Number
three, the Greens must field a 2020 candidate and campaign focused on
obtaining national ballot access and building strong, viable and
sustainable state and local parties.
Howie
Hawkins, the longtime UPS worker and union activist who was the NY
Green Party’s gubernatorial candidate the last two times around is one
of the party’s OG, i.e., Original Green founders. He’s been the most
persistent and persuasive advocate of re-imagining
the Greens as an independent party with a dues paying membership in the
thousands and tens of thousands in every state .
That’s what the Socialist Party had up until the Wilson administration
took away their free mail privileges at the beginning of World War 1.
There are proven organizing models out here, cheap but not free.
Billionaires and foundations won’t pay to initialize or to sustain them.
They have to be organized and funded from the ground up.
Howie
Hawkins is the only one of the possible Green presidential candidates
to acknowledge the scope of what his party must do to do in order to
become a viable national force. And along with Green activists across
the country, Hawkins is closely considering an exploratory campaign
committee, the first legal step in a 2020 presidential run. Get ready
for it.
-- Bruce A. Dixon, "Facing 2020 and Bernie 2.0: What the Green Party must do" (BLACK AGENDA REPORT).
