Howie Hawkins Interview | The Green Party Candidate Shares His Policies with The Informed American

 

At the Informed American, we don't endorse candidates. What we DO endorse however is you having the information on ALL the candidates... so you can make an INFORMED decision for yourself. Like many third party candidates, Howie Hawkins is silenced by the main stream media. And in case you are unaware of his campaign, the Informed American has dedicated this video to bring you information about his platform. In this exclusive interview, Dave sits down and talks with the Green Party Presidential candidate himself to learn more about his policies. Sign up for our FREE Newsletter at InformedAmerican.com Please like and share your thoughts in the comments below! And be sure to subscribe to our channel and stay up-to-date on all breaking news.

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Highlights

 

This piece is written by Rebecca of Sex and Politics and Screeds and Attitude, Cedric of Cedric's Big Mix, Kat of Kat's Korner, Betty of Thomas Friedman is a Great Man, Mike of Mikey Likes It!, Elaine of Like Maria Said Paz, Ruth of Ruth's Report, Marcia of SICKOFITRADLZ, Stan of Oh Boy It Never Ends, Ann of Ann's Mega Dub, Isaiah of The World Today Just Nuts and Wally of The Daily Jot. Unless otherwise noted, we picked all highlights.

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"The Mad Dog and Cher Show" -- Isaiah dips into the archives. 

"books? (valley of the dolls, natalie wood, joan crawford')" -- Rebecca covers books.

"Iraq snapshot," "Iraq snapshot," "Iraq snapshot," "Iraq snapshot." "Iraq snapshot,"  "Imagine it," "We need to get serious," "We have no one to fight for us," "The duopoly's political theater," "Jonathan Turley calls out the nutty," "Helen Caldicott," "No respect at all," "What Kat said," "I don't break bread with garbage," "Oh, Neil, you're so disappointing," "Nancy Pelosi and Russia-gate," "Racist Joe Biden is at it again," "There's always something interesting on Zach Haller's Twitter feed," "Put her behind bars," "hidden history," "I'm thankful for Jimmy Dore," "Medicare For All and other issues," "More bad news for Ellen," "Fair to a fake?," "Ellen's rage gets more exposed," "Ellen DeGeneres is cringe-worthy," "Howie Hawkins coverage," "Real issues demand real politicians," "The campaign I'm supporting? Howie Hawkins for pr...," "How much more can America endure?" and "THIS JUST IN! MORE SUFFERING ON THE HORIZON!" -- news coverage in the community.

 

"Back on Mars again," "One more time on the land rover Perseverance" and "Perseverance" -- Betty covers science. 

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Truest statement of the week

Black Americans are historically the most peace-minded major U.S. political constituency, yet this is seldom reflected in the voting behavior of Black Democratic legislators, who apparently answer to a Higher Power (White Capital). Of the 48 full voting House members of the Congressional Black Caucus,  20 last week voted Nay  on a bill that would have cut Pentagon spending by ten percent across the board – a modest and symbolic reduction. Listed below are the Twenty Black Legislative Minions of (White) Corporate Warlords:  

*Alma Adams (FL) 
Colin Allred (TX)
Sanford Bishop (GA)
* Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE) 
Anthony Brown (MD)
G.K. Butterfield (NC)
*Andre Carson (IN) 
James E. Clyburn (SC)
Antonio Delgado (NY)
Val Butler Demings (FL)
* Steven Horsford (NV) 
* Brenda Lawrence (MI) 
Al Lawson (FL)
Lucy McBath (GA)
Cedric Richmond (LA)
Bobby Scott (VA)
David Scott (GA)
Terri Sewell (AL)
Lauren Underwood (IL)
Marc Veasey (TX)

Usually, the Black Caucus vote closely follows that of House Democrats as a whole, under Nancy Pelosi’s whip. But this time the Black members lined up 58 percent for military cuts versus only 40 percent among all House Democrats. Could it be that the “Defund the Police!” demands of street “non-politics” had some small influence on Black Democrats? If so, it was far too weak a response to overwhelming Black public sentiment historically favoring domestic spending over the military. 

Please note the asterisks in front of Alma Adams (FL), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Andre Carson (IN), Steven Horsford (NV), and Brenda Lawrence (MI). These Black Reps. are also members of the Progressive Caucus , but they voted to please the Pentagon and to preserve domestic spending austerity -- the policy pillars of the Dictatorship of (White) Capital. 

Eighty percent of the Black Caucus voted to continue the Pentagon’s program to militarize local police, in 2014, and 75 percent of Black House members supported making police a “protected class,” in 2018. The cops have never been popular in Black America: 89 percent  of African Americans told pollsters that the criminal justice system is unfair to Blacks in 2014, when most of the Black Caucus supported militarized cops, and a phenomenal 97 percent of Blacks  feel victimized by the “protected class” of cops, today. Clearly, the Democratic Party is the mechanism that spawns and nurtures Black politicians answerable to the Dictatorship of (White) Capital. 

The Black liberation movement ended half a century ago with the capture of Black “politics” by the Democratic Party, and can only be revived when the Party is exposed and opposed as an enemy institution in our midst. 

-- Glen Ford, "The Black Caucus and the Dictatorship of (White) Capital" (BLACK AGENDA REPORT).

Truest statement of the week II

Unfortunately, there are black people who do not appreciate the significance of this and other actions. Decades of movement stagnation and lack of political education has made black people less likely to push the envelope and to even point fingers at the people labeled “outside agitators” by craven black misleaders. It is a sign of the weakness of our movement that some of us do not see the importance of cultivating solidarity and dispensing with establishment approval as we seek to make change.

The misleaders do know their people however, and they are well aware that claims of white people undoing the movement would resonate. E.D. Mondainé is president of the Portland branch of the NAACP. As such he has access to the Washington Post  editorial page and used his opportunity to do some classic misleading. He opined that demonstrations had become “spectacle” which drew attention away from police violence. “What are antifa and other leftist agitators achieving for the cause of black equality?” was one of his questions. One might ask what the Portland NAACP had ever achieved in this regard, but that didn’t stop him from condemning white people who are not limiting their actions to the realm of respectability politics.

If Mr. Mondainé and others were less compromised they would make common cause with the white radicals they disregard. This is no time to listen to people whose dependence on the donor class of the Democratic Party has helped no one but themselves. Mondainé makes clear why the emphasis cannot be on a well intentioned notion of equality. It is too easily manipulated while the allies who have come forward are left undefended by the people who should be working with them.  

Hopefully the misleaders can muster the energy to support the media  in Seattle where a judge ruled that unpublished photos and video footage of protests must be turned over to the police. Perhaps they will say something about the police unions welcoming Trump’s troops against the wishes of local elected officials. Whoever set a fire  in the Portland police union office is the best kind of ally.

-- Margaret Kimberley, "Freedom Rider: Let the Movement Be Radical" (BLACK AGENDA REPORT).