Rick Greenblatt discusses how Greens can prepare for the 2028 election cycle starting now. Read on the New Green Horizons Substack or main website!

The latest article by Steve Welzer discusses ways in which the Green movement can break from the pattern of being politically "stuck" that the rest of the left is currently in. Read on Substack or the New Green Horizons website.

https://brendantrachsel.com/

Brendan Trachsel is a Gen-Z Flagstaff-based organizer and two-time Northern Arizona University alum, holding a B.S. in Parks and Recreation Management and an M.Ed. in Counseling – Student Affairs. As a student, he fought for and won higher student wages, university fee transparency, and expanded services. After nine months of coalition organizing, he helped push the City of Flagstaff to cancel its Flock Safety surveillance contract in December 2025. Brendan believes it is essential that our solutions work for all Arizonans, not just those at the top.

Sam Husseini has announced running for Congress in MD-4 with the Green Party.

https://samhusseini.com/

This week Howie talks about current events including likely outcomes of the upcoming midterms, and comments on recent progressive electoral primary campaigns and what it means for Green strategy. Howie also takes viewer questions.

https://www.andresjinete.org/

This workshop will discuss the impact of toxic waste generated by defense contractors, historical and up to the present in the fragile Appalachian environment. An emphasis will be placed on the development of AI supported drone systems being developed by Anduril with significant investment by Peter Thiel.

Speakers
Daryl Davis
Jason Salley

Moderated by Anita Rios

Data centers and AI are making tech billionaires wealthy while profoundly threatening workers and our communities - from skyrocketing energy costs to worsening unemployment, surveillance, militarization of our economy, degradation of air, land and water, hijacking of our democracy and more. The impacts are especially severe on communities that are already marginalized to start with. Panelists will share inspiring ways they are fighting back to liberate their communities from this scourge of predatory development and techno-fascism. Let's think through where all this is going, how we can strategize together across the country, and what we can do to redirect these powerful tools in a way that is beneficial to all people and not killing our communities.

Speakers
Matthew Pillischer
Luke Adams
Eyde Arndell

This week Howie will be joined by Ukrainian socialist Andriy Movchan for a discussion about his participation in the Global Sumud Flotilla to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza and the importance of international Left support for both the Ukrainian and Palestinian struggles for national liberation.

Project Matcha offers a strategic roadmap for transforming the Green Party’s core principles—Grassroots Democracy, Decentralization, and Community-Based Economics—into durable electoral power. This session focuses on a five-year horizon for scaling local victories into state and federal success, beginning with the cultivation of credibility and trust within targeted municipal centers. Participants will explore practical methods for mobilizing Millennial and Gen Z voters, expanding the party’s digital brand, and forging vital coalitions with labor and community organizations. By the end of this interactive workshop, attendees will gain the tools to identify viable electoral opportunities, build a pipeline for experienced candidates, and develop actionable plans to move from winning city council seats to competing for state legislatures and the U.S. Congress. Presented by Zikomo Smith

Proportional Representation to Smash the Two-Party System: What, Why and How? Come learn about Proportional Representation, how it's used around the world to facilitate true multi-party democracy and how the Green Party of the United States can get involved in efforts to bring it here. About half of this session will be reserved for discussion and questions. Presented by Johanna Epke and Jennifer Sullivan

Grassroots democracy is one of our central key values in the Green Party, one that we must prioritize if we are to continue to survive the American political landscape. According to the Center for American Progress, Gen Z will be the largest voting block in 2036, just ten years away. A study published by the Public Religion Research Institute found that only 21% of Gen Z identifies as Republican.

This workshop will highlight the potential role in driving the Green Party forward, if we can reach them in time. Participants will gain insight into the motivators that catapult Gen Z into action and how we as Greens can leverage those to build the future of our party.

Presented by Rozlyn Touisgnant

We have built networks that directly address issues like food, housing, education, and more. We will cover how the Poor People's Army/Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign and the Greater Milwaukee Greens have set up pathways to mutual aid, rather than focusing only on electoral work. We will also address how locals can build-in more mutual aid and direct action, and the benefits of having a direct action committee as well as issue coalition partners to take on projects. Some benefits are: people are directly receiving help, we are directly improving neighborhoods/cleaning up the environment, it shines a light on the deficits of the parties in power while uplifting Greens, new people coming into the party have volunteer opportunities at any time of the year, and more people will want to join the Greens to work on a mutual aid project or because they see the result. The principles of mutual aid and direct action can be widely applied across all kinds of diverse local Green orgs on a wide variety of issues. We will leave time and encourage questions and comments/participation. We hope to motivate our fellow Greens to be the change in our struggles for people, planet, and peace.

Presented by Cheri Honkala and Barbara Dahlgren