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Albany Green Party Forum Discusses Green New Deal
WAMC (Northeast Public Radio: NY, CT, MA, VT, NH): March 12, 2019
In February, New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey introduced a Green New Deal resolution: a set of proposed economic stimulus programs to address climate change and racial and social economic inequalities. Over the weekend, about 100 people attended a Green New Deal forum at the Albany Public Library.
The Green Party's Howie Hawkins is widely viewed as the first candidate for public office in the United States to promote a Green New Deal during his 2010 gubernatorial campaign in New York. At the forum, Hawkins painted an apocalyptic picture of the near future. He warned based on the amount of carbon being released into the atmosphere "we have six and a half years of carbon budget left" before temperatures rise and arctic ice melts. "At which point, we're basically cooked, literally. What this crisis means is mass extinctions and eco-systems collapse, the end of agriculture that can feed the population we have, widespread poverty, social conflict and wars for what's left. And that's by 2050. With ocean acidification and the destruction of vital plankton, which provide two-thirds of the oxygen in the atmosphere, we're facing basically suffocating to death by the year 2100, according to some scientists."
Read moreHowie Hawkins interview on the Green New Deal
Kheeler in the Morning, WIBX (950 am, Utica): February 14, 2019
Howie Hawkins is a member of the Green Party from Syracuse. He is on this morning to try and make the case for The Green New Deal.
Green New Deal News Bucket
Hudson Mohawk Magazine correspondent Mark Dunlea was on the scene when Sen. James Sanders and Assemblymember Felix Ortiz introduced a Green New Deal bill in the NYS Legislature on Monday. We also hear from Sen. Jessica Ramos, chair of the Labor Committee; Sen. Rachel May; Rev. Peter Cook of the NYS Council of Churches; Alex Beauchamp of Food and Water Watch; Margaret Klein Salamon, The Climate Mobilization; and Howie Hawkins, former Green Party Gubernatorial candidate.
Winning the Green New Deal
Clearing the Fog Radio Show: January 1, 2019
Popular Resistance: January 1, 2019
The Green New Deal, a plan to transform the economy to one based on clean, renewable energy sources and other measures to adapt to the climate crisis and protect human rights, gained widespread attention in 2018. We speak with Howie Hawkins from New York, who brought the concept of the Green New Deal to the United States, about what the plan involves, where it is now and what it will take to win it. Hawkins, a long time activist, unionist and political candidate, also puts this struggle in the context of political history and the role of third parties.
Hawkins' Green New Deal
WOOC, Independent Media Sanctuary, Troy: December 20, 2018
Howie Hawkins first began promoting a Green New Deal when he ran for Governor in NYS in 2010. He discusses the origins of the GND, including efforts in Europe in 2006, and analyzes the present Green New Deal proposals by Cong. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Gov. Cuomo. With Mark Dunlea of WOOC.
Green Party Green New Deal Explained
America's Work Force Radio: December 12, 2018
Howie Hawkins, Green Party candidate for New York governor, discussed the Green New Deal during his Dec. 12 appearance on America’s Work Force Radio.
Hawkins, who finished third in New York’s governor’s race, described his vision of the Green New Deal, which includes items such as revitalizing the public sector through the investment in cleaner energy, improved infrastructure and mass transit. He talked about using the distribution of wealth, which he labeled as shared prosperity through progressive tax reforms, to fund schools and public services. Hawkins promoted the New York OFF Fossil Fuels Act, which is an effort to force the use of renewable energy, in an attempt to make New York the national leader in renewable energy.
Hawkins interview about Amazon subsidies
Focus on Albany: December 3, 2018
2018 Green Party Candidate for Governor Howie Hawkins talks about Amazon and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
Interview with Howie Hawkins
WOOC, Independent Media Sanctuary, Troy: November 13, 2018
Hudson Mohawk Magazine correspondents JP and Mark speak with New York gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins of the Green Party.
Libertarian and Green Parties Gain Attention and Moral Victories, Despite No Electoral Wins
WAER (NPR, Syracuse University): November 12, 2018
...recent Green party candidate for governor Howie Hawkins said he believes public campaign financing is long overdue in order to increase the visibility of minor parties.
“I think we need to bring that to New York so the Greens are not excluded from the base again, and we have a leveled playing field so Cuomo can’t use $50 million to just dominate the airways,” said Hawkins.
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