Posted on 09/04/2009 8:35:59 PM PDT by kristinn
Edited on 09/04/2009 10:12:27 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Van Jones, Barack Obama's Green Jobs Czar, produced a record album entitled "WarTimes: Reports from the Opposition" a few years ago that was narrated by convicted cop killer Mumia Abu Jamal and featured a clip of an interview Jones did where he slammed the United States and Israel and proclaimed his stand with a "global struggle" against the United States.
Jones used his Ella Baker Center for Human Rights to found Freedom Fighter Music, the label WarTimes appeared on. WarTimes is also the name of an anti-war-on-al-Qaeda propaganda newspaper Jones helped organize.
The album was unearthed by the website Verum Serum, which posted a YouTube video with highlights of the album.
About three minutes forty-five seconds in to the highlight video, there is a brief interview with Van Jones at an anti-Israel demonstration where Jones criticizes Israel and calls for Palestinian 'right of return' then unloads on the United States:
"We see violence against poor people and poor people of color within the U.S. border, at the U.S. border, and beyond the U.S. border and you see U.S. tax dollars funding all of it. And so we have this now global struggle against the U.S. led security apparatus and military agenda that impacts people here and impacts people around the world and I think that we need to see our problems as linked."
Mumia closes out the album by describing it as a "small tease of the truth about U.S. imperialism's war on the world."
The time frame of the album is hard to gauge, but Verum Serum writes that Freedom Fighter Music existed from around 2002-2003 to 2005-2006 and produced maybe two or three albums. The album appears to be from late 2002 or early 2003.
Jones mentioned the label in an interview with USA Today's USA Weekend magazine published February 9, 2003 that Verum Serum found:
[I understand you have] developed a record label, Freedom Fighter Music.
Jones: Yes, we've had one for a little more than a year. Our second CD is coming out this year.
Verum Serum gave a link to an MP3 file of the entire album at Indymedia.
FFM 30882 6 / IDC Cat#0028
Freedom Fighter Music presents WARTIMES.
The underlying title line for this compilation album reads: "REPORTS FROM THE OPPOSITION"
The Ella Baker Center For Human Rights funded this project in raising awareness of alternatives to war. This CD is an open letter to President Bush and his administration demanding world peace. All proceeds raised by this project go toward war-alternative programs such as SCHOOLS NOT BOMBS in Oakland, California.
This album is another dope hip-hop compilation featuring name and new artists like: GOAPELE, COMPANY OF PROPHETS, THE RED GUARD, HANIFAH WALIDAH, MEILODIK, SAMANTHA LIAPES and more. Heated production from CES-ONE, YING SUN, & MIKE TIGER make up the soundscape on which these artists voice songs that call for peace. There are also some R&B style and spoken word tracks on this joint. This album is narrated and hosted by MUMIA ABU-JAMAL and includes social commentary from community leaders and activists like VAN JONES and others.
This is the second in a series from Freedom Fighter Music and is a must have for those who are politically active, conscious and into hip-hop music.
Track Listing
1. Mumia Abu-Jamal Intro
2. Soldierman
3. Warsick
4. Noura Erakat
5. United We Stand
6. Masters of War
7. Dena Al - Adeeb
8. Red, White and Blues
9. Van Jones
10. Hush
11. Flag Love
12. Mumia Abu-Jamal Outro
this guy needs to stay with obama all the way to the next presidential election. maybe we are jumping the gun. of course, that crazy reverend was revealed and obama still got elected. maybe its better to force a political death by a thousand cuts and keep marching on.
Thanks. As of now there are 33 returns on the search terms Van Jones and Freedom Fighter Music. It’ll be interesting to see how that changes by this time tomorrow.
Kinda like a 'community organizer' on a global scale...A Black Panther with an updated name...
Joseph McCarthy was right - and was ostracized. Now we see unfolding EXACTLY what Senator McCarthy was trying to warn us about -
THIS was a hero. WE need another like him - but I am afraid it is too late.
And don’t you think the Secret Service has something planned in the event of what youre describing actually takes place?
The jig was up when he (Obambi) went over their head to allow this Commie into the WHite House (much against their stern warnings). They are watching every move he makes against the U.S. Constitution and they are taking names.
God bless Saint Joe.
I don’t know what the Secret Service is doing.
I hope you are right. I hope they are freedom-minded Americans.
No, this time Jones gets away with saying, "That's not the same 9/11 Truther Petition I knew."
I am very worried: what type of national secrets Obama gave to these guys when they meet in the oval office around a beer?
When these guys will be out like Van Jones - I hope soon - what do they know about the White House, about US secrets? What Obama told them about American “classified” and how will they use what they learnt?
WHERE IS THE FBI WHEN WE NEED THEM TO DEFEND OUR COUNTRY???
This terrifies me.
Actually I probably should have said CIA, since it is after all Obama’s henchmen in the Dept of Justice that are going after them for keeping our country safe. After watching Yuri’s (KGB defector in the 80s) videos on Youtube I’m convinced ..CIA would probably be doing what we cannot (unknown to Obama of course..which infuriates him, hence the attacks from the DOJ).
Forget that. The RNC needs to get some ads in the bank about how Obama and the Dems allow people like this to live off of the public dime.
Amen to that. The more the general public is educated that there's been a communist coup, the better chance there will be of a rout in the 2010 elections. Just keep emailing, blogging, writing, posting, Tea-Partying - whatever you can to get the Truth out - and hopefully we'll have a peaceful revolution. If not, hey, I'm up for the other kind. . .
That is an amazing video! Who was the senator(?) doing the questioning of the crawfishing Fed IG? If a senator(?) at a hearing can’t get straight answers to some very basic questions about where the money went, we’re in the deepest kinda doodoo. Ron Paul is of course right again; the Fed needs to open its books before ALL of our tax dollars disappear down a rat hole. Some high level chicanery is afoot.
Under the video it says
First-term (anti-bailout candidate) Democrat Alan Grayson questions Elizabeth Coleman, Inspector General of the Federal Reserve.
surprising that it’s a democrat. First-term may he be the first of a new breed of democrat congressmen that remembers America’s mission statement.
Scratch the “who” question. It looked like he was wearing a senate pin, but the title sortof gives it away - Alan Grayson, congressman from FL. That’s worth a (((DUH!!!))) on my part!
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