Green Socialist Notes

Howie talks about current events, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and takes viewer questions.

Resources shared during the stream:

https://truthout.org/articles/netanyahu-says-israel-will-not-back-down-until-gaza-is-emptied-of-palestinians/

https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/05/20/gas-in-missiles-out-why-the-eus-17th-sanctions-package-still-funds-putins-war-machine/

https://newpol.org/issue_post/a-political-paradox/

Streamed on 5/24/25

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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 and takes viewer questions.

Resources Shared on the Stream:Jayapal Introduces Legislation to Block Offensive Weapons Sales to Israel, March 31, 2025, https://jayapal.house.gov/2025/03/31/jayapal-introduces-legislation-to-block-offensive-weapons-sales-to-israel/Samuel Charap and Sergey Radchenko, "The Talks That Could Have Ended the War in Ukraine: A Hidden History of Diplomacy That Came Up Short—but Holds Lessons for Future Negotiations," April 16, 2024, Foreign Affairs, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/talks-could-have-ended-war-ukraineSamuel Charap and Sergey Radchenko, "Why Peace Talks Fail in Ukraine: Learning the Right Lessons From Three Years of Grinding War and Faltering Negotiations," May 8, 2025, Foreign Affairs, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/why-peace-talks-fail-ukraineSanctioning Russia Act of 2025, S. 1241, https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1241/text, and H.R. 2548, https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/2548/text/ihVitaliy Dudin, "Ukrainian socialist: Five main problems with the US-Ukraine minerals deal,” May 9, 2025, Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal, https://links.org.au/ukrainian-socialist-five-main-problems-us-ukraine-mineral-deal

Streamed on 5/17/25

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

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 author and labor historian Les Leopold for a discussion about the potential for an independent, working class party.

Resources Shared on the Stream

• The Labor Institute, https://www.thelaborinstitute.org/
• Runaway Inequality, https://runawayinequality.org
• Les Leopold, "The Committee of One Million: A Petition to Support a Party of Working People,” Common Dreams, February 27, 2025, https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/petition-for-party-of-working-people
• ​​Les Leopold, The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor: The Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2006).
• Les Leopold, Wall Street's War on Workers: How Mass Layoffs and Greed Are Destroying the Working Class and What to Do About It (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2024).

Streamed on 5/10/25

Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/4dtdzkMj254

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 is back from his travels to Papua New Guinea and Australia to talk about the Australian Greens organizing and take viewer questions.

Resources Shared During the Stream

Abraham O’Neil, "The Australian Greens Must Democratize Their Party Structures,” Jacobin, May 2, 2020, https://jacobin.com/2020/05/australian-greens-adam-bandt-green-new-deal.

Max Chandler-Mather, "How Australia’s Greens Are Winning a Left-Wing Vote in the Heart of “Conservative Queensland,” Jacobin, October 27, 2020, https://jacobin.com/2020/10/australia-greens-left-wing-vote-conservative-queensland.

Max Chandler-Mather and Liam Flenady, "The Success of the Australian Greens in Queensland Shows the Power of Organization,” Jacobin, November 18, 2020, https://jacobin.com/2020/11/australian-greens-queensland-organizing.

Adam Bandt, "Australian Greens Are Building a Movement to End Neoliberalism,” Jacobin, September 3, 2022, https://jacobin.com/2021/09/australia-greens-green-new-deal-gnd-elections.

Liam Flenady, "The Brisbane Greens Are Building a Mass Party With Unashamedly Left-Wing Politics,” Jacobin, October 9, 2022, https://jacobin.com/2022/10/brisbane-australian-greens-organizing-left-wing-strategy-parliament.

Liam Flenady, "The Queensland Election Points to Challenges for the Left,” Jacobin, November 21, 2024, https://jacobin.com/2024/11/australia-queensland-election-greens-left.

Streamed on 5/3/25

Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/47QOwTyYI0o

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 Janet Rice, a recently retired Australian Greens Senator from Melbourne, representing the Australian state of Victoria.

Streamed on 4/26/25

Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/sWq2f9fK7s4

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's episode is a series of interviews conducted with various government and Papua New Guinea Greens Party, who Howie has met in his travels.

Interviews include:Emmanuel Pok, Registrar of Political Parties, Integrity of Political Parties and Candidates Commission, Papua New GuineaFreda Pos, Co-Convener, Women’s Wing, Papua New Guinea Greens PartyLillian Motion, former Convener of Women’s Wing and parliamentary candidate of the Papua New Guinea Greens PartyImel Manson, Young Greens Convener, Papua New Guinea Greens Party

Streamed on 4/19/25

Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/zDAaErOA1Ik

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 in Papua New Guinea, where he is joined by Danny Wenda, Secretary for the President of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua, for a discussion of the Indonesian occupation of West Papua.

*This episode was pre-recorded due to the time difference between with Papua New Guinea.

Resources discussed on the episode:

United Liberation Movement for West Papua, https://www.ulmwp.org

Green State Vision, https://greenstatevision.info/

Office of Benny Wenda, https://www.bennywenda.org/Free

West Papua Campaign, https://www.freewestpapua.org/

Streamed on 4/12/25

Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/MuEf4fZgjWU

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 Tanya Vyhovsky, a Ukrainian-American member of the Vermont State Senate, the Vermont Progressive Party, and DSA, for a report back from leftwing Ukraine solidarity conference in Brussels on March 26-27.

Streamed on 4/5/25

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

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 Matthew Hull, the Trade Union Liaison for the Green Party of England and Wales.

Streamed on 3/29/25

Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/DIKoVPwc-_U

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 and takes viewer questions.

Streamed on 3/22/2025

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

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