Biography

Howie Hawkins has been active in movements for peace, justice, and the environment since the late 1960s.

He was a co-founder of the Green Party in the United States in 1984 and currently serves on the Green National Committee.

After attending Dartmouth College, Howie worked as a carpenter and helped start up a construction workers cooperative that specialized in solar and wind energy installations.

Howie came 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.

Working now as a truck unloader at UPS, Howie is a member of Teamsters Local 317 and active in the national Teamster rank-and-file reform caucus, Teamsters for a Democratic Union.

His articles on social theory, cooperative economics, and independent politics have appeared in many publications, including Against the Current , Green Politics , International Socialist Review , New Politics , Peace and Democracy News , Peaceworks , Resist , Society and Nature , and Z Magazine .

He is the editor of a forthcoming book, Independent Politics (Haymarket Books).