Hawkins On Capital Tonight

Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins discusses his bid for Governor on the political program Capital Tonight.

Hawkins Opposes Border Patrol Sweeps in Upstate New York

Howie Hawkins, the Green Party nominee for Governor, said today if  elected he would seek to end Continue reading

Howie Hawkins on President Obama Speech on Iraq War

Statement of Howie Hawkins, Green Party candidate for Governor of New York, on President Obama Speech on Iraq War Continue reading

Green Party's Howie Hawkins: Why Do Lazio And Paladino Hate Our Freedom?

BY CELESTE KATZ, on NY Daily News Blog, The Daily PoliticsHowie Hawkins, the Green Party's candidate for Continue reading

Teachers for a Just Contract Backing Hawkins

"Now that Cuomo has made his intentions to battle against us known, we’d be Continue reading

Colia Clark, Green Party Senate candidate: Medical Marijuana

Colia Clark, Green Party New York U.S.Senate candidate, speaks in support of Medical Marijuana and Joe Barton who was Continue reading

Green Candidate for U.S. Senate: Cecile Lawrence

Green Party U.S. Senate Candidate Cecile Lawrence is taking on incumbent Kirsten Gillibrand. Cecile's green agenda includes banning Continue reading

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 Continue reading

Hawkins Denounces Objections to Freedom Party Petition

Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, said today that 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 Continue reading

Colia Clark at Hiroshima Nagasaki Event in Binghampton

[caption id="attachment_7883" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Colia Clark at the Hiroshima/Nagasaki memorial event in Binghamton, NY. 8/6/2010"] Continue reading

Green Party Qualifies Five Candidates for Statewide Office

[caption id="attachment_7887" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Candidates: Cecile Lawrence, Colia Clark, Julia Willebrand, Howie Hawkins, Gloria Mattera"] Continue reading

Green Party NYS Campaign 2010 Update

Final Petition Drive Submitting Your Petitions Statewide Candidates Nader Continue reading

DISPATCHES FROM THE HOWIE HAWKINS CAMPAIGN

The following is a series of letters to the editor that has, over time, expressed the political awakening of 2010 that can happen with the Howie Hawkins for Governor campaign in New York. As we enter into a new decade, we must understand the great ideological divergence that occurred in the past decade. A politics of fear using patriotism as a weapon predominated, sacrificing democracy, civil liberties, and economics for the people. By last year, we reached a point where there are two mutually exclusive realities about America and the real question is not whether Obama is a dangerous radical or too liberal. He campaigned left-of-center and is now right-of-center. The vital question is whether we will see substantial change or a perpetuation of the status quo in the near future. This authentic question transcends the imaginary conflict between the Republicans and Democrats. For one thing that can not happen in our nation is a return to the past 30 years of corporate greed, environmental degradation, and weakening of democratic empowerment. Those who falsely propose that the current administration is socialist or communist are either willfully ignorant or deliberately lying. Their goal is not to save America, but condemn it to a seamless continuation of power regardless of party affiliation. The issues that people care about never went away, and the past year of business as usual proves that neither Democrats or Republicans will address those issues. This year, the Green Party in New York will run candidates for statewide offices, including Governor and U.S. Senate. Instead of doing the same thing expecting different results, voters can choose real change, new ideas, and begin to draw the line between the old America and the new America. Continue reading

Howie Hawkins "Green Hornet" video

Howie Hawkins, the  Green Party candidate for Governor of NY State, has a new internet "Green Hornet" video  commercial featuring Continue reading

Hawkins, Nader Challenge Cuomo on Stock Transfer Tax

Hawkins  Challenges Cuomo's Silence on Halting NY's $16 Billion Annual Rebate to Wall  Street Continue reading

Lt. Governor Candidate Mattera at Medicare Rally

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Green Party NY U.S. Senate Candidate Cecile Lawrence Against Hydrofracking

Green Party New York U.S. Senate candidate (vs Kirsten Gillibrand) Cecile Lawrence speaks against hydrofracking in New York State Continue reading

Greens Call for IRV, Proportional Representation Voting for NYC

The Green Party NY candidates Howie Hawkins for Governor and Gloria Mattera for Lt. Governor urged the NYC Continue reading

Howie Hawkins, Candidate for Governor of NY, on Housing

Howie Hawkins, the Green Party of NY’ s candidate for Governor of NY State, on housing Continue reading

Green Party Gubernatorial Candidate Howie Hawkins on WBAI

http://cdn.apture.com/media/mediaplayer.swf?v9 Howie Hawkins, the Green Party of NY’ s candidate for Governor of NY State, is interviewed Continue reading

Howie Hawkins, Candidate for Governor of NY, on the Fiscal Crisis & Tax Reform

Howie Hawkins, the Green Party of NY’ s candidate for Governor of NY State, on the Continue reading

VIRAL DEMOCRACY AND ITS POSITIVE EFFECTS

In order for democracy to be a positive force in a society, it must expand beyond a simple ritual of voting for representatives. The nature of democracy is such that it can only be a force for good if it is practiced. And it must be practiced across the entire space that is set up by the social field in order for its goals to be fulfilled. For the sake of clarification, it can be said that if democracy is to have any goal it must be both autonomy and equality of power. Autonomy and equality of power are interrelated to the degree that self-law or self-determination requires a direct end to hierarchy that an equality of power would provide. A hierarchy is an inequality of power that is also a divergence of ownership and participation. Those who have control are those who are considered owners, while there is those who are controlled and who participate in the structure of power. The separation of those who own and those who participate precedes a more technical class formation in an economy. The left has a much longer record of critiquing class formation, but it should be understood that class formation is a specific mode of hierarchy that goes beyond economics. Objective class formation is the imposition of hierarchy upon humans and it develops into a ubiquitous acceptance as something natural. Subjective class formation, on the other hand, is the conscious act of group organizing with the goal of apparent resistance that brings the artificial nature of hierarchy to the foreground. The movement from objective class formation to subjective class formation is autonomy. Continue reading

Gloria Mattera, Green Lt. Governor Candidate NY, Offshore Drilling Protest

Gloria Mattera, Green Party candidate for New York State Lt. Governor, at a protest against offshore drilling, Brighton Beach, Continue reading