Green Socialist Notes

Howie returns after a week off and is joined by campaign team members, Andrea Merida and Chris Blankenhorn, to talk about current events and take viewer questions.  Streamed on 8/28/21 Watch the video at: https://youtu.be/KGwUJs71sxc Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential and vice presidential nominees , Howie Hawkins and A...

Streamed on 8/14/2021 Watch the video at: https://youtu.be/NMsKijE1pfQ Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential and vice presidential nominees , Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker.  Started as a weekly campaign livestream in the spring of 2020, the streams have continued post elections and are now under the umbrella of the Green...

Streamed on 8/7/2021 Watch the video at: https://youtu.be/JbJmaKAHuhw Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential and vice presidential nominees , Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker.  Started as a weekly campaign livestream in the spring of 2020, the streams have continued post elections and are now under the umbrella of the Green...

This week Howie talks about Murray Bookchin 15 years after his death, the passing of Glen Ford, and the Democrats' failure to fight for the working-class as the eviction moratorium expires and expanded unemployment benefits and student loan relief expirations looming on the horizon.  Followed by questions and answers with viewers.  Streamed on 7/31/2021 Watch the video at: https://youtu....

This week, Howie is joined on the podcast by Frank Chapman of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression to talk about Chicago's passage of a community control of the police ordinance, followed by a question and answer session with viewers. Streamed on 7/24/2021 Watch the video at: https://youtu.be/gn1vSk7g_A8 Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Gr...

Streamed on 7/11/2021 Watch the video at: https://youtu.be/VN9mi4iJZ5I Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential and vice presidential nominees , Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker.  Started as a weekly campaign livestream in the spring of 2020, the streams have continued post elections and are now under the umbrella of the Green...

Howie talks about Sha'Carri Richardson, indigenous boarding schools, and voting rights and democracy, before taking questions from viewers. 00:00: Intro - Sha’Carri Richardson 01:45: Intro - Dept of Interior indigenous boarding schools investigation 02:20: Intro - Voting rights and democracy 13:30: Increasing the number of US House seats 16:30: Equal representation of candidates 18:30: HR1 22:55:...

Howie and Angela talk about Juneteenth, HR1, Biden's infrastructure bill, organizing, and take viewer questions.  00:00: Intro - Bethesda African Cemetery Juneteenth (Howie) 05:45: Intro - Juneteenth (Angela) 09:50: 13th Amendment 14:15: Reconstruction post Civil War 23:15: Teaching Juneteenth in elementary education 27:00: Juneteenth and the abolition of slavery 33:05: Strategy for fighting...

This week Howie and Angela talk about the war on whistle blowers, the filibuster, Kamala Harris' immigration statements, some book promos, and take viewer questions! 00:00: Intro: War on whistleblowers (Howie) 02:00: Intro: Manchin and the filibuster 08:15: Intro: Kamala Harris on immigration (Angela) 11:35: Intro: Fourth Stimulus check (Angela) 13:55: Intro: The Queens English - New Book Promo (A...

Angela is working this week, so Howie talks about the attacks on US democracy and takes viewer questions on topics ranging from organizing locally to the filibuster to election observers. 00:00: Intro: Attacks on democracy (Howie) 10:00: New York municipal elections 11:30: International monitors of US elections 12:45: Direct democracy 16:20: 2024 17:15: Building at the local level 21:45: Shutting...

Howie and Angela are back (along with Angela's dogs) for another episode of Green Socialist Notes.  They talk about topics from the filibuster to bodily autonomy to organizing and more! 00:00: Intro (Howie): Filibuster and RCV 10:12: Intro (Angela): Reproductive Freedom Bills and Pride Month 11:45: Dems scapegoating the GOP 13:25: Conservatives and the PRO Act 16:25: Dems waiting to 2022 to m...

This week Angela returns (she's been working long hours) and Howie and Angela give their takes on current events and take viewer questions. Streamed on 5/22/2021 Watch the video at: https://youtu.be/yYSUqIwk0jw Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential and vice presidential nominees , Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker.  Started...

This week, at our new day/time, Howie talks about the conflicts in Palestine and Columbia and takes viewer questions on a wide range of topics.  00:00: Intro: US Imperialism: Israel, Columbia, and Beyond 06:40: NY Democrats attack third parties ballot access 11:25: Response to “both sides” messaging in regard to Israel/Palestine 12:35: Media portrayal of the conflict in Palestine 14:05: Pales...

Howie Hawkins is joined by whistleblower John Kiriakou, a former CIA analyst and case officer, former senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and former counterterrorism consultant.  Kiriakou revealed that waterboarding torture was not just what some rogue agents were doing, but rather it was an established policy of the US government.  For that revelation, he ser...

This week Howie and Angela talks about Biden's American Families Plan and takes viewer questions ranging from the COVID vaccine distribution to Biden's imperialism to Green campaigns.  00:00: Intro/Biden’s Climate Plan: A Promise He Can’t Keep 04:00: American Families Plan 17:25: Vaccine distribution 21:15: Biden bombing Syria 22:50: What if a progressive wins the Dem nomination in 2024? 27:3...

On this special episode Howie talks about the Red and Green History of May Day and then takes viewer questions. Streamed on 5/1/2021 Watch the video at: https://youtu.be/6BqFfYu4hmc Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential and vice presidential nominees , Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker.  Started as a weekly campaign livestre...

This week Howie is participating in the Green Party's #EarthDayToMayDay ​ series to commemorate both Earth Day and May Day.  Joining Howie will be Harvey Wasserman and Marilyn Elie, longtime anti-nuclear and environmental activists; as well as Mark Dunlea of GPUS' Eco-Action Committee.   Streamed on 4/27/2021 Watch the video at: https://youtu.be/6BqFfYu4hmc Green Socialist Notes is a wee...

This week Howie responds to the reintroduction of progressive Democrats' Green New Deal Non-Binding Resolution before being joined by Ernesto Ayala from Tele-Jaguar.com for a conversation about police brutality. Ernesto Ayala was born in the San Fernando Valley, California and have resided in Pacoima my whole life. I grew up in the Chicano Liberation struggle in particular within El Partido Nacion...

This week Howie (Angela had to work late) talks about the Green Party of Papua New Guinea and takes user questions on a wide range of topics (listed below). 00:00: Intro 01:00: Green Party of Papua New Guinea 15:35: Indigenous Rights 16:30: Left Unity and Building a Mass Party 20:15: Ecosocialist Green New Deal on the Local Level 22:45: Kshama Sawant Solidarity Campaign 23:58: Troop Withdrawal fro...

Howie is joined by Bill Barry and Mike Elk for a special stream reflecting on the Amazon organizing fight in Bessemer, AL, a discussion on what should be next for the labor movement, and some tips on what you need to know to organize your workplace. Bill Barry is a the former Director of Labor Studies at the Community College of Baltimore County and is a labor history and organizing expert.  ...

Howie and Angela return to their standard current events and Q&A formatting, after a month of special topic streams. Howie opens up by breaking down the weaknesses in the Democrats' American Jobs Plan, before taking viewer questions.  00:00: Intros 03:28: American Jobs Plan Analysis 40:00: Per Mile Tax Proposal 41:34: Electric Vehicles in American Jobs Plan 43:34: A Just Transition as Par...

Howie and Angela are joined by Virginia Rodino, Press Secretary for the Hawkins/Walker campaign and also the co-chair of the Maryland Green Party and the Maryland coordinator for the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, for a discussion of the current spate of anti-Asian violence, what Greens need to know about it, and what Greens can do about it. Watch the video at: https://youtu.be/AVpEnoCRJf8...

Howie (Angela had to work late) discusses the other side of reproductive justice, specifically whether Latinas have full access to their reproductive choice.  This discussion is not to the exclusion of any other population, but it's serving to shed some light to the entire spectrum of discussion.  Howie is joined by Annie Martínez (CO), an attorney, former Green candidate and past presid...

As part of our continuing #WomensHistoryMonth streams, Howie and Angela are joined by fellow Greens Margaret Elisabeth (national co-chair, Green Party of the United States, based in Seattle) and Emma Lugo (Secretary, Pacific Green Party and community radio board member based in Portland, OR) for a conversation about how Patriarchy impacts trans women and non-binary/gender non-conforming people. St...

CONTENT WARNING:  THIS EPISODE CONTAINS DISCUSSIONS OF RAPE AND RAPE CULTURE. This week Howie and Angela are joined by Tara Reade and Annika Leonard for a Women's History Month Stream on Rape Culture, Capitalism, and Patriarchy. More information on Tara and Annika can be found at https://howiehawkins.us/sexual-assault-survivor-tara-reade-joins-with-howie-hawkins-and-angela-walker-to-discuss-r...