Meet and Greet Livestream, with Angela Walker, Green Party Vice Presidential Nominee for 2020, June 23, 2020

Multi-issue, long-time activist, Angela Walker, will be the guest on the Meet and Greet livestream of the Hoffman for Senate Campaign 2020. Angela Walker is a Green Party Vice Presidential Nominee as part of the H’20 Hawkins/Walker 2020 Presidential  campaign.

Event page: https://www.facebook.com/HoffmanforSenate2020/

This event promises to be an informative, stimulating conversation between 2 of the most inspiring activists working for radical societal transformation, today.

Angela Walker,  VP candidate with the Howie Hawkins for Presidenet campaign, is  looking forward to this opportunity to speak with New Jersey voters. “We are experiencing a moment filled with possibilities,” she said, “one that is only the beginning of the changes our country needs. The Black Lives Matter protests are at the central part of the striving for social justice in the US, and the changes that the Howie Hawkins for President campaign envisions–changes that include community control of police, an economic bill of rights, and decriminalization of drugs and sex work. All of these issues intersect. It’s up to us to lift them all up equally and together.”

Madelyn Hoffman, the 2020 Green Party of NJ candidate for US Senate says: “I am really excited about this upcoming dialogue between my campaign for US Senate in NJ and Angela Walker, VP candidate with the Howie Hawkins campaign. We both care about many of the same issues, from a workers’ bill of rights, to a real green new deal, to the growing Black Lives Matter movement and LGBTQI rights, just to name a few. We understand how challenging and how important it is to show how all these issues are interconnected. Angela Walker’s insights and energy inspire me and my campaign, so I am looking forward to our conversation about why it is important for NJ voters to help us both get on the ballot in November. This live-streamed conversation will also show why we will make a good team.”

ABOUT THE CANDIDATES:

Angela Walker was born and raised in Milwaukee to a working-class Black family. She learned early that though money was necessary to live in this society, it was less important than integrity, cooperation, and dignity. This upbringing shaped the activist and organizer she later became.]

As a high school student, Angela and a group of Black students petitioned for and received an African American history class at their predominantly White school.

Angela was part of the mass mobilization that demanded a recount of ballots in the 2000 Florida Presidential election. She took part in protests in NYC and DC against the Iraq War.

In 2009, as a school bus driver and a member of an Amalgamated Transit Union local, Angela protested Governor Scott Walker’s union busting tactics, joining thousands of union workers and their supporters in occupying the Capitol building and grounds in protest. Her union local appointed her Legislative Director, where she served for 2 years, and where she helped make the union part of the Occupy Wisconsin and Occupy the Hood movements.

Angela marched with union officers in support of striking workers, and she participated in actions with the Fight for 15, and for postal workers, educators, healthcare workers and striking machinists in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. She advocated for reliable, affordable transit access for working families.

In 2014, Angela ran as an independent socialist against the cowboy-hatted incumbent, Sheriff David Clarke. The campaign served as a platform to discuss the root causes of crime in Milwaukee, which included the incarceration of people for nonviolent marijuana offenses, the reduction of access to adequate healthcare, un- and underemployment in the inner city, blighted neighborhoods created by foreclosures, and the pervasive systemic racism at the core of these issues. The campaign earned twenty percent of the vote in the election and got the attention of the Left across the country.

Angela became Community Campaigns Coordinator for Wisconsin Jobs Now if 2015. Her work focused primarily on resistance to the privatization of public schools in Milwaukee.

In 2016, Angela was the Vice Presidential candidate for the Socialist Party USA Soltysik/Walker ticket.

Angela Walker is a fierce advocate for the rights of Black, Brown and Indigenous people, the LGBTQIA community, Labor and the Earth itself.

Madelyn Hoffman has been an activist since 1980. She was director of the Grass Roots Environmental Organization (1980-1998) and New Jersey Peace Action (2000-2018). She currently is a Board Member of Women’s March on the Pentagon, the Green Horizons Newsletter and a member of the Green Party USA Peace Action Committee.

Madelyn  has traveled to Afghanistan, Palestine, Tunisia, Japan, the Ukraine, Russia, Colombia, and Venezuela, on peace making missions including taking part in events focusing on nuclear weapons, on the commemoration of the 70^th anniversary of the US dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Madelyn has run as a Green Party candidate in several elections. In 1996, Madelyn was Ralph Nader’s vice-presidential running mate for NJ. In 1997, she ran for NJ Governor. In 1998, she ran for Congress. In 2018, she ran for US Senate and earned 25,150 votes, the most of any third party running that year.