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Howie Hawkins on Civil Rights. Click here for 6 full quotes on Civil Rights OR other candidates on Civil Rights OR background on Civil Rights . Support International Bill of Rights for Women. (Jul 2020) Amend Civil Rights Act to include LGBTQIA+. (May 2019) Reparations for African-Americans slavery.
Jun 12, 2020 · Crime & Justice. Pro. Should Police Departments Be Defunded, if Not Abolished? “Defunding the police means to stop paying police to harass, exploit, and control poor communities of color over non-criminal behavior and low-level offenses like homelessness, drug possession, and mental health crises.
Howie Hawkins on Environment. Polluters should have burden of proof of safe practices. Restore state health, safety, and consumer protection laws by striking federal preemptions that weaken state law. Preserve and expand product-labeling requirements. Repeal the misnamed Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005.
- Ecological Destruction
- Endless War
- Economic Hardship
- Capitalist Oligarchy
- Money
- Big Banks
- Power Utilities
- Health Care
- Big Pharma
- Arms Industry
We will never reverse pending planetary environmental collapse as long as we have a capitalist economy where competition for profits drives the blind, relentless growth that is consuming the environment, heating up the planet, and destroying ecological foundations of human civilization.
We will never have a secure peace as long as capitalism’s competitive economic structure generates international conflicts and wars. Nuclear-armed capitalist states—including the US, Russia, and China—compete for resources, markets, cheap labor, and geopolitical military positioning. If we don’t replace capitalism’s nationalistic competition with s...
We will never reverse extreme and growing economic inequality as long as capitalists exploit workers for profit and extract more unearned income from the economy as rent and interest. Capitalists pay workers a fixed wage and take the rest of the value workers’ labor creates as profit. Capitalists take more unearned income as rent and interest in ex...
The central problem of American democracy is that public preferences do not become public policy. The people are way ahead of the politicians, who represent their corporate paymasters more than their voters. We can’t have political democracy without economic democracy. Democracy needs socialism. Progressive reforms will never be secure as long as t...
The national currency is a vital common resource that should be managed in the public interest. We must nationalize the Federal Reserve System as a Monetary Authority in the Treasury Department. The Monetary Authority will create all national currency (cash and electronic) free of any associated debt. New money will be credited to the account of th...
Socialize the big banks. The allocation of investments according to an economic plan requires a significant sector of public banks. Big Oil and Gas. ExxonMobil, BP, Chevron, Shell, Koch Industries, and the rest will never reinvest their fossil fuel earnings in renewables instead of more oil and gas. Back to menu
100% clean energy means electrified transportation, manufacturing, and heat pumps for buildings. A rapid transition to clean power requires public power for lower costs and effective planning without obstruction by incumbent generators and distributors. Back to menu
A community-controlled national health service, delivering services largely through publicly owned clinics and hospitals employing salaried staff, and governed by a federation of locally-elected boards, will provide better accountability and cost control than a top-down Medicare-like national health insurance system paying mostly private providers ...
Big pharma has failed to serve the public interest as a profit-oriented industry. It has gouged consumers with monopolistic pricing. Its business model is centered on pushing addictive opioids and patent-protected medicines for chronic conditions. It has abandoned research and development of less lucrative short-term treatments, notably for antibio...
The arms monopolies are characterized by influential warmongering and corresponding war profits, as well as price gouging and systemic corruption. They should be converted to nonprofit public enterprises. Back to menu
Without a Green/Socialist voice in the process, these important issues will be left out of the debate. We will be damned if we wait on the Republicans and Democrats to save the planet, confront racism, address spiraling inequality, and avert nuclear apocalypse. Visit the Issues menu or click the icons below for full platform positions.
The historic role of third parties has been to force issues neglected by the major parties into public debate – issues like the abolition of slavery, women's suffrage, the 8-hour day, Social Security, and ending segregation. The Green Party has increasingly been playing this role." --Howie Hawkins
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May 23, 2019 · Howie Hawkins and Jia Lee, Green Party candidates for governor and lieutenant governor in New York, explain how their campaign is aiming to raise expectations that have been systematically lowered by the state’s Democratic Party leaders.
