Eco-socialist politics with an organizer’s map.
Green Socialist Notes is a current-events program built around eco-socialist analysis, movement strategy, and Green Party organizing. Its conversations move from Iran and Ukraine to labor, data centers, immigration, and third-party campaigns.
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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.
Made for: For Green Party supporters, antiwar organizers, socialist feminists, labor activists, and politically engaged listeners who want current events tied to concrete movement work.
What sets it apart: The show combines international left analysis with electoral Green Party strategy and practical activist follow-through. Its livestream texture makes it feel closer to an organizing meeting than a studio politics show.
Green Socialist Notes is a weekly podcast/livestream devoted to discussing current events and politics from a Green Socialist perspective. Hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party Presidential and Vice Presidential nominees Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker, the weekly program includes commentary on current news and events, occasional guests, and Q&A sessions. Streamed weekly on Tuesday nights at 8:00 PM EST on Howie Hawkins official Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Twitch social media platforms and released as a podcast every Thursday morning.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Howie Hawkins connects wars, labor, environmental policy, and Green organizing to concrete questions about power and political action.
Green Socialist Notes turns current events into an argument for political action, with Howie Hawkins moving between war, labor, immigration, environmental policy, and Green organizing.
A War Powers resolution becomes your homework when Howie Hawkins gets the mic.
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Hawkins moves from Iran to union priorities and data centers, then urges listeners to stay active.
Howie Hawkins begins Green Socialist Notes with a bleak view of the war in Iran. He doubts negotiations will end it and argues that Iran's control of the Strait of Hormuz gives it leverage. He then turns to union spending before taking a listener's question about data centers.
Howie Hawkins asks Papua New Guinea Greens secretary general Andrew Kudupai about local elections, extraction, and West Papuan independence.
Howie Hawkins begins with the Papua New Guinea Greens Party's recent local elections. Its secretary general, Andrew Kudupai, reports success, and Hawkins presses him on development tied to extraction. The conversation then moves to West Papua.
Hawkins links his opposition to the Iran war with diplomacy, Russian oil revenue, and Ukraine's interceptor drones.
Howie Hawkins opens with the diplomatic talks before the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran. Citing Oman's foreign minister, he describes what Iran had offered and challenges Trump's account of the negotiations.
A Buffalo commemoration leads Howie Hawkins into an eco-socialist discussion of war, surveillance, immigration, and political action.
At Buffalo's Dnipro Ukrainian Cultural Center, events marking the fourth anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine give Howie Hawkins a starting point.
Hawkins connects his warning about war with Iran to Ukraine policy and a call to Congress.
Howie Hawkins opens with a warning about a possible U.S. war with Iran, citing reporting and a military buildup. He then turns to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the Trump administration's response.
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Howie Hawkins discusses the escalating tensions between the US and Iran, predicting continued conflict due to political pressures on Trump and Netanyahu.
Howie Hawkins interviews Andrew Kutapae, Secretary General of the Papua New Guinea Greens Party, about recent local elections and their eco-socialist program.
Howie Hawkins discusses the No Kings anti-fascist demonstrations and encourages participation and recruitment.
Howie Hawkins interviews Justin Filip, a Green Party candidate for Oregon's 4th Congressional District, about his background and motivations for running.
Howie Hawkins introduces a discussion with Frieda Afary about the U.S.-Israeli assault on Iran and solidarity with Iranian progressive movements.
Howie Hawkins, identified as the 2020 Green Party and Socialist Party presidential candidate, uses Green Socialist Notes to argue that the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran came when a diplomatic deal was already on the table.
"Ukraïne's got to provide it for itself" because the West won't give security guarantees.
Howie Hawkins, the Green Party's 2020 presidential candidate, opens episode 299 citing reporting that puts an 80-90% chance on Trump starting a war with Iran within weeks, backed by a Middle East military buildup comparable to the 2003 Iraq invasion.
Howie Hawkins interviews Australian Senator David Shoebridge about his work on human rights, climate justice, and the Greens' stance in the recent Australian elections.
Howie Hawkins discusses the rise of the far right in Poland and its global connections, with special guest Szymon Martys.
Howie Hawkins interviews Palestinian refugee Nidal Betare about his recent trip to Syria and discusses Israeli and U.S.
Howie Hawkins discusses building an independent party of working people with guest Les Leopold, director of the Labor Institute.
Howie Hawkins interviews retired Australian Green senator Janet Rice about her journey into politics and the growth of the Australian Greens.