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Howard Grisham Hawkins developed his interest in politics at age 12 and became an active member of civil rights movements and anti-war in the late 1960s. He became an ardent radical at college and protested the admission policy of the college system. In 1976, he co-founded the anti-nuclear organization Clamshell Alliances and joined the green movem...
Howard Gresham Hawkins was born on 8 December 1952 in San Francisco, California. He was raised in a single-parent family. His Republican father was an attorney who also served in the Counter Intelligence unit for the US Army’s Manhattan District atomic bomb project during World War II. His mother was an alcoholic who mostly lost consciousness when ...
When Howie played sports such as football and basketball, he witnessed discrimination and racial inequality in sports. On one occasion, he was at a rec center in San Mateo when he heard the nearby kids talking about the protests that were taking place at nearby Berkeley. Soon after, someone from a group deemed the protesters as communists. But the ...
Hawkins developed his interest in politics at a very young age. At age 12, he started generating interest toward the third parties after he encountered that the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party led by poor and working-class blacks was refused to seat at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. He noted in an interview that he was also not in fa...
During his time at Dartmouth College, Hawkins worked in construction and logging in the 1970s and 1980s while moonlighting his political advocacy works. He actively supported various labor organizations such as Labor Notes network, Teamsters for a Democratic Union, Labor Campaign for Single-Payer Healthcare, US Labor Against the War, and Labor Netw...
Hawkins liked soul food and pie, opted from drinking and smoking, and went to the gym every day. His love for soul food eventually landed him to visit Vera’s Place, a long-time soul food restaurant run by Vera Perry in Syracuse. When Perry knew about the death of Hawkins’ mother while he was a child, she let him live together with her and her daugh...
After co-founding the anti-nuclear organization called Clamshell Alliance in 1976, Hawkins joined the green movement, and in 1984, he co-founded the Green Party of the United States. He participated in the first national meeting to organize a US Green Party in St Minnesota in August of the same year. Since then, he has become a Green Party organize...
As a Green Party candidate, Hawkins ran in multiple positions. In 1993, he ran for Syracuse Common Council and lost the election as he only received three percent of the vote. He still has not won any election since then. “I don’t run expecting to win; I run to raise issues,” Hawkins said at the time. He ran for Syracuse City Mayor in 2005. Even th...
On 3 April 2019, Hawkins sought the Green Party nomination for the 2020 presidential election of the United States. He campaigned on the platforms such as Green New Deal, Medicare For All, a guaranteed minimum income, a $20 minimum wage, federal jobs guarantee, and a goal to achieve 100 percent clean energy by 2030, among other agendas. This electi...
In addition to labor work and political and environmental advocacy works, Hawkins authored a book entitled ‘Independent Politics: The Green Party Strategy Debate.’Haymarket Books published the book in 2006. He later wrote ‘The Case for an Independent Left Party: From the Bottom Up,’which was published in 2019. Furthermore, he was a contributor for ...
MAYORAL PLATFORM. The strategic vision embedded in this policy platform focuses on uplifting poor and working-class people in Syracuse, which, by improving schools and reducing crime, will also retain and attract middle-class people and businesses, and build a sustainable prosperity for all.
Platform Summary. The following policies are an action plan to uplift poor and working-class people, which, by improving schools and reducing crime, will also retain and attract middle-class people and businesses, and build a sustainable prosperity for all.
With $30 billion more in state revenue, we could restore full funding for public schools and colleges, pay for the state mandates on local governments through increased revenue sharing, cut regressive local property and sales taxes, and build the infrastructure and services of the Green New Deal.
