Hi, My Name is Howie Hawkins.

I Want to Earn Your Trust and Support for My Candidacy
for the Green Nomination for President.

Hi ,

I'd like to introduce myself. My name is Howie Hawkins, and I'm seeking the Green Party nomination for president.

A LITTLE ABOUT ME

I'm a retired Teamster from Syracuse, New York. I served in the Marine Corps, studied at Dartmouth College, and worked in construction and warehouses. Since the 1960s, I have been a constant campaigner for peace, justice, unions, the environment, and independent working-class politics for a democratic,
socialist, and ecological society. A Green since I participated in the first national Green Party organizing meeting in 1984, I was the first US candidate to campaign for a Green New Deal in 2010. My campaigns for governor in 2010, 2014, and 2018 won ballot status for the New York Green Party. I am the "Original Green New Deal-er."

I’ve spent the last six months or so asking Green Party members and allies to support my run for the Green Party Presidential nomination, understanding that its goals are to help build the Green Party and to advance an ecosocialist program.

People like you have proven, conclusively, that the support for me is real. My website is at howiehawkins.us, where you can learn more in detail about my vision and ideas to fundamentally transform our society.

As I just mentioned, the central purpose of my campaign is to build the Green Party so that disenchanted progressive voters have a place to go after the inevitable disillusion of the 2020 presidential race – whoever wins.

At the heart of this build-out strategy is ballot access. My campaign is raising money specifically for ballot access activities – primarily petitioning drives to get us on the ballot in all 50 states plus D.C.

(We estimate that we’ll need to raise $1.5 million to get the signatures we need. And we know we can raise those dollars because literally everyone believes that third parties like ours should be able to put their candidates on the ballot!)

Here’s the bottom line: If our candidates are not on the ballot, we can’t make an impact on public policy, much less revolutionize our economy and save ourselves from planetary collapse.

More to the point, if we don't have at least 37 states on the ballot in 2020, the North Carolina Green Party loses its own ballot status.

I’ve run 3 times for Governor in New York, and by doing so, have secured the ballot line for Green candidates there. I’ve also participated in literally dozens of petition drives, getting out to shopping malls and community events to personally get signatures to secure ballot access.

Our campaign is putting in serious work to achieving ballot access in 50 states plus D.C., and I personally have petitioned recently in Arizona and Ohio. I truly believe that presidential candidates must prioritize ballot access, because if we aren't doing everything we can via this key activity to get our candidates on the ballot, then we are not doing everything necessary to grow the Green Party into the political opposition to the duopoly that we all desperately need.

Now, in addition to building the Green Party into a true national political force, I am running on a visionary, yet practical, Ecosocialist Green New Deal platform.

The Green New Deal has been our Party’s signature program over the last decade. A few congressional Democrats took the Green New Deal and got it into the national spotlight—but they diluted its content. Now it is the subject of a major debate in the presidential campaign.

As the original Green New Dealers, we Greens will set the standard against which every candidate, and the national debate, will be measured against. That's why I recently rolled out an exhaustive plan for how to pay for it, called the Ecosocialist Green New Deal, which you can read about here.

This campaign is our opportunity to declare, loudly, that we will NOT accept “the lesser of two evils,” we will NOT accept the duopoly’s corporate candidates, and we will NOT accept politics as usual.

Will you donate $20 or more today to support the Ecosocialist Green New Deal?Everyday Americans need to hear a realistic and detailed plan on how to address climate change. The time is long gone for half measures. We need transformative politics to save our planet with our Ecosocialist Green New Deal.

The effectiveness of our campaign will be determined in large part by how much money we raise for staff, publicity, and on-the-ground organizing. If you can, please give today.

No amount is too small—whatever you can give today will make a real difference in this critical election year.

In Solidarity,

Howie Hawkins