Green Socialist Notes

Green Socialist Notes is a political program rooted in eco-socialist Green Party analysis. It follows the news closely, but its center of gravity is movement work. Howie Hawkins frames episodes around the Green and Socialist Party program from the 2020 presidential campaign and keeps returning to the question of what organized people can do next. The show is direct. It spends serious time on war powers, sanctions, antiwar resolutions, public demonstrations, and the relationships among U.S. policy, Israel, Iran, Russia, Ukraine, and Palestine. Recent episodes are especially focused on the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, solidarity with Iranian progressives, Ukrainian resistance, and the political uses of imperial power. The show also moves into domestic terrain. Labor unions, single-payer health care, immigration enforcement, ICE, data centers, public spending, and Democratic Party compromises all become part of the same eco-socialist argument. Guest episodes add field reports from Green politics outside the usual U.S. media frame. Andrew Kudupai discusses Papua New Guinea Greens local elections, extractive development, and West Papuan liberation. Justin Phillip talks about running as a Pacific Green Party candidate in Oregon and connecting electoral work to student protest and anti-corporate politics. Frida Afari brings socialist feminism, Iranian progressive literature, and international solidarity into the conversation. Matthew Zawiski appears from the Dnipro Ukrainian Cultural Center in Buffalo, New York during a discussion of Ukraine and Iran. The format feels close to a livestream because it is full of chat questions, links to articles, corrections, appeals, and occasional rough edges. That immediacy is part of the point. Episodes often end with a concrete push: contact representatives, join demonstrations, work in groups, stay active. The show is best for listeners who want left politics with names, mechanisms, and organizing assignments attached. It is less polished punditry than a political briefing for people already inclined to act.