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Howie Hawkins vs NYS Politicians: “The Green New Deal”
Howie Hawkins spills the beans on Wallstreet Hedge Funds investing and ripping off our Charter Schools. The only way out of this financial mess is to elect Howie to implement “The Green New Deal”.
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Hawkins Denounces Objections to Freedom Party Petition
Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, said today that the Freedom Party should have the right to run its statewide candidates in this fall’s elections. “Democracy requires a full debate of ideas. The Freedom Party has certainly exceeded any minimal standards that should be required to qualify for the ballot. We should let Continue Reading »
Green Party Candidate for NYS Governor: Howie Hawkins
Howie Hawkins, the Green Party of NY’ s candidate for Governor of NY State, speaking at the Albany press conference at the filing of more than 27,000 signatures to get on the ballot for November’s election. Hawkins’ challenges Andrew Cuomo on NYS’s Stock Transfer Tax of which NYS collects in excess of $16 billion annually, [Video] Continue Reading »
Green Party Qualifies Five Candidates for Statewide Office
[From: Green Party NY]
Candidates: Cecile Lawrence, Colia Clark, Julia Willebrand, Howie Hawkins, Gloria Mattera
Candidates Challenge the Two Corporate Parties to Debate the Issues
The Green Party qualified its statewide candidates today, headed by Howie Hawkins for Governor, by filing 27,500 signatures, with more than 100 signatures coming from 26 out of the 29 Congressional Districts.
Also qualifying were four women for statewide office: Gloria Mattera for Lt. Governor, Julia Willebrand for State Comptroller, Colia Clark for US Senate(full term); and Cecile Lawrence for US Senate (Special term).
Key issues for the Greens this fall include support for a state and national New Green Deal to provide for living wage jobs for all New Yorkers, starting with massive investments in renewable energy; bringing America troops home from war and slashing the military budget; a single payer Medicare for All universal health program at the state and national level; and a ban on the proposed hydrofracking for natural gas.
The Greens also called for the end to the corruption that dominates all levels of the American government; full funding for education, including college; strong action to reduce climate change; an end to the war on drugs and the prison industrial complex; and, support for immigrant rights and same sex marriage. Continue Reading »
Colia Clark at Hiroshima Nagasaki Event in Binghampton
Colia Clark, a great grandmother who campaigned for civil rights and peace alongside the late Medgar W. Evers and Martin L. King Jr., said, “America’s greatest national treasure is her youth. Due to the high cost of a college education that treasure is endangered. I am campaigning for the US Senate fighting for critical legislation [...]
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A Candidate Takes an Unlikely Green Path
By DON TERRY
As a boy growing up in the long shadow of the Ida B. Wells public housing development, LeAlan Jones, the Illinois Green Party candidate for the United States Senate, learned at an early age to ignore naysayers.
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LeAlan Jones, center, the Green Party candidate for United States Senate, with delegates at the Illinois party’s convention Aug. 1, where attendees listened to speeches.
“If you come from the ghetto, people are always doubting you,” Mr. Jones said. “I never listened to them. I was too busy.”
So go ahead and tell him the political facts of life: that he is wasting his time and has a scant shot at winning President’s Obama’s old Senate seat in November.
Then point out to him that at 31, he has little name recognition and even less money. Finally, remind him, “for his own good,” as he says a group of young black Democrats did a few weeks ago over lunch at a Greek restaurant, that he has a bright political future because he is young, gifted and black. But that if he keeps on with thisRalph Nader-Don Quixote business and stays in the race, he could take crucial votes away from the Democratic nominee, Alexi Giannoulias, in a skin-tight election. He will be nothing but a spoiler and then all bets are off — all bridges burned.
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