Obama's 'Green the Block' Sept. 11: Fun, Music, Block Parties, Bubble Gum and Dumpster Diving

Thursday, September 10, 2009 | Kristinn

[kristinn]

Matthew Vadum recently reported that Barack Obama was operating under the radar to subvert observances of the anniversary of the September 11 attacks by using anti-American leftists Van Jones and Lennox Yearwood to hijack the day with a radical environmental agenda under the guise of Green the Block, a joint project of their respective groups Green for All and the Hip Hop Caucus.

Sure enough, the project has been pretty much ignored by the media, even by the conservative media that covered the Van Jones saga.

Below are examples of events listed at Green the Block for this Friday, September 11, 2009--the eight anniversary of the attacks.

Bowling Green:

Bowling Green, KY
September 11, 2009 03:30PM to 05:00PM
Hosted by Carrie Barnette Event Description:
Featuring a concert by hip-hop sensations, "Nappy Roots" and an Energy and Job Fair, Green the Block - Bowling Green will let people know about the importance of energy efficiency, how they can do it and how they can find jobs that do it!

Kalamazoo:

Kalamazoo, MI September 11, 2009 05:00PM to 10:00PM
Hosted by Joe Orchanian
Event Description:
Every year western michigan university host bronco bash, a festival that draws hundreds of organizations and thousands of patrons. Last year, we launched the first ever WMU green team. With the efforts of only a handful of people, we were able to reduce the waste produced by the event by 70%. We advertised recycling containers, and sorted through garbage looking for cans and bottles.
We need to do this again, and we need people to help make it happen for the second year in a row!

Nashville:

Green The Block with Gateway 2 Heritage
Nashville, TN
September 11, 2009 12:00PM to 02:00PM
Hosted by Sizwe Herring
Event Description:
Join the teams at Tennessee State University's Gateway 2 Heritage and EarthMatters Tennessee with music on the courtyard. Come learn about sustainability, environmental justice and how to green up our community and campus life.

Charlotte:

Charlotte, NC September 11, 2009 05:00PM to 10:00PM
Hosted by Jonathan Nazeer
Event Description:
Green the Block Charlotte will be held in the Hidden Valley Community and feature * Community Giveaway ** Clean the Block * Community Cook-out** Retrofit the Block * Green the Block Rally featuring local Celebrities, Politicial and Business Leaders ** Green Collar Job and Job Training Information * Green Business Showcase. (co-sponsored by Rib Palace and Powerade)

Newark:

Say It, Spray It, Recycle It Too
Newark, NJ
September 11, 2009 10:00AM to 04:00PM
Hosted by Pamela B. Daniels
Event Description:
Help design and paint a 'Green the Block' mural at the Hunterdon Street Community Garden. The Working Green Youth Employees have spent the summer training in landscape design in City Parks. The Community Garden at 288 Hunterdon Street is their final project, and we want you-the Newark community to add the finishing touches to the spot. Can't paint? That's okay too! Come out and show your support as we collect recyclable materials from neighboring businesses and homeowners to deliver to the West Orange Recycling Center, the local Newark depot.
Join Working Green, Building Green Solutions, and fellow Newarkers as we encourage the Hunterdon Street Community too 'Green the Block!'
Food, drinks, and music dependent upon sponsorship.

This event is the rare one that mentions our troops:

Vallejo:

Vallejo, CA
September 11, 2009 11:00AM to 07:00PM
Hosted by Janna Besh
Event Description:
Community Picnic. Solano Green Alliance will be having a old fashioned Picnic in City Park in Vallejo. Families and other Community members are encouraged to bring a picnic and celebrate with us to honor the troops that risk their lives everyday for our Country. We will be also doing a park clean up that day. The City Park playground was built by the community. Time: 11:00am to 7:00pm

Bethlehem:

Bethlehem, PA
September 11, 2009 12:00PM to 02:00PM
Hosted by Jerz E. Brown
Event Description:
As the third largest market in the state of PA the Lehigh Valley aka ABE MSA has long been slept on for its spirit of community, art, entreprenu8erialism, and most importantly hip-hop culture! Join Jerz E Brown aka Grand Master IRON FiST and the Hip-Hop Culture Foundation in a effort to unite with our people from across the country and represent for mother earth!

(Bethlehem will also have an open mic and 'community gathering' 6-9:30 p.m. on 9/11)

Los Angeles:

Green Neat Angels Los Angeles , CA
September 11, 2009 12:00PM to 02:00PM
Hosted by Todd Roberts
Event Description:
To help cleanse the community In environment from trash droping and dumping demonds . Also to wash alway gum thats has been harden on the cement And to educate the younger generation of green neat angels .

Many of the Green the Block events promise fun! For example, Sacramento:

Green Oak Park! Sacramento, CA
September 11, 2009 05:00PM to 08:00PM
Hosted by Charles Mason
Event Description:
Date/Time: September 11, 2009, 5:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Host: Ubuntu Green, Oak Park Neighborhood Association, Oak Park Weed and Seed, Oak Park Business Association
• Green the Block is a national movement to have Green the Block events in communities nationwide on September 11th (National Day of Service). www.greentheblock.net This is a partnership of Green for All and the Hip Hop Caucus in coordination with the Obama Administration.
• The Oak Park event will have partner organizations set up educational/food tables and educate visitors on green lifestyles.
• Community members will participate in creating a green community art project.
• Musical performances, food and other fun activities for the entire family

I'll close out this report with the only event (out of several dozen, but not all, of the Green the Block events I looked at) that pays tribute to those murdered on Sept. 11 and those who tried to save them:

Houston:

Houston, TX
September 11, 2009 01:00PM to 07:00PM
Hosted by Mamie McGowan
Event Description:
Green the Block activities include:
The coming together to memorialize the fallen victims and heroes of “911” in a way that will allow us to proactively build on their sacrifice, the event will be held at The Church At Bethel’s Family, Friday 9/11/09 from 1:00p.m. ‐ 7:00p.m. An opening service will honor those lives lost during the tragedy of 9.11.01 and to pay tribute to those who continue to proudly serve today. Afterward the youth of the neighboring areas will arrive and be treated to a day of educational games, interactive sessions and have an opportunity to plant their own crop in our new Vegetable Garden located on the church’s property.SNIP

[wiggen]

i’m glad i can use the word. he is a scumbag.

[tina07]

[Son House]

CREATING A NEW URBAN BEAT

Knowing a black man who got beat in his own neighborhood in Detroit,

and several black folk who came here from Chicago,

GET OUT OF ‘URBAN’ for your life

[Son House]

Palestinians celebrating the fall of the twin towers on 911

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrM0dAFsZ8k

[SE Mom]

Words fail.

[EBH]

In 2007, Oakland, California-based lawyer Van Jones launched the advocacy group Green For All,

Jones pushed to get the 2007 Green Jobs Act passed; the Act earmarks $125 million in grants to train young people in eco-friendly trades. Closer to home, Green For All persuaded the Oakland City Council to put $250,000 into the Green Job Corps, which trains underemployed young adults to independently pursue opportunities in the new-energy economy. http://www.naturalhomemagazine.com/2008-09/back-porch-chats-van-jones.aspx

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Today, the Department of Labor (DOL) released grant guidelines for $500 million in green jobs training, including $150 million for “Pathways out of Poverty” grants!

This is the money Green For All and our supporters fought hard to have included in the Recovery Act that Congress passed in February. After the bill passed with our language included, it was the DOL’s turn to develop specific guidelines to determine how the funding will be distributed.
http://www.greenforall.org/blog/dol-grant-guidelines

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2334687/posts?page=152#152

Green the Block is an activity of Green For ALL.

[opentalk]

This helps explain the Whitehouse insensitivity to the low photo-op fly over of NYC.

[Biggirl]

How dare they!!!!

[Biggirl]

You can thank Van Jones for this!

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Bush's War! (Viet Nam to the Press)

Time to; “Undo the many mistakes of the past administration.”

ERRrrrr......UMMmmmm........Offer peace, end Man-Caused Disaster.

[reasonisfaith]

To Obama and all his followers and co-conspirators: how does it feel to be such cowards you can never admit what you really think about the 911 attacks.

You celebrate the attacks, but only covertly and passively. The weakness of your ideology—against the strength of ours—forces you to slink around the issue like dogs in the alleyway.

Does this make you less than men?

[concerned about politics]

.....to hijack the day with a radical environmental agenda under the guise of Green the Block, a joint project of their respective groups Green for All and the Hip Hop Caucus.

Do it for Welstone!

Do it for Ted!

On 9/11, we'll be celebrating the 3,000+ dead for Oboma! PARTYYYYY!

(These people are demented)

[Biggirl]

The truth is that NOW it is Obama’s war, even the old MSM cannot deny that!

[Biggirl]

Plus a few years back Popular Mechanics put out a special report which was to resolve once and for all this 9/11 truther stuff. It is now in book form.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/1227842.html

[ETL]

Re: 911...

August, 2003: Ward Churchill Caught On Tape Advocating Terrorism [vs Fellow Americans]

Audio link at Michell Malkin's website (included below)

Question from audience:
You mentioned a little bit ago, "Why did it take a bunch of Arabs to do what you all should have done a long time ago," that's my question.

Churchill: I'm gonna repeat that, tell me if I got that right: Why shouldn't we do something and how do you you move so they don't see you coming.

As to the first part, not a reason in the world that I could see. I can't find a single reason that you shouldn't in a principled way —there may be some practical considerations, such as do you know how (laughter from audience)

—you know, often these things are processes. It's not just an impulse. And certainly it's not just an event.

And the simple answer, although it probably should be more complicated, but I'm not being flip and giving the simple answer, is:
You carry the weapon. That's how they don't see it coming. You're the one...

They talk about "color blind or blind to your color." You said it yourself.

You don't send the Black Liberation Army into Wall Street to conduct an action.

You don't send the American Indian Movement into downtown Seattle to conduct an action.

Who do you send? You. Your beard shaved, your hair cut close, and wearing a banker's suit.

There's probably a whole lot more to it, you know that. But there's where you start. .."

more...

The audio is apparently no longer available -only transcript:
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/001588.htm
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"God D*** America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11"
--Rev Dr. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's pastor for twenty years

"America’s chickens... are coming home... to ROOST!"
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For all you'll ever need or want to know about
Wright's "Black Liberation Theology",
see my FR Home page:
http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/

Hint...

"Their founding document [the Weather Underground's] called for the establishment of a "white fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other "anti-colonial" movements[1] to achieve "the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism."..."-Berger, Dan (2006). Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity. AK Press, 95.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_Underground#cite_ref-Berger_0-0

Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity (Paperback) by Dan Berger
http://www.amazon.com/Outlaws-America-Underground-Politics-Solidarity/dp/1904859410
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From the New York Times, August 24, 2003

"they [the Weather Underground] employed revolutionary jargon, advocated armed struggle and black liberation and began bombing buildings, taking responsibility for at least 20 attacks. Estimates of their number ranged at times from several dozen to several hundred."

Article: Quieter Lives for 60's Militants, but Intensity of Beliefs Hasn't Faded
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E4DE1539F937A1575BC0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2
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Here is a 4 minute video from 2006 in which Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn are asked if Ward Churchill in the late 1960s, as he claims, taught the Weathermen bomb making techniques. Ayers says with a sneaky grin: "memory is a real MF-er".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjcS6QFtn_g&feature=related

[Miss Didi]

Gov. Pataki just told the Friends that 9/11 is not a day for national service and singing Kumbaya...we are still at war.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Red rally!

Obammie the Commie continues to live up to my nickname for him.

[True Republican Patriot]

OUTRAGEOUS!!!! BECK, LIMBAUGH, MALKIN, HANNITY! SCREAM LOUD AND LONG!! THIS OBOZO IS OUTRAGEOUS!! TRYING TO OBFUSCATE 9-11 WITH HIS DAMN GREEN CRAP!! AND DELIBERATELY ON 9-11!!
Picking a Quiet Town like Bethlehem, PA just 70 Miles from Ground ZERO! EVERYONE, GET OUT AND SAY NO!!!
VAN JONES and OBOZO,GET THE HECK OUT OF AMERICA!!

[who knows what evil?]

Red rally!

Exactly...a rally of REDS (GREENS) on the anniversary of 9/11. Beyond outrageous...

[faux_hog]

This breaks my heart and makes me sick. fh