2007 Green Party candidate for Syracuse Common Councilor-At-Large, 2006 GP candidate for US Senate from NY, 2005 GP candidate for Mayor of Syracuse, NY

Available to speak on the following subjects:
Antiwar and Global Justice Movements
Energy and Climate Change Policies
Labor Issues
Sustainable Cities And Economies

Bio
Howie Hawkins has been active in movements for peace, justice, the environment, and independent progressive politics since the late 1960s when he was in high school in the San Francisco Bay Area. A former Marine, he helped organize opposition to the Vietnam War and was a co-founder of the anti-nuclear Clamshell Alliance in 1976. He was a co-founder of the Green Party in the United States in 1984 and currently serves on the Green National Committee. Hawkins is the 2007 Green Party candidate for Syracuse Common Councilor-At-Large, and was 2006 GP candidate for US Senate from NY and 2005 GP candidate for Mayor of Syracuse.

After attending Dartmouth College in the early 1970s, Hawkins worked as a carpenter in New England and helped start up a construction workers cooperative that specialized in solar and wind energy installations. He moved to Syracuse in 1991 to be Director of CommonWorks, a federation of cooperatives working for an economy that is cooperatively owned, democratically controlled, and ecologically sustainable. He presently works unloading trucks and rail cars at UPS where he is a member of Teamsters Local 317 and active in US Labor Against the War and the national Teamster rank-and-file reform caucus, Teamsters for a Democratic Union.

Hawkins's articles on social theory, cooperative economics, and independent politics have appeared in many publications, including Against the Current, Green Politics, International Socialist Review, Left Turn, New Politics, Peace and Democracy News, Society and Nature, and Z Magazine. He is the editor of Independent Politics: The Green Party Strategy Debate (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2006).

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