Posted on 08/25/2009 2:59:09 PM PDT by tobyhill
Van Jones, the man appointed as "green jobs czar" to the White House, previously served on the board of an environmental activist group at which a founder of the Weather Underground terrorist organization is a top director.
WND previously reported Jones was as an admitted radical communist and black nationalist leader.
He was appointed to serve as the special adviser for green jobs, enterprise and innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality. According to the White House blog, Jones' duties include helping to craft job-generating climate policy and to ensure equal opportunity in the administration's energy proposals.
Jones, formerly a self-described "rowdy black nationalist," boasted in a 2005 interview with the left-leaning East Bay Express that his environmental activism was a means to fight for racial and class "justice."
Jones was president and founder of Green For All, a nonprofit organization that advocates for building a so-called inclusive green economy.
Until recently, Jones was a longtime member of the board of Apollo Alliance, a coalition of labor, business, environmental and community leaders that claims on its website to be "working to catalyze a clean energy revolution that will put millions of Americans to work in a new generation of high-quality, green-collar jobs."
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green jobs are a hoax...made to steal your money.
WND has apparently been watching Glen Beck.
Obama wormed his way out of his relationships with Wright, Ayers etc. by downplaying his knowledge of their beliefs.
However, he selected radicals like this one and others. He should be hounded from here to tomorrow about these choices.
Jones is your typical Oakland kleptocrat. I just assume he’s stuffing his pockets full of cash as we speak...
Beck’s programs yesterday and today have been all over Jones and his ilk, with details, clips, quotes, facts. He has Limbaugh on tomorrow and is doing a week-long series on the “czars” and the people surrounding Obama.
Beck pointed out today that this Weather Underground guy — one of the co-founders with Ayers — was involved in writing the stimulus bill.
Not that it really matters, but I wonder if the czars lie like other appointees of Hussein. Do the czars take an oath to “support and defend the Constitution” or do they swear to obey The Zero?
***Until recently, Jones was a longtime member of the board of Apollo Alliance, a coalition of labor, business, environmental and community leaders ****
Glen Beck just blew the cover off this organization.
The list, ping
It’s all connected Hip Hop Caucas leader Lennox Yearwood/Van Jones:
“Obama Turns 9/11 Observance Over to al Qaeda Sympathizer”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2323390/posts
http://thecityfix.com/sustainable-cities-and-hip-hop-creating-a-new-urban-beat/
“Yesterday, on his 48th birthday, Pres. Barack Obama announced the Green the Block campaign “to ensure that low-income communities and communities of color have the resources and platforms needed to access the benefits and opportunities of the growing clean-energy economy.”
Launched in partnership with Green For All and the Hip Hop Caucus, the nationwide campaign will rely on a coalition of organizations to educate and mobilize young people about how to take action on things like installing energy-efficient light bulbs in neighborhood homes, planting a community garden, and writing letters to local officials asking them to promote the use of more fuel efficient vehicles.
Green the Block is just one example of how youth culture — and in particular, hip hop culture — is transforming the way we advocate for sustainable cities and transportation. And it’s not just in the United States.
Take, for example, the events planned for the World Urban Forum in 2006, where artists like Curtis Clearsky and other UN-HABITAT Messengers of Truth performed at the Global Hip-Hip Mainstage to inspire young people to change their cities for the better. The United Nations recognized that “Hip-Hop is more than a genre of music or dance. It is a social movement.”
It’s about mainstreaming the idea of safer, cleaner and more accessible urban communities, and you can see it happening through what’s commonly referred to as “the five elements:” emceeing, breakdancing, deejaying, beat boxing, and the art of graffiti. Here’s a few examples from around the world:
MASTER OF CEREMONIES
Obama, himself, is the quintessential emcee for America’s youth, supporting the power of hip hop as a vehicle for change:
“I love the art of hip hop; I don’t always love the message of hip hop. The thing about hip hop today is that it’s smart, it’s insightful, the way that [rappers] can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable. A lot of these kids are not going to be reading The New York Times. The question, then, is, what’s the content? What’s the message?
Art can’t just be a rear view mirror; it should also have a headlight out there pointing to where we need to go.”
Barack “B-Rock” Obama meets with Ludacris. Photo via Snicka.
His decision about “where to go” was made clear through the establishment of the White House Office of Urban Affairs, which proves his commitment to “promote strong cities as the backbone of regional growth.” This summer, the Office kicked off a National Conversation on the Future of America’s Cities and Metropolitan Areas, essentially convening a whole community of urban policy “emcees” who will be talking about “ways in which Washington can be a partner and catalyst for community-based solutions, instead of a bureaucratic obstacle.”
Another public figure who comes to mind as a hip-hop-inspired voice for a new generation of sustainable city advocates is Majora Carter, who wrote a $1.25 million federal transportation planning grant to conduct a feasibility study for the South Bronx Greenway. As an African-American woman who grew up in the South Bronx, Carter understands that some people think cleaning and greening a city will “kill” hip hop because it takes away from the suffering, which often fuels the art form. But, she said in an interview, “if we have industry that employs people and communities — that are beautiful — then hip-hop can just flourish. It will just be something new. It will be happy hip-hop!” Hence her motto: “Green the Ghetto!”, which is also the title of her organization’s blog, which recently posted this pic...”
Got to get Pookie a Job.................
This has to be one of the funniest thing I’ve read in a while.
I am most curious. I have read that Obama has as few as 30 czars and possible as many as 43 czars.
I have several questions regarding Obama’s czars:
Who hired them?
Whose budget pays them?
How much are they paid?
What powers do they have?
Where are their powers derived?
I know Congress derives its powers from the Constitution but I can't identify where "czars" fit in the government hierarchy. I can tell from the Constitution that the Congress is the only branch of government who can write laws. The Constitution doesn’t even provide a clue about czars. One last question. Is “czar” a title? i.e. Senator Kerry or Czar Van Jones
Anyone help would be most appreciated.
Did you find it on that other thread? It really is like living in the Twilight Zone these days.
Here's another one that cracks me up,“Green the Ghetto!”.
I guess the Ghetto hasn't figured out that trees don't usually grow through concrete.
Van Jones, the green czar is the self-professed communist/black nationalist/arrested during the Rodney King riots/ etc.
Jeff Jones, however, was co-founder of the Weather Underground w/Ayers & on the board of Apollo Alliance .. and is now an advisor for some environmental projects working for the Gov of NY
They are ALL, however, like Barry: Anti-USA and Anti-capitalism.
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