Statement of Solidarity and Support

We are socialists of multiple tendencies who support the campaign of Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones for Governor and Lieutenant Governor of New York State in 2014. Many of us are affiliated with specific socialist organizations. Others are independent. What unites us is our commitment to building democratic socialism and a society dedicated to social justice and compassion.  We believe the Hawkins/Jones ticket exemplifies these ideals.

Howie and Brian are a Teamster and a Teacher. They are union activists, democratic socialists, and enrolled members of the Green Party. Howie unloads trucks at UPS in Syracuse. He has been active in movements for peace, justice, labor, the environment, and independent politics since the late 1960s. He was the Green Party candidate for NY Governor in 2010, coming in third out of seven tickets, and winning enough votes to secure a Green ballot line statewide for the next four years. He is a member of the Socialist Party USA and Solidarity, a socialist, feminist, anti-racist organization.  

Brian taught school in Harlem and Brooklyn public schools for nine years and is now a PhD student in urban education at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is a founding member of the Movement of Rank and File Educators, the social justice caucus of the United Federation of Teachers, and is known for speaking and writing in defense of public education in diverse forums – from the pages of The New York Times to MSNBC and Democracy Now. He is a member of the International Socialist Organization

We support the following goals in common with the Hawkins/Jones Campaign:

  • Development of a political project that stresses workers' independence from the capitalist parties. 

  • Building an activist mass party -- not merely a small protest party -- of the independent left in New York State that organizes working people to educate and act for themselves between as well as during elections and builds the popular support and power to elect its candidates and win structural reforms. 

  • The development of worker democracy so that employees can determine the policies and strategies of their places of employment. 

  • A Green New Deal of full employment, living wages and universal health care through a public single payer.

  • Fully-funded public education from early childhood through college.

  • Sufficient public funding to ensure affordable housing and public transit, clean energy, and progressive taxation and revenue-sharing to fund the Green New Deal.

  • Protection of the environment and natural world from capitalist exploitation and the creation of a sustainable economy to address global climate change.

  • The development of socialist economic institutions in key sectors: health care, banking, energy utilities, broadband/telecom utilities, and economic development through worker co-ops instead of corporate welfare.

  • Extension of minimum wage laws, the eight hour day, and other employee protections to farmworkers and domestic employees who are presently working under antiquated and brutal conditions.

  • Support for the full social, economic, and legal equality of women and the right of women to control their own reproductive destinies.

  • The end of mass incarceration and sending juveniles into the adult criminal justice system.

  • Public funding to assist LGBT youth who are struggling with homelessness and unemployment.

  • Maintaining the Green ballot line statewide for the next four years by receiving over 50,000 votes for the Green gubernatorial ticket in 2014 and encouraging socialists in subsequent elections to run as independent left fusion candidates on both the Green line and an independent socialist line that can be created by independent nominating petition.

You can add your name to the list of endorsers of Socialists for Hawkins and Jones by signing below or by sending your name, contact information, and affiliation (if any) to Dkelly5@nycap.rr.com or Socialists for Hawkins and Jones, 212 Kent St, Albany, NY 12206-1809.

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The Teacher's Voice

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  • endorsed 2014-08-14 09:43:13 -0400
    The SPUSA has not endorsed as an organization, but we may as individuals, and I am doing so. I first found out about Howie Hawkins from the 2010 debates, and was enamored with his platform. His words have had a big influence on my politics, and I am happy to be a part of his campaign.
  • endorsed 2014-08-14 09:43:11 -0400
    The SPUSA has not endorsed as an organization, but we may as individuals, and I am doing so. I first found out about Howie Hawkins from the 2010 debates, and was enamored with his platform. His words have had a big influence on my politics, and I am happy to be a part of his campaign.
  • endorsed 2014-07-01 15:19:36 -0400
    I am a Green who is working to bring industrial hemp farming and production to NYS. Howie is the best candidate for Governor because he thinks the workers need a break from the capitalist fools who are in charge for who know why.
  • endorsed 2014-06-29 23:57:27 -0400
    As a rank and file member of SPUSA/SPNY and Green Party I fully support your run for governor of NY.


    Jeff Peress
  • posted about this on Facebook 2014-06-20 17:54:04 -0400
    (As a self avowed eco-socialist) I'm endorsing Howie Hawkins for NY. Please join me!
  • endorsed 2014-06-20 17:53:12 -0400
    Equitable Resource Distribution InPlaceOf Market and Supplies Competition. Manufactured Scarcity Manufactures WantsAndNeeds Manufactures Violence, Poverty, and Animosity.
  • endorsed 2014-06-15 23:39:42 -0400
    Howie and his team .. Will Fight for the LGBTQ communities….



    Go Howie !
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  • posted about this on Facebook 2014-06-15 23:38:50 -0400
    I'm endorsing Howie Hawkins for NY. Please join me!
  • endorsed 2014-06-14 19:39:26 -0400
    Howie Hawkins is the Eugene Debs of XXI Century. As Eugene Debs, Howie has been a labour activist his entire life fighting for union rights for workers not for the burocracy that play lesser evil cards endorsing and financing Democrats. Cuomo is not only a Rockefeller Republican in the blue line he is even to the right of Rockefeller on fiscal issues. For radicals, socialist and progressives from around the world people like Howie and Brian are inspirations in the fight against a global corporate capitalist domination. I believe that no only the left is gonna support Howie but the working class who is tired of the two party duopoly and their destructive platforms for the workers and the ecology. Howie is proposing a common sense plan and has commited his life to fight for social justice and democracy. A vote for Green Party is a vote for the future.
  • endorsed 2014-06-12 22:47:38 -0400
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  • endorsed 2014-06-01 21:27:41 -0400
    The Working Families Party just shot itself not only in the foot but in the head. Vote Hawkins/Jones!
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  • endorsed via 2014-06-01 17:02:59 -0400
    The Green Party and its candidates such as Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones offer a radical politics and, I believe, outline a uniquely ecological democratic socialism. As a socialist Green myself, I fully support Hawkins and Jones and encourage additional socialist-Green cooperation.
  • endorsed 2014-05-30 19:16:06 -0400
  • posted about this on Facebook 2014-05-30 10:12:00 -0400
    I'm endorsing Howie Hawkins for NY. Please join me!
  • endorsed 2014-05-30 10:11:44 -0400
  • The Teacher's Voice endorsed 2014-05-29 22:30:41 -0400
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