by H20 Staff | Aug 22, 2019
“Our ecosocialist Green New Deal would do one thing very differently. After World War II, the federal government handed back the war production facilities, many of them built at public expense, to the super-rich and their giant corporations. We will build and...
by H20 Staff | Aug 8, 2019
“Hawkins started talking about a Green New Deal as a New York gubernatorial candidate for the Greens in 2010. He’s now running for president, and he stresses that his and his party’s version is more serious than the Democrats’, mostly because it involves a...
by H20 Staff | May 28, 2019
“Of course, that is why the Greens run—to put issues and policies that the major parties ignore on to the public agenda. The Green New Deal has been the signature program of the Green Party for the last decade. Now these Democrats have taken the brand, but...
by H20 Staff | Apr 5, 2019
The 66-year-old Syracuse resident is a former Teamster who supports greater use of clean energy, more funding for education and universal health care. He notes that he began calling for a “Green New Deal” years before it become a popular cause among...
by H20 Staff | Mar 12, 2019
March 12, 2019 The Green Party’s Howie Hawkins is widely viewed as the first candidate for public office in the United States to promote a Green New Deal during his 2010 gubernatorial campaign in New York. At the forum, Hawkins painted an apocalyptic picture of...
