Green Socialist Notes

This week Howie is joined by Dr. Marie Therese Merhej Seif, a Member of the Political Board of the Green Party of Lebanon (GPL), where she champions a green political vision rooted in ecological responsibility, social justice, transparency, and inclusive decision-making. Within the party, she works to advance climate resilience, renewable energy, sustainable cities, and biodiversity protection, while placing gender equality at the heart of environmental policy and governance.
She also serves as UNEP's Regional Facilitator for Major Groups and Stakeholders (MGS) for the West Asia Region, representing civil society perspectives in UNEP regional processes and strengthening dialogue between stakeholders, governments, and environmental actors.
A committed advocate for women's leadership, Marie Therese is Gender Focal Point for the Arab Region within the Arab Network for Environment and Development (RAED), promoting gender-responsive climate policy across Arab civil society. She is a member of the UNEP Women's Major Group and the IPEN Women's Caucus, and was elected to the G100 Global Network of Women Leaders, representing the Environment, Climate Change, Biodiversity, and Oceans sector.
A Lebanese architect with a PhD in Forestry Engineering and Sustainable Development, and President of the Human Environmental Association for Development (HEAD), Marie Therese continues to bridge green politics, environmental governance, and women's leadership—building a more just, sustainable, and gender-equal Lebanon and Arab region.

Streamed on 7/25/26

Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/t4pmuvZG3m0

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

This week Howie is joined by Victor Hernandez, Green candidate for California State Assembly District 59 in Anaheim, who is in a November run-off election with a Republican opponent.

Links Shared During the Stream

Victor Hernandez for State Assembly, District 59, California, https://www.victorforassembly.com/

Dan Schnur, "A Judge Just Ordered Huntington Beach to Give Voters More Choice,” Independent Voter News, July 2, 2026, https://ivn.us/a-judge-just-ordered-huntington-beach-to-give-voters-more-choice/

Paul Glover, Los Angeles: A History of the Future, 1982, https://www.paulglover.org/8212.html

Howie Hawkins, New Green Horizons, A Political Paradox: A Progressive Leaning Public Elects a Far Right President, https://newgreenhorizons.us/a-political-paradox-a-progressive-leaning-public-elects-a-far-right-president/https://www.markrendon4ad14.com/

Streamed on 7/19/26

Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/41eY-dhTBfE

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

This week Howie is joined by a friend of the Prairieland Defendants.

https://prairielanddefendants.com/

Streamed on 7/11/26

Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/RZmyo6eSoxc

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

Howie talks about current events, America: 250 years since a revolution, and takes viewer questions.Links shared during the stream:Move To Amend, https://www.movetoamend.org/amendmentVietnamese Declaration of Independence, https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Vietnamese_Declaration_of_IndependenceMalcolm X, “A Declaration of Independence,” March 12, 1964, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/a-declaration-of-independence/Lizzie Skurnick, "The Fight to Fight: Black Soldiers in the Revolutionary War,” New York Times, July 2, 2026, https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/travel/revolutionary-war-black-soldiers-history.htmlSidney Lens, Radicalism in America (Crowell, 1969 rev. ed).Langston Hughes, “Let America Be America Again,” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147907/let-america-be-america-again

Streamed on 7/4/26

Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/CxB4ek5Ew8k

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

This week Howie talks current events and takes viewer questions.

Streamed on 6/27/26

Watch the video at: ⁠https://youtube.com/live/OR_NuKRxBps⁠Links Shared During the Streamhttps://www.wamc.org/news/2024-02-27/new-paltz-remembers-first-same-sex-weddings-20-years-laterUS Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121 for S.4814 to extend TPS for Haitian immigrantsMegyn Kelly, Racist rant against Haitians, https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1724331988983674Youth Against Sweatshops, No More 24 Videos, https://www.instagram.com/youthagainstsweatshops/News Release, Hawkins for Governor, May 30, 2018, https://www.howiehawkins.org/hawkins_fasts_in_solidarity_with_displaced_bowery_tenants_on_a_3_day_hunger_strike_calls_housing_a_right_not_a_privilege_at_rally_outside_city_hallMichelle Breidenbach, "Federal agents track down Syracuse woman, demand she remove Instagram post about ICE,” Syracuse.com, June 24, 2026, https://www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06/federal-agents-track-down-syracuse-woman-demand-she-remove-instagram-post-about-ice.htmlMichelle Breidenbach, "Civil rights experts: ICE warning to Syracuse woman was scare tactic against citizen critic,” Syracuse.com, June 26, 2026, https://www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06/civil-rights-experts-ice-warning-to-syracuse-woman-was-scare-tactic-against-citizen-critic.htmlPaigelynn Gonyea, https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-defend-my-civil-libertiesReagan on Citizenship: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hPPB0pDS49I

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

This week Howie is joined by Shehla Faizi, Green candidate for Texas State Comptroller.

Links Shared During the Stream:Kenneth Mejia for LA City Controller, https://www.mejiaforcontroller.com/Shehla Faizi for Texas State Comptroller, https://www.faizifortexas.com/

Streamed on 6/20/26

Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/UfaPFmnVvl4

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

This week Howie talks about current events and takes viewer questions.

Links Shared During the Stream:

Howie Hawkins, “Pricey Propaganda Against Ukraine Solidarity,” Tempest, July 2, 2023, https://tempestmag.org/2023/07/pricey-propaganda-against-ukraine-solidarity

Bill Weinberg, "Podcast: Hasan Piker & the pro-fascist pseudo-left,” May 31, 2026, https://countervortex.org/blog/podcast-hasan-piker-the-pro-fascist-pseudo-left

Streamed on 6/13/26

Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/Xegt4Atgq-s

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

This week Howie talks about data centers, current events, and takes viewer questions.Links Shared During the Stream:Friends of the Earth in the UK, "Data centres - are our heads in the cloud?, October 26, 2026, https://policy.friendsoftheearth.uk/insight/data-centres-are-our-heads-cloudS. 4214: Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act, https://www.congress.gov/119/bills/s4214/BILLS-119s4214is.pdfBernie Sanders, "A.I. Is a Public Resource. You Should Own Half of It,” New York Times, June 1, 2026, https://archive.fo/HtTZACarl Davidson, "Data Centers, Knowledge, and the Future of Eco-Socialism,” New Green Horizons, May 31, 2026, https://newgreenhorizons.us/data-centers-knowledge-and-the-future-of-eco-socialism/Joshua Frank, "Vampire Planet: Data Centers, Far Bigger Disasters Than You Even Thought,” CounterPunch, June 5, 2026, https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/06/05/vampire-planet-data-centers-are-worse-than-you-think/

Streamed on 6/6/26

Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/nZ9iFDiQLIs

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

This week Howie is joined by Mike Feinstein, Green candidate for California Secretary of State, for a conversation about proportional representation in the context of the redistricting wars and the Louisiana v. Callais decision.Links Shared During the Stream:https://feinstein4sos.org/issuesMichael Feinstein, "An Open Letter to My Fellow Secretary of State Candidates: Where Is Our Debate About Democracy?,” Independent Voter News, May 29, 2026, https://ivn.us/an-open-letter-to-my-fellow-secretary-of-state-candidates-where-is-our-debate-about-democracy/Howie Hawkins, "7 Democracy Demands," https://howiehawkins.us/democracy-demands/Green Party US Elections Database, https://www.gpelections.org/

Streamed on 5/30/26

Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/JbLNEun100U.

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

This week Howie is joined by Jett Newton, Green candidate in Michigan's 38th State House district.

Streamed on 5/23/26

Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/BlYrECd1lHg

Links shared during the stream:

https://jettnewton.org/Duncan Chapel, "The Jugular Named, the Jugular Avoided: Greens Organise After the Wave,” Red Mole Substack, May 22, 2026, https://substack.com/home/post/p-198779808

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