On August 18, 2019, the Green National Committee selected Detroit, Michigan, as the site for the 2020 convention, to take place from July 9-12 at Wayne State University. Greenville, South Carolina, and Spartanburg, South Carolina, were also considered to host the convention. On April 24, 2020, it was instead announced that plans to have a physical convention were cancelled and that it would instead be held online, as Wayne State University informed the Green Party that it would be not able to accommodate them due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Delegate allocation
State Green Parties elect delegates to the presidential nominating convention, typically conducted through a state party convention, caucus or primary. National Green Party Identity Caucuses also elect delegates to the convention. Based on active state parties and caucuses, there can be up to 350 delegates in attendance, each committed to vote in reflection of their state party membership's preference. Utilizing proportional representation, many states send delegates representing multiple candidates, in contrast to a winner-take-all plurality voting system. The delegates of the presidential nominating convention are different from the elected delegates of the Green National Committee, the party's routine decision-making body.
Speakers
The following people have been announced as speakers at the convention:
Ajamu Baraka, Green Party 2016 vice-presidential nominee, political activist and scholar, whose work has appeared in Black Agenda Report, Common Dreams, Dissident Voice.
Dr. Margaret Flowers, Organizing for Health Justice. Advisor to Physicians for a National Health Plan and co-founder of Health Over Profit for Everyone.
Robin Harris, Green Party and George Floyd Rebellions. Green Party National Black Caucus Co-Chair and 2018 Green Party candidate for Orange County Commissioner, Florida.
Seth Kaper-Dale, The Power of Imagining Winning. Co-pastor of the Reformed Church of Highland Park, New Jersey, 2017 Green Party candidate for Governor of New Jersey, author of A Voice for Justice: Sermons that Prepared a Congregation to Respond to God in the Decade After 9/11.
Margaret Kimberly, Greens Are the Only Choice. Co-founder, editor and columnist for Black Agenda Report, author of Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents.
Lisa Savage, We Lead Together. The Maine Green Independent Party’s candidate for U.S. Senate, running in a ranked choice voting election for that office.
Dr. Jill Stein, presidential candidate in 2016 and 2012, Keynote: ''Greens - more than ever, we are the ones we've been waiting for.
