FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 7, 2020
For Further Information:
Virginia Rodino, virginia@howiehawkins.us
Robert Smith, robert@howiehawkins.us
Hawkins and Walker React To Trump’s Defeat
We are happy to see Trump go. Good riddance!
This election was a referendum on Trump. Biden was Not-Trump, nothing more. Biden has no solutions for the climate, poverty, racism, and nuclear war.
The Hawkins/Walker campaign thanks our supporters for their donations and campaign work in a difficult year for the Green Party and independent socialists. The media blanked us out. After the Democratic establishment closed ranks to defeat Bernie Sanders, most progressive leaders lined up behind Biden without making any policy demands on him. The Biden administration is now free to ignore them.
We will continue to fight for a Green New Deal, an Economic Bill of Rights including Medicare for All, and a reprioritization of federal spending from militarism to caring for the people and the planet. We will continue organizing toward a major party of the green and socialist left and supporting the election of thousands to local office and, on that foundation, to state legislatures and Congress as we go into the 2020s.
We are running out of time on the climate, declining working-class life expectancies, and the new nuclear arms race. Real solutions can’t wait.
We are determined, not defeated.
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Thank you. I was happy to support you in my writing, and my personal relationships. I appreciate your energy and commitment. I hope the Green party grows and becomes better established in Arizona. I have had contact with someone supposedly in the green party here, but the communication was dropped, and I never heard from a local Green party person again. It’s easy to see then why I had to write you in on the ballot. I believe we need help from one of the better organized states. We have 4 years to get it going. please send help.
Danny Robinson
Thank you for your life long commitment to people and planet. You are truly an inspiration. Thank you for not giving up hope. I’m just a nobody waitress but i pass the word of the greens as often as I can. I hope there is some way of getting the media to spotlight on the greens in the next election.
Eternal gratitude for the fearless radical vision put forth by the Hawkins/Walker Campaign! Kudos to Howie, Angela and their campaign manager Andrea Merida for this contribution to building the foundation moving to victory for an ecosocialist GND, demilitarization and the final termination of white supremacy in the U.S.
Yes this defeat of Trump was a referendum on Trump, but it was a clear repudiation of his politics of hate, a repudiation of this enabler and symbol of white supremacy, climate denier and leader of the assault of fossil capital on the health of people and their environment.
Biden/Harris were forced to recognize the challenge of systemic racism, a euphemism for white supremacy. The BLM movement made this recognition possible and will hold the Democrats accountable to make the progressive dismantling of white supremacy a reality, recognizing the challenge posed by the massive vote for Trump.
It is an exaggeration to say Biden has no solutions for the climate crisis. Rejoining the Paris Agreement is a modest but critically important first step, so will be the restoration of EPA regulations especially with respect to carbon emissions. But most significantly, unlike the alternative of four more years of Trump, we now have a path opened for a much stronger climate/energy justice movement inspired by the vision of an ecosocialist GND. Lets build this movement now as you say, in coalition with the Squad, Our Revolution, the socialist left, with the grassroots environmental justice leaders and activists!
Finally, it is clear our Presidential ticket did not reach the goal of 5%, with indications of a significant loss of votes since 2016. I already know that in DC we got about one half the votes compared to 2016, mainly because many in our Green electorate voted for Biden out of fear of a Trump reselection, a choice that was not rational since it had absolutely no impact on whether Biden would gain our three electoral votes which of course he did with over 92% of the vote, and was a tiny drop in the bucket of the projected 6 to 7 million national margin for Biden. We should have anticipated the potential of this electoral outcome given the psychology of voters even in very blue states.
David Schwartzman
Presidential Elector for Hawkins/Walker
DC Statehood Green Party
Don’t we need to recognize that a whole bunch of white and other middle and working class people are very afraid? They have lost so much security (what with college costs, medical costs, jobs without benefits, etc.); and many of them identify with the bluster that Trump and other conservatives put out. The Trump line makes “socialism” and “environmentalists” the enemy. Instead of using a term like “eco-socialism”, why don’t we emphasize the many ways that Green insights and values can help them? The main blank spot in our line, as I see it, is failing to make clear how tax policy over the last 40 years has freed the huge multi-national corporations from any tax responsibility, placing it instead on the middle and working class. No wonder they’re sweating! We need a thorough analysis of where the money has gone. Simply saying it, like I’m doing, is not enough.