Posted on 08/15/2009 8:53:49 AM PDT by bareford101
What Is ColorOfChange.org?
ColorOfChange.org exists to strengthen BLACK America's political voice. Our goal is to empower our members—Black Americans and our allies—to make government more responsive to the concerns of Black Americans and to bring about positive political and social change for everyone.
We were heart-broken and outraged by the catastrophe that followed Hurricane Katrina. And we were devastated to realize that no African-American organization or coalition had the capacity to respond on the necessary scale.
Hurricane Katrina made it clear that our lack of a political voice has life-and-death consequences. With no one to speak for them, hundreds of thousands of people—largely Black, poor, and elderly—were left behind to die. But it wasn't just Black folks. Poor, sick, and elderly people of every color were abandoned too. We are not alone, and when we work to protect Black lives and interests, we do the same for all who have been left behind in political silence.
ColorOfChange.org is comprised of Black folks from every economic class, as well as those of every color who seek to help our voices be heard. Our members are united behind a simple, powerful pledge: we will do all we can to make sure all Americans are represented, served, and protected—regardless of race or class.
What We Do Using the Internet, we will enable our members to speak in unison, with an amplified political voice. We will keep them informed about the most pressing issues for Black people in America and give them ways to act. We will lobby elected representatives using email, the telephone, and face-to-face meetings. We'll bring attention to the needs and concerns of Black folks by holding coordinated events in different parts of the country, running TV and print advertisements, and demanding that the news media cover our issues. We will also work with other groups—online efforts and other organizations that are doing related work—to magnify our impact.
When we come together and speak with one voice, we cannot be ignored.
How It Started
James Rucker and Van Jones came together in the wake of Katrina to use the organizing power of the Internet to give Black Americans and our allies a renewed and strengthened political voice.
James Rucker James Rucker served as Director of Grassroots Mobilization for MoveOn.org Political Action and Moveon.org Civic Action from the fall of 2003 through the summer of 2005, and was instrumental in developing and executing on fundraising, technology, and campaign strategies. Prior to joining MoveOn, James worked in various roles in the software industry in Silicon Valley: co-founded and leading Imana, Inc., an enterprise software company, in San Francisco, as well as providing management coaching and technology consulting for other start-up ventures. James is also passionate about school reform and issues of equity, and serves on the boards of two area schools. James grew up in Seaside, California and has a BS in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University.
Van Jones (THIS IS ONE OF OBAMA's CZARS) Van Jones is the founder and executive director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights (EBC). Headquartered in Oakland, California, EBC is helping to lead the national fight for alternatives to the U.S. incarceration industry. Born in rural west Tennessee, Van completed his undergraduate degree in 1990 at the University of Tennessee at Martin. In 1993, he graduated from the Yale Law School. A pioneering human rights activist, Van is well-known as a steadfast opponent of police brutality and mass incarceration. He has worked with a variety of well-known organizations and initiatives in the social justice and environmental arenas. In recent years, Van has expanded his work to incorporate insights from ecology, spirituality and social entrepreneurship. He is now working to create environmentally-friendly, "green-collar" jobs for formerly-incarcerated persons. He believes the path to peaceful streets and healthy communities is through "green-collar jobs, not jails." In the meantime, Van has recently earned two important, new titles: happy husband and proud father (of a one-year-old son).
This group is as racist as any Klan koven. That BO would put Van Jones, a convicted felon who has publicly declared that his a communist, in any position whatsoever speaks volumes about our president’s intentions and judgment.
The door was opened when zero was elected. Now we see the real sh## that is rising to the top!
These creatures are created and exist by tax dollars. They are on the government payroll their entire lives. They are educated at our expense not withstanding their low IQ’s and serious self control problems(criminal behavior. In short, Irony of Ironies they are OUR creations. WE raised them up.
Van Jones, just another Memphis area political thug!
With no one to speak for them, hundreds of thousands of people—largely Black, poor, and elderly—were left behind to die
Like these people don’t have a voice, let alone feet, to get themselves out of the way of danger?
Where was Nagin? Why were those school buses sitting there? 2 +2 = 4
Idiots.
This is a racist organization outright connected to Obama through his “green czar”. The purpose is to incite hate. All in the plan, folks.
The country may not survive RACIST Obama and his thugs.
CCII COMING SOON!!!
Here’s the REAL “change” all the self-loathing assclowns who voted for BO got us—anyone with a brain saw it beforehand.
Time to stand up and deal with this rabid scum trying to ruin our country.....
These loud mouths better look in the mirror they do not have the numbers to do squat and they are about to learn a hard lesson if they start pushing too hard!
ping.
anytime you see someone who attended a minor university then going on to a ivy league law school, flags should be raised. I think a major need in ridding ourselves of government corruption is to root out the stranglehold that the ivy league holds on government and media.
It is interesting that this organization had a black mayor who left their citizens to rot. When you have a bunch of racists, voting for a racist mayor, you do not get competence.
What comes out of this organization will bring them more racists who will not be competent to take care of anything. They breed expert whiners against the successful existing American culture, or what’s left of it.
They are slowly going to up the ante against white males over time until people get fed up and start acting like the IRA in Ireland. That may take one day or fifty years, it is just a matter of time. That is my prediction, not what I am advocating.
Call your Senator and Representative and ask him which of the czars is replacing him/her and could he/her please give you the address and phone number of that czar.
Which is exactly why so many people don't want government run health care.
Those without a political voice will get the shaft on their health care concerns.
That BO would put Van Jones, a convicted felon who
Got a source* on that La Lydia, like a web-page or a media-link?
Thanks.
(* Besides an e-mail.)
Finally a reason to use the snitch line, flag@whitehouse.com. Write a personal note to Van Jones, a cheap communist thug who fits in perfectly with the cheap communist thug residing in the White House, having his strings pulled by even cheaper communist thugs like Axelrod and Emanuel.
Unless someone else has a direct email address for the creep.
http://www.sodahead.com/question/560827/obamas-enviromental-czara-convicted-felon-and-self-admitted-radical-communist-attacks-glrn-beck-and-tried-to-have-his-advertisers-pull-their-support-of-the-popular-talk-show-host-is-this-the-change-and-transparency-you-envisioned/
August 13, 2009 1:03 pm Eastern By Aaron Klein 2009 WorldNetDaily Van Jones President Obama's "green jobs czar" is co-founder of an African-American activist organization that has led a campaign prompting major advertisers to withdraw from Glenn Beck's top-rated Fox News Channel program.
In recent weeks, Beck has done several critical segments about Van Jones, who was appointed as the special adviser for green jobs, enterprise and innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
Beck's segments were based in part on WND's reporting that Jones was as an admitted radical communist and black nationalist leader....
The media watchdog NewsBusters.org exposed Van Jones is a co-founder of Colors of Change. The group's executive director is James Rucker, who previously served as director of Grassroots Mobilization for the radical MoveOn.org. Immediately following NewsBusters report, Colors of Change scrubbed its site of any mention of Jones. However, a Google cache of the site lists Jones as a founder....
Jones, formerly a self-described "rowdy black nationalist," boasted in a 2005 interview with the left-leaning East Bay Express that his environmental activism was a means to fight for racial and class "justice." ...
He was a founder and leader of the communist revolutionary organization Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM. The organization had its roots in a grouping of black people organizing to protest the first Gulf War. STORM was formally founded in 1994, becoming one of the most influential and active radical groups in the San Francisco Bay area.
Speaking to the East Bay Express, Van Jones said he first became radicalized in the wake of the 1992 Rodney King riots, during which time he was arrested.
"I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th," he said. "By August, I was a communist."
"I met all these young radical people of color – I mean really radical: communists and anarchists. And it was, like, 'This is what I need to be a part of.' I spent the next 10 years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary," he said.
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