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.
Hawkins: Wildfires are the Alarm Bell to Declare Climate Emergency
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 13, 2020 Andrea Mérida, [email protected] Robert Smith, [email protected] Hawkins: Wildfires are the Alarm Bell to Declare Climate Emergency (Syracuse, NY) - Howie Hawkins, the presidential nominee of the Green and Socialist...
What the Democrats aren’t telling you about Wisconsin
Well, we finally made the mainstream media, but while 2016 was all about slandering Stein/Baraka as Russian assets, this year it's that Howie and Angela are tools of the Republican Party that are denying people in Wisconsin their absentee ballots. Nothing could be...
Release: Hawkins Demands Immediate Resolution of Wisconsin Ballot Case
For more information: Howie Hawkins, [email protected] Andrea Merida, Campaign Manager, [email protected] Hawkins Demands Immediate Resolution of Wisconsin Ballot Case Blasts Both Major Parties for Playing Games with Right to Vote (Syracuse, NY - September...
Reject Militarism on the Anniversary of 9/11
By Howie Hawkins Nineteen years after more than 3,000 people were killed on 9/11, there remains a bipartisan commitment to fight an endless “war on terrorism,” instigate regime change coups, increase military spending, enhance US nuclear weapons, deport undocumented...
RELEASE: Hawkins Campaign Blasts Democrats’ Manufactured Crisis In Wisconsin
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 10, 2020 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Andrea Mérida, [email protected] Robert Smith, [email protected] Hawkins Campaign Blasts Democrats’ Manufactured Crisis In Wisconsin (Syracuse, NY) – Today the Wisconsin Supreme Court...
A Green New Deal for Workers
Workers in 2020 have a unique opportunity to vote to put two fellow workers in the White House. Howie is a recently retired Teamster and Angela is a dump truck driver. We know the economic realities that working people face in the United States. This Labor Day we call...
Hawkins Files with FEC to receive Presidential Primary Matching Funds, Cites Need for Full Public Campaign Financing
CONTACT: Kevin Zeese, Press Secretary: [email protected] Robert Smith, Media Coordinator: [email protected] (Syracuse, NY - September 4, 2020) Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for President, filed on August 24 with the Federal Election Commission to...
Hawkins Releases 12 Years of Tax Returns and Asks, Where Are Trump’s?
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 23, 2020 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Kevin Zeese, Press Secretary [email protected] Robert Smith, Media Coordinator [email protected] Hawkins Releases 12 Years of Tax Returns and Asks, Where Are Trump’s? Green Party presidential...
Whatever Happened to the Green New Deal?
By Howie Hawkins, Mark Dunlea, and Jon Rynn The Green New Deal was the signature issue of the Green Party in the 2010s. Howie Hawkins was the first US candidate to campaign for a Green New Deal in 2010 running for New York governor. The Green Party’s presidential...
RELEASE: Democrats’ Efforts to Deny Ballot Lines to Green Party is Voter Suppression
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 17, 2020 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Kevin Zeese, Press Secretary [email protected] Robert Smith, Media Coordinator [email protected] Democrats’ Efforts to Deny Ballot Lines to Green Party is Voter Suppression Syracuse, NY:...
Fight for the Right To Vote and To Have All Votes Counted
August 14, 2020 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Howie Hawkins, [email protected] Angela Walker, [email protected] Fight for the Right To Vote and To Have All Votes Counted By Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker Voter suppression always plays a role in the US elections....
The Syracuse Uprising Against Police Brutality Persists
By Howie Hawkins The movement against police brutality and systemic racism in Syracuse, New York has not let up since I reported on a June 6 demonstration of 2000-3000 people. At that time, Last Chance for Change group had promised to march for 40 days and nights....
They Can’t Keep Chikesia Clemons Down
By Howie Hawkins One of my first campaign stops in June 2019 after announcing my candidacy was in Mobile, Alabama, where among the group I spoke to was Chikesia Clemons. I didn’t know she would be there, but I had heard about her more than a year before she became...
Reverse the New Nuclear Arms Race
By Howie Hawkins and Madelyn Hoffman August 6 is the 75th anniversary of the only time any nation in the world dropped an atomic bomb on people. On August 6, 1945, President Harry Truman ordered Fat Man dropped on Hiroshima. 210,000 people were killed instantly. Three...
Red Lines For COVID and Economic Recovery
The Republicans have drawn a red line -- protect employers from legal liability from COVID. The Democrats have not put in any red lines in place. After seeing the Republican plan, multiple red lines are needed. The failed bi-partisan state is unable to pass...
RELEASE: The Census Should Count All People
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact Kevin Zeese, Press Secretary [email protected] The Census Should Count All People (Syracuse, NY and Florence, SC, July 22, 2020) The Hawkins/Walker Green Party presidential ticket today urged the Census to count every person living...
7/20/20: The Moment of Truth Is Now for COVID & Economic Relief
By Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker The US Senate returned to work this week after a two-week vacation during which COVID-19 exploded and the economy imploded. The moment of truth has now arrived. Will the House and Senate now bring forth a Covid relief package...
Juneteenth 2020: Racism and Capitalism: Joined at the Hip from Birth
by Howie Hawkins Juneteenth celebrates the final end of American slavery when on June 19, 1865, the Union Army reached Galveston, Texas informed the last enslaved people that they were free more than two years after President Lincoln had issued his Emancipation...
Reimagining Public Safety: Community Control, Social Investment, and Decriminalizing Drugs
by Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker The new movement against police brutality and racism, spurred video-captured police murder of George Floyd, is now in its fourth week on the streets. Hundreds of thousands of people in every state and more than 2000 cities and towns...
Remembering Eugene V. Debs’ Canton Speech
by Howie Hawkins 102 years ago on this day, June 16, Eugene Debs gave the speech in Canton, Ohio that the US government used to charge him with obstructing the recruitment of soldiers into the Army for World War I. It was a speech about socialism that said nothing...
Syracuse #GeorgeFloyd Actions: Last Chance for Change
by Howie Hawkins Hundreds of young people in Syracuse, New York, have been marching for many miles every day for nearly two weeks since the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police on Memorial Day, Monday, May 25. The marches formed spontaneously as young people...
Free Edward Snowden and All Whistleblowers and Political Prisoners
by Howie Hawkins The 10-day-old civil uprising following the murder of George Floyd has put police brutality and racism into the national spotlight. The militarized and often violent response by the police and National Guard against nonviolent protest is one form of...
Uprooting Police Brutality and Racism
By Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker We stand in solidarity with the righteous national uprising for racial justice sparked by the police lynching of George Floyd. Trump is calling the protesters “thugs” and “terrorists” in order to incite and justify violence by the...
Hawkins/Walker April FEC Filing: Positioned to Unite the Left
The Howie Hawkins / Angela Walker 2020 Green Party presidential campaign has filed its April 2020 FEC Financial Report at the end of May. We reported more than $43,000 cash on hand and a tremendous surge in donations, thanks largely to the new coalition of political...
The Minneapolis Uprising: An open letter to Black Americans
Dear Black Family and Co-Conspirators, I will admit to you that I was doing all I could to avoid letting the lynching of George Floyd register in my mind and spirit. I have not watched the video of his murder, nor do I plan to. I can’t. This is a situation we as a...
Open letter to Charlamagne tha God
Dear Charlamagne tha God, We hope this letter finds you well and in good spirits. We are Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker, the Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates for the Green Party of the US. We watched your interviews with former Vice President Joe Biden...
#SayHerName: Brianna Hill
Very recently, a video has materialized which shows two Kansas City police officers brutalizing a transgender woman as they arrested her. According to an article in The Guardian, the assault was captured on video on May 24th of 2019, a full year ago. In it, the...
