Cindy Sheehan

  Lynne Stewart

Michael Berg

Anthony Arnove

Author of Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal

Currently running for Governor in California

Chair of the Board of Progressive Asset Management of California; an investment firm he founded in 1987. Mr. Camejo is a first generation American of Venezuelan decent who was born in New York in 1939. He has fought for social and environmental justice since his teens. He marched in Selma, Alabama with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. rallied for migrant farm workers and was active against the war in Vietnam.

"I endorse Howie Hawkins for US Senator from New York. He has been a central leader in the Green Party fighting for peace, social justice and in defense of our ecology."

Currently running for US Senate in California

At 18, Todd was the youngest elected delegate for Jesse Jackson at the Maine State Democratic Party convention. In 2000, Todd served as the statewide student organizer for Ralph Nader’s presidential and Medea Benjamin’s senatorial campaigns. In 2004, Todd was the Northern California Field Coordinator for the Nader/Camejo ticket. In 2005, Todd helped author and organized Proposition I (the College Not Combat initiative) that passed with 60% of the vote in San Francisco on November 8.

"New Yorkers face a clear choice in November. Hillary Clinton voted to send our troops to kill and die in Bush's war in Iraq. Howie Hawkins stood firm against the invasion. Hillary Clinton is leading the charge in the Senate to bomb Iran and start a whole new war. Howie Hawkins will help stop this insanity. Hillary Clinton, although she's a lawyer, voted for Bush's attack on the Bill of Rights twice, the so-called USA Patriot Acts. Howie Hawkins has spent his whole life fighting for civil rights. Hillary Clinton had an historic opportunity to fight for single-payer national health care, but sold out to the HMO's and look where we are now. Howie Hawkins is a leader in the fight for healthy communities in Syracuse. Hillary Clinton's pockets are stuffed with corporate cash. She supports the death penalty, the racist war on drugs, and is whistling along with the rest of Washington, D.C. as our environment burns. And despite all this, Hillary Clinton takes the votes of all the people who want peace and social justice for granted today and she believes she can take them for granted on her way to the presidency in 2008. Howie Hawkins' campaign is a chance to show Hilary Clinton and all the pro-war, corporate-controlled Democratic leaders that we're not going to take it any more. A vote for Howie Hawkins is a vote for peace, justice, and environmental sustainability."

Dr. Alice Green

Dr. Green earned her Ph. D. from the School of Criminal Justice at the University at Albany. She founded a community non -profit, the Center for Law and Justice in 1985.  The Center is dedicated to providing legal assistance and criminal justice advocacy, and change social policy and empower poor people and people of color. Dr. Green is currently the Executive Director of The Center for Law and Justice. Dr. Green was the Legislative Director for the New York Civil Liberties Union, and appointed by Governor Mario Cuomo to the Citizens Policy and Complaint Review Council of the NYS Commission on Corrections in 1985. In 1986, Governor Cuomo appointed her to the position of Deputy Commissioner for the New York State Division of Probation and Correctional Alternatives. From 1975 through 1979, Dr. Green served as the Executive Director of Trinity Institution, a youth and family services center in Albany's South End neighborhood. She also founded the South End Scene in 1977, one of the longest-running African American newspapers in Albany.

In 1998, Dr. Green was running mate to Al "Grandpa" Lewis on the Green Party ticket for Lieutenant Governor of New York State. Alice on the ticket helped the Greens achieve ballot status with over 50,000 votes.  In 1999, Dr. Green co-authored a book with Dr. Frankie Bailey, Law Never Here: A Social History of African American Responses to Issues of Crime and Justice. She has also published numerous articles and essays in journals throughout her career.

"Howie Hawkins has always been willing to speak truth to power and to organize for justice for those who are oppressed. He has worked closely with communities of color in Syracuse and statewide on issues such as environmental justice, living wage jobs and criminal justice reform. Unlike the incumbent, Howie will speak up on issues such as universal health care, affordable housing and opposition to the war."

Ted Glick

Coordinator, Independent Progressive Politics Network

"Howie Hawkins gets it when it comes to the central issue of our time: the need to rapidly enact a clean energy revolution with all that goes with it as far as job creation, economic development, peace, mass transportation, energy conservation and an end to corporate domination of politics. A continuing fossil-fuel dependent world economy ensures years and years of violent and destructive energy wars. We must end the war in Iraq and renounce plans for military bases and corporate control of oil as we enact the kind of Clean Energy Transition that Ross Gelbspan, Howie Hawkins and others have put forward. Hillary Clinton's continued support for the Iraq war and her flawed proposals concerning clean energy are only the latest examples of why progressive-minded people should have no illusions that she is about the kind of change urgently needed."

David McReynolds

Former Staff Member of the War Resisters League;
Long time peace activist.
Anti War and Draft Resister during the Vietnam War. 
Green Party candidate for US Senate in 2004

"Along with many other New Yorkers I am delighted to hear that Howie Hawkins is running. I've known him as a democratic socialist, as an environmentalist, as a strong voice against war and the security state, and as someone who knows that a new politics means being inclusive of all races, of being concerned that we reach out to labor, to all the rank-and-file citizens who have been so badly beaten down by the present system."

Staff Sgt. Camilo Mejía

Mejia became the first soldier to go public with his refusal to redeploy with his Florida National Guard unit to Iraq. He spent seven months in military confinement for his decision, and was released in mid-February, 2005. He is a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War. You can find out more about his case at www.freecamilo.com.

Carol Miller

Public health administrator
Ran for Congress in 1997 and received the highest vote for a third party in Congressional candidate in 40 years.

Presidential appointee of the White House Health Care Task Force headed by Hillary Clinton in 1993. Two-term president of the New Mexico Public Health Administration and six-term member of the Governing Council of the American Public Health Association. Green candidate for Congress, 1997 and 1998. She if the founder of PeaceEconomy.org, an organization to help people understand the human and social costs of US militarism.

"With the US political system in crisis and a series of ever shrinking choices, New Yorkers are lucky to have a US Senate peace candidate to vote for in November. Howie Hawkins represents the issues of the majority; he is pro-peace, pro-worker, pro-family, and pro-democracy. New Yorkers get a two-fer with a vote for Hawkins, they vote for a candidate who shares their values AND they send a message that they have rejected politics as usual. Cast a vote to be proud of -- vote for Howie Hawkins on November 7."

Jason West

Mayor of New Paltz, NY

Charged with 24 misdemeanor accounts of "solemnizing marriages without a license" after performing 25 marriages of same sex couples. Author of Dare to Hope: Saving American Democracy, published 2005.

"Howie Hawkins is a man of principle. A union activist with the Teamsters, a working-class environmentalist, and a widely respected figure in Syracuse politics, Mr. Hawkins has the on-the-ground experience needed to grab Washington by the throat and turn it around, forcing millionaire career politicians to stop sending our families to die for oil, to create good-paying union jobs replacing our outdated energy infrastructure with power sources that don't poison our kids, and give our tax money back to local business and Main Street, rather than to huge corporations bloated with taxpayer subsidies. Howie understands the concrete policies we need to make this happen. He has the backbone to fight, and the dedication to win. He's in this for the long haul and deserves the support of every New Yorker."

Kevin Zeese

Kevin is currently running for US Senate, challenging Benjamin L. Cardin.

Among many things, Kevin is the Director of DemocracyRising.US, an organization working to end the Iraq War and Occupation. He is also the President of Common Sense for Drug Policy, a founding member of the Treatment Not Incarceration Coalition in Maryland; was Ralph Nader's Press Secretary in 2004, and a founding member of the Populist Party in Maryland.

"Hillary Clinton is a threat to world peace as a self-styled leader of the National Security Democrats who talks about bombing Iran, and demonstrates blind one-sided support for the hawkish Israel government that bombs and terrorizes civilians. She is deep into the pockets of the wealthy, corporate special interests that dominate the federal government while working Americans get poorer and further into debt. New York needs to send a message to the Democratic Party and the front runner for the 2008 presidential election -- we don't need to have Republican neo-con corporatists replaced with Democratic neo-con corporatists.

I hope New Yorkers resoundingly reject Clinton's militarism and corporatism, and vote for Howie Hawkins, an anti-war movement leader, a former Marine who has been organizing opposition to war since Vietnam. Howie, the Green Party candidate, favors a diplomatic approach to Iran, withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, and the US acting as an even-handed neutral broker to resolve the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, which underlies so much of the violence in the Middle East. He recognizes the abusive power of the wealthy special interests who have created a dangerous alliance between corporations and government – an alliance that puts the basic necessities of the American people behind the desires of the wealthiest Americans.

We need Senators who will challenge the militarist, corporatist "bipartisan consensus" on government for the wealthiest and the special interests. We need a senator who will strive for the more perfect union embodied in the ideal of a government that is truly of, by and for the people. Howie Hawkins will be such a Senator."

Fred Nagel

Former Veteran, member of Veterans for Peace
Duchess County, NY