York City) at the National Nominating Convention in Chicago, IL, this summer.
2:45 PM
Afternoon break
3–4 PM
Workshop Session 2
“Recharging the Anti-War Movement”
Jose Vasquez, Iraq Veterans Against the War
Prof. Susan Cushman, Chair, Peace Task Force, All Souls Church
Sander Hicks, founder, Soft Skull Press; independent media activist
“Our City: Development and the Fight for New York City”
Scott M.X. Turner, Develop Don’t Destroy — Brooklyn
Laurel May Turbin, Chinatown Justice Project, CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities
Paul Steely White, Executive Director, Transportation Alternatives
“There Is an Alternative: Running Progressive Political Campaigns”
Julia Willebrand, 2006 Green Party candidate for NY State Comptroller
David Doonan, Green Mayor, Greenwhich, NY
David Lussier, 2007 Green Party candidate for Albany County Legislature — others TBA
4:15–5:30 PM
General Session 2
“NYC, Race and Building Multi-cultural Alliances”
Gwendolyn DeBrow, Co-chair, Free Mumia Coalition
Donald Smith, Baruch College — others TBA
5:30–6 PM
Conclusion
“[T]he legislation and histories of the time, and the language used in the Declaration of Independence, show, that neither the class of persons who had been imported as slaves, nor their descendants, whether they had become free or not, were then acknowledged as a part of the people, nor intended to be included in the general words used in that memorable instrument. . . . [A]ltogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations; and so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.”
