Hi ,

The coronavirus crisis has changed our lives dramatically. My heart goes out to people around the world who are sick and struggling to get proper health care. I feel for all whose lives are being turned upside down because they are losing their jobs, income, and access to the necessities of life.

This crisis has exposed the gaping holes in the US healthcare system. Tens of millions are uninsured or are under-insured by substandard plans that they cannot afford to use. Our healthcare workers are needlessly at greater risk because of the shortages of test kits, personal protective equipment, ventilators, and hospital beds.

Trump, the real estate heir who found a way to go bankrupt owning casinos, cannot figure out how to use his federal powers to organize the production and supply chains to get healthcare resources where they are needed. But he did manage to gut infectious disease control and public health protection programs before the pandemic hit.

The health care gap between the richest and poorest Americans is now here for all to see as the rich and famous receive quick testing while the rest of us struggle to get tested, even those of us who are symptomatic. The health care gap is part of 45 years of steadily growing economic inequality that has shortened working-class life expectancy due to increasing “deaths of despair.”

Joe Biden, the centrist with no solutions, is now the likely Democratic Party presidential nominee, and the bombardment of the "blue no matter who" message is already loud. My presidential campaign is the alternative that lifts up real solutions like Medicare for All, an Economic Bill of Rights to end economic inequality, a full-strength Green New Deal to confront the climate crisis, and Nuclear Disarmament Initiatives to reverse the new nuclear arms race. I’m running to put those solutions front and center in the national debate all the way through the November election and beyond.

If the Green Party presidential ticket is not in the 2020 presidential debate, no one will be talking about real solutions to these pressing problems. Now more than ever, we must build a strong, mass-based independent party of the working class and of all people who love peace, freedom, justice, and the environment.

But I need your support to keep up the struggle for these policies that will dramatically improve all our lives. Can you help with a donation today?

With your contribution, you will receive my ebook, The Case for an Independent Left Party: From the Bottom Up. It is an argument for why and how we can unite at the grassroots across race, gender, occupational, and issue lines into a major party and force in American politics for a democratic and ecological socialism.

Our campaign is closing in on our goal of qualifying for federal primary matching funds. Every dollar you contribute, up to $250 per individual, will be doubled when we qualify. Please make a contribution today.

In solidarity,

Howie Hawkins