With the end of 2021, we are over a year since the end of the 2020 presidential campaign and our launch of the Green Socialist Organizing Project.  At this point, a year into our post-election work, we wanted to take a moment to review the work that we have completed in the last year. 

Green Socialist Podcast

Started during the 2020 presidential campaign as a campaign program, the weekly Green Socialist podcast continued after the 2020 election was over in order to provide a Green Socialist perspective on current events, raise and inform on important issues, and serve as a voice for the Green Socialist movement that GSOP seeks to build. 

LIVESTREAM

Steaming on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Twitch

Saturdays at 3 PM ET

Watch Episodes Here

PODCAST

Released on Anchor.fm, Apple Podcasts, Breaker, Google Podcasts, Pocket Casts,  RadioPublic, Spotify

Mondays at 7 AM ET

Listen to Episodes Here

46 Normal Episodes predicted in 2021, in addition to 7 Special Episodes, 5 Green Socialist Workshop Episodes. 2,722 minutes of podcast content.

Special Episodes

In addition to weekly episodes focused on current events and taking questions from viewers, the Green Socialist podcast has done numerous topic specific episodes, candidate interviews, and workshop/trainings.

Workshops and Trainings

Systems, Tech, and Social Media

Hawkins/Walker Social Media and Tech Director put together a series of workshops intended to help local Green/independent socialist chapters and candidates better use technology, systems, and social media in their organizing. 

2021 Green Party Annual National Meeting

Every year the Green Party US holds its Annual National Meeting.  Open to Greens and the general public, the multi-day event includes workshops, trainings, plenary sessions, keynote speakers and more.  Members of the Green Socialist Organizing Project presented a number of workshops at the 2021 meeing, which was held via ZOOM due to the COVID pandemic. 

Party Building/Organizing Workshops

The key to growing the Green Party into a party that can elect thousands to local office in the 2020s is local organizing and party building.  Strong locals are central to any grassroots movement and these workshops are the first entries towards organizing trainings from the Green Socialist Organizing Project. 

How to Run a Reading Group

Murray Bookchin, who founded social ecology, a theory that strongly influenced early Green Socialist thought, strongly advocated the discussion and study group as the first step of any revolutionary movement. A group of individuals meets to expand their knowledge of radical thought and form a radical intellectual community; through the give and take of discussion, can eventually form ideas for next steps in organizing and political activity. According to Bookchin, study groups help create solidarity and a shared language — with a shared coherent vision — for building a mass, organizing, political movement!

With Bookchin’s words in mind and with the Green Socialist Organizing Project’s commitment to building from the bottom-up, we do not only want to present or connect to existing Reading Groups, but seek to develop local organizers that can run their own local groups.

Written Resources

Guides, Policy Papers, and other resources created in order to help Greens and independent socialists organize locally.

Reading/Discussion Group Resources

While we are not presently running a recurring reading/discussion group, we have produced some initial Green Socialist Reading Lists, maintain a calendar of public socialist reading groups, and have developed training materials to help local organizers start their own groups.