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 platfo ...
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"The real price of everything is the toil and trouble of acquiring it." -Adam Smith (WoN, Bk I, Chapter 5) In which the Knower of Important Things shows how transaction costs explain literally everything. Plus TWEJ, and answers to letters. If YOU have questions, submit them to our email at [email protected] There are two kinds of episodes here: 1. For the most part, episodes June-August are weekly, short (<20 mins), and address a few topics. 2. Episodes September-May are longer (1 hour), ...
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Green Socialist Notes, Episode 260 with Special Guest Les Leopold
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1:11:56This week Howie is joined by author and labor historian Les Leopold for a discussion about the potential for an independent, working class party. Resources Shared on the Stream The Labor Institute, https://www.thelaborinstitute.org/ Runaway Inequality, https://runawayinequality.org Les Leopold, "The Committee of One Million: A Petition to Support a…
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Howie is back from his travels to Papua New Guinea and Australia to talk about the Australian Greens organizing and take viewer questions. Resources Shared During the Stream Abraham O’Neil, "The Australian Greens Must Democratize Their Party Structures,” Jacobin, May 2, 2020, https://jacobin.com/2020/05/australian-greens-adam-bandt-green-new-deal. …
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The Paradox of Political Rationality: Lynch
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1:08:00Send us a text Why do harmful policies like tariffs keep coming back despite universal condemnation from economists? The answer lies in the dynamics of collective action and concentrated interests. In this eye-opening conversation with G. Patrick Lynch, Senior Fellow at Liberty Fund, Mike Munger explores the fascinating world of public choice theor…
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Green Socialist Notes, Episode 258 with Special Guest Janet Rice
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1:01:02This week Howie is joined by Janet Rice, a recently retired Australian Greens Senator from Melbourne, representing the Australian state of Victoria. Streamed on 4/26/25 Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/sWq2f9fK7s4 Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential nominee, Howie …
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Green Socialist Notes, Episode 257 with Special Guests from the Papua New Guinea Greens Party
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29:17This week's episode is a series of interviews conducted with various government and Papua New Guinea Greens Party, who Howie has met in his travels. Interviews include:Emmanuel Pok, Registrar of Political Parties, Integrity of Political Parties and Candidates Commission, Papua New GuineaFreda Pos, Co-Convener, Women’s Wing, Papua New Guinea Greens …
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Green Socialist Notes, Episode 256 with Special Guest Danny Wenda
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42:29This week Howie is in Papua New Guinea, where he is joined by Danny Wenda, Secretary for the President of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua, for a discussion of the Indonesian occupation of West Papua. *This episode was pre-recorded due to the time difference between with Papua New Guinea. Resources discussed on the episode: United Libe…
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This week Howie is joined by Tanya Vyhovsky, a Ukrainian-American member of the Vermont State Senate, the Vermont Progressive Party, and DSA, for a report back from leftwing Ukraine solidarity conference in Brussels on March 26-27. Streamed on 4/5/25 Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/HEzPSXMNsOg Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestre…
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Green Socialist Notes, Episode 254 with Special Guest Matthew Hull
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1:09:08This week Howie is joined by Matthew Hull, the Trade Union Liaison for the Green Party of England and Wales. Streamed on 3/29/25 Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/DIKoVPwc-_U Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential nominee, Howie Hawkins. Started as a weekly campaign li…
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Curation Bubbles, Verification, and the Splintering of Ideology: Green
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56:55Send us a text What happens when we no longer consume scarce information through trusted, verified institutions, but instead through an abundance of unbundled content without context or curation? John Green, rising star in political science from Duke University, takes us on a tour of the rapidly evolving landscape of political information. Green ch…
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Howie talks about current events and takes viewer questions. Streamed on 3/22/2025 Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/fDNZSrZLPeg Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential nominee, Howie Hawkins. Started as a weekly campaign livestream in the spring of 2020, the streams ha…
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Green Socialist Notes, Episode 252 with Special Guest Arthur Pye
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1:07:05This week Howie is joined by Arthur Pye, from the Emergency Committee for Rojava, for a discussion of the history and current situation of the democratic revolution in the Kurdish region of northern Syria.Resources Shared During the Stream: Arthur Pye, "Hope and Contradictions: My Year in Rojava,” Strange Matters, https://strangematters.coop/arthur…
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This week Howie talks about news and current events and takes viewer questions. Streamed on 3/8/25 Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/FoiU5egTvhA Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential nominee, Howie Hawkins. Started as a weekly campaign livestream in the spring of 2020…
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Green Socialist Notes, Episode 250 with Special Guest Sacha Ismail
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1:06:18This week Howie is joined by Sacha Ismail, a British socialist and trade unionist active in the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign. He writes for the socialist paper Solidarity and blogs at southlondonsocialist.wordpress.com.Resources shared during the stream:Sacha Ismail blog southlondonsocialist.wordpress.comEwa Pospieszyńska of RAZEM, Polish left party…
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The Socialist Generation Debate: Boettke
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1:05:12Send us a text Join economist Peter Boettke as he discusses how transaction costs impact market efficiency and our everyday decisions. We delve deep into historical examples, particularly the Soviet Union, to highlight the consequences of centralized planning versus individual market actions. Through engaging anecdotes and rigorous analysis, Boettk…
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Green Socialist Notes, Episode 249 with Special Guest Vladyslav Starodubtsev
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1:08:25This week Howie is joined by Vladyslav Starodubtsev, a Ukrainian historian. On the third anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion, Vladyslav will talk about the current situation and the central role of socialists in Ukrainian independence movement from the 19th century through to the Ukrainian People’s Republic (1917-1920).Resources shared duri…
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Green Socialist Notes, Episode 248 with Special Guest Sam Friedman
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1:04:30Howie is joined by Sam Friedman, a public health researcher, to discuss public health and the Trump administration. Streamed on 2/15/25 Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/fot-wVh-Pvc Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential nominee, Howie Hawkins. Started as a weekly camp…
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Green Socialist Notes, Episode 247 with Special Guest Ewa Pospieszynska
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1:11:51This week Howie is joined by Ewa Pospieszynska, a young ecosocialist in the leftwing Razem party of Poland.Resources: Razem,https://partiarazem.pl(In Polish, but can be read in English using a free machine translation app like Google Translate)European Left Alliance for the People and the Planet,https://leftalliance.eu/Central-Eastern European Gree…
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Howie talks about new and current events and takes viewer questions. Streamed on 2/1/25 Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/G6lbiw484Z0 Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential nominee, Howie Hawkins. Started as a weekly campaign livestream in the spring of 2020, the strea…
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Transaction Costs and Constitutions: India's Balancing Act, with Shruti Rajagopalan
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1:03:51Send us a text What if transaction costs could shape entire political and economic systems? Join us for an insightful discussion with Shruti Rajagopalan, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center, as she takes us through her fascinating journey from the University of Delhi to George Mason University. Her research on India's economic liberaliz…
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This week Howie talks about building resistance to Trump's agenda and takes viewer questions.
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Green Socialist Notes, Episode 244 with Special Guest Alex Scrivener
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1:05:30This week Howie talks with Alex Scrivener, a Tbilisi-based Georgian pro-democracy activist to discuss recent events following national elections. Articles Discussed this episode: Maia Barkaia, "Democracy in Peril: Georgia’s Choice Amid Global Shifts in Power,” Commons, January 13, 2025, https://commons.com.ua/en/georgias-choice-amid-global-shifts-p…
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Howie talks about current events and takes viewer questions. Streamed on 1/11/25 Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/La3wWkeH9F0 Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential nominee, Howie Hawkins. Started as a weekly campaign livestream in the spring of 2020, the streams have…
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This week Howie talks about his New Year's Resolution to do all he can to build an independent left alternative to oppose Trump and takes viewer questions. Streamed on 1/4/25 Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/h8k2eC7cFB0 Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential nominee, …
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In the final episode of 2024, Howie reflects on the bad and the good of the year and what Greens should be focusing on in 2025 and beyond. Streamed on 12/28/24 Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/e7EsdlDhvXE Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential nominee, Howie Hawkins. …
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Political Capitalism and the Power of Elites: Randall Holcombe
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1:02:16Send us a text This episode explores the intersection of democracy and capitalism, focusing on the concept of political capitalism and its relation to cronyism. Randall Holcomb discusses transaction costs, charismatic leadership, and critiques the idea that democracy and separation of powers inherently checks coercion, stressing the need for compet…
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Green Socialist Notes, Episode 240 with Special Guest Denys Bondar
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1:18:00This week Howie is joined by Denys Bondar for a discussion of the 30th Anniversary of the Budapest Memorandum between Ukraine, Russia, and the US. Streamed on 12/21/24 Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/FU1lUpAnRoQ Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential nominee, Howie H…
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Green Socialist Notes, Episode 239 with Special Guest Nidal Bitari
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1:08:31This week Howie is once again joined by Nidal Bitari, a Palestinian refugee raised in a Syrian refugee camp, to discuss the fall of the Assad regime in Syria. Links shared during the stream: Nidal Bitare, "The Assad Dynasty Was Hatched at My Grandfather’s Home. They Later Destroyed it,” New Lines Magazine, March 16, 2021, https://newlinesmag.com/wr…
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This week Howie was attending the European Greens Congress in Ireland during the livestream, so we are airing two interviews he has conducted in his travels. First is an interview with Lela Rekhviashvili about Georgia being caught between Western and Russian imperialism, which is timely given the massive protests now in Georgia against authoritaria…
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Green Socialist Notes, Episode 237 with Special Guest Benali Hamdache
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1:10:25This week Howie is live from London with special guest Benali Hamdache. Benali is the elected Green Party Councillor for the Islington London Borough Council, the Green Party of England and Wales (GPEW) spokesperson on migrants and refugee support, the past GPEW Equalities spokesperson, wrote GPEW's 2015 ethnic minority and LGBTIQA+ manifesto, and …
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Howie was supposed to be live from Berlin this week, but he was not able to connect at the time of the livestream. Instead we premiered 2 new interviews that Howie has conducted in his travels that have not been posted yet. Taras Bilous, Ukrainian leftist and soldier who won the Daniel Singer Prize.Lela Rekhshiavili, a Georgian leftist about how th…
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Prison Gangs and Governance: David Skarbek
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1:01:27Send us a text Curious about how the world of prison economics operates? Get ready to uncover a hidden universe with our guest, David Skarbek, a leading voice in political economy. David takes us on a captivating journey from his early days in construction to his groundbreaking research at George Mason University, where he was inspired to explore t…
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This week Howie is live from Lviv, Ukraine, where he will be joined Valeriy Petrov, a Ludic Activist, Member of Sotsialnyi Rukh and Tenant's Union, and Pavlo Bryzhatyi, a Sotsialnyi Rukh Council Member. Streamed on 11/16/24 Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/z9D71TFIH1o Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 G…
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This week Howie was traveling during the livestream, so we aired 3 interviews he has conducted with activists while in Europe. Georgian activist Alex Scrivener Georgian political economist Ia Eradze Ukrainian climate activist Svitlana Romanko Streamed on 11/9/24 Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/zJlJ4I8h4Pc Green Socialist Notes is a wee…
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This week Howie is live from Kyiv, Ukraine where he is joined by Georgian democracy activist, Alex Scrivener, and Ukrainian activists with Sotsialnyi Rukh, Denys Pilash and Pavlo Bryzhatia. Streamed on 11/2/24 Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/ss0bPUUJ9PY Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Soc…
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This week Howie is live from Tbilisi, Georgia, where he is observing the national elections. Streamed on 10/26/24 Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/Wwd_-CAZ2bc Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential nominee, Howie Hawkins. Started as a weekly campaign livestream in the…
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Certainty, Common Law, and Statutory Law: Todd Zywicki of Scalia Law
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53:20Send us a text Todd Zywicky, professor at George Mason's Scalia Law School, challenges some conventional legal doctrine, taking up the views of Bruno Leone and Friedrich Hayek. What if the legal world has underestimated the power of spontaneous order? Todd's intellectual journey sheds light on how these groundbreaking ideas contrast sharply with th…
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This week Howie is joined by Nidal Bitari, a Palestinian refugee raised in Syria, for a discussion of the escalating crises in the Middle East. Articles Shared During Stream:Nidal Bitari, "Hatched at My Grandfather’s Home. They Later Destroyed it,” New Lines Magazine, March 16, 2021, https://newlinesmag.com/essays/the-assad-dynasty-was-hatched-at-m…
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Green Socialist Notes, Episode 230 with Special Guest Ron Daniels
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1:15:14This week Howie is joined by Ron Daniels, a Convener of the National African-American Reparations Committee, for a conversation about the case, form, and strategy for winning reparations. Streamed on 10/12/24 Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/VUllNjhjLIg Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Soci…
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Howie talks about current events and takes viewer questions. Streamed on 10/5/24 Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/wlr0yhALk_o Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential nominee, Howie Hawkins. Started as a weekly campaign livestream in the spring of 2020, the streams have…
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From Law to Legislation: A Natural Process
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54:31Send us a text Have you ever wondered how common law rules and market prices both "emerge"? Inspired by the works of James Buchanan, F.A. Hayek, and Bruno Leoni, Donald Boudreaux explains how decentralized processes can lead to the emergence of effective norms, such as queuing and speeding rules, without the need for top-down legislation. We discus…
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Green Socialist Notes, Episode 228 with Special Guest Kris Parker
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1:04:17This week Howie is joined by journalist Kris Parker to discuss his recent trip to Ukraine. Streamed on 9/28/24 Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/aZwxwl89i6s Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential nominee, Howie Hawkins. Started as a weekly campaign livestream in the sp…
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Howie talks about current events and takes viewer questions. Streamed on 3/2/2021 Watch the video at: https://youtu.be/SJGmrsLyuiY Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential nominee, Howie Hawkins. Started as a weekly campaign livestream in the spring of 2020, the streams have contin…
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This week Howie talks about current events, why the Green Party should adopt a membership model. and takes viewer questions! Streamed on 9/14/24 Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/u_DsmftWXNE Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential nominee, Howie Hawkins. Started as a we…
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Green Socialist Notes, Episode 225 with Special Guest Butch Ware
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1:08:18This week Howie is joined by 2024 Green Party Vice Presidential nominee Butch Ware! Streamed on 9/7/24 Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/hWsrPe1NnrI Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential nominee, Howie Hawkins. Started as a weekly campaign livestream in the spring of …
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This week Howie is broadcasting from Chicago, where he is attending the Socialism 2024 Conference. Streamed on 8/31/24 Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/Zeb7ViZDvpA Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential nominee, Howie Hawkins. Started as a weekly campaign livestream i…
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Why Bosses Don't Wear Bunny Slippers: TAITC
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23:09Send us a text Ever wondered why firms exist in a market-driven economy? This month's episode promises to unravel this question by diving deep into Ronald Coase's seminal 1937 paper, "The Nature of the Firm." Join me, Mike Munger, as I reflect on our first 16 months of podcasting and share the insights and wisdom that have shaped our journey. You'l…
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Howie talks about current events and takes viewer questions. Streamed on 8/24/24 Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/aXLaLaG-rIQhttps://youtube.com/live/aXLaLaG-rIQ Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential nominee, Howie Hawkins. Started as a weekly campaign livestream in …
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Send us a text Can high prices during emergencies actually save lives? Using North Carolina as an example, we dissect the economic and legal implications of these laws, exploring the ambiguities in terms like "unreasonably excessive" and the chilling effect on commerce. Discover how artificially low prices can lead to resource misallocation, discou…
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Howie talks about current events, the Green Party US Presidential Nominating Convention (including listening in to Jill's first convention speech), and takes viewer questions. Streamed on 8/17/24 Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/WyG_wEAXNXA Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party p…
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Howie talks about current events and takes viewer questions. Streamed on 8/10/2024 Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/ziXZgiS0w9I Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential nominee, Howie Hawkins. Started as a weekly campaign livestream in the spring of 2020, the streams ha…
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