Green Socialist Notes

From wage theft to employment status to anti-discrimination laws, this workshop looks at basic workers' rights and how to advocate for yourself in the workplace.

This workshop is part of the Green Socialist Organizing Project's 101 Series of workshops. To learn more about the series visit https://greensocialist.net/101s/.

This workshop was presented on September 26, 2023
This workshop was presented by Chris Blankenhorn

Video of the workshop: https://youtube.com/live/_0EqNnNbTp8

View the slideshow used in this workshop: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1SuAHhEGaaG2ViCgEFULjkm54vevZX0MzUHLQa3OszBg/edit?usp=drive_link Resource Links National Labor Relations Board: https://www.nlrb.gov/ US Department of Labor: https://www.dol.gov/ US DoL Wage and Hour Division: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd Family and Medical Leave: https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/ben... Occupational Safety and Health Administration: https://www.osha.gov/ Equal Employment Opportunity Commission: https://www.eeoc.gov/ Worker Organizing Resource and Knowledge Center: https://www.workcenter.gov/ Worker.gov (Catch All Workers’ Rights Resource: https://www.worker.gov/ IRS Form SS8 (Independent Contractor Determination): https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fss8.pdf

EPI on Wage Theft:

⁠https://www.epi.org/publication/employers-steal-billions-from-workers-paychecks-each-year/

This week Howie talks about the UAW strike, the pending government shutdown, and takes viewer questions.

Streamed 9/23/23

Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/lGQkW_yHVYg

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 continued post elections and are now under the umbrella of the Green Socialist Organizing Project, which grew out of the 2020 presidential campaign.  Green Socialist Notes seeks to provide both an independent Green Socialist perspective, as well as link listeners up with opportunities to get involved in building a real people-powered movement in their communities.

Green Socialist Notes Podcast

Every Saturday at 3:00 PM EDT on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Twitch.

Every Monday at 7:00 AM EDT on most major podcast outlets.

Music by Gumbo le Funque

Intro: She Taught Us
Outro: #PowerLoveFreedom

This week Howie talks about the autoworkers strike and the March to End Fossil Fuels and takes viewer questions.

Streamed on 9/16/23

Watch the video at: https://www.youtube.com/live/9bsLDVjhrWk?si=pcVAJoUFsf7pxv6T

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 continued post elections and are now under the umbrella of the Green Socialist Organizing Project, which grew out of the 2020 presidential campaign.  Green Socialist Notes seeks to provide both an independent Green Socialist perspective, as well as link listeners up with opportunities to get involved in building a real people-powered movement in their communities.

Green Socialist Notes Podcast

Every Saturday at 3:00 PM EDT on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Twitch.

Every Monday at 7:00 AM EDT on most major podcast outlets.

Music by Gumbo le Funque

Intro: She Taught Us

Outro: #PowerLoveFreedom

This week Howie is joined by veteran labor organizer Bill Barry and Amazon worker and organizer Natalie Monarrez.

We apologize for the difficulties we had with Natalie's connection, we are going to try and have her back with it worked out.

Streamed on 9/9/23

Watch the video at: https://www.youtube.com/live/0HFdI6aR0R8?si=B4U5O5VCDTeF1vyC

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 continued post elections and are now under the umbrella of the Green Socialist Organizing Project, which grew out of the 2020 presidential campaign.  Green Socialist Notes seeks to provide both an independent Green Socialist perspective, as well as link listeners up with opportunities to get involved in building a real people-powered movement in their communities.

Green Socialist Notes Podcast

Every Saturday at 3:00 PM EDT on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Twitch.

Every Monday at 7:00 AM EDT on most major podcast outlets.

Music by Gumbo le Funque

Intro: She Taught Us
Outro: #PowerLoveFreedom

Streamed on 9/2/23

Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/0QKZo2klLME?feature=share

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 continued post elections and are now under the umbrella of the Green Socialist Organizing Project, which grew out of the 2020 presidential campaign.  Green Socialist Notes seeks to provide both an independent Green Socialist perspective, as well as link listeners up with opportunities to get involved in building a real people-powered movement in their communities.

Green Socialist Notes Podcast

Every Saturday at 3:00 PM EDT on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Twitch.

Every Monday at 7:00 AM EDT on most major podcast outlets.

Music by Gumbo le Funque

Intro: She Taught Us

Outro: #PowerLoveFreedom

This week Howie will be joined by Ukrainian socialist Hanna Perekhoda. Hanna Perekhoda, "Freedom and Social Identity in the Donbas,” OpenLeft, August 11, 2014, https://therussianreader.com/2014/08/16/hanna-perekhoda-freedom-and-social-identity-in-the-donbas/< Hanna Perekhoda, "Peace in Donbas 'requires the complete withdrawal of Russian armed forces’,” Green Left, Nov. 15, 2022, https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/ukraine-hanna-perekhoda-peace-donbas-requires-complete-withdrawal-russian-armed-forces Hanna Perekhoda, “Why Are Russians Still So Imperialistic,” Zabrona, Dec. 15, 2022, https://zaborona.com/en/why-does-russia-still-think-in-imperialist-categories-and-does-not-recognize-the-agentivity-of-ukrainians-what-is-subaltern/ Hanna Perekhoda, "Ukraine’s workers are fighting an internal threat, too. They need support,” Open Democracy, April 30, 2023, https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/ukraine-workers-fight-anti-labour-policies-russia/ Hanna Perekhoda, "Ukraine and Its Language in the Political Imagination of the Russian Nation and Empire," New Politics, Oct. 6, 2022, https://newpol.org/ukraine-and-its-language-in-the-political-imagination-/of-the-russian-nation-and-empire/

Streamed on 8/26/23 Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/Kn_qG_5ddQs 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 continued post elections and are now under the umbrella of the Green Socialist Organizing Project, which grew out of the 2020 presidential campaign.  Green Socialist Notes seeks to provide both an independent Green Socialist perspective, as well as link listeners up with opportunities to get involved in building a real people-powered movement in their communities. Green Socialist Notes Podcast Every Saturday at 3:00 PM EDT on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Twitch. Every Monday at 7:00 AM EDT on most major podcast outlets. Music by Gumbo le Funque Intro: She Taught Us Outro: #PowerLoveFreedom

This week Howie will be joined by exiled Russian Socialist Ilya Budraitskis! “Russian Progressives and Antiwar Forces May Find Opening in Wake of Failed Coup,” Truthout, July 2, 2023, https://truthout.org/articles/russian-progressives-and-antiwar-forces-may-find-opening-in-wake-of-failed-coup/ “This regime is not subject to evolution,” Meduza, April 17, 2023, https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/04/18/this-regime-is-not-subject-to-evolution “Remember the Russians Who Fought Against Putin’s War,” Jacobin, January 22, 2023, https://jacobin.com/2023/01/russia-ukraine-war-putin-leftist-opposition-repression-censorship “Call for Solidarity Actions with Anti-war Activists in Russia,” CounterPunch, January 5, 2023, https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/01/05/call-for-solidarity-actions-with-anti-war-activists-in-russia/ Putinism: A New Form of Fascism?“ Spectre, October 27, 2022, https://spectrejournal.com/putinism/

Dissidents among Dissidents: Ideology, Politics and the Left in Post-Soviet Russia (Verso, 2022), https://www.versobooks.com/products/913-dissidents-among-dissidents Posle (After), leftwing antiwar Russian publication, https://posle.media/language/en/posle-media/
Speaking Tour Details at https://linktr.ee/ukrainesolidaritynetwork

Streamed on 8/19/23

Watch the video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OSrQFk-1f8

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 continued post elections and are now under the umbrella of the Green Socialist Organizing Project, which grew out of the 2020 presidential campaign.  Green Socialist Notes seeks to provide both an independent Green Socialist perspective, as well as link listeners up with opportunities to get involved in building a real people-powered movement in their communities.

Green Socialist Notes Podcast

Every Saturday at 3:00 PM EDT on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Twitch.

Every Monday at 7:00 AM EDT on most major podcast outlets.

Music by Gumbo le Funque

Intro: She Taught Us
Outro: #PowerLoveFreedom

Note: There were a couple of times that Rafael lost connection, those down times have been edited out.

This week Howie will be joined by Rafael, a Puerto Rican historian and sociologist who is currently an elected member of the Puerto Rico Senate representing the left-wing Citizen’s Victory Movement. He was the candidate for governor for the Working People's Party of Puerto Rico in 2012 and 2016. Howie and Rafael will talk about ecosocialism and socialist internationalism with respect Ukraine and its prospects for a green post-war reconstruction in the face of neoliberal planning for it by the EU and Puerto Rico and its prospects for post-Hurricane reconstruction in Puerto Rico in the face of neoliberal policies imposed by the US. Decarbonization and decolonization: the Green New Deal and Puerto Rico, Part 1 (April 23, 2023): https://www.momentocritico.org/post/descarbonización-y-descolonización-el-green-new-deal-y-puerto-rico-i; Part 2 (May 15, 2023): https://www.momentocritico.org/post/descarbonización-y-descolonización-el-green-new-deal-y-puerto-rico-ii The left and the invasion of Ukraine: campism or internationalism? (April 29, 2023), https://www.momentocritico.org/post/la-izquierda-y-la-invasión-de-ucrania-campismo-o-internacionalismo The war in Ukraine: four reductions to avoid (July 7, 2022), https://www.momentocritico.org/post/la-guerra-en-ucrania-cuatro-reducciones-que-debemos-evitar 15 articles in English by Rafael Bernabe on Puerto Rico and ecosocialism in Against the Current: https://againstthecurrent.org/rafael-bernabe/ The Puerto Rican Summer (Winter 2020): https://newpol.org/issue_post/the-puerto-rican-summer/

Streamed on 8/12/23

Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/m6oeXDZS6j8

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 continued post elections and are now under the umbrella of the Green Socialist Organizing Project, which grew out of the 2020 presidential campaign.  Green Socialist Notes seeks to provide both an independent Green Socialist perspective, as well as link listeners up with opportunities to get involved in building a real people-powered movement in their communities.

Green Socialist Notes Podcast

Every Saturday at 3:00 PM EDT on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Twitch.

Every Monday at 7:00 AM EDT on most major podcast outlets.

Music by Gumbo le Funque

Intro: She Taught Us
Outro: #PowerLoveFreedom

This week Howie will be joined by Svitlana Romanko, a Ukrainian climate activist who was the 350.org leader in Ukraine pre-war and now runs Razom We Stand, which is focused on promoting fossil fuel sanctions against Russia and a green transition in Ukraine in post-war reconstruction. Razom We Stand, https://razomwestand.org/en Stand with Ukraine, https://www.with-ukraine.org Svitlana Romanko, "The War on My Homeland Offers a Real Chance to Save the Planet,” The Nation, May 26, 2022, https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/ukraine-war-climate-fossil-fuel/ Svitlana Romanko, "Ukraine reconstruction must steer clear of energies that allowed Putin to thrive," Euroactiv, Oct. 24, 2022, https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy/opinion/ukraine-reconstruction-must-steer-clear-of-energies-that-allowed-putin-to-thrive/ Democracy Now!, "'Fossil Fuels Fund Dictatorships': Ukrainian Climate Activist Suspended at COP27 over Russia Protest,” Nov. 18, 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec8Qf2fJRIA The Independent (UK), "Ukraine’s leading campaigner against Russian fossil fuels refused entry to top US energy conference,” March 10, 2024, https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/ukraine-war-energy-conference-nordstream-gas-b2297695.html Petition urging the UN General Assembly to vote to authorize UN peacekeepers to demilitarize and secure the Zaporizhzhia nuclear complex: https://www.change.org/p/stop-ukrainian-nuclear-disaster-unga-must-establish-dmz-at-zaporizhzhia-plant-now

Streamed on 8/5/23

Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/Z_PpGqIkByA

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 continued post elections and are now under the umbrella of the Green Socialist Organizing Project, which grew out of the 2020 presidential campaign.  Green Socialist Notes seeks to provide both an independent Green Socialist perspective, as well as link listeners up with opportunities to get involved in building a real people-powered movement in their communities.

Green Socialist Notes Podcast

Every Saturday at 3:00 PM EDT on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Twitch.

Every Monday at 7:00 AM EDT on most major podcast outlets.

Music by Gumbo le Funque

Intro: She Taught Us

Outro: #PowerLoveFreedom

Streamed on 7/29/23

Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/d97RqLTE9FE

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 continued post elections and are now under the umbrella of the Green Socialist Organizing Project, which grew out of the 2020 presidential campaign.  Green Socialist Notes seeks to provide both an independent Green Socialist perspective, as well as link listeners up with opportunities to get involved in building a real people-powered movement in their communities.

Green Socialist Notes Podcast

Every Saturday at 3:00 PM EDT on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Twitch.

Every Monday at 7:00 AM EDT on most major podcast outlets.

Music by Gumbo le Funque

Intro: She Taught Us

Outro: #PowerLoveFreedom

This workshop discusses Ranked Choice Voting and other essential democracy reforms, from how we vote to the structure of our legislative system to long term goals of bottom up governance and a fundamental shift in how our political system operates.

This workshop is part of the Green Socialist Organizing Project's 101 Series of workshops. To learn more about the series visit https://greensocialist.net/101s/.

This workshop was presented on July 25, 2023
This workshop was presented by Chris Blankenhorn and Garret Wasserman

Video of the workshop: https://youtube.com/live/_0EqNnNbTp8

View the slideshow used in this workshop:  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1B4KPUyr22QQ2ES9hYLR8lJgJJY5pd9VRUTDHnYBkSno/edit?usp=sharing

Streamed on 7/22/236

Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/vml3o1sYjOk?feature=share

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 continued post elections and are now under the umbrella of the Green Socialist Organizing Project, which grew out of the 2020 presidential campaign.  Green Socialist Notes seeks to provide both an independent Green Socialist perspective, as well as link listeners up with opportunities to get involved in building a real people-powered movement in their communities.

Green Socialist Notes Podcast

Every Saturday at 3:00 PM EDT on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Twitch.

Every Monday at 7:00 AM EDT on most major podcast outlets.

Music by Gumbo le Funque

Intro: She Taught Us

Outro: