Green Socialist Notes

This week Howie is joined by author and labor historian Les Leopold for a discussion about the potential for an independent, working class party. Resources Shared on the Stream The Labor Institute,  https://www.thelaborinstitute.org/ Runaway Inequality,  https://runawayinequality.org Les Leopold, "The Committee of One Million: A Petition to Support a Party of Working People,” Common Dreams, F...

Howie is back from his travels to Papua New Guinea and Australia to talk about the Australian Greens organizing and take viewer questions. Resources Shared During the Stream Abraham O’Neil, "The Australian Greens Must Democratize Their Party Structures,” Jacobin, May 2, 2020, https://jacobin.com/2020/05/australian-greens-adam-bandt-green-new-deal . Max Chandler-Mather, "How Australia’s G...

This week Howie is joined by Janet Rice, a recently retired Australian Greens Senator from Melbourne, representing the Australian state of Victoria. Streamed on 4/26/25 Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/sWq2f9fK7s4 Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential nominee , Howie Hawkins.  Started as a weekly campaign livestream...

This week's episode is a series of interviews conducted with various government and Papua New Guinea Greens Party, who Howie has met in his travels. Interviews include:Emmanuel Pok, Registrar of Political Parties, Integrity of Political Parties and Candidates Commission, Papua New GuineaFreda Pos, Co-Convener, Women’s Wing, Papua New Guinea Greens PartyLillian Motion, former Convener of Women’...

This week Howie is in Papua New Guinea, where he is joined by Danny Wenda, Secretary for the President of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua, for a discussion of the Indonesian occupation of West Papua. *This episode was pre-recorded due to the time difference between with Papua New Guinea. Resources discussed on the episode: United Liberation Movement for West Papua, https://www.ulmwp....

This week Howie is joined by Tanya Vyhovsky, a Ukrainian-American member of the Vermont State Senate, the Vermont Progressive Party, and DSA, for a report back from leftwing Ukraine solidarity conference in Brussels on March 26-27. Streamed on 4/5/25 Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/HEzPSXMNsOg Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Pa...

This week Howie is joined by Matthew Hull, the Trade Union Liaison for the Green Party of England and Wales. Streamed on 3/29/25 Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/DIKoVPwc-_U Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential nominee , Howie Hawkins.  Started as a weekly campaign livestream in the spring of 2020, the streams have...

Howie talks about current events and takes viewer questions. Streamed on 3/22/2025 Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/fDNZSrZLPeg Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential nominee , Howie Hawkins.  Started as a weekly campaign livestream in the spring of 2020, the streams have continued post elections and are now under th...

This week Howie is joined by Arthur Pye, from the Emergency Committee for Rojava, for a discussion of the history and current situation of the democratic revolution in the Kurdish region of northern Syria. Resources Shared During the Stream: Arthur Pye, "Hope and Contradictions: My Year in Rojava,” Strange Matters, https://strangematters.coop/arthur-pye-rojava-reporting-preface/.Arthur Pye, &...

This week Howie talks about news and current events and takes viewer questions. Streamed on 3/8/25 Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/FoiU5egTvhA Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential nominee , Howie Hawkins.  Started as a weekly campaign livestream in the spring of 2020, the streams have continued post elections and...

This week Howie is joined by Sacha Ismail, a British socialist and trade unionist active in the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign. He writes for the socialist paper Solidarity and blogs at southlondonsocialist.wordpress.com. Resources shared during the stream:Sacha Ismail blog southlondonsocialist.wordpress.com Ewa Pospieszyńska of RAZEM, Polish left party speaking at Russian Troops Out demo on 22 Febru...

This week Howie is joined by Vladyslav Starodubtsev, a Ukrainian historian. On the third anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion, Vladyslav will talk about the current situation and the central role of socialists in Ukrainian independence movement from the 19th century through to the Ukrainian People’s Republic (1917-1920). Resources shared during the stream: Vladyslav Starodubtsev substac...

Howie is joined by Sam Friedman, a public health researcher, to discuss public health and the Trump administration. Streamed on 2/15/25 Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/fot-wVh-Pvc Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential nominee , Howie Hawkins.  Started as a weekly campaign livestream in the spring of 2020, the strea...

This week Howie is joined by Ewa Pospieszynska, a young ecosocialist in the leftwing Razem party of Poland. Resources: Razem, https://partiarazem.pl (In Polish, but can be read in English using a free machine translation app like Google Translate)European Left Alliance for the People and the Planet, https://leftalliance.eu/ Central-Eastern European Green Left Alliance, https://ceegla.org/ Dan Davi...

Howie talks about new and current events and takes viewer questions. Streamed on 2/1/25 Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/G6lbiw484Z0 Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential nominee , Howie Hawkins.  Started as a weekly campaign livestream in the spring of 2020, the streams have continued post elections and are now und...

This week Howie talks about building resistance to Trump's agenda and takes viewer questions.

This week Howie talks with Alex Scrivener, a Tbilisi-based Georgian pro-democracy activist to discuss recent events following national elections. Articles Discussed this episode: Maia Barkaia, "Democracy in Peril: Georgia’s Choice Amid Global Shifts in Power,” Commons, January 13, 2025, https://commons.com.ua/en/georgias-choice-amid-global-shifts-power/ Ashley Smith and Ilya Budraitskis inter...

Howie talks about current events and takes viewer questions. Streamed on 1/11/25 Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/La3wWkeH9F0 Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential nominee , Howie Hawkins.  Started as a weekly campaign livestream in the spring of 2020, the streams have continued post elections and are now under the...

This week Howie talks about his New Year's Resolution to do all he can to build an independent left alternative to oppose Trump and takes viewer questions. Streamed on 1/4/25 Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/h8k2eC7cFB0 Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential nominee , Howie Hawkins.  Started as a weekly campaign live...

In the final episode of 2024, Howie reflects on the bad and the good of the year and what Greens should be focusing on in 2025 and beyond. Streamed on 12/28/24 Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/e7EsdlDhvXE Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential nominee , Howie Hawkins.  Started as a weekly campaign livestream in the s...

This week Howie is joined by Denys Bondar for a discussion of the 30th Anniversary of the Budapest Memorandum between Ukraine, Russia, and the US. Streamed on 12/21/24 Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/FU1lUpAnRoQ Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential nominee , Howie Hawkins.  Started as a weekly campaign livestream...

This week Howie is once again joined by Nidal Bitari, a Palestinian refugee raised in a Syrian refugee camp, to discuss the fall of the Assad regime in Syria. Links shared during the stream: Nidal Bitare, "The Assad Dynasty Was Hatched at My Grandfather’s Home. They Later Destroyed it,” New Lines Magazine, March 16, 2021, https://newlinesmag.com/writers/nidal-betare/ Joseph Daher, “Understanding t...

This week Howie was attending the European Greens Congress in Ireland during the livestream, so we are airing two interviews he has conducted in his travels. First is an interview with Lela Rekhviashvili about Georgia being caught between Western and Russian imperialism, which is timely given the massive protests now in Georgia against authoritarian rule. Second is an interview with Gretchen Dutsc...

This week Howie is live from London with special guest Benali Hamdache. Benali is the elected Green Party Councillor for the Islington London Borough Council, the Green Party of England and Wales (GPEW) spokesperson on migrants and refugee support, the past GPEW Equalities spokesperson, wrote GPEW's 2015 ethnic minority and LGBTIQA+ manifesto, and recently launched a new anti-capitalist group, Gre...

Howie was supposed to be live from Berlin this week, but he was not able to connect at the time of the livestream. Instead we premiered 2 new interviews that Howie has conducted in his travels that have not been posted yet. Taras Bilous, Ukrainian leftist and soldier who won the Daniel Singer Prize. Lela Rekhshiavili, a Georgian leftist about how the Georgian and international left needs to break...