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.
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...
Oppose Certification of the ES&S ExpressVote XL Voting Machine
Testimony before the New York State Board of Elections, January 14, 2021 by Howie Hawkins My name is Howie Hawkins. I have been on statewide New York ballot seven times as a candidate for the Green Party: for Comptroller in 1998 and 2002; for US Senate in 2006; for...
How Progressive Democrats Almost Re-Elected Trump
By Howie HawkinsJanuary 1, 2021 By giving unconditional support to Joe Biden, progressive Democrats almost got Trump re-elected. Trump came within as few as 21,462 votes in Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin of winning the Electoral College. If those votes had gone to...
Replace the Electoral College with a Ranked-Choice National Popular Vote for President
By Howie Hawkins Democratic principles demand that the president should be elected by the people on the basis of one-person, one-vote. But today the Electoral College will elect the president based on an anachronistic anti-democratic 18th century system where some...
Letter to Young People
We have received many direct messages — and see it in social media postings on platforms like TikTok viewed by millions in some cases — in which young people in their teens and twenties say that our campaign inspired them and urge us to keep going. Let us first say...
Cobertura de la campaña presidencial del Partido Verde en español
Menciones de prensa en español en todo el planeta: http://hoyendelaware.com/esfuerzos-del-partido-democrata-para-evitar-que-el-partido-verde-compita-electoralmente-equivalen-a-suprimir-el-voto-de-los-ciudadanos/...
The Green Socialist Opposition to the Next Administration Begins Now
by Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker Our campaign has just begun to organize and fight for real solutions to the life-or-death issues of climate, poverty, racism, and nuclear war for which the two-capitalist-party system of corporate rule has no solutions. We are...
Press Freedom Is Threatened by Biden and Trump; Julian Assange Must Be Freed
The extradition hearing of Julian Assange in the United Kingdom concluded testimony this week and now awaits a decision by Judge Vanessa Baraitser. During the past four weeks, it became increasingly clear the United States does not have a valid case and the conditions...
9/18/20: Are Environmentalists Too Compromised to Fight for Real Solutions?
A Response to the Open Letter from Environmentalists: “Are Environmentalists Too Pure to Beat Donald Trump?” By Howie Hawkins A group of aging environmentalists is out with an Open Letter telling people: Don’t vote for the Green Party. As the aging environmentalist...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
