1. Display one of these Hawkins banners on your blog

2. Poll visibility on election day
Statistics show that visibility on election day raises the vote total by more than 10%!

Go to a busy intersection, or to the polling booth on election day (as long as you are 100 ft. away from booths) with some friends or local greens and hold a Hawkins banner or sign while distributing/posting Hawkins posters or literature
http://hawkinsfornewyork.wordpress.com/2006/11/05/active-campaign-coordinators/

3. E-mail or call NPR political editor Ken Rudin at politicaljunkie@npr.org and ask him why Howie Hawkins isn’t included in NPR’s “Election Map 2006″ http://www.npr.org/news/specials/election2006/map/ | (202) 513-2000

4. Write a blog post criticizing Hillary Clinton (gets more internet views and name recognition) while supporting Howie

or send a letter of support to local New York newspapers
http://www.usnpl.com/nynews.html

5. Show a Youtube video of Howie to a friend, or show them Howie’s website at HawkinsforSenate.net
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=howie+hawkins&search=Search

6. Watch the Daily Show or Colbert Report tonight with some friends and keep a look out for Howie’s campaign ad! Then tell them what you know about Howie!

7. Ask a friend/relative/associate who they are voting for, talk about the issues and then tell them about Howie Hawkins

8. REMIND PEOPLE TO VOTE!

9. If you have more ways to help, share it with us by leaving a comment below!

Posted by Michael: “Tabacco” is an independent blogger who interviewed Howie yesterday. It’s not clear to me how much of the interview he posted was actually all in Howie’s words, but its a good interview nonetheless.

For example, I’ve never heard Howie say the troops should come home “ASAP”, which doesn’t necessarily mean “troops home now!” as we’ve learned from Clinton who sounded like she wants troops home now when she said “we must stabilize Iraq in order to bring our troops home” _____________________________________________________________________

Tabacco’s Telephone Interview with Howie Hawkins
5:05pm today, November 4, 2006, I just received an automated call from “Friends of Hillary” 320-230-0961 (Universal Power) “reminding” me to vote for Hillary on Tuesday.

I am currently waiting for a phone call from Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate opposing Hillary on November 7th.

At 5:20pm today, Howie Hawkins telephoned me. At 6:35pm we finished the interview. It was less interview and more “college dorm-like session”. OK, so Larry King has nothing to fear from Tabacco; I will never get his job.

Howie Hawkins has an encyclopedic knowledge of history, politics & the history of politics. He’s a moral man. How many of those can you find in the US Senate? To say I like this guy goes without saying; to say I trust this man is the important revelation. If you could talk to him, as I did for over an hour, you’d be impressed too.

But more than just being impressed, I actually am more hopeful after talking with Howie and his young associate, Michael Kwan who set up the phone interview, than I was when I awoke this morning. We’re going to drive the rich, corporate-sponsored politicos out of Washington; we’re going to drive them out of State Houses across the 50; we’re going to replace them with Howie Hawkins’s and Michael Kwans. We’re going to take back America. It won’t happen on November 7th; but little-by-little, one election at a time, with public outrage, public groups forming into Green Parties everywhere, Public Financing of elections & giving the people what the Mainstream Media denies us: information. As I say at the end of each Post, “Knowledge Is Power!”

HOWIE HAWKINS, the veteran activist and Green Party leader from New York, is running for the U.S. Senate as an alternative to pro-war Democrat Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Opinion polls show that among independent voters, Hawkins has nearly as much support as Clinton’s Republican opponent John Spencer. But the political and media establishments are shutting out the Hawkins campaign. On October 22, Hawkins and his supporters will gather outside the WABC Studios in Manhattan to protest Hawkins’ exclusion from that morning’s Senate candidates’ “debate.”
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=11227

*****************************INTERVIEW*********************************

Have you been allowed to do a face-to-face debate with Hillary Clinton anywhere? “No! I met her, quite by accident, in Rochester; she hosted an energy conference in June. As I passed her in a doorway, I identified myself as her Green Party opponent. She replied, ‘Oh, that’s OK’.”

She worked for the Rose law firm and did legal legal work for Tyson Foods & Wal-mart.

Did you debate John Tassini, Hillary’s Democratic Primary opponent?
“We served on a panel together. We attended a couple of Anti-War demonstrations together, one outside the Democratic State convention in Buffalo, and another at West Point when the President attended.”

To view a six-minute on-the-street interview of Howie Hawkins, go to

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-tbVDd217E

Democrats & Republicans have united to “freeze out” 3rd Party candidates, whenever possible, from elections & TV debates; is there a way to prevent this? “Yes, it should be federal FCC policy that the media must sponsor candidate debates, and that all candidates must be allowed to participate.

Democrats, as well as Republicans, voted for the Patriot Act.

I was elbowed out by the League Of Women Voters. They are caught in a contradiction; Voter base vs. Funding base.”

View on Outsourcing: (Howie is an idealist, who believes that the employees should be granted the right to own the businesses before employers are allowed to outsource employee jobs abroad. I know Bush would love that idea.

What about Lobbying Reform or Extinction? “There should be a 5-year moratorium on the revolving door between Congress and corporate lobbyist. There’s a difference between corporate lobbies and those of social organizations”. On this one I switched to Interviewee and expounded on my own solutions. Regular Readers know how opinionated Tabacco is!

Public Financing of Elections has succeeded in Arizona, Maine. Proposition 89 is on ballot Tuesday in California. Would you support Public Financing of Elections in New York? Yes! & Federally also. In addition, I support free advertising for all qualified candidates, not just Republican & Democratic candidates.

If you were president Nov. 8th, 2006, how would you handle Iraq? When would troops come home? “ASAP. I would consult the Generals first, but the troops would come home.”

What would you do about Israeli nukes: “There needs to be a nuclear-free Middle East. We should apply pressure on Iran, Israel and all the Middle East countries to abandon nuclear arms”..

What about unexploded cluster bombs? “I’m reminded of the land-mines the Israelis left in Southern Lebanon during their occupation in the 90s. The Israelis never even notified Lebanon about the problem.” – Howie opposes the use of civilian-intensive weapons on principle. I don’t think Hillary has any such principles.

What is your current profession? Teamster in Syracuse.

Did you serve in the military? Yes; the Marines.

Did you play sports? In football, I was a tailback, in basketball, a point guard, and in baseball, my hero was Willie Mays. So I played centerfield like my hero. I was the left-handed Willie Mays (laughing).

Where did you attend college? Dartmouth.

You sound very young; how old are you? I will be 54 on December 8th.

You are obviously an Idealist! If you are elected Tuesday, will you
caucus with Democrats or Republicans? Neither! I would insist on sitting down with leadership & picking my committees; I will serve as a Green Party Senator. And if they (Republicans & Democrats) resisted, I would take them to court.

http://www.peacemajority.org/scorecard/scorecard.jsp?person_legislator_ID=4409

Every time you agree with Hillary’s vote, so do I. Every time you disagree with Hillary’s vote, so do I. In Tabacco’s opinion, Howie Hawkins would make a much better New York Senator than Hillary Rodham Clinton. You would vote the way Tabacco would vote in the US Senate. How can I argue with that!

On Tuesday, I was going to vote for Hillary; but Tabacco has honestly decided to vote instead for Howie Hawkins, Green Party line, for Senator from State of New York. I apologize to Senator Hawkins for not contacting the Green Party sooner. However, I have two years to make up for that oversight before 2008 elections.

Here is a list of subjects I never got to question Howie about because keeping my mouth shut is far from my best asset. We had such a long conversation, I didn’t have the heart to ask him these. Maybe next time! (List of subjects is on his website)
Tabacco: I consider myself both a funnel and a filter. I funnel information, not readily available on the Mass Media, which is ignored and/or suppressed. I filter out the irrelevancies and trivialities to save both the time and effort of my Readers and bring consternation to the enemies of Truth & Fairness!

In 1981’s ‘Body Heat’, Kathleen Turner said, “Knowledge is power”.

T.A.B.A.C.C.O. (Truth About Business And Congressional Crimes
Organization)

Tabacco made this comment,
THE GREEN PARTY is NOT just about the planet & environment! They take stands on all issues. The Green Party is the Party the Democrats claim to be, but are NOT!

No, Tabacco does not want anyone to vote GREEN and throw the election to a Republican. But in New York Senate race, the Republican has 2 chances: LITTLE & NONE (Even Diebold Republicans wouldn’t dare to do that one!) In such situations, a Green Vote sends a Harsh message to Democrats to move toward the Green Party positions, not the Neocon Republican ones.

Until yesterday, I was prepared to push down Hillary’s lever, hold my nose, and give that Republican-light, war mongering Senator my Vote because even Clinton is better than a Republican. I want to thank Howie Hawkins for saving me from that HYPOCRISY!

Please consider making a STATEMENT on Tuesday. VOTE G-R-E-E-N!

Thank you,

Tabacco

Contact your closest local coordinator TO VOLUNTEER FOR ELECTION GET OUT THE VOTE ACTIVITIES!

Or take action yourself with some friends and let us know what you’re doing! Let Howie’s Campaign & nearby coordinators what you plan to do!
Suggestions: Poll visibility, literature distribution from house to house or dorms, good food afterwards, banner holding at intersections/high traffic areas, phone banking Sunday and Monday

Albany
Meet up at Green House, 10 South Lake Ave, (51 451-9469

Phone banking:  Tuesday - all day (as necessary)

Tabling @ Campus Center, SUNY Albany Uptown
Tuesday 10am-3pm

Tuesday, Nov 7th: Election Day!!
Poll Watching 6-9PM
Visibility 7am-5PM (in shifts)
Palm carding
Albany Election Night Party!: Begins 10pm, after poll watchers return from vote, 10 South Lake Ave.

Binghamton
Andrew Epstein (campus), aepstei3@binghamton.edu, 914-316-4728
or Michael Lurie (city), 607-797-7162

Buffalo / Williamsville
Eric Jones, jazzyjones@hotmail.com

Canton
Ellen Connett, pesticides@flouridealert.org, (315) 379-9200

Dutchess County
Fred Nagel, info@dutchessgreens.org

Glens Falls
Matt Funiciello, mattfuniciello@earthlink.net, 518-361-6278

Geneseo
Michael Case, mac23@geneseo.edu

Ithaca
Victoria Jordan, vjordan@ithaca.edu, 607-277-3967
or Tompkins County Workers Rights Center, 115 The Commons, Ithaca, NY
607-277-3968

New York City
Manhattan Green Party Office, 139 Fulton Street, Suite 215
212-240-0501
Tues., Nov 7th, Election Day: (NYC, Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn) Poll Watching, Poll Visibility, call Jerry 646-724-9983

NYC Green election day party has been organized at Rocky Sullivan’s, 129 Lexington Ave., @ 29th Street, NYC, # 6 train to 28th Street, 9pm to the wee hours. we will have NY1 on two standard screens over the bar and a giant pull down screen in the back as well as session music and tons of food to be prepped by Ann Eagan, Anya Szykitka, Mark Borino and Rebecca White complimentary sodas, juice, water, $4 Jameson $3 Pabst/Miller Light and $4 wine

Bronx
Carl Lundgren, cllundgren@earthlink.net
718-792-1728

Brooklyn
Colby, 917.627.8000 colby@riseup.net or Lidiya Lednyak, ledjo4894@hotmail.com, 646-258-1569

Queens
Jerry Kahn, jerrykann99@yahoo.com(not preferred), 646-724-9983

New Paltz
Rachel Lagodka, lagodkar@newpaltz.edu, 845-255-3442
or Margaret Human at 845-750-0764

Oswego
Robin Miller, rmille29@twcny.rr.com, (315) 342-7933

Plattsburgh
Jeremy Schneider, rideonice@aol.com, 914-419-1982

Poughkeepsie
Reed Dunlea, redunlea@vassar.edu, 518.598.9992

Rochester
Jason Nabewaniec, j_nabs@hotmail.com , 518.219.4981 (home), 315. 729.7048 (cell)

Saratoga County
Barbara Trypalek, rsage@nycap.rr.com, 518.583.4487

St. Bonaventure
Linda Sinni, sinnila@sbu.edu, 908.227.3493

Syracuse
Syracuse Greens Office, 2617 South Salina Street, Syracuse
315.474.7055
Schedule another drop on Sunday: 315.474.7055

Election Day: All Day! Palmcarding, Visibility outside of Polls.

9pm: Election Night Party at Syracuse Greens Office

Wayne County/ Macedon
Stacy Gulick, hippie_wantab@yahoo.com, (315) 986-8547

Westchester County
Dan Nalven, dmn@nalven.org,914.941.6488

By Ray O’Hanlon
rohanlon@irishecho.com

Having been born in America, Malachy McCourt could mount a bid for the presidency if he so chose. As such, McCourt has a leg up on Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The governor of California faces a constitutional bar on a White House run because he is not a natural born American citizen. So there will never be a presidential race pitting these two larger than life men, no fight to the finish between the terminator and the tormentor of those who hack along the usual roads to high political office.

In the meantime, however, there is the matter of the New York governor’s race, an event in which McCourt is both the candidate for the Greens and, given the relative paucity of political office-seeking on his otherwise extensive resume, the greenest of candidates.

At 75, a milestone he recently passed flying more colors than just his adopted party’s, McCourt would be forgiven if he put his feet up and simply contemplated a decently long life that has drawn on the absurdities of earthly existence as a fuel for, well, proclaiming to anyone within earshot the absurdity of earthly existence.

But the truth is that Malachy McCourt takes a lot in this world seriously, very seriously.

True, you might have to look past a wall of funny lines as long as the great one in China, but it would be wrong to believe for a minute that the McCourt onslaught on Albany is entirely devoid of gravitas.

“Yes I do take this seriously,” McCourt said this week just before entering a studio for a radio interview.

“Just to mention two issues. I want to see the withdrawing of National Guard troops from Iraq and the outlawing of corporate contributions which amount to the purchasing of politicians,” he said.

As governor, McCourt would also give teachers big pay hikes. If he made them retroactive his brother Frank would owe him big time.

Serious issues aside, McCourt’s presence in the New York race has given the affair a levity that has been almost entirely absent in any race, in any state, this grimly set midterm election year. He is, for example, the only candidate in the country who has proclaimed that if he wins the first thing he will do is demand a recount.

At the beginning of this year, Malachy McCourt was a Democrat. He was, and remains, avowedly anti-war and, as a candidate for governor, has picked up the endorsement of activist mom Cindy Sheehan. He was approached by the Green Party on the basis that, given his singular profile, he would not have trouble securing the 50,000 signatures required to run for governor on that party’s ticket.

By hook and by crook he secured them and the rest, you never know, might be history. But if not history, then at least a little hysterical. Whether he likes it or not, Malachy McCourt has the cut of a politician, though perhaps one of another time and a place. He might have been the Irish-American mayor of a big city in the glorious and damnable days of Tammany.

He might have been Boss McCourt, or maybe Plunkitt.

And pigs may have flown but there was nobody around to notice.

Regardless, by simply being himself, Mayor McCourt would have made people laugh, thus at least putting himself on a higher plain than many a onetime mayor, governor or indeed president more apt to make the voters groan. It will be curious indeed to see how many New Yorkers vote for McCourt on Nov. 7. Behind the celebrity status that he brings to his adopted party, McCourt’s candidacy is being seen by some as a symptom of a wider need for noticeable third choice candidates in local and national politics.

Of course there are not a few voters who would see McCourt more in terms of being a third rail candidate. Either way, his bid, be it eccentric or essential, has to be seen against the backdrop of an increasing number of voters across the country declaring themselves to be independent of any party affiliation; a sign, if one was needed, that there is now a need in American politics for a viable third party.

If one evolved, it’s a fair bet that Malachy McCourt would not join. He is above all, a rebel, an independent, one of a kind, even in the context of a family that seems to have a trademark on all of those categories. Like his famous brother, Frank, Malachy was one of the Brooklyn McCourts who emigrated in reverse back to Limerick. Before Frank was a literary celebrity, Malachy was certainly very well known if not necessarily known very well. When he returned to America in the early 1950s he worked a variety of jobs before setting out to become an actor. This he did with a fair degree of success. Along the way he was a radio talk show host who was frequently summoned to television shows to keep the talking going.

This he did with ease and aplomb. As a writer and raconteur, however, McCourt, arguably, found his truest callings. He co-authored the play “A Couple of Blaguards” along with Frank and, like his brother, has produced a torrent of writings and musings over the last decade or so. The two most prominent of the McCourt brothers seem to be engaged in a bookish version of a weapons race. Frank, despite a literary trifecta that includes the Pulitzer-winning “Angela’s Ashes,” is trailing Malachy who now has eight titles in print including the best selling memoir, “A Monk Swimming.” Malachy’s latest tome, “Malachy McCourt’s History of Ireland” is quite simply that and is, if nothing else, less stressful than the real thing. It is also surprisingly sympathetic towards a number of Irish historical figures who McCourt would have little time for in purely political terms. Which begs a question. Would Malachy McCourt the rebel and outsider have anytime at all for Governor McCourt?

By way of an answer, here’s a prediction. Should Malachy McCourt be elected governor of New York, once he has stopped laughing and has rammed his serious initiatives through the gobsmacked legislature, his next move is a no-brainer.

He will found an underground movement dedicated to his own downfall.

Howie Hawkins is the Green Party Candidate for U.S. Senate from
New York State. For more information, please see:
http://hawkinsforsenate.net/howie-not-hillary/howie-not-hillary.php

Please send this to your friends in New York State.

Top 10 Reasons Why to Vote Howie, Not Hillary!

10.  Howie never served on Wal-Mart’s board of directors, nor he did own stock in South Africa diamond company De Beers while other Americans were dropping their investments in that country’s corporations to protest apartheid. 9.  Howie isn’t running for president in 2008, so he cares more about voters in Buffalo, Manhattan and Utica than he does about voters in Buffalo, Texas; Manhattan, Kansas; and Utica, Mississippi. 8.  Howie isn’t a cosponsor of a Utah Republican’s “flag-protection” amendment. 7.  Howie didn’t raise nearly $50 million in campaign contributions over the past six years. His top donors aren’t major corporations and their officials, and he didn’t raise the most campaign contributions from the Wall Street investment banks, stock brokerages and hedge funds of any politician in the country. 6.  Howie supports health care for all Americans, allowing Americans to import low-cost prescription medications from Canada and using the federal government’s buying power to negotiate better drug prices for seniors. He hasn’t taken PAC money from America’s Health Insurance Plans, Humana, Aetna, Express Scripts, UnitedHealth Group, Caremark RX, Hoffmann-La Roche, Pfizer and Sanofi-Pasteur. 5.  Howie wants to crack down on high credit-card and banking fees the average American faces and stop predatory lending. He can push these issues because he hasn’t accepted PAC money from American Express, Bank of America, Bank One, Citizens Financial Group, Washington Mutual and HSBC North America. 4.  Howie would support lower-polluting renewable sources of energy and require auto manufacturers to increase fuel economy. You guessed it: no PAC money from General Motors, Exxon Mobil, National Grid, KeySpan Energy or Duke Energy. 3.  Howie didn’t vote for Bush’s Patriot Act, and he will fight to protect the Bill of Rights, which makes our democracy the world’s best. He will demand answers from Bush’s cronies on why the administration is spying on law-abiding groups such as the Raging Grannies, the American Friends Service Committee, Gold Star Families for Peace, 9/11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, People for the American Way and the NYCLU. 2.  Howie didn’t vote for Bush’s Iraq war, and unlike Hillary, Howie wants to bring the troops home now. (Some of Hillary’s defense contractor PAC donors include BAE North America, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Northrop Grumman.) 1.  After the past six years, isn’t it time to vote for someone who will fight for what you believe in? Vote Howie Hawkins for Senate, for peace, for the people. If you can spare a dollar or more for each of these reasons, please make a donation to Hawkins for Senate at http://www.hawkinsforsenate.net/donate/index.php

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1 of 19 pictures - Hawkins supporters wake up bright and early to protest the exclusion of their candidate from the US Senatorial Debates.

1 of 8 pictures - Green Senate candidate Hawkins and supporters before University of Rochester security ejects him from pavement outside Strong Auditorium. Click on the picture for more.

GLBT University of Rochester students and allies send a message to Hillary Clinton

Rochester Against the War’s Polly Miller chats with RIT anti-war student as candidate Hawkins looks on

Peace candidates for U. S. Senate, Hawkins (Greens) and Van Auken (Socialists), on the outside while pro-war candidates debate inside University of Rochester’s Strong Auditorium

Bill and Marilyn Fisher, First Unitarian Church of Rochester Peace Advocates

Polly and friends

Mike Connelly, PA&E

— please forward widely –

Let Howie Hawkins in the Debates!

Over 500,000 Iraqis have been killed since the U.S. invasion* …and the media is censoring anti-war candidates.

On Sunday morning, October 22, WABC will host a Senatorial debate between
Hillary Clinton and John Spencer, both of whom support continuing the US occupation of Iraq . The debate organizers, which include the Buffalo News and Univision as well as WABC, have refused to invite the Green Party’s Howie Hawkins, despite the fact that many New Yorkers agree with his call for immediate withdrawal from Iraq.

Join Howie Hawkins in a protest outside the debate to let the corporate media know that democracy means presenting voters with an actual choice about one of the most important issues in politics today. We’ll bring a radio so you can listen to the “debate” at 9:00 and then stick around for Howie’s press conference at 10:30.

When: Sunday, October 22 8:00 am (We’ll bring coffee and bagels)

Where: WABC Studios: Northeast corner of Columbus Ave and 66th St .

For more information, contact Danny Katch at (917) 434-0070 or check out
http://www.hawkinsforsenate.net

* According to a recent study published in The Lancet
http://www.thelancet.com

UPDATE: “League of Women Voters of New York State Withdraws Sponsorship From Candidate Debates” Thank you!

Please contact the sponsors of the debates below by phone, email, fax and letters and demand: “I want Howie in the Debates, Exclusion is Un-Democratic!” Please give the League of Women Voters in NYC a big THANK YOU for taking a stand for Democracy!

League of Women Voters NYC - Co-host of Oct. 22nd NYC Debate
Phone: (212) 725-3541
E-mail: lwvnyc@hotmail.com
Fax: (212) 725-3541
Address: 45 East 33rd St #331, NY, NY 10016
www.lwvnyc.org

League of Women Voters, Albany State Wide Office
Email: kris@lwvny.org, lwvny@lwvny.org Phone: (51 465-4162
Fax: (51 465-0812
Address: Mrs. Marcia A. Merrins, President
League of Women Voters of New York, 35 Maiden Lane, Albany, NY 12207-2712

Robert.Hardt@ny1news.com, eyewitness.news@abc.com, jheffron@univision.net, mcorrea@univision.net

NY1 (Time Warner) - Host of October 20th US Senate Debate in Rochester
Contact: Robert Hardt, Director of Politics, NY1
Phone: 212-379-3330
E-mail: Robert.Hardt@ny1news.com
Fax Assignment Desk: 212-379-3575
Address: 75 Ninth Ave., NY, NY 10011
NYC Contact Page

WABC TV - Location Host and Moderator of Oct. 22 NYC Debate
Phone: 212-456-3100
E-mail: eyewitness.news@abc.com
Fax: 212-456-2381
Address: 7 Lincoln Square, NY, NY, 10023
WABC contact page

Univision (co-host of Oct. 22th NYC Debate)
Contact: John Heffron, Regional Vice President
E-mail/Phone: jheffron@univision.net, (212) 455-5343

Fax: (212) 986-4731
Address: 605 3rd Ave. #12, NY, NY 10158
www.univisionnetworks.com

Contact: Marcelo Correa, Director
E-mail/Phone: mcorrea@univision.net, (212) 455-5306

Buffalo News (co-host of Oct. 22nd NYC debate)
Phone: 716-849-3434
Send a comment to the editors
Fax Newsroom: 716-856-5150
Address: One News Plaza, PO Box 100, Buffalo, NY 14240 www.buffalonews.com/