Green Socialist Notes

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Green Socialist Notes episodes

January 06, 2025 Green Socialist Notes, Episode 242
This week Howie talks about his New Year's Resolution to do all he can to build an independent left alternative to oppose Trump and takes viewer questions.

Streamed on 1/4/25
Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/h8k2eC7cFB0

Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential nominee, Howie Hawkins. Started as a weekly campaign livestream in the spring of 2020, the streams have continued post elections and are now under the umbrella of the Green Socialist Organizing Project, which grew out of the 2020 presidential campaign. Green Socialist Notes seeks to provide both an independent Green Socialist perspective, as well as link listeners up with opportunities to get involved in building a real people-powered movement in their communities.

Green Socialist Notes Podcast
Every Saturday at 3:00 PM EDT on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Twitch.
Every Monday at 7:00 AM EDT on most major podcast outlets.

Music by Gumbo le Funque
Intro: She Taught Us
Outro: #PowerLoveFreedom
1 hr 12 min
December 30, 2024 Green Socialist Notes, Episode 241
In the final episode of 2024, Howie reflects on the bad and the good of the year and what Greens should be focusing on in 2025 and beyond.

Streamed on 12/28/24
Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/e7EsdlDhvXE

Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential nominee, Howie Hawkins. Started as a weekly campaign livestream in the spring of 2020, the streams have continued post elections and are now under the umbrella of the Green Socialist Organizing Project, which grew out of the 2020 presidential campaign. Green Socialist Notes seeks to provide both an independent Green Socialist perspective, as well as link listeners up with opportunities to get involved in building a real people-powered movement in their communities.

Green Socialist Notes Podcast
Every Saturday at 3:00 PM EDT on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Twitch.
Every Monday at 7:00 AM EDT on most major podcast outlets.

Music by Gumbo le Funque
Intro: She Taught Us
Outro: #PowerLoveFreedom
1 hr 6 min
December 23, 2024 Green Socialist Notes, Episode 240 with Special Guest Denys Bondar
This week Howie is joined by Denys Bondar for a discussion of the 30th Anniversary of the Budapest Memorandum between Ukraine, Russia, and the US.
Streamed on 12/21/24
Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/FU1lUpAnRoQ

Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential nominee, Howie Hawkins. Started as a weekly campaign livestream in the spring of 2020, the streams have continued post elections and are now under the umbrella of the Green Socialist Organizing Project, which grew out of the 2020 presidential campaign. Green Socialist Notes seeks to provide both an independent Green Socialist perspective, as well as link listeners up with opportunities to get involved in building a real people-powered movement in their communities.

Green Socialist Notes Podcast
Every Saturday at 3:00 PM EDT on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Twitch.
Every Monday at 7:00 AM EDT on most major podcast outlets.

Music by Gumbo le Funque
Intro: She Taught Us
Outro: #PowerLoveFreedom
1 hr 18 min
December 16, 2024 Green Socialist Notes, Episode 239 with Special Guest Nidal Bitari
This week Howie is once again joined by Nidal Bitari, a Palestinian refugee raised in a Syrian refugee camp, to discuss the fall of the Assad regime in Syria.
Links shared during the stream:
Nidal Bitare, "The Assad Dynasty Was Hatched at My Grandfather’s Home. They Later Destroyed it,” New Lines Magazine, March 16, 2021, https://newlinesmag.com/writers/nidal-betare/
Joseph Daher, “Understanding the Rebellion in Syria,” Tempest, December 9, 2024, https://tempestmag.org/2024/12/understanding-the-rebellion-in-syria
Gilbert Achcar, “Where is Syria headed?” December 10, 2024, https://gilbert-achcar.net/where-is-syria-headed
Gilbert Achcar, “The Collapse of the Assad Regime,” New Politics, December 13, 2024, https://newpol.org/the-collapse-of-the-assad-regime-an-interview-on-syria-with-gilbert-achcar/
Anand Gopal, "Syria: What Comes After the Despot?,” Jacobin, December 11, 2024, https://jacobin.com/2024/12/syrian-revolution-assad-hts-democracy
Anand Gopal, “Syria’s Last Bastion of Freedom,” The New Yorker, December 3, 2014, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/syrias-last-bastion-of-freedom
Louis Project, “An extraordinary meeting on Syria,” May 22, 2018, https://www.howiehawkins.org/an_extraordinary_meeting_on_syria
Paul Mason, "Decolonising Syria: the tankie meltdown explained. Why the pro-Putin left is in mourning over Assad,” Medium, December 8, 2024, https://paulmasonnews.medium.com/decolonising-syria-the-tankie-meltdown-explained-b88d681f32ad
Streamed on 12/14/24
Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/dClHWapZxeU

Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential nominee, Howie Hawkins. Started as a weekly campaign livestream in the spring of 2020, the streams have continued post elections and are now under the umbrella of the Green Socialist Organizing Project, which grew out of the 2020 presidential campaign. Green Socialist Notes seeks to provide both an independent Green Socialist perspective, as well as link listeners up with opportunities to get involved in building a real people-powered movement in their communities.

Green Socialist Notes Podcast
Every Saturday at 3:00 PM EDT on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Twitch.
Every Monday at 7:00 AM EDT on most major podcast outlets.

Music by Gumbo le Funque
Intro: She Taught Us
Outro: #PowerLoveFreedom
1 hr 9 min
December 09, 2024 Green Socialist Notes, Episode 238
This week Howie was attending the European Greens Congress in Ireland during the livestream, so we are airing two interviews he has conducted in his travels.

First is an interview with Lela Rekhviashvili about Georgia being caught between Western and Russian imperialism, which is timely given the massive protests now in Georgia against authoritarian rule.

Second is an interview with Gretchen Dutschke Klotz, the widow Rudi Dutschke. Rudi was “Red Rudi,” the notorious leader of German SDS, the youth group of the Social Democrats that broke away from it in the 1960s, and one of the key organizers of the Green party movement in the 1970s, promoting ecosocialist as an alternative to Western Social Democracy’s regulated capitalism and the Soviet bloc's authoritarian rule by the bureaucratic party-state calling itself socialist.
Streamed on 12/7/24
Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/-e7RtAta3r0

Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential nominee, Howie Hawkins. Started as a weekly campaign livestream in the spring of 2020, the streams have continued post elections and are now under the umbrella of the Green Socialist Organizing Project, which grew out of the 2020 presidential campaign. Green Socialist Notes seeks to provide both an independent Green Socialist perspective, as well as link listeners up with opportunities to get involved in building a real people-powered movement in their communities.

Green Socialist Notes Podcast
Every Saturday at 3:00 PM EDT on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitch.
Every Monday at 7:00 AM EDT on most major podcast outlets.

Music by Gumbo le Funque
Intro: She Taught Us
Outro: #PowerLoveFreedom
1 hr 6 min
December 02, 2024 Green Socialist Notes, Episode 237 with Special Guest Benali Hamdache
This week Howie is live from London with special guest
Benali Hamdache. Benali is the elected Green Party Councillor for the Islington London Borough Council, the Green Party of England and Wales (GPEW) spokesperson on migrants and refugee support, the past GPEW Equalities spokesperson, wrote GPEW's 2015 ethnic minority and LGBTIQA+ manifesto, and recently launched a new anti-capitalist group, Green Organize
Read more about Green Organize:
Isabel Loubser, "Green councillors say homeless left-wingers unable to support Starmer are welcome: ‘Anticapitalist’ group is launched at party conference,” IslingtonTribune, September 20, 2024, https://www.islingtontribune.co.uk/article/green-councillors-say-homeless-left-wingers-unable-to-support-starmer-are-welcome.
Damien Gayle, "Leftwing Green party members form ‘anti-capitalist’ pressure group, The Guardian, September 8, 2024, https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/sep/08/leftwing-green-party-members-form-anti-capitalist-pressure-group.
Streamed on 11/30/24
Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/uiONDNCDUMA

Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential nominee, Howie Hawkins. Started as a weekly campaign livestream in the spring of 2020, the streams have continued post elections and are now under the umbrella of the Green Socialist Organizing Project, which grew out of the 2020 presidential campaign. Green Socialist Notes seeks to provide both an independent Green Socialist perspective, as well as link listeners up with opportunities to get involved in building a real people-powered movement in their communities.

Green Socialist Notes Podcast
Every Saturday at 3:00 PM EDT on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Twitch.
Every Monday at 7:00 AM EDT on most major podcast outlets.

Music by Gumbo le Funque
Intro: She Taught Us
Outro: #PowerLoveFreedom
1 hr 11 min
November 25, 2024 Green Socialist Notes, Episode 236
Howie was supposed to be live from Berlin this week, but he was not able to connect at the time of the livestream. Instead we premiered 2 new interviews that Howie has conducted in his travels that have not been posted yet.
Taras Bilous, Ukrainian leftist and soldier who won the Daniel Singer Prize.
Lela Rekhshiavili, a Georgian leftist about how the Georgian and international left needs to break out of the EU vs. Russia choices paradigm and chart an independent anti-capitalist path.
Streamed on 11/23/24
Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/tmcBqfmBp5g

Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential nominee, Howie Hawkins. Started as a weekly campaign livestream in the spring of 2020, the streams have continued post elections and are now under the umbrella of the Green Socialist Organizing Project, which grew out of the 2020 presidential campaign. Green Socialist Notes seeks to provide both an independent Green Socialist perspective, as well as link listeners up with opportunities to get involved in building a real people-powered movement in their communities.

Green Socialist Notes Podcast
Every Saturday at 3:00 PM EDT on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Twitch.
Every Monday at 7:00 AM EDT on most major podcast outlets.

Music by Gumbo le Funque
Intro: She Taught Us
Outro: #PowerLoveFreedom
39 min
November 18, 2024 Green Socialist Notes, Episode 235
This week Howie is live from Lviv, Ukraine, where he will be joined Valeriy Petrov, a Ludic Activist, Member of Sotsialnyi Rukh and Tenant's Union, and Pavlo Bryzhatyi, a Sotsialnyi Rukh Council Member.
Streamed on 11/16/24
Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/z9D71TFIH1o

Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential nominee, Howie Hawkins. Started as a weekly campaign livestream in the spring of 2020, the streams have continued post elections and are now under the umbrella of the Green Socialist Organizing Project, which grew out of the 2020 presidential campaign. Green Socialist Notes seeks to provide both an independent Green Socialist perspective, as well as link listeners up with opportunities to get involved in building a real people-powered movement in their communities.

Green Socialist Notes Podcast
Every Saturday at 3:00 PM EDT on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Twitch.
Every Monday at 7:00 AM EDT on most major podcast outlets.

Music by Gumbo le Funque
Intro: She Taught Us
Outro: #PowerLoveFreedom
1 hr 12 min
November 11, 2024Green Socialist Notes, Episode 234
This week Howie was traveling during the livestream, so we aired 3 interviews he has conducted with activists while in Europe.
Georgian activist Alex Scrivener

Georgian political economist Ia Eradze

Ukrainian climate activist Svitlana Romanko
Streamed on 11/9/24
Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/zJlJ4I8h4Pc

Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential nominee, Howie Hawkins. Started as a weekly campaign livestream in the spring of 2020, the streams have continued post elections and are now under the umbrella of the Green Socialist Organizing Project, which grew out of the 2020 presidential campaign. Green Socialist Notes seeks to provide both an independent Green Socialist perspective, as well as link listeners up with opportunities to get involved in building a real people-powered movement in their communities.

Green Socialist Notes Podcast
Every Saturday at 3:00 PM EDT on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Twitch.
Every Monday at 7:00 AM EDT on most major podcast outlets.

Music by Gumbo le Funque
Intro: She Taught Us
Outro: #PowerLoveFreedom
1 hr 4 min
November 04, 2024 Green Socialist Notes, Episode 233
This week Howie is live from Kyiv, Ukraine where he is joined by Georgian democracy activist, Alex Scrivener, and Ukrainian activists with Sotsialnyi Rukh, Denys Pilash and Pavlo Bryzhatia.

Streamed on 11/2/24
Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/ss0bPUUJ9PY

Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential nominee, Howie Hawkins. Started as a weekly campaign livestream in the spring of 2020, the streams have continued post elections and are now under the umbrella of the Green Socialist Organizing Project, which grew out of the 2020 presidential campaign. Green Socialist Notes seeks to provide both an independent Green Socialist perspective, as well as link listeners up with opportunities to get involved in building a real people-powered movement in their communities.

Green Socialist Notes Podcast
Every Saturday at 3:00 PM EDT on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Twitch.
Every Monday at 7:00 AM EDT on most major podcast outlets.

Music by Gumbo le Funque
Intro: She Taught Us
Outro: #PowerLoveFreedom
1 hr 15 min