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.
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...
Memorial Day: Honor the Warriors, Not the Wars
by Howie Hawkins Memorial Day is a federal holiday on which we honor and mourn the members of the US Armed Forces who have died in service. Lamentably, militarism, rather than mourning, is the dominant theme in too many commemorations. It may only be coincidence that...
Covid-19 Crisis: Time for the Green Party To Step Into the Political Vacuum
by Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker The Covid-19 health catastrophe and economic depression has made it clear to all who are willing believe their own experiences that the two governing parties are presiding over a failed state With 4% of the world’s population, the US...
Oppose the Israeli Annexation of West Bank Settlements
It is time for the United States to end its bipartisan unconditional support for Israeli policies that violate the human rights of Palestinians. At this critical moment, when Israel has announced its intention to annex Israeli settlements on the West Bank with the...
Mother’s Day in a Failed State
It is sad this Mother’s Day that so many of us cannot visit and hug our mothers, and mothers can’t visit and hug their children, because of social distancing and the isolation of those who are sick and hospitalized in this coronavirus pandemic. It is still important...
Fight Covid-19, Not Venezuela
by Howie Hawkins May 7, 2020 The Keystone Cops have nothing on the rag-tag group of soldiers of fortune who failed earlier this week in their implausible plot to kidnap Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, trigger a military coup, and install the US puppet, Juan...
Angela Walker for Vice President: Why I’m Running
My name is Angela Walker, and I am pleased to have been asked by Howie Hawkins to be his running mate for the Green Party Presidential Campaign, 2020. At this very pivotal time in our history, all of the inequalities of the capitalist system of this country have been...
Angela Walker for Vice President!
By Howie Hawkins May 5, 2020 I am happy to announce that Angela Walker of the South Carolina Green Party has accepted my invitation to be my running mate for vice president. Angela Walker is a veteran working-class activist with decades of experience working...
May Day is Red and Green
May Day, or International Workers Day, is celebrated with marches and rallies every May 1 to lift up the working people and their demands for freedom, equality, and justice. That is the Red tradition of May Day. But there is also an older Green tradition in which...
Vietnam: 45 Years After the War Finally Ended
"What are we fighting for?" - Country Joe McDonald When I had to prepare for a 7th grade classroom debate on the Vietnam War in Spring 1965, President Johnson had begun escalating the war with the massive bombing of Operation Rolling Thunder and the deployment of a...
The 5th Coronavirus Relief Package We Need
The coronavirus depression is fast becoming as deep as the Great Depression. The federal government’s response has been too little, too late. While sickness and death spread, while unemployment and small business failures soar, while health care and essential workers...
Legalize Marijuana and End the War on Drugs
According to the federal government more than 117 million people in the United States have used marijuana. It is time to end the war on marijuana and put in place legal adult use of marijuana. Progress is being made in many states on legalizing adult use of marijuana...
Trump is killing us
by Howie Hawkins Trump should just resign. He should get out of the way of the public health officials who are telling us how to slow the spread of COVID-19, the health care providers who are trying to heal the sick, and the military and business managers who could...
Andrew Cuomo, Austerity Autocrat
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s take-charge nationally-televised coronavirus briefings look a lot better than President Trump’s rambling and often misleading and self-contradictory briefings. The contrast has led to comments by Trump himself, MSNBC host Rachel...
The Good Old Days: I Miss You All
The campaign activity I enjoy most is local meetings with Greens and other interested people, and meeting random people on the street petitioning for ballot access. After the World Health Organization announced the COVID-19 world pandemic on March 11, I completed my...
Listen, Biden! COVID-19 and Medicare for All
On the topic of the COVID-19 pandemic in Sunday’s Biden-Sanders debate, Joe Biden said, “...you have a single-payer system in Italy — it doesn’t work there. It has nothing to do with Medicare for All. That would not solve the problem at all.” Medicare for All has...
Fighting Wage Theft in New York
As I have reported here twice before, wage theft by employers in New York like Donald Trump is protected by the Democratic governor, Andrew Cuomo. Wage theft costs New York workers $1 billion a year. Workers often win their wage theft cases in court, but have hard...
Coronavirus Crisis Demands Immediate Crash Program and Long-Term Structural Reform of US Healthcare System
The coronavirus is just beginning to hit the United States. The numbers of cases are small now but all signs signal a coming rapid increase and a public health emergency that the US is not equipped to handle. This deadly virus has a death rate 20 times greater than...
What’s Wrong with Capitalism and Why We Need Ecosocialism
We can’t survive capitalism much longer. We need system change, not climate change, growing inequality, and nuclear war. Relentless growth is built into the grow-or-die competitive structure of the capitalist economy. That blind growth is destroying the ecological...
