Howie Hawkins to Release Labor Agenda
Howie Hawkins for Congress
25th District, New York
www.howiehawkins.org
Media Advisory / Notice of News Conference
For More Information: Howie Hawkins, 315-425-1019, hhawkins@igc.org
Date: Tuesday, September 2
Location: Jerry Rescue Monument, Corner of S. Clinton and W. Water streets on Clinton Square in Syracuse
Time: 11:00 am
Howie Hawkins, the Green Populist candidate for Congress in the 25th district, will hold a news conference at 11 am on Tuesday, September 2 in front of the Jerry Rescue Monument in Syracuse (corner of S. Clinton St.and W. Water streets on Clinton Square) to discuss his labor agenda.
Hawkins will discuss his proposals for labor law reform, progressive tax reform, and an Economic Bill of Rights and why labor needs its own party independent of the two corporate-financed major parties to advance its interests.
Hawkins is a Teamster who works at UPS unloading trucks and rail cars and is active in Teamsters for a Democratic Union and US Labor Against the War. He has been active in movements for peace, justice, the environment, and independent politics since the late 1960s. 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 helped found the national Green Party and movement in the early 1980s.
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