At last week’s presidential climate forum, we saw the good, the bad, and the ugly of where the Democratic Party is heading on climate change.
There were commitments from candidates to take drastic action on the crisis that confronts humanity, and commitments from candidates to take only the most perfunctory and ultimately useless sort of action.
The path of the Democratic Party on climate change still isn’t settled. One place it is settled, however, is within the Green Party. And one candidate who’s got a robust plan to confront it is Howie Hawkins, who should be included in all climate forums going forward.
Howie Hawkins is a retired Teamster; he spent the better part of the last two decades unloading trucks for UPS, and now he's running for the presidency under the Green Party ticket. Way back in 2010 he ran for Governor of New York on a Green New Deal, and he hasn't wavered. His vision for the party and his 2020 run is clear: get the party up running and organized, bring a radical vision to the table, put a Green New Deal factory in every congressional district, and fill the urgently needed space for a party willing to go the distance on an agenda you hear little from elsewhere.
Like our campaign, Hawkins wants to do a lot with a little. We need that in a country where, like in South Dakota, the Democratic Party completely abandons entire states to the increasingly reactionary Republican Party.
The money will go towards ballot access initiatives, collecting signatures, and building a progressive infrastructure where none today really exists.
We need a transition as fast as we can, and we need to pursue that transition through all the avenues we can. Thanks, as always, for your support in building a better world free from war and deprivation.
