Obama Official Linked to Racially Charged Boycott of Glenn Beck

humanevents.com ^ | August 13, 2009 | Michelle Oddis

[Voter62vb]

well done!

[Graybeard58]

Buy generics, in many cases just as good...and usually cheaper.

We do buy generics in many cases but it was my understanding that generics are made or packaged by the major companies with the store brands put on them.

[kcvl]

In 2008, Time Magazine named Jones one of its “Environmental Heroes.”

On March 10, 2009, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) announced Jones’ appointment as Special Advisor on Green Jobs for the CEQ.

In 2005, Van and Ella Baker Center produced the “Social Equity Track” for the United Nations’ World Environment Day celebration.

The Green-Collar Jobs Campaign was Jones’ first concerted effort to combine his lifelong commitment to racial and economic justice with his newer commitment to solving the environmental crisis.

In September, 2007, Jones attended the Clinton Global Initiative and announced his plans to launch Green For All, a new national NGO dedicated to creating green pathways out of poverty in America.

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Speaking to the East Bay Express, Jones said he first became radicalized in the wake of the 1992 Rodney King riots.

“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. I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th. By August, I was a communist.”

In the late 90s, Van Jones was involved in Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM), a multi-racial activist collective with Marxist influences. While never large, STORM was an influential group in the Bay Area, working with numerous organizations including Bay Area Police Watch, School of Unity and Liberation (SOUL), and People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER). Jones and STORM were also active in the anti Iraq War demonstrations of the early 2000’s

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OBAMA SHOWS HIS RADICAL ROOTS AGAIN BY THE FRIENDS HE KEEPS!

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Jones has also served on the boards of numerous environmental and nonprofit organizations, including 1Sky, the National Apollo Alliance, Social Venture Network, Rainforest Action Network, Bioneers, Julia Butterfly Hill’s “Circle of Life” organization and Free Press. He was also a Senior Fellow with the Center for American Progress

Center for American Progress run by John Podesta (LOBBYIST) former chief of staff to Clinton, close friends to George Stephanopolous and Rahm Emanuel.

[Graybeard58]

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[kcvl]

Another damn scam by team Obama...

What are green jobs?

In a recent video interview with Lois Romano of the Washington Post, Van Jones answered the question, “What are green jobs?” Jones, the White House Special Advisor on Green Jobs stated that the Obama administration defines green jobs as “good jobs that are good for the environment.”

http://www.mnn.com/business/green-jobs/blogs/van-jones-defines-green-jobs

NAME ONE!!!

[April Lexington]

Don’t know how much bullying it would take to get SC Johnson to stop advertising. The current generation of Johnsons are a bunch of enviroweenie liberals.

Turnabout is fair play. If SC Johnson drops Beck, then WE boycott SC Johnson. There are MANY more of us and we have MONEY!

I wonder if the Jones boycotting would include a ban on SHOPLIFTING SC Johnson products????

[mplsconservative]

You do have that right here. I realize you’re new. What do I say? Not much. Time for bed.

Just watch about being called racist when you call Obama on his ideology. Socialist = Racist, NOT!

[April Lexington]

his lifelong commitment to racial and economic justice with his newer commitment to solving the environmental crisis.

Its all COMMUNIST inspired black liberation mumbo jumbo. He just pulls a big paycheck for shooting his mouth off...

[Pure Country]

We do buy generics in many cases but it was my understanding that generics are made or packaged by the major companies with the store brands put on them.

Keep buying generics. It hurts them even if they do make the product. Case in point....Monsanto. They have sold their products to the generics and the gens have about put Monsanto sales completely under. Monsanto has had to lower their prices to compete against their own products.

[kcvl]

Van Jones: “I love Barack Obama,” he said. “I’d pay money just to shine the brother’s shoes.”

Jones often says that he is trying to “green the ghetto.”

“They have this thing called solar panels,” he continued. “A solar panel is a piece of glass almost. Right now wealthy people can put that on their homes. And it costs money to put it up there, but once it’s up the sunlight hits it and it turns it into electricity and powers the house. So you’re paying electricity bills, but somebody else is kicking it. Somebody’s going to make a million dollars figuring out a way to get those solar panels made and deployed in our hoods. I think it should be you.”

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/01/12/090112fa_fact_kolbert

[Canedawg]

This is the crap we get when the sheeple elect a community organizer to high office.

I am sure these convicts, marxists, anarchists, communists, anti-semites, racists and Alinskyites are having a great time crapping all over the carpet, like a pigeon who mistakenly flies into a house.

I think he is more comfortable wearing prison orange than that suit and tie he has on in that vid.

[ottbmare]

Boy, that shows a really deep understanding of science, business, and entrepreneurship, doesn’t it?

[Brad’s Gramma]

They DO carry waaaaaaaaaaay too many things that I useD.

Their loss....

[rcrngroup]

black hatred for whites is unbelievable. Until the obamanation took over, I was not aware of the depth of that hatred. I have known that they have a “white” talk and a separate “black” talk. That should have told me something. People who do that, do not want to assimilate.. they want to be separate and in this case, mocking.

Your comments are very disturbing. My black friends don't hate me, in fact we love each other as the people we are, individuals. I am calling you out for a troll. You are as much a divider as 0bama.

mplsconservative, I agree partly with what you say -- on an individual basis, there are some excellent friendships & relationships between black individuals & white individuals.

But I disagree with your view that bareford101 is wrong in his assessment of black hatred for whites at a community or ethnic level. Racial tensions & hatred have been especially fueled under 0bozo, as he plays & panders to the race baiters and fosters racial distrust between any ethnic minority and whites. There is more racial divide & mistrust in the last 7-8 months under 0bozo, than at any time since the 60's. Look at his comment re. Gates... "He is my friend and I am biased towards him, but I don't know all the facts, however the Cambridge police acted stupidly". And his membership in Trinty United Church of (anti)Christ, as Wright preached virulent hatred against whites and the U.S. for the past 20 years that 0bozo was a member there.

If or when a civil war may erupt because of 0bozo's fanatical left wing insistence to jam health (un)reform down our throat, I think that he will do all he can to portray this as a racist battle and to pit ethnic groups against each other in order to fan the flames of hatred even more so.

[Zack Attack]

Is there not something wrong with a “czar”, someone who has influence with the President, using the weight of that position wiith advertisers to try to silence a mdeia member?

[tina07]

no class warfare going on in that statement, eh? Wealthy have solar panels and he wants to get them deployed to the hoods. Just ridiculous.

WTH is going on

[nutmeg]

Related thread: Powerful PR Firm Helps Campaign to Get Glenn Beck Off The Air

[bareford101]

Thank you for saying what I did not. I tend to be abrupt, perhaps, too much so, sometimes. I guess I am just feeling like a fool for all the years that I was fooled after trying so hard and giving everyone the benefit of the doubt.

And I should say, that the conservative black people I know (3-5), I do like and enjoy being with. But, if it came to taking a side with me or their black friends, it would not be me. And these people are conservative. I believe that most black people see themselves, first of all, as black people, and then through those race lens, they make their decisions. White people do not see themselves as white people at all, really. Just as Americans or Christians or Jews or neighbors or workers, or parents, etc.

I think that is one of the reasons why black people travel in groups and/or gangs... they have an identify together because of color. Same way they cheered when OJ Simpson got off for murder. They cheered because he killed 2 white people and got off. Yet, if that had been a reversed color scenario, I don't know any whites who would have cheered if a white murderer was set free.

[ETL]

"Obama Official [Van Jones] Linked to Racially Charged Boycott of Glenn Beck"

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

[DTogo]

Ho-ho-ho!

Green Job Czar!