Van Jones became a revolutionary communist during the 1992 L.A./Rodney King Riots (58 dead)

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From David Horowitz's
FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org
PROFILE: VAN JONES

• Became a Communist in the aftermath of the 1992 "Rodney King riots" in Los Angeles
• Founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in 1996
• Was active in the anti-Iraq War demonstrations organized by International ANSWER
• Served as a board member of the Rainforest Action Network and Free Press
• In March 2009, President Barack Obama named Jones to be his so-called "Green Jobs Czar."

Born in 1968 in rural West Tennessee, Van Jones earned a B.A. degree from the University of Tennessee at Martin and then attended Yale Law School. During his years at Yale, Jones served as an intern with the San Francisco-based Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights (LCCR), which views the United States as an irredeemably racist nation and "champions the legal rights of people of color, poor people, immigrants and refugees, with a special commitment to African-Americans."

Jones says that he first became politically radicalized in the aftermath of the deadly April 1992 Los Angeles riots which erupted shortly after four L.A. police officers who had beaten the infamous Rodney King were exonerated in court. "I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th," says Jones, who is black, "and then the verdicts came down on April 29th. By August, I was a communist."

Jones was arrested during the L.A. riots and spent a short time in jail. "I met all these young radical people of color," he recalls, "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 ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary."

After earning his Juris Doctorate from Yale in 1993, Jones relocated to San Francisco, where he helped establish Bay Area PoliceWatch, a hotline and lawyer-referral service that began as a project of LCCR. In 1996 he founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, which, claiming that the American criminal-justice system is infested with racism, seeks to promote alternatives to incarceration. According to the Baker Center:

"Decades of disinvestment in our cities have led to despair and hopelessness. For poor communities and communities of color it's even worse, as excessive, racist policing and over-incarceration have left people even further behind."

By the late 1990s, Jones was a committed Marxist-Leninist-Maoist who viewed police officers as the arch-enemies of black people, and who loathed capitalism for allegedly exploiting nonwhite minorities worldwide. He became a leading member of Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM), a now-defunct Bay Area Marxist-Maoist collective that was staffed by members of various local nonprofits, a number of whom had ties to the Ella Baker Center.

In the early 2000s, Jones and STORM were active in the anti-Iraq War demonstrations organized by International ANSWER, a front group for the Marxist-Leninist Workers World Party. STORM also had ties to the South African Communist Party and it revered Amilcar Cabral, the late Marxist revolutionary leader (of Guinea-Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands) who lauded Lenin as "the greatest champion of the national liberation of the peoples." (In 2006 Van Jones would name his own newborn son "Cabral" -- in Amilcar Cabral's honor.)

During his tenure with STORM, Jones collaborated on numerous projects (including antiwar demonstrations) with local activist Elizabeth "Betita" Martinez, who served as a "mentor" for members of the Ella Baker Center. Martinez was a longtime Maoist who went on to join the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS), a Communist Party USA splinter group, in the early 1990s. To this day, Martinez continues to sit on the CCDS advisory board alongside such luminaries as Angela Davis, Timuel Black (who served on Barack Obama's 2004 Senate campaign committee), and musician Pete Seeger. Martinez is also a board member of the Movement for a Democratic Society, the parent organization of Progressives for Obama. Martinez and Van Jones together attended a "Challenging White Supremacy" workshop which advanced the theme that "all too often, the unconscious racism of white activists stands in the way of any effective, worthwhile collaboration" with blacks.

In 2005 Jones and the Ella Baker Center produced the "Social Equity Track" for the United Nations' World Environment Day celebration, a project that eventually would evolve into the Baker Center's Green-Collar Jobs Campaign -- "a job-training and employment pipeline providing 'green pathways out of poverty' for low-income adults in Oakland."

Soon after attending the Clinton Global Initiative in September 2007, Jones launched "Green For All," a non-governmental organization "dedicated to building an inclusive green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty … advocating for local, state and federal commitment to job creation, job training, and entrepreneurial opportunities in the emerging green economy - especially for people from disadvantaged communities."

In 2008 Jones published his first book, The Green Collar Economy, which focused on environmental and economic issues. The book received favorable reviews from such notables as Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi, Laurie David, Winona LaDuke, environmentalist Paul Hawken, and NAACP President/CEO Ben Jealous.

Jones has served as a board member of numerous environmental and nonprofit organizations, including the Rainforest Action Network; Free Press; Bioneers (which accepts the United Nations Millennium Ecosystem Report's warning that "[h]uman activity is putting such strain on the natural functions of Earth that the ability of the planet's ecosystems to sustain future generations can no longer be taken for granted"); the National Apollo Alliance (which seeks "to catalyze a clean energy revolution that will put millions of Americans to work in a new generation of high-quality, green-collar jobs"); the Social Venture Network (which aims "to build a just economy and sustainable planet"); and Julia Butterfly Hill's "Circle of Life" environmental foundation.

Jones was also a Senior Fellow with the Center for American Progress and a Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences.

In March 2009, President Barack Obama named Jones to be his so-called "Green Jobs Czar." Jones' formal title is "Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation" for the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

In a July 2009 interview with Newsweek magazine, Jones said he could not explain exactly what a "green job" is:

"Well, we still don't have a unified definition, and that's not unusual in a democracy. It takes a while for all the states and the federal government to come to some agreement. But the Department of Labor is working on it very diligently. Fundamentally, it's getting there, but we haven't crossed the finish line yet."

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2406

[Vaduz]

Yes the msm and schools have been brain wasing for years and the democrats are pro socialism look at all the bill they try to get passed some have wised up to them the healthcare scam it let them know hey were getting screwed.

[A_Former_Democrat]

No. They believe that hard work, academic performance, reading books and The Bible, morality, volunteerism, and faithfully attending church is the answer

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

Williams was denied bail and sentenced to a maximum of ten years in prison on December 7, 1993 by Judge Ouderkirk. Damian was released early for good behavior in 1997. On December 5, 2003, he received a life sentence for murdering a drug dealer in July, 2000. He will not be eligible for parole until he serves 47 years.
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Reginald_Oliver_Denny

I can find nothing re his death, but perhaps because of his fame some folks at Pelican Bay......

[chuck_the_tv_out]

Oh, you mean THESE riots.

[DDLL]

“Do these people really believe that Marxism/socialism will bring prosperity to their communities??”

I’m beginning to believe that many either don’t have the ability to or refuse to look that far ahead.

The libs I know refuse to look beyond anything Keith Oberman tells them. They think it’s normal politics except that the ‘right wing nuts’ have simply become more vicious than normal. In other words, they’re loyal democrats and simply uninformed (with the help of the biased media they read & watch) Many of them think they believe in the constitution and a free America. .. but they aren’t getting any facts .. not without biased commentary at any rate.

Many of them are convinced of the liberal fantasy of some utopia (like Logan’s Run?) refusing to look at how people under tyrannical Communist regimes actually live. As far as the obama youth, these people *think* they are being given a power they’ve never had before. (another delusion). So they will follow barry blindly - like lemmings. Those who *do* know the real agenda are in the circle of power working toward the destruction our our republic. .. It’s all about power... and using useful idiots to accomplish their goals.

However, that being said, one aspect Alinsky, Cloward & Piven or Karl Marx did NOT count on was we-the-peoples’ belief in our Constitution .. and our ability to communicate so quickly and easily... as well as our resolve to stand up to protect our nation. Righ now, our biggest threat is Mark Lloyd working to stateize communications.

.. anyway.. that’s the way I see it.

[pickyourpoison]

And I suppose all these groups mentioned are Federal Funded
so folks like myself are keeping them alive and thriving.
This needs to be stopped.

[Carley]

He can continue on with his evil ways inside prison.

I guess I was mistaken in thinking he had been murdered.

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

maybe just “not yet”:

Moreover, of the eight inmates murdered by fellow prisoners at the Pelican Bay State Prison in California since 1996, six have been linked to an internal war within Aryan Brotherhood. A local prosecutor characterized the situation at the prison as a “reign of terror.” In Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Unit, there are reported to be up to 50 inmates who are members of the group.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“Damian was released early for good behavior in 1997. “

A bit over 3 years of a 10 year stretch for “good behavior”.

I guess he didn’t smash a cement block on anyone’s head for 3 years.