Transcripts For CSPAN Campaign 2020 Green Party Holds 2020 N

Liz angela walker, our Vice President ial nominee. Angela this is absolutely massive. Greetings to everybody, i am coming to you from the land that originally belonged to the pd nation in south carolina. This is a massive, massive, massive thing that just happened. I want to thank all of you delegates who stood with howie and i and cast your votes for us. Its not a small thing. We thank you, and i personally thank you for your trust and he will probably reiterate that. And i want you to know that i support with my whole soul. I also want to say thank you to the socialist party of the usa for helping them make the Red Green Alliance that we had so many years ago. It is pretty amazing. I want to think our Brilliant Campaign manager. I want to think my wonderful assistant ashley, and a huge, huge thank you, huge big ups to all of our folks on our campaign team. Yall are amazing, yall are hustlers, thank yall for making for doing all of this and what you have done so that this campaign has gotten to this point. I want to think all of you who have showed up for us in various different ways, whether it was supporting with money, whether it was kind words and good thoughts. Thank you to the volunteers that have made this campaign the topic of conversation in places where was not happening. I want to think sherry who have stood where i am standing right now. I think you both for reaching out and sharing your wisdom and your support with me. I want to thank all of you with whom i have showed this struggle since they occupy days, since the wisconsin uprising days, since the milwaukee uprising days in 2016. For all of you who are in the streets all around the country. I want to say think you to the Guardian Angel of all of us who are fighting the good fight. And to my late friend and lifelong specialists. Thank you to my running mate Howie Hawkins, who has very frequently become one of my favorite humans. And i have to say thank you to my ancestors, whose names i know, whose names i dont know. I want to thank my cousins and my family for being the place that i began to learn everything that i needed to know for this fight. My hope is that my grandchildren will know a world where the struggles that we are currently working against are no longer an issue. My son, i am literally fighting for people who are not risking death. Can i have that . That is a direct quote on a Facebook Post that i shared about what we are going to need to do about addressing Public Education this year. Not only the absurdity of asking educational education is an students to be sacrificial victims, it reminded me how much this camp lanes implications really are. Family, this country needs us. It needs us now, and i know you have been hearing this all day today, and i am adding my voice to one more in the number. This country needs us. That is the thing that i want to rededicate us today, as a party, that our people need us. In 2016i walked away from politics to reconstruct myself. All of you will know what im talking about when i am talking about saddle work. Sitting with the parts of you that are not that shiny and photo op parts. The parts that need healing that are a part of your hold. In 2020, having received a call from Howie Hawkins about seeing his president ial running mate, i have to look at my ancestors and say, really. I have been prepared for this moment. After weeks of being in a rage about the governments criminal mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic, the universe gave me a good healthy shove. Do something. Show up. Who are you if you refuse . I could not imagine being in a platform and saying no because i did not want to leave the comfort of my isolated life. All of you are here for a reason. You are here because you know health care is a human right. You know that and in u. S. Imperialism is the way to heal this country and the harm it has inflicted on black and brown countries around the world. We are here because you know this glorious planet we share and that the capitalist exploitation of her resources is killing us. You are here because you know that the unsustainable and inequality driven ways this country is run has to and. Bubbles people and the earth deserve more and vastly better than what we are being herded towards. People may not have been ready for our message in 2012. They may not have been ready in 2016, but now, and a time when so much has been stripped away by the coronavirus pandemic, by the exposure of continued stay violence against black, indigenous and brown people, it has nowhere to hide. This country is being forced to confront its shadow, and what has been hiding in the shadows. Waiting to be seen, waiting to be acknowledge and healed. In this time of impossible things, the green party is ready for the people and the people are ready for the green party. They are ready for our message of solidarity, justice, true democracy, Economic Opportunity for all, and respect for the worldly, all rooted in love. They are ready for the socialist Green New Deal. They are ready to know that we came to take the white house. We came to take the white house. We are not running away from the point. Because its that massive. Because its that urgent. We are here to move the ineffective parties aside because its time for the people to be able to breathe. We are not asking for the right of housing and medicare for all, we are demanding these things. We are not afraid to cause a duopoly on incompetence and move it aside. This is our time. No one else is bringing the system of changes that we are proposing. We will not be pacified with were formative reform. The system must be overhauled and the green party is the party to do that. We will have to be intentional. It must be a welcoming and flourishing space so our families with disabilities, lgbtqi a and nonbinary family, our workingclass family black, indigenous and brown families. We dont need to or are going to agree on every point, but how do we strengthen our party and the communities who need us so much . How do we create a world with open borders and the u. S. Being the world peacekeeper instead of Law Enforcement . That all begins with us and the way that we imagine forward. Its a very difficult time, and it inquires our imagination up to november and beyond. The green party has never been more needed than now. If you do not believe that, i hope that you take it to heart. Im ready to move forward in solidarity. I am proud to be moving forward with you. Thank you. Liz hey, angela. Thank you so much. We are really excited to have you. The last thing you are going to hear from me as your administrator is a very brief introduction to president ial nominee. Howie hawkins is someone i have known in the green party, but we have been working together in the green party for almost 20 years. I was how his running mate in 2010, the first time he ran for governor and got ballot status back in new york. We have done many events, many campaigns, many initiatives together, so i am. Pleased to announce the green partys 2020 president ial nominee, the original Green New Dealer Howie Hawkins. Howie i will assume you can hear me. I am honored and humbled by the support given by the delegates and i accept your nomination. And you just heard from angela. You can see why i asked her to be my running mate. She is a great messenger for the green party. I have known her since 2014. We can work well together as a team. She is a truck driver. I want to second that thinks angela gave to so many people in the green party, and our campaign that brought us to this point. I want to ask the former managing editor, he was a friend of mine, and more than any other person, convinced me that i should take up this campaign. So we are drawing on his linux long experience of wisdom. We try to think how he would deal with problems we face. And now i want to nominate you, the delegates of the green party, the members of the green party, the people out there thinking about supporting the green party, to be active participants in this campaign. Everybody has to play a part. As we have been saying, our country needs the green party now because we are living in a failed state. It is failing us on these life or death issues. The covid pandemic, the systemic racism. That means were not yet a multicultural democracy. Economic inequality is a lifeanddeath issue for people on the bottom of the income spectrum. The Climate Emergency and the arms race. Our country needs the green party and the legislators, and the executive brands, and the local state to provide Real Solutions. Because these two coins of the corporate state are foiling us, the pandemic has expose that for everybody to see. We have a quarter of the worlds covid deaths. We have a quarter of a Million People that have died from this pandemic by the election at the rate we are going. The President Donald Trump have given up. Covid won, trump is a loser. We have seen it. Now he is moving around like typhoid mary having rallies without masks and social distancing, making his own staff and supporters sick. That is sick. Fortunately he is collapsing in the polls, he is toast, he is a loser and good riddance. I keep asking, where the hell is joe biden . When you think of joe biden, what policy is he the champion of . He could be down there pounding away to that press corps that we need a Quarantine Program to suppress Community Spread of this killer virus. He could pound away a simple message, instead, where is he . He could be calling for universal mailin ballot options for the election this fall so everybody can vote. These are not controversial ideological issues. We have plenty of differences with biden and the democrats, but these are Common Sense Solutions to these problems. He talks about leadership, but where the hell is he . The whole Political Leadership of both parties are demanding an emergency responsibility for the pandemic and it makes a more complicit in the hundreds of thousands of deaths that are unnecessary, that we are experiencing. We cannot open the economy and the school until we suppress the virus. We cannot do it safely. But where is the twoparty corporate state . That is why the green party needs to step up. In recent weeks we have been on the streets protesting the pandemic we have had in this country for centuries of racism. We are calling for community patrol. Thats how the police get away with murder and crime. We need to fire the Police Chiefs to get the racist out to oversee the policies. And investigate and discipline officers for misconduct, independent of internal affairs inside the police department. We need to reimagine public safety. The homeless dont need a vagrancy charge from a cop, they need a home. They need Mental Health experts. And we have to end this war on drugs, which has led to mass incarceration. We got a quarter of the worlds prisoners. Its the largest prison system in the history of the world. So we have to treat drug abuse as a health problem. We should legalize marijuana. Instead of going to prison for possessing hard drugs, you go, you get a ticket, you have to appear in a hearing with a doctor, a lawyer and a social worker. They teach you how to deal with your addiction. Whatever it is, they are there to help. The strong people in prison building the biggest prison industrial in the world, which joe biden has a lot to do. We should be treating it as a health problem, not a criminal problem and going back to the police, the demand is defund the police. We need the resource for the departments and this is what i was talking about. But theres not enough money in the police departments. We have to defund the military so we have the resources we need to invest in the jobs, housing, schools, health cares that are needed in black, indigenous and people of color communities that have been discriminated against and exploited for generations right up to the present day. We need reparations for african americans. Reparation goes back to slavery, but the exploitation and theft of black property continues. We need a reparations plan and we support the bill for reparations in congress that includes to close the racial wealth gap so that american households have more resources to lead a better life. Black land bases in the south than black economic cultural institutions. And while we are talking about preparing families, we need to honor the trees with indigenous nations and with mexican americans under the treaty of guadalupe hildago. The United States is obligated to provide under this and they should provide, which they have not. Then we have the barter issues that affects the economic inequality. Workingclass inspectors that been declining in recent years. The Life Expectancy gap, 21 years. This is a moral shame on this which is so rich. We are talking about enacting an economic bill of rights to end poverty and economic despair. These rights should include the rights to a minimum wage job and Affordable Housing, medicare for all, lifelong tuition, free Public Education, and a secure retirement. We will an enact the rights to a limited jobs to a wpa style jobs program with government providing jobs and Public Services and public works for anyone willing to work who cant find a living wage job in the private sector. And we will create living wages in the private sector by raising the minimum wage to 20 an hour and indexing into inflation and productivity, so workers get the full value to contribute to the economy. We will an act the right to a guarantee income above poverty. We will build it into the progressive federal income act. If your income is below the poverty line, the government will send you checks to bring you up and out of poverty. That is what dr. King was demanding during the Poor Peoples Campaign of 1968. He said, im now convinced that poverty should be abolished for guaranteed income. The problem for poor people, most of whom work hard is that they dont have enough money, so we build it in the tax center so nobody is below the poverty line. We will have Affordable Housing by building 25 Million Units of quality Affordable Housing in the next decade so everyone has access to an affordable home. What we have the rights for Quality Health care for all by enacting medicare for all National Health insurance to pay for all medically necessary services. Over the next decade we will build that out into a community controlled National Health service. The doctors and other Health Care Workers are salaried Public Employees for maximizing services and creating a cost control problem for patients to provide the proper care. It will be under democratic control that is federated in the state and national level. We will provide tuition free Public Education, childcare and prek to full secondary college, trade schools and continuing education. And provide secured retirement for all by doubling Social Security benefits. So no senior is living below the poverty line. Another life and death issue is the Climate Emergency. Its not just about more heat waves and stronger storms, we are talking about mass extinctions. A collapse of agriculture. The climate scientists are now estimating if we go on as business as usual, the capacity to feed the population we have now, we can only feed 10 of what we have now by the end of the century. Climate change is an existential crisis. The Green New Deal, we have been campaigning for that since 2010. What did they do, they diluted it. They provide a solution for a Green New Deal from representative ocasiocortez dropped our ban on a new fossil fuel infrastructure. Joe biden this week basically committed to fracking the hell out of the country. If we dont start practicing a new fossil fuel infrastructure, we will be worse off and that planet will be cooked. We want to help fund the Green New Deal. What happens when you give politicians a couple of decades . They go away. And that climate Scientists Say we have to do it if we will avoid the worst consequence. Anybody that thinks they will get a Green New Deal from the democrats is deluded. Now the House Democrats came out with a proposal that they will reduce Carbon Emissions 37 by 2030. Climate changes proposed at 35 . They have to be approved by states like saudi arabia and russia and the United States. But the democrats are not even attempting to reach that conservative goal. The democrats act as if its a hoax. The green party is here to advance the Green New Deal. We one zero to negative Greenhouse Gas initiatives and want 100 clean energy by 2030. We have a Green New Deal on our campaigns website, which you can study. Improvise your 27. 5 trillion investment in Public Enterprise and planning, particularly in transportation and manufacturing sectors to get to zero omissions. What are we proposing is a Crash Program like the Vice President<\/a> ial nominee. Angela this is absolutely massive. Greetings to everybody, i am coming to you from the land that originally belonged to the pd nation in south carolina. This is a massive, massive, massive thing that just happened. I want to thank all of you delegates who stood with howie and i and cast your votes for us. Its not a small thing. We thank you, and i personally thank you for your trust and he will probably reiterate that. And i want you to know that i support with my whole soul. I also want to say thank you to the socialist party of the usa for helping them make the Red Green Alliance<\/a> that we had so many years ago. It is pretty amazing. I want to think our Brilliant Campaign<\/a> manager. I want to think my wonderful assistant ashley, and a huge, huge thank you, huge big ups to all of our folks on our campaign team. Yall are amazing, yall are hustlers, thank yall for making for doing all of this and what you have done so that this campaign has gotten to this point. I want to think all of you who have showed up for us in various different ways, whether it was supporting with money, whether it was kind words and good thoughts. Thank you to the volunteers that have made this campaign the topic of conversation in places where was not happening. I want to think sherry who have stood where i am standing right now. I think you both for reaching out and sharing your wisdom and your support with me. I want to thank all of you with whom i have showed this struggle since they occupy days, since the wisconsin uprising days, since the milwaukee uprising days in 2016. For all of you who are in the streets all around the country. I want to say think you to the Guardian Angel<\/a> of all of us who are fighting the good fight. And to my late friend and lifelong specialists. Thank you to my running mate Howie Hawkins<\/a>, who has very frequently become one of my favorite humans. And i have to say thank you to my ancestors, whose names i know, whose names i dont know. I want to thank my cousins and my family for being the place that i began to learn everything that i needed to know for this fight. My hope is that my grandchildren will know a world where the struggles that we are currently working against are no longer an issue. My son, i am literally fighting for people who are not risking death. Can i have that . That is a direct quote on a Facebook Post<\/a> that i shared about what we are going to need to do about addressing Public Education<\/a> this year. Not only the absurdity of asking educational education is an students to be sacrificial victims, it reminded me how much this camp lanes implications really are. Family, this country needs us. It needs us now, and i know you have been hearing this all day today, and i am adding my voice to one more in the number. This country needs us. That is the thing that i want to rededicate us today, as a party, that our people need us. In 2016i walked away from politics to reconstruct myself. All of you will know what im talking about when i am talking about saddle work. Sitting with the parts of you that are not that shiny and photo op parts. The parts that need healing that are a part of your hold. In 2020, having received a call from Howie Hawkins<\/a> about seeing his president ial running mate, i have to look at my ancestors and say, really. I have been prepared for this moment. After weeks of being in a rage about the governments criminal mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic, the universe gave me a good healthy shove. Do something. Show up. Who are you if you refuse . I could not imagine being in a platform and saying no because i did not want to leave the comfort of my isolated life. All of you are here for a reason. You are here because you know health care is a human right. You know that and in u. S. Imperialism is the way to heal this country and the harm it has inflicted on black and brown countries around the world. We are here because you know this glorious planet we share and that the capitalist exploitation of her resources is killing us. You are here because you know that the unsustainable and inequality driven ways this country is run has to and. Bubbles people and the earth deserve more and vastly better than what we are being herded towards. People may not have been ready for our message in 2012. They may not have been ready in 2016, but now, and a time when so much has been stripped away by the coronavirus pandemic, by the exposure of continued stay violence against black, indigenous and brown people, it has nowhere to hide. This country is being forced to confront its shadow, and what has been hiding in the shadows. Waiting to be seen, waiting to be acknowledge and healed. In this time of impossible things, the green party is ready for the people and the people are ready for the green party. They are ready for our message of solidarity, justice, true democracy, Economic Opportunity<\/a> for all, and respect for the worldly, all rooted in love. They are ready for the socialist Green New Deal<\/a>. They are ready to know that we came to take the white house. We came to take the white house. We are not running away from the point. Because its that massive. Because its that urgent. We are here to move the ineffective parties aside because its time for the people to be able to breathe. We are not asking for the right of housing and medicare for all, we are demanding these things. We are not afraid to cause a duopoly on incompetence and move it aside. This is our time. No one else is bringing the system of changes that we are proposing. We will not be pacified with were formative reform. The system must be overhauled and the green party is the party to do that. We will have to be intentional. It must be a welcoming and flourishing space so our families with disabilities, lgbtqi a and nonbinary family, our workingclass family black, indigenous and brown families. We dont need to or are going to agree on every point, but how do we strengthen our party and the communities who need us so much . How do we create a world with open borders and the u. S. Being the world peacekeeper instead of Law Enforcement<\/a> . That all begins with us and the way that we imagine forward. Its a very difficult time, and it inquires our imagination up to november and beyond. The green party has never been more needed than now. If you do not believe that, i hope that you take it to heart. Im ready to move forward in solidarity. I am proud to be moving forward with you. Thank you. Liz hey, angela. Thank you so much. We are really excited to have you. The last thing you are going to hear from me as your administrator is a very brief introduction to president ial nominee. Howie hawkins is someone i have known in the green party, but we have been working together in the green party for almost 20 years. I was how his running mate in 2010, the first time he ran for governor and got ballot status back in new york. We have done many events, many campaigns, many initiatives together, so i am. Pleased to announce the green partys 2020 president ial nominee, the original Green New Deal<\/a>er Howie Hawkins<\/a>. Howie i will assume you can hear me. I am honored and humbled by the support given by the delegates and i accept your nomination. And you just heard from angela. You can see why i asked her to be my running mate. She is a great messenger for the green party. I have known her since 2014. We can work well together as a team. She is a truck driver. I want to second that thinks angela gave to so many people in the green party, and our campaign that brought us to this point. I want to ask the former managing editor, he was a friend of mine, and more than any other person, convinced me that i should take up this campaign. So we are drawing on his linux long experience of wisdom. We try to think how he would deal with problems we face. And now i want to nominate you, the delegates of the green party, the members of the green party, the people out there thinking about supporting the green party, to be active participants in this campaign. Everybody has to play a part. As we have been saying, our country needs the green party now because we are living in a failed state. It is failing us on these life or death issues. The covid pandemic, the systemic racism. That means were not yet a multicultural democracy. Economic inequality is a lifeanddeath issue for people on the bottom of the income spectrum. The Climate Emergency<\/a> and the arms race. Our country needs the green party and the legislators, and the executive brands, and the local state to provide Real Solutions<\/a>. Because these two coins of the corporate state are foiling us, the pandemic has expose that for everybody to see. We have a quarter of the worlds covid deaths. We have a quarter of a Million People<\/a> that have died from this pandemic by the election at the rate we are going. The President Donald Trump<\/a> have given up. Covid won, trump is a loser. We have seen it. Now he is moving around like typhoid mary having rallies without masks and social distancing, making his own staff and supporters sick. That is sick. Fortunately he is collapsing in the polls, he is toast, he is a loser and good riddance. I keep asking, where the hell is joe biden . When you think of joe biden, what policy is he the champion of . He could be down there pounding away to that press corps that we need a Quarantine Program<\/a> to suppress Community Spread<\/a> of this killer virus. He could pound away a simple message, instead, where is he . He could be calling for universal mailin ballot options for the election this fall so everybody can vote. These are not controversial ideological issues. We have plenty of differences with biden and the democrats, but these are Common Sense Solutions<\/a> to these problems. He talks about leadership, but where the hell is he . The whole Political Leadership<\/a> of both parties are demanding an emergency responsibility for the pandemic and it makes a more complicit in the hundreds of thousands of deaths that are unnecessary, that we are experiencing. We cannot open the economy and the school until we suppress the virus. We cannot do it safely. But where is the twoparty corporate state . That is why the green party needs to step up. In recent weeks we have been on the streets protesting the pandemic we have had in this country for centuries of racism. We are calling for community patrol. Thats how the police get away with murder and crime. We need to fire the Police Chiefs<\/a> to get the racist out to oversee the policies. And investigate and discipline officers for misconduct, independent of internal affairs inside the police department. We need to reimagine public safety. The homeless dont need a vagrancy charge from a cop, they need a home. They need Mental Health<\/a> experts. And we have to end this war on drugs, which has led to mass incarceration. We got a quarter of the worlds prisoners. Its the largest prison system in the history of the world. So we have to treat drug abuse as a health problem. We should legalize marijuana. Instead of going to prison for possessing hard drugs, you go, you get a ticket, you have to appear in a hearing with a doctor, a lawyer and a social worker. They teach you how to deal with your addiction. Whatever it is, they are there to help. The strong people in prison building the biggest prison industrial in the world, which joe biden has a lot to do. We should be treating it as a health problem, not a criminal problem and going back to the police, the demand is defund the police. We need the resource for the departments and this is what i was talking about. But theres not enough money in the police departments. We have to defund the military so we have the resources we need to invest in the jobs, housing, schools, health cares that are needed in black, indigenous and people of color communities that have been discriminated against and exploited for generations right up to the present day. We need reparations for african americans. Reparation goes back to slavery, but the exploitation and theft of black property continues. We need a reparations plan and we support the bill for reparations in congress that includes to close the racial wealth gap so that american households have more resources to lead a better life. Black land bases in the south than black economic cultural institutions. And while we are talking about preparing families, we need to honor the trees with indigenous nations and with mexican americans under the treaty of guadalupe hildago. The United States<\/a> is obligated to provide under this and they should provide, which they have not. Then we have the barter issues that affects the economic inequality. Workingclass inspectors that been declining in recent years. The Life Expectancy<\/a> gap, 21 years. This is a moral shame on this which is so rich. We are talking about enacting an economic bill of rights to end poverty and economic despair. These rights should include the rights to a minimum wage job and Affordable Housing<\/a>, medicare for all, lifelong tuition, free Public Education<\/a>, and a secure retirement. We will an enact the rights to a limited jobs to a wpa style jobs program with government providing jobs and Public Services<\/a> and public works for anyone willing to work who cant find a living wage job in the private sector. And we will create living wages in the private sector by raising the minimum wage to 20 an hour and indexing into inflation and productivity, so workers get the full value to contribute to the economy. We will an act the right to a guarantee income above poverty. We will build it into the progressive federal income act. If your income is below the poverty line, the government will send you checks to bring you up and out of poverty. That is what dr. King was demanding during the Poor Peoples Campaign<\/a> of 1968. He said, im now convinced that poverty should be abolished for guaranteed income. The problem for poor people, most of whom work hard is that they dont have enough money, so we build it in the tax center so nobody is below the poverty line. We will have Affordable Housing<\/a> by building 25 Million Units<\/a> of quality Affordable Housing<\/a> in the next decade so everyone has access to an affordable home. What we have the rights for Quality Health<\/a> care for all by enacting medicare for all National Health<\/a> insurance to pay for all medically necessary services. Over the next decade we will build that out into a community controlled National Health<\/a> service. The doctors and other Health Care Workers<\/a> are salaried Public Employees<\/a> for maximizing services and creating a cost control problem for patients to provide the proper care. It will be under democratic control that is federated in the state and national level. We will provide tuition free Public Education<\/a>, childcare and prek to full secondary college, trade schools and continuing education. And provide secured retirement for all by doubling Social Security<\/a> benefits. So no senior is living below the poverty line. Another life and death issue is the Climate Emergency<\/a>. Its not just about more heat waves and stronger storms, we are talking about mass extinctions. A collapse of agriculture. The climate scientists are now estimating if we go on as business as usual, the capacity to feed the population we have now, we can only feed 10 of what we have now by the end of the century. Climate change is an existential crisis. The Green New Deal<\/a>, we have been campaigning for that since 2010. What did they do, they diluted it. They provide a solution for a Green New Deal<\/a> from representative ocasiocortez dropped our ban on a new fossil fuel infrastructure. Joe biden this week basically committed to fracking the hell out of the country. If we dont start practicing a new fossil fuel infrastructure, we will be worse off and that planet will be cooked. We want to help fund the Green New Deal<\/a>. What happens when you give politicians a couple of decades . They go away. And that climate Scientists Say<\/a> we have to do it if we will avoid the worst consequence. Anybody that thinks they will get a Green New Deal<\/a> from the democrats is deluded. Now the House Democrats<\/a> came out with a proposal that they will reduce Carbon Emissions<\/a> 37 by 2030. Climate changes proposed at 35 . They have to be approved by states like saudi arabia and russia and the United States<\/a>. But the democrats are not even attempting to reach that conservative goal. The democrats act as if its a hoax. The green party is here to advance the Green New Deal<\/a>. We one zero to negative Greenhouse Gas<\/a> initiatives and want 100 clean energy by 2030. We have a Green New Deal<\/a> on our campaigns website, which you can study. Improvise your 27. 5 trillion investment in Public Enterprise<\/a> and planning, particularly in transportation and manufacturing sectors to get to zero omissions. What are we proposing is a Crash Program<\/a> like the United States<\/a> did in the world were to emergency. When the federal government took over the manufacturing in this country and tried to do democracy, to arm the allies against the fascist axis power. We need to do nothing less to defeat climate change. Our Green New Deal<\/a> creates 48 million new jobs. And now, in this covid economic depression, we need to Green New Deal<\/a> for economic recovery and primary recovery. And then there is one more life or death issue we have got to face that none of the Major Party Candidates<\/a> have addressed. That is the new nuclear arms race. They have moved there Doomsday Clock<\/a> closer. U. S. , russia and other Nuclear Powers<\/a> are modernizing their forces. It is becoming hypersonic. Sixtime faster than they were. We want neutral and complete disarmament. With the 122 nations that this week, three years ago agreed to the treaty of the weapons. The International Campaign<\/a> dropped the Nobel Peace Prize<\/a> for that. Hardly anybody in this country knows that because both parties dont want to talk about it. It should be a Campaign Issue<\/a> and we will make it one. So, these are the issues we are going to fight on. The next phase of our campaign is about access. 50 states, the district of columbia and the advisory votes in guam. We want to thank the contributors. All contributions are up to two and 50 for individuals will be matched by uncle sam going forward, as well as those who have already contributed until august 27. We will soon have another 200,000. The more people contribute, the more we will have. We are on the ballot, we will have signatures in hand. We have appealed for release in many states from your government. Some gave us relief, others we had to sue in court. We have had some victories, other cases are pending. We have been warned about going out wearing personal protective equipment and sanitizing and getting physical distance signatures. We will fight to be on every ballot. Ballot access in this country is harder than almost any other country in the world. You have to get a hell of a lot more signatures. Lets talk about national legislator. In this country, if you want to run as an independent for congress it takes thousands of signatures. 3500 in york. 15,000 in illinois. 20,000 in georgia. You want to do that in new zealand, it takes two signatures. You want to run as an independent for the house of commons and the u. K. , it takes 10 signatures. In australia its 50, in canada its 100, germany is 200. That is about as high as it goes. Until you get to the United States<\/a>. Party suppression is part of Voter Suppression<\/a>. We are fighting republican Voter Suppression<\/a> in the form of voter ids and they are not providing enough polling places, specifically in communities of colors. We are also fighting democratic Voter Suppression<\/a> in the form of party suppression. The new york democrats, under the cover of covid pandemic just passed a lot that tripled the votes and signatures to get on the ballot, and double the frequency we have to do that. So the democrats are suppressing the vote here. Democrats seek to plan to kill third parties. One reason to run for president is to secure ballot lines. In about 40 other states, the boats we get determine whether the green party has a ballot right for the next election cycle. In most states its 1 3 . Thats very achievable for us. When we win those, that will enable us to run much more readily local candidates. We want to be in a thousands as we go in to 2020. The local districts and state legislators in congress, that is how the green partys build up into a major party in american politics. As difficult as it is, Ballot Access<\/a> is largely under our control. We know all we have to do. But getting our story covered in the Corporate Media<\/a> is not under our control. Our message to the Corporate Media<\/a> is, do your job as journalists. Cover the issues not just a horse race. The green party is worth covering on these life or death issues. Npr and msnbc and cnn and the new york times, you have been acting like states media denied for the twoparty Corporate Media<\/a> state. Do your job, cover your issues, let the green party into the debate. Dont exclude us before the election happens. Let the voters make up their own minds. I am ready to debate biden and trump, but im not sure they are ready to debate me. In serious news organizations out there, news organizations include all the candidates and there arent enough ballots to win the election college. That would be a fourway debate. Thats what the American People<\/a> deserve. They deserve to hear all their options. Or will the Mainstream Media<\/a> continue to about down to the president ial debates. Sounds like a government agency. Its a private corporation controlled by two major parties to keep the competition out. I hope civic organizations and news organizations will take back the debates for the American People<\/a> and not let the two parties exclude competitions. The question we always get asked is why are you spoiling the , election for joe biden . Our answer is, no, joe biden and the democrats have spoiled the election. The green party has given them a nonpartisan solution. Since ralph nader ran into thousand. Abolish the Electoral College<\/a> and have a ranked Choice National<\/a> vote. The last two republicans were losers for the popular vote when they were first elected. It was the Electoral College<\/a> that put them in office. You would think the democrats would get rid of it. Instead, they whine about it and fight to keep us off the ballot and suppress the vote. A lot of people said jill stein spoiled the election. This showed 61 of our supporters with their home if she was nonabout in 2016. If you use that ratio in any states like michigan, look at the margin of differences. But democrats are looking for excuses, not looking for solutions, which we have. Joe biden is welcome to convince people that he really believes it. The last thing i want to say, people are saying we have to get trump out of there, maybe i need to settle for biden. If you were a Bernie Sanders<\/a> supporter you were for medicare for all and tuition free public college. If you vote for joe biden, nobody knows he stands for that. You will get lost in the sauce because you voted for joe biden. If you want to make yourself accountable, vote for the green party. Everybody knows what we stand for. Your vote will count and it will be a message and a voice heard. The more votes we got the more we will have after the election in advancing our program. Our biggest votes are not refugees from the sanders campaign, many of them will come, but the Biggest Group<\/a> did not vote in 2016. Disproportionately workingclass people of color and young people. They are not apathetic, they are alienated from the two parties that offer them no solutions, are never in their communities until elections and then disappear after elections. People say i am not going to get caught up in the game. Part of the game is, they want you to vote. We are giving you an opportunity to vote for something that addresses the Economic Issues<\/a> you face, the education problems you face. So, we welcome as much support as we can get. This will only work if its a grassroots movement. If you want to get involved, go to the website. Look, the corporate twoparty state has failed us. Our country needs the green party right now to advance Real Solutions<\/a> for these lifeanddeath issues of our time. Our lives depend on it. We are running out of crime on issues like climate crisis, the covid pandemic, and Real Solutions<\/a> cant wait. Thank you. We are back with gren president ial candidate Howie Hawkins<\/a> here to talk about his run for president and the history of the green party. Good morning. Guest good morning. Host you are part of the original u. S. 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