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Hawkins to Outline Affordable Housing Plan for New York City and State
For immediate release: August 23, 2018
Notice of News Conference
Date: Friday, August 24
Location: City Hall Steps, Manhattan
Time: 11:00 AM
Who: Howie Hawkins for Governor
Hawkins to Outline Affordable Housing Plan for New York City and State
Howie Hawkins, the Green Party nominee for Governor, will release his affordable housing agenda at a news conference on the steps of City Hall in Manhattan on Friday, August 24 at 11:00 AM.
Hawkins, who finished 3rd in the 2014 Gubernatorial election with 5% of the vote, will discuss steps to strengthen rent control, including repealing the Urstadt Law to restore home rule on NYC rent regulations. He will address the issues of homelessness, gentrification and displacement under Mayor de Blasio housing policies, and how to finance repairs at NYCHA and also build new public housing to relieve the housing affordability crisis. NYCHA needs $32 billion over the next five years to fix problems with lead, mold, elevators, boilers, roofs, and other repairs.
Unaffordable housing is a statewide problem. Over 50% of New York renters pay more than the federal affordability standard of 30% of household income. More than 25% pay more than 50% of their income in rent.
Hawkins in Rochester for Clarissa Street Reunion
For Immediate release: August 18, 2018
Hawkins Campaign in Rochester for 23rd Annual
Clarissa Street Reunion Parade and Festival
Hawkins and Local Greens participate in celebrating one of Rochester’s most culturally rich neighborhoods.
Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, is in Rochester, NY today for the 23rd Annual Clarissa Street Reunion Parade and Festival.
Hawkins is marching with a local Green Party contingent in the parade at 11am and will speak to community members at the following street festival.
Hawkins is available to speak to local media during this time.
The Clarissa Street Reunion celebrates a neighborhood known for producing renowned jazz musicians in the 1940's, 1950's, and 1960's. Clarissa Street, which is located in the southwest quadrant of Rochester and in the old 3rd Ward, brought together people of Black, Italian, Irish, and Jewish descent. The annual reunion began in 1996.
Hawkins to Outline $100 Billion Plan to Fix NYC Subway
For immideiate release: August 16, 2018
Howie Hawkins, the Green Party nominee for Governor, will hold a news conference in Manhattan on Friday, August 17 at 10:30 AM in front of the southwest entrance to the subway at Union Square (near the Gandhi statue).
Hawkins will outline his plan to fix the NYC subway and mass transit system, including how to raise the revenues to finance it. Among the variety of revenue sources Hawkins will address are congestion pricing, a carbon tax, land value taxation, and increased taxes on the incomes and stock trades of the wealthy.
The Union Square subway hub includes the soon-to-be-halted L line. The station recently reached 104°F during the recent heat wave, a condition that will become more frequent as global warming continues.
Hawkins to Attend Trump Protest in Utica on August 13
For immediate release, August 13, 2018
Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, will attend the various protests against President Trump and U.S. Rep. Tenney in Utica on Monday August 13. Hawkins is expected to arrive around 5 PM. Hawkins will be joined by Mark Dunlea, the Green Party candidate for State Comptroller and Michael Sussman, the Green Party candidate for Attorney General.
“I’m protesting Trump because he is a crude racist who wants to divide and rule Americans by scapegoating immigrants, Muslims, and people of color for the problems that Trump and his rich, corrupt cronies create with their frauds, tax evasion, money laundering, and ripping off workers, contractors, and creditors,” said Hawkins.
“Trump uses his office for self-enrichment as foreign and domestic lobbyists patronize his properties to get favorable treatment and he sticks it to the taxpayers with the bills for endless golf vacations at his own resorts. He lies every time he opens his mouth or Twitter app. Trump is un-American. America is not a race, religion, or ethnicity. America is the idea that we are all free and equal in a multicultural democracy. I can’t wait until we impeach, convict, and throw him out of office for his high crimes and misdemeanors,” Hawkins added.
Dunlea added that “Trump’s greatest legacy, unfortunately, may be his climate denial and his role in promoting increased use of fossil fuels. His actions to undercut efforts to curb global warming are a crime against humanity.” Dunlea has been campaigning to get the state pension fund to divest from fossil fuels.
Notice of Hawkins News Conference, Utica, Aug. 9
Notice of News Conference
Date: Thursday, August 9
Location: State Office Building, 207 Genesee Street, Utica
Time: 10:30 AM
Who: Howie Hawkins for Governor
Hawkins Calls for Green New Deal to Spur Economic Development
Will Call for Action to Reduce Local Property Taxes
Howie Hawkins, the Green Party nominee for Governor, will hold a news conference in Utica on Thursday, August 9 front of the state office building, 207 Genesee Street, Utica at 10:30 AM.
He will appear on the Bill Keeler show on WBIX at 8:15 AM and WUTQ with Jason Aiello at 9:20 AM.
Hawkins will discuss how his Green New Deal is far better for economic development in upstate New York tham Governor Cuomo’s present hunger games that often primarily rewards campaign donors.
The Green New Deal, which starts with transitioning to 100% clean energy by 2030, also targets public investments directly into the energy, housing, transportation, and water and sewage infrastructure of struggling community upstate and lower the costs of doing business by lowering energy, health care, broadband, and property tax costs.
Hawkins will also discuss his plans to repeal the state’s property tax cap and to lower local property taxes.
Hawkins to Call for Clean Energy, Not Burning Waste and Gas
For Immediate Release: August 3, 2018
Notice of News Conference
Date: Saturday, August 4, 2018
Location: South Pavilion in Watkins Glen State Park
Time: 12:00 PM
Who: Howie Hawkins for Governor
(Hawkins can be available for phone interviews, and in person interviews on Saturday)
Hawkins to Call on State Assembly to Pass Law to Stop Rommulus Incinerator
Opposes Effort to Convert Cayuga Coal Plant to Natural Gas; Supports Ban on Fracking Waste in Landfills
Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidates for Governor, will hold a news conference on Saturday at noon in Watkins Glens to discuss his gubernatorial campaign and local environmental issues such as the Hakes landfill.
The news conference will take place at noon in the South Pavilion in Watkins Glens State Park. Hawkins will talk earlier in the day to a regional meeting of Green Party activists.
Read moreHawkins to Call for State Take Over of Spectrum for Public Broadband Utility
For immediate release: August 1, 2018
Notice of News Conference
Date: Thursday, August 2, 2018
Location: In front of Spectrum, old New York Central Station, 815 Erie Blvd East, Syracuse
Time: 11:00 AM
Who: Howie Hawkins for Governor
Hawkins to Call for State Take Over of Spectrum for Public Broadband Utility
With state regulators demanding that Charter sell Spectrum, Howie Hawkins, the Green candidate for New York governor, will call for New York State itself to take over Spectrum for its own public broadband utility.
Hawkins will discuss how a public broadband utility will lower costs, improve service, and protect net neutrality and privacy protections that federal regulators recently eliminated.
He will also discuss how cities like Syracuse, whose franchise with Spectrum expired 11 years ago in 2007, now have a good case in light of the Public Service Commission’s recent action against Spectrum for just cause to take over the Spectrum franchise municipally without waiting for a state takeover.
Notice of Syracuse News Conference - Jia Lee & Howie Hawkins
For immediate release: July 24, 2018
Notice of News Conference
Date: Thursday, July 26 2018
Location: State Office Building, 333 E Washington St, Syracuse
Time: 3:00 PM
Who: Howie Hawkins for Governor, Jia Lee for Lt. Governor
Green Party to Call for Increased School Funding, Desegregation
Oppose High-Stakes Testing, Privatization, Charter Schools
Howie Hawkins and Jia Lee, the Green Party candidates for Governor and Lt. Governor, will hold a news conference on education issues in Syracuse on Thursday July 26 in front of the State Office Building, 333 E. Washington St. at 3:00 PM.
The Green Party candidates will call for an overhaul of the state’s education priorities, including more funding for low-income and rural communities and programs for disadvantaged students; a move away from high stakes testing and privatization, including charter schools; and the election of a Governor who supports rather than attacks teachers, especially following the Janus decision.
The Greens will address the settlement of the lawsuit by Syracuse and NYC parent for full funding of Foundation Aid funding
Lee, a NYC public school teacher and recent candidate for UFT president, will call to end the racial, class, and academic segregation in public schools. The Green Party candidates advocate the scrapping of standardized tests to evaluate, rank, and allocate or deny resources to students, teachers, and schools.
The Greens will call for increased state funding for education to comply with the Campaign for Fiscal Equity decision.
The Green Party has long opposed charter schools as undercutting public education. Charter schools have often been used as cash cows by hedge funds and other investors taking advantage of favorable tax provisions.
Notice of Ithaca Talk by Howie Hawkins & Mark Dunlea
Green Party Candidates for Governor, State Comptroller in Ithaca on Friday, July 27
to Discuss Climate Change, Divestment, Green New Deal and Eco-Socialism
Howie Hawkins and Mark Dunlea, the Green Party candidates for Governor and State Comptroller, will give a free talk in Ithaca on Friday, July 27 on Climate Change, the Green New Deal, and Eco-Socialism.
The event will take place at 5:30 PM at the Tompkins County Workers’ Center, 115 The Commons, above the Autumn Leaves Used Books.
The Greens are calling for 100% clean energy by 2030 and a halt to any new fossil fuel infrastructure, including divesting the state pension funds from fossil fuels. The state presently has $6 billion invested in Exxon, Shell and other oil and gas companies that are driving climate change.
The Green New Deal would create a full-employment sustainable economy starting with the transition to renewable energy along with financial reforms and enforcing basic human rights to food, housing, education and health care.
Howie Hawkins, a long-time member of the Socialist Party, will describe how socialism seeks to restructure how the economy operates rather than merely providing some relief to the various economic and social problems created by capitalism.
Howie Hawkins, a retired teamster from Syracuse, is a long time labor and peace activist who received 5% of the vote in the last gubernatorial election, finishing 3rd. Dunlea, a former Town Board member in Poestenkill NY, is a climate change activist who headed the Hunger Action Network of NYS for 28 years.
Notice of Rochester News Conference - Jia Lee & Howie Hawkins
For immediate release: July 24, 2018
Notice of News Conference
Date: Thursday, July 26 2018
Location: School 41, 279 West Ridge Rd., Rochester
Time: 10:30 AM
Who: Howie Hawkins for Governor, Jia Lee for Lt. Governor
Green Party to Call for Increased School Funding, Desegregation
Oppose High-Stakes Testing, Privatization, Charter Schools
Howie Hawkins and Jia Lee, the Green Party candidates for Governor and Lt. Governor, will hold a news conference on education issues in Rochester on Thursday July 26 in front of School 41, 279 West Ridge Road at 10:30 AM.
The Green Party candidates will call for an overhaul of the state’s education priorities, including more funding for low-income and rural communities and programs for disadvantaged students; a move away from high stakes testing and privatization, including charter schools; and the election of a Governor who supports rather than attacks teachers, especially following the Janus decision.
Rochester is considered perhaps the worst school district in the state if not the nation.
Lee, a NYC public school teacher and recent candidate for UFT president, will call to end the racial, class, and academic segregation in public schools. The Green Party candidates advocate the scrapping of standardized tests to evaluate, rank, and allocate or deny resources to students, teachers, and schools.
The Greens will call for increased state funding for education to comply with the Campaign for Fiscal Equity decision.
The Green Party has long opposed charter schools as undercutting public education. Charter schools have often been used as cash cows by hedge funds and other investors taking advantage of favorable tax provisions.