Posted on 09/04/2009 1:14:58 PM PDT by Justaham
Avowed Communist and Barack Obama Administration "Green Jobs Czar" Van Jones late yesterday released via the White House press office a statement apologizing for offending anyone with any of a series of inflammatory and indeed ridiculous things he has said in the (very recent) past.
The latest bit of Jones inanity news was in fact not something he said, but rather something on to which he signed. That would be an October 26, 2004 "Truth Statement" that asserts amongst other things that President George W. Bush had a hand in the September 11th terrorist attacks.
Making Jones a 9-11 "Truther" (sort of like a "Birther," but with a lot less media coverage), i.e. a conspiracy-addled doofus. (He is addled by other conspiracy theories as well, but for now this will do.)
In said apology statement, Jones uttered the following:
I say BARACK YOU to mr. Green jeans.
I will bite, can anybody define what a green job really is? Surly it can’t be manufacturing windmills, just look at all the energy wasted in that process. Same with ethanol. So what is it really?
A concept without a truth. Just more liberal feel good crapola.
The new red is green, if you listen to Van Jones.
Think watermelon.
The Green Goblin strikes again.
One that’s ripe yet.
Think watermelon.
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Green on the ourside, red on the inside.
In the immortal words of Eddie Murphy, "If the b!tch is green, there must be something wrong with the p---y!"
Think watermelon.
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Green on the outside, red on the inside.
I really need to use the spell check button more often.
how green is my job????? he lived off gov tit for how long???
--Barack Hussein Obama, during 2008 prssidential campaign
Okay.
Van Jones
Jeremiah Wright
Bill Ayers
Rahm Emmanuel
Ezekial Emmanuel
Sonya Sotomayor
Cass R. Sunstein
John Holdren
Timothy Geitner
Frank Marshall Davis
Eric Holder
etc., etc., etc.
Enough to pass judgemnent yet, mr. president?
BHO: Come on Buddy - Join me in the White House. We’ll have fun.
VJ: Just what would you have me do?
BHO: I don’t know! How about a catchie title like Green Jobs Czar. The Greenies will love it!
VJ: What a Green Job Czar supposed to do?
BHO: Come on Buddy, We’ll share the wealth, give you a big check. You can figure it out once you get an office and a big staff.
VJ: I still don’t know what a Green Job is!
If you listen to a few tapes of Van Jones it is obvious what he thinks a Green Job is.
Any job taken from a white person and given to a 'person of color.'
(Just black people really but we need those other a-hole's votes.)
Yeah, it’s amazing how much ‘hate whitey’ you see in the Obama administration ... I guess more people should have listened to the Rev Wright tapes. 20 years listening to that racists crap, can you image doing that?
I can’t take five minutes of it. If someone ranted on like that about all of the things that I am (white, etc., etc.) I would walk out in less than a minute. Possibly after punching them in the nose.
Democratic candidate for governor of California (he lost to the political world’s best-known Austrian-American), Angelides is the chair of the Apollo Alliance, a coalition of business, labor and environmental groups championing green employment. Here’s how he defines a green job: “It has to pay decent wages and benefits that can support a family. It has to be part of a real career path, with upward mobility. And it needs to reduce waste and pollution and benefit the environment.”
arguing that the hard work of decarbonizing the American economy will actually create millions of new jobs. Someone, after all, will need to produce alternative power, increase energy efficiency and overhaul wasteful buildings. Angelides notes that between now and 2030, 75% of the buildings in the U.S. will either be new or substantially rehabilitated. Our inefficient, dangerously unstable electrical grid will need to be overhauled. The jobs that will go into that kind of work can be green-collar — provided that the government adopts the kind of policies that incentivize environmentally friendly choices. “Green jobs won’t be sprouting up only in new technology fields” like solar energy, says Angelides, whose group is calling for a $300 billion investment in green jobs over the next 10 years. “We’ll be creating jobs in the industrial sector.”
In other words, blue-collar can become green. It’s no surprise that one of the biggest supporters of the Apollo Alliance is the United Steelworkers Alliance — labor leaders see green jobs as a way to fight outsourcing and keep manufacturing alive in America. And there is a strong political component to green-collar jobs, which is why presidential candidates love talking about them so much.
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1809506,00.html
The definition of green jobs? That’s easy: The one job you create in a “green” industry for every 100 people who lost their jobs due to liberal environmental policy.
Green jobs are a net loss.
‘Green Jobs’ = SOCIAL JUSTICE
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The 2009 TIME 100: Van Jones
TIME Magazine
April 30, 2009
by Leonardo DiCaprio
When Van Jones was tapped to serve as special adviser on green jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality earlier this year, the appointment was heralded as a significant development for the green movement. And for good reason. A pioneer in fusing economic opportunity and social justice with environmentalism, Jones, 40, represents an important progression in our country’s perception and thus our approach to combatting global warming.
At the center of Jones’ vision for socially uplifting environmentalism is the creation of “green collar” jobs, a phrase he helped extend beyond advocacy and policy circles into mainstream conversation. Jones insists that these jobs not only contribute directly to preserving and enhancing environmental quality but also provide either family-supporting wages or a career ladder to move low-income workers into higher-skilled occupations.
In less than two years, Jones has risen from local grass-roots organizer to shepherd of a national movement to build an inclusive green economy — one that connects the people who most need work to the work that most needs to be done. His organization, Green for All, has helped deliver on the promise and potential of his vision with real jobs for real people, especially those who need new avenues of economic advancement during these challenging times. Steadily — by redefining green — Jones is making sure that our planet and our people will not just survive but also thrive in a clean-energy economy.
DiCaprio is an Academy Award-nominated actor and a committed environmentalist
Fast Fact: At 25, Jones started a lawyer-referral service for victims of police abuse in San Francisco
http://www.ellabakercenter.org/index.php?p=news_van_time_100
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Green For All
building a clean energy economy is a chance to reinvigorate and reinvest in the best part of the American dream: the idea that everyone gets a chance to succeed and be happy. By ensuring that every community has equal access to the opportunity of the new economy, we can lift millions of people out of poverty
Prior to joining Green For All, Phaedra was head of the South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council and Working Partnerships USA
As a woman of color, Phaedra has distinguished herself as an innovative leader in California and led the way for emerging leaders in the American progressive movement, directing campaigns to win policy victories on local, regional, and state levels
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Prior to joining Green For All, Ms. Chang served as the Executive Director of the Asian Pacific Environmental Network, a nationally recognized environmental justice organization focused on building leadership in Asian immigrant and refugee communities.
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Ali’a Edwards commitment to social justice and actualizing progressive ideals brought her to Green For All. Her most recent work experience was with Be Present, Inc, a nationwide network that has been breaking new ground – by utilizing the Be Present Empowerment Model, a unique process that guides personal and collective transformation. Free spirited and idealistic
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Diana Frappier is the Finance Director for Green For All, as well as a founding member of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. Diana received her B.A. in Social Welfare and her J.D. at Hastings College of Law. While she is not focused on Green For All and the Ella Baker Center, she is operating a private community criminal defense practice, and serving on the boards of Bay Area non-profits Machen Center and TURF (Together United Recommitted Forever.) This San Francisco native is also a real estate broker, supporting activists and other members of her community to empower themselves through homeownership.
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Jeremy Hays
was previously the National Organizing Director at the Apollo Alliance where he helped state and local coalitions of environmentalists, labor unions, civil rights groups, and businesses advocate for good jobs and clean energy.
He has worked a program director for Urban Strategies Council—a community building organization in Oakland, California; as a project manager for the Governor’s Oregon Solutions program; as a policy researcher for the Assistant Secretary of Environmental Justice at Cal/EPA; and as an organizer or technical assistant in a variety of other community development and environmental justice initiatives.
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Stacy Ho contributes to broader policy analysis and research, and to federal and state policy advocacy efforts. Stacy joins Green For All with a background in public interest environmental and social justice policy and law. A graduate of Yale University and Lewis & Clark Law School, she has worked as environmental policy advisor to two New Jersey governors and pro bono attorney at Bay Area Legal Aid in San Francisco.
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Mahfam Malek
Her life pre-Green For All included serving as Office Manager at environmental group Circle of Life; getting hands-on experience with solar panels, hydro-electricity, and pot-bellied pigs while house-sitting in Humboldt County; slinging espresso and reading poetry at her favorite green coffeehouse, Nomad Cafe; developing, fundraising for, and implementing the La Manzanilla Environmental Education Project in Jalisco, Mexico; and getting a B.A. in Film Studies from UC Santa Barbara. Her dream is to see her home country of Iran once more in this life.
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Jason Walsh was previously State Policy Director for The Workforce Alliance, a national coalition advocating for public policies that invest in the skills of America’s workers, where he worked on a range of federal and state workforce development legislation, including the Green Jobs Act. Jason has also been the Director of the Affirmative Options Coalition, a Minnesota-based anti-poverty coalition, as well as a union organizer with SEIU and UNITE, and a policy fellow for the late U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone. He’s a graduate of the AFL-CIO Organizing Institute
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Billy Wimsatt Social entrepreneur, philanthropist, journalist, political organizer, Wimsatt is best known for founding the League of Young Voters which organized more than 3000 youth in 33 states to create 300 voter guides and impact 29 state and local elections or pieces of legislation. He also co-founded the Generational Alliance and over his career has helped move more than $8 million to grassroots organizing. Wimsatt has consulted for Rock the Vote, MoveOn.org, Hull Family Foundation, Funders’ Collaborative on Youth Organizing. In 2008, he ran the Ohio Youth Corps for the Ohio Democratic Party / Obama For America, which deployed 50 staff throughout Ohio. He has written for Vibe, Chicago Tribune
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