Van Jones (photo credit: collagepeople.org)
Posted on 07/17/2009 10:29:45 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Van Jones is President Barack Obama's newly appointed "Green Jobs Czar"
Jones' official title is Special Advisor on Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation for the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
The 41-year-old Yale Law School graduate and civil rights lawyer is also the founder of California's Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, "a non-profit agency for justice, opportunities and peace."
Sounds idyllic, but Jones' past isn't so pastoral.
The Ella Baker Center was connected to STORM (Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement), a "multi-racial activist collective with Marxist influences" with which Jones was involved.
In 1992, Van Jones founded another STORM project, Bay Area PoliceWatch, a "hotline and lawyer-referral service for victims and survivors of police abuse." This is fitting, perhaps, since Jones was himself arrested and detained briefly during a protest after the Rodney King verdict that same year.
Jones told the East Bay Express in 2005:
I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th [1992], and then the verdicts came down on April 29th. 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 ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary.
Like a character out of The Big Chill, Van Jones seems to have evolved from radical activist to Establishment insider. Perhaps only a left-wing administration incapable of recognizing irony would put a self-described communist in charge of creating jobs.
Luckily for Van Jones, and Obama's many other "Czars" with dubious credentials and troubling backgrounds, his new job was not dependent upon making it through Congressional hearings.
Van Jones (photo credit: collagepeople.org)
“The Ella Baker Center was connected to STORM (Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement), a “multi-racial activist collective with Marxist influences” with which Jones was involved.”
Obama: “Give that man a raise”!!
He doesn't really care about creating jobs. Its all about destruction. Destroying capitalism and freedom
Another fraud.
I'm sure Van the Man, as a faithful follower of the Humanist Religion, is pro-baby killing.
As such, his big talk of "social justice" is nothing but self-aggrandizing nonsense.
One cannot possibly for social justice and not stand firmly for sanctity of life.
This Cretin is all about pushing the White Race.
Over the edge.
Human Rights has been redefined.....it now means “something for nothing”
Kinda arrogant, doncha think?
What is the first thing that must be done before rebuilding something?
Cities Will Save the Planet and Suburbs Are Racist
By Annalee Newitz, 4:39 PM on Mon Nov 12 2007,
If we want to survive as a species, we will have to live in massive mega-cities. Living at one with nature is just crap idealism from the past, and the suburbs are nothing more than archaic residue of racist white flight patterns. So says futurist-environmentalist Van Jones. He isn’t afraid to piss people off, and speak the unspeakable, and you can see him at his best in a recent interview.
In the interview, Jones said:
The future of all humanity, and most species and systems, will be determined by what we choose to do with cities. The idea that the environment is about critters and creeks is a thing of the past. We have to be thinking about these things in terms of consumption and disposal processes of mega-cities.
He added:
Sprawl is a response to racial fear and anxiety on the part of white elites. The ‘burbs were designed as a vehicle to get away from people of color, investing more in the white infrastructure as they moved away from the city, and the neighborhoods where people of color live.
Does that mean the only environmentally-sound, antiracist thing for whites to do is move back to the inner cities. Yes, it does.
http://io9.com/321864/cities-will-save-the-planet-and-suburbs-are-racist
Green is the new Red.
My background is in the struggles for racial justice and criminal justice reform. As such, I’ve always felt an affinity for Cinque, the hero of the slave-revolt movie Amistad. In that film, based on a true story, the righteous, enslaved Africans fight back and take over the slave ship.
The people at the bottom rise up—taking their destiny into their own hands. It’s really a metaphor for the last century’s version of racial politics. The slave ship is earth, the white slavers are the world’s oppressors and the African captives are the world’s oppressed. The point is for the oppressed to confront and defeat their oppressors. I took that as my mission and spent years fighting against superjails, rogue cops, the prison lobby—against the forces that, to my mind and the minds of many, are the slavers of today.
Yet at a certain point it occurred to me that what we need is less investment in the fight against and more energy in the fight for: for positive alternatives to violence and incarceration. It was around that time that I got involved in the environmental movement. And I came to understand that the answer to our social, economic and ecological crises can be one and the same: a green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty.
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http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081117/jones
Every day is another confirmation.
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