Campaign updates
This is a journal of the events, places, people and issues that Howie encounters as he talks to people about this campaign for the 2020 Green Party nomination for President of the United States.
Freedom to Vote Act—For Capitalist Parties Only
By Howie Hawkins The Freedom to Vote Act, the pared down voting rights legislation that Democratic Senators unveiled on September 14, must be supported to preempt GOP state laws for partisan gerrymandering, voter suppression, election subversion, and intimidation of...
Howie’s Testimony to the New York Senate Committee on Elections
Testimony of Howie Hawkins New York State Senate Committee on Elections "To Review Elections Administration and Voting Rights in Central New York” Pubic Hearing, August 4, 2021 My name is Howie Hawkins. I live in Syacuse, New York. I was the Green Party’s...
Escaping the Left’s Electoral Impasse: Ranked-Choice Voting and Proportional Representation
By Howie Hawkins Whether you are a socialist who believes in a clean break, a dirty break, or no break from the Democratic Party, ranked-choice voting (RCV)—especially for proportional representation on legislative bodies—should be a top priority now more than ever....
7 Pro-Democracy Demands
by Howie Hawkins July 12, 2021 With the feckless Democrats at the federal level unable and unwilling to stop the ruthless Republicans from assaulting voting rights and impartial elections at the state level, it is time for the Green Party to expand the agenda of...
Voting Rights Should Include the Right to Vote for Who You Want
https://youtu.be/eA_MBSrWEpY by Howie Hawkins Voting rights are not fully realized if they are only about the getting into the polling booth to cast a vote. Voting rights are also about the right to vote for who you want once you get to vote. Otherwise, we have will...
Unpublished New York Times Letter to the Editor: Ranked Choice Voting and Multi-member Districts
To the Editor of the New York Times: Mara Gay diagnoses the problem with New York City democracy: it’s “a one-party affair” (June 16). But she doesn’t offer the solutions: (1) extend ranked-choice voting to the general election and (2) proportionally represent all...
Cut US Military Aid to Israel
Since the Israeli/Palestinian ceasefire began this week, the Biden administration’s refrain has been that Israelis and Palestinians should have “equal measures of security, peace, and dignity,” but not a word about equal rights. The administration’s silence on...
Remembering Nikeeta Slade
By Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker Nikeeta Slade was one of our favorite people. She died suddenly on May 7 from an unexpected adverse medical event. She was only 32. The Greens have lost one of their most committed, knowledgeable, and talented organizers. Nikeeta was...
Biden’s Climate Pledge Is a Promise He Cannot Keep
By Howie Hawkins President Biden’s Earth Day pledge to cut carbon emissions by 50% to 52% by 2030 is a promise he cannot keep. The White House Fact Sheet released with Biden’s pledge added nothing to the climate actions in his American Jobs Plan announced on March 31....
Green Horizons 2020 Exit Interview
By Howie Hawkins Having completed my job as the Green Party’s 2020 presidential candidate, an exit interview might be helpful. How do you assess Green presidential vote in 2020? Our 400,000+ votes for 0.3% of the total vote falls in the middle range of Green...
Help the Papua New Guinea Greens!
Home to the world’s third largest rainforest, Papua New Guinea (PNG) has a biodiversity as well as a cultural and linguistic diversity that is as great as any region on Earth. PNG’s biological and cultural diversity is under assault by the global economy. PNG's...
Upcoming RCV Votes for April
Howie has been involved in organizing for RCV since the election and has been working a lot with the organization Rank the Vote. Here is a list of April's statewide RCV meetings, hosted by Rank the Vote affiliates. Date Time State Link 4/6/21 9:00 PM EDT Idaho Click...
Women’s History Month 2021
In celebration of Women's History Month 2021, Howie and Angela did a series of weekly streams on different topics related to the struggles and activism of Black Americans. We would like to thank all of our guests for the honor of speaking with us and our audience....
Memorandum of Support for the New York Health Act (A6058/S5474)
Green Party of Onondaga County, March 30, 2019 The Green Party of Onondaga County supports the New York Health Act (A6058/S5474) because it will guarantee all medically necessary services to every resident, including vision, dental, hearing, reproductive health, drug...
Tax Justice Demonstration in Syracuse NY
By Howie Hawkins March 20, 2022 I spoke today at rally for tax justice in New York representing the Green Party of Onondaga County. The state faces a fiscal deficit due to the covid recession, but it faces an even deeper needs deficit concerning jobs, income, housing,...
The Paris Commune and Grassroots Democracy
By Howie Hawkins March 18, 2021 150 years ago on this day, March 18, 1871, the Paris Commune declared itself the governing power in the city of two million and proceeded to build what the Communards called a “Democratic and Social Republic.” The Commune’s...
Fukushima: Ten Years On the Disaster Continues
By Howie Hawkins, March 11, 2021 Ten years ago today the Fukushima nuclear disaster began. It is far from over. It won’t be over for decades to come at best. On March 11, 2011, an earthquake caused the reactors at the Fukushima nuclear complex in Japan to shut down. A...
Amend H.R. 1 To Protect Voting Rights, Not Big Donors
By Howie Hawkins The “For the People Act” (H.R.1/S.1) is voting rights legislation now pending in Congress. Civil rights organizations are urgently supporting this bill in order to secure voting rights against over 250 voter suppression bills introduced by Republicans...
Black History Month Streams 2021
In celebration of Black History Month 2021, Howie and Angela did a series of weekly streams on different topics related to the struggles and activism of Black Americans. We would like to thank all of our guests and we were honored to have gotten to work with...
Canada and the US Should Cooperate in an Ecosocialist Green New Deal
By Howie Hawkins February 24, 2021 I was asked by Energy Advisor, a weekly publication of the Inter-American Dialogue, to write a 250 word commentary responding to the following questions. I sent them a shorter version of my response below, but here is a fuller...
HR 1’s Campaign Finance Program: A Reform that Doesn’t Reform
Howie addresses HR1 on his weekly livestream on 2/23/2021 By Howie Hawkins HR 1, the For the People Act, is an omnibus voting reform bill that has many progressive measures concerning voter registration, voter roll purges, voter-verified paper ballots, early...
Policy Brief: Cut the Campaign Finance Program from HR 1
Issue Brief on the HR 1 Campaign Finance Program By Howie Hawkins, February 18, 2021 Overview The Campaign Finance section is one of three divisions in HR 1, the proposed For the People Act. Division A deals with Voting, including many good reforms concerning internet...
Remembering James Ridgeway
By Howie Hawkins We lost a great investigative journalist and progressive advocate on Saturday at the age of 84. James Ridgeway spent six decades exposing corporate crime, proposing environmental solutions, and opposing solitary confinement, among many other...
Abolition Of Cash Bail Press Conference
Speakers: General Davis, parent of incarcerated children Sonya Cannon, parent of incarcerated child LaDonya Smith, parent of incarcerated child Doris Cox, parent of incarcerated child Ali Muhammad, concerned citizen Howie Hawkins, concerned citizen Abolition of...
NYCHA Tenants Battle Mold Alongside COVID
NYCHA Tenants Battle Mold Alongside Covid By Howie Hawkins The US faces an unprecedented housing crisis due to lost income in the covid pandemic. Up to 40 million people face eviction because they are behind on rent. President Biden has extended the Center for...
Interview: Howie Hawkins discusses Ecosocialism and the Green New Deal
Interview with Done Waiting, a youth-based progressive group. Originally published at https://medium.com/done-waiting/interview-howie-hawkins-discusses-ecosocialism-and-the-green-new-deal-b2adc5ab0868 I recently had the privilege of meeting with Green Party co-founder...
The Greens in the 2020 Elections and Beyond
By Howie Hawkins Greens knew from the start that 2020 would be a tough year for their presidential ticket. The election would be a referendum on Trump. For most progressives, Anybody But Trump would do. Our campaign believed that an ecosocialist program is needed for...
