Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM),
the revolutionary group formed by self-described "communist" and "rowdy
black nationalist" Van Jones, held a vigil in Oakland, California,
"mourning the victims of U.S. imperialism around the world" on the night
after Sept. 11, 2001.
The reason
this is important is because Van Jones is now Obama's green jobs czar.
He does not appear to have distanced himself from his past communist
activities and is now part of the Obama administration's
push to turn Sept. 11 into a National Day of Service
focused on the promotion of the radical environmentalist agenda.
The vigil was
reported by World Net Daily which excerpted parts of a history of
the now-disbanded group.
The 2004
document, called
"Reclaiming Revolution: history, summation & lessons from the work of
Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM)."
Note: Just hours after I cached my
copy, the manifesto was removed and the entire website was taken down
from the Internet.
Jones also founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights,
which joined in the vigil according to an Ella Baker Center
press release from 2001. The press release contained this
passage that quoted Jones:
"Anti-Arab hostility is already reaching a fever pitch as pundits and
common people alike rush to judgment that an Arab group is responsible
for this tragedy," said Van Jones, national executive director of the
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. "We fear that an atmosphere is
being created that will result in official and street violence against
Arab men, women and children."
"Reclaiming Revolution" also blamed the U.S. for 9/11. A passage
on page 45 (27 of the
PDF file) reads:
That night,
STORM and the other movement leaders expressed sadness and anger at the
deaths of innocent working class people. We were angry, first and
foremost, with the U.S. government, whose worldwide aggression had
engendered such hate across the globe that working class people were not
safe at home. We honored those who had lost their lives in the
attack -- and those who would surely lose their lives in subsequent U.S.
attacks overseas.
Michelle Malkin
discussed STORM and "Reclaiming Revolution" on the "Glenn Beck
Program" on Aug. 25.
We Are Going To Change The Whole System!
Just days before his White House appointment,
Van Jones, President Obama's
environmental adviser, used a
forum at a major youth convention to push for what can easily be
interpreted as a communist or socialist agenda.
As WND previously
reported, Van Jones, special adviser for green jobs, enterprise and
innovation to the White House Council on Environmental Quality, is an
admitted black nationalist and radical communist. Jones'
appointment was announced on March 10.
Two weeks before he started his White House job,
however, Jones delivered the keynote address at Power Shift '09, which
was billed as the largest youth summit on climate change in history. A
reported 12,000 young people were at the D.C. Convention Center for the
event.
During his speech,
available on YouTube,
Jones threw around terms like "eco-apartheid" and "green for some," and
preached about spreading the wealth while positing a call to "change the
whole system."
In one section of his twenty-minute speech, Jones
referenced "our Native American brothers and sisters" who, he claimed,
were "pushed," "bullied," "mistreated" and "shoved into all the land
that we didn't want."
"Guess what?" Jones continued. "Give them the
wealth! Give them then wealth! No justice on stolen land ... we owe them
a
debt."
"We have to create a green economy, that's true,
that's true. But we have to create a green economy that Dr. King would
be proud of," he exclaimed.
Jones spoke about using what he termed an
environmental revolution to push for other policies, including anti-war
activism.
"If all you did was have a
clean
energy revolution, you wouldn't
have done anything. ... You'll have bio-fueled bombers and we'll be
fighting wars over lithium for the batteries instead of oil for the
engines," he said to applause.
"This movement is deeper than
solar
power. ... Don't stop there! We
are going to change the whole system!" he exclaimed.
The White House did not return multiple WND requests
the past few weeks seeking comment on how Jones was screened for his
position and whether the White House knew of his admitted radical past.
Jones was the leader and founder of a radical group,
the communist revolutionary organization Standing Together to Organize a
Revolutionary Movement, or STORM. That group, together with Jones' Elle
Baker Center for Human Rights, led a vigil Sept. 12, 2001, at Snow Park
in Oakland, Calif.
A WND review of the 97-page treatise found a
description of a vigil that Jones' group held Sept. 12, 2001, at Snow
Park in Oakland, Calif. The event drew hundreds and articulated an
"anti-imperialist" line, according to STORM's own description.
The radical group's manual boasted the 9/11 vigil was
held to express solidarity with Arab and Muslim Americans and to mourn
the civilians killed in the terrorist attacks "as well as the victims of
U.S. imperialism around the world."
"We honored those who lost their lives in the attack
and those who would surely lose their lives in subsequent U.S. attacks
overseas," STORM's manifesto recalls.
Also,
WND obtained a press release of Jones' vigil, dated Sept. 11, 2001,
and titled, "People Of Color Groups Gather to Stand In Solidarity With
Arab Americans and to Mourn the East Coast Dead."
"Anti-Arab hostility is already reaching a fever pitch
as pundits and common people alike rush to judgment that an Arab group
is responsible for this tragedy," stated Jones in the release hours
after the 9/11 attacks.
"We fear that an atmosphere is being created that will
result in official and street violence against Arab men, women and
children," he said.
Last week, Fox News Channel's Glenn Beck drew
attention to a section of STORM's manual that describes Jones'
organization as having a "commitment to the fundamental ideas of
Marxism-Leninism."
"We agreed with Lenin's analysis of the state and the
party," reads the manifesto. "And we found inspiration in the
revolutionary strategies developed by Third World revolutionaries like
Mao Tse-tung and Amilcar Cabral."
Cabral is the late Marxist revolutionary leader of
Guinea-Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands.
WND previously reported Jones
named his son after Cabral and reportedly concludes every
e-mail with a quote from the
communist leader.
STORM's
newsletter boasted "we also saw our brand of Marxism
as, in some ways, a reclamation."
STORM worked with known communist leaders. It led the charge in black
protests against various issues, including a local attempt to pass
Proposition 21, a ballot initiative that sought to increase the
penalties for violent crimes and require more juvenile offenders to be
tried as adults.
Speaking to the East Bay Express, Jones said he first
became radicalized in the wake of the 1992 Rodney King riots, during
which time he was arrested.
"I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the
verdicts came down on April 29th," he said. "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 10 years of my
life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a
revolutionary," he said.
Trevor Loudon, a researcher and opponent of communism
who runs the New Zeal blog,
identified several Bay Area communists who worked with STORM, including
Elizabeth Martinez, who helped advise Jones' Ella Baker Human Rights
Center, which Jones founded to advocate civil justice. Jones and
Martinez also attended a "Challenging White Supremacy" workshop
together.
Martinez was a longtime Maoist who went on to join the
Communist Party USA breakaway organization Committees of Correspondence
for Democracy and Socialism, or CCDS, in the early 1990s, according to
Loudon. Martinez still serves on the CCDS council and is also a board
member of the Movement for a Democratic Society, where she sits
alongside former Weathermen radicals Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.
STORM eventually fell apart amid bickering among its
leaders.
Jones then moved on to environmentalism. He used his
Ella Baker Center to advocate "inclusive" environmentalism and launch a
Green-Collar Jobs Campaign, which led to the nation's first Green Jobs
Corps in Oakland, Calif.
At the Clinton Global Initiative in 2007, Jones
announced the establishment of Green For All, which in 2008 held a
national green conference in which most attendees were black. Jones also
released a book, "The Green Collar Economy," which debuted at No.12 on
the New York Times' bestseller list – the first environmental book
written by an African American to make the list.
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 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."
Jones Says The United States Was An
Apartheid Regime
The U.S. was an "apartheid regime" that civil rights workers helped
turn into a "struggling, fledgling democracy," according to President
Obama's controversial environmental adviser, Van Jones.
In a
video screened by WND, Jones also called for a new "theology of
resistance" and "theology of liberation" aimed at transforming American
society.
Jones was speaking at the July 2005 Conference on Spiritual Activism
in Berkeley, Calif., organized by radical activist Michael Lerner, the
founding editor of the far-left magazine Tikkun.
Stated Jones: "We forget sometimes that the people who poured out
their blood on the ground in this country, to turn an apartheid regime
into a struggling, fledgling democracy, the so-called civil rights
workers, when they went to face the dogs, when they went to face the
fire hoses, when they sat shivering in cold jail cells soaked in blood,
when they faced lynch mobs, when they found their children shot down in
the street, they didn't march at laundromats , they didn't march at high
school gymnasiums.
They marched out of church houses ... that was a great moment for
progressive leftists," he said.
At the conference, Jones, speaking on the theme of transforming
American society, called for a "new myth, we need a new theology of
resistance, we need a new theology of liberation rooted in another part
of the book."
"Might I humbly suggest Noah and his wife. Why Noah?
Because there is a crisis coming ... there has got to be an ark, its got
to be able to accommodate diversity on a massive scale."
Jones racially toned comments come as Fox News has been playing a
video of the activist claiming in a previous interview that "white
polluters and the white environmentalists are essentially steering
poison into the people of color communities."
Jones' conference remarks were not the first time he was involved
with an event calling for "resistance" against the U.S. Earlier
this week Jones was the main speaker at an anti-war rally that
urged
participants to partake in a pledge of "resistance" against the U.S.
government.
The rally was sponsored by an organization associated with the
Revolutionary Communist Party, which calls for the overthrow of the U.S.
government and its replacement with a communist dictatorship.
WND previously
reported Jones, special adviser for green jobs, enterprise and
innovation to the White House Council on Environmental Quality, is an
admitted black nationalist and radical communist.
In 2002, Jones was a keynote speaker at a rally at People's Park in
Berkeley, Calif., to mark the national launch of Not In Our Name, a
Maoist, terrorist-supporting, anti-war group founded by Revolutionary
Communist Party member C. Clark Kissinger. People's Park was created
during the radical political activism of the late 1960s.
Jones spoke alongside Jeff Paterson, the first active-duty soldier to
refuse orders to be part of the U.S. attack force during the Persian
Gulf War.
Not In Our Name, which disbanded in March 2008, called on
participants to take the "Pledge of Resistance," which begins with the
following statement:
We believe that as people living in the United States it is our
responsibility to resist the injustices done by our government, in
our names.
The pledge continues:
Not in our name will you invade countries bomb civilians, kill more
children letting history take its course over the graves of the
nameless ...
We pledge resistance.
We pledge alliance with those who have come under attack for
voicing opposition to the war or for their religion or ethnicity."
Not In Our Name hosted a number of radicals at its events.
At an Oct. 6, 2002, rally, according to a
Discover the Networks profile, two of the specially invited guest
speakers were former University of South Florida professor Sami
Al-Arian, who was accused of involvement with the terrorist organization
Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the radical attorney Lynne Stewart, who
was convicted of illegally passing messages on behalf of her
incarcerated client Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman – the terrorist mastermind
of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
According to a report on the
website of
the Revolutionary Communist Party USA, while Jones was hosting a
rally in Berkeley, a sister rally for Not In Our Name was held at nearby
Martin Luther King Park.
At that event, according to the site, 350 people marched through the
streets behind a flatbed truck decorated with a huge "Not in Our Name"
banner and a drawing of a "monstrous-looking" Uncle Sam stabbing the
globe with a dagger.
Jones was also a leader of a radical group, United for Peace and
Justice, or UFPJ, of which his Ella Baker Human Rights Center was an
associate. Not In My Name was an affiliate of UFPJ.
The White House did not return multiple WND requests the past few
weeks seeking comment on how Jones was screened for his position and
whether the White House knew of his admitted radical past.
Jones on 9/11: Blame U.S. 'imperialism'
Last week, WND
reported that one day after the 9/11 attacks, Jones led a vigil that
expressed solidarity with Arab and Muslim Americans as well as what he
called the victims of "U.S. imperialism" around the world.
Jones was the founder and leader and of a radical group, the
communist revolutionary organization Standing Together to Organize a
Revolutionary Movement, or STORM. The group, together with Jones' Elle
Baker Center for Human Rights, led a vigil Sept. 12, 2001, at Snow Park
in Oakland, Calif.
STORM's official manifesto, titled, "Reclaiming Revolution," surfaced
on the Internet.
A WND review of the 97-page treatise found a description of the 2001
vigil in Oakland. The event drew hundreds and articulated an
"anti-imperialist" line, according to STORM's own description.
The radical group's manual boasted the 9/11 vigil was held to express
solidarity with Arab and Muslim Americans and to mourn the civilians
killed in the terrorist attacks "as well as the victims of U.S.
imperialism around the world."
"We honored those who lost their lives in the attack and those who
would surely lose their lives in subsequent U.S. attacks overseas,"
STORM's manifesto recalls.
Also, WND obtained a press release of Jones' vigil, dated Sept. 11,
2001, and titled, "People Of Color Groups Gather to Stand In Solidarity
With Arab Americans and to Mourn the East Coast Dead."
"Anti-Arab hostility is already reaching a fever pitch as pundits and
common people alike rush to judgment that an Arab group is responsible
for this tragedy," stated Jones in the release hours after the 9/11
attacks.
"We fear that an atmosphere is being created that will result in
official and street violence against Arab men, women and children," he
said.
Fox News Channel's Glenn Beck drew attention to a section of STORM's
manual that describes Jones' organization as having a "commitment to the
fundamental ideas of Marxism-Leninism."
"We agreed with Lenin's analysis of the state and the party," reads
the manifesto. "And we found inspiration in the revolutionary strategies
developed by Third World revolutionaries like Mao Tse-tung and Amilcar
Cabral."
Cabral is the late Marxist revolutionary leader of Guinea-Bissau and
the Cape Verde Islands. Jones named his son after Cabral and
reportedly concludes every e-mail with a quote from the communist
leader.
STORM's newsletter boasted "we also saw our brand of Marxism as, in
some ways, a reclamation."
STORM worked with known communist leaders. It led the charge in black
protests against various issues, including a local attempt to pass
Proposition 21, a ballot initiative that sought to increase the
penalties for violent crimes and require more juvenile offenders to be
tried as adults.
Speaking to the East Bay Express, Jones said he first became
radicalized in the wake of the 1992 Rodney King riots, during which time
he was arrested.
"I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came
down on April 29th," he said. "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 10 years of my life working with
a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary," he
said.
Trevor Loudon, a researcher and opponent of communism who runs the
New Zeal blog identified several Bay Area communists who worked with
STORM, including Elizabeth Martinez, who helped advise Jones' Ella Baker
Human Rights Center, which Jones founded to advocate civil justice.
Jones and Martinez also attended a "Challenging White Supremacy"
workshop together.
Martinez was a longtime Maoist who went on to join the Communist
Party USA breakaway organization Committees of Correspondence for
Democracy and Socialism, or CCDS, in the early 1990s, according to
Loudon. Martinez still serves on the CCDS council and is also a board
member of the Movement for a Democratic Society, where she sits
alongside former Weathermen radicals Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.
STORM eventually fell apart amid bickering among its leaders.
Jones then moved on to environmentalism. He used his Ella Baker
Center to advocate "inclusive" environmentalism and launch a
Green-Collar Jobs Campaign, which led to the nation's first Green Jobs
Corps in Oakland, Calif.
At the Clinton Global Initiative in 2007, Jones announced the
establishment of Green For All, which in 2008 held a national green
conference in which most attendees were black. Jones also released a
book, "The Green Collar Economy," which debuted at No.12 on the New York
Times' bestseller list – the first environmental book written by an
African American to make the list.
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 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."
Communist Green Jobs Czar Van Jones
Matthew Vadum
writing on NewsReal blog reports that on his TV show Friday, Glenn
Beck
re-aired a previous segment about the pressure group
Apollo Alliance, which aspires
to destroy the U.S. economy by having the federal government fund "green
jobs" scams.
Obama’s "green jobs" czar
Van Jones, an avowed "communist," was on the board of the Apollo
Alliance, said Phil Kerpen, director of policy for Americans for
Prosperity.
Even worse, the group, which has ties to ACORN, SEIU,
and Center for American Progress president John Podesta, has significant
pull in Congress and helped to write the stimulus bill. The $60
billion in funding for "green jobs," a utopian fantasy not taken
seriously by economists, was inserted at the request of the Apollo
Alliance into the stimulus legislation President Obama signed in
February.
Podesta sits on the Apollo board. According to
Kerpen, the Center for American Progress...
...sends out the daily marching orders, the
talking points for the left side of the blogs and the online
activists. And those organizers out on the street, the ACORN
and SEIU folks, they get their daily talking points from that Center
for American Progress e-mail.
The Apollo Alliance "is designed to bring together the elements of
organized labor with the community organizers with the green groups, the
environmental groups, and to access all of the big foundation money
that’s been supportive of those causes in the past," said Kerpen.
Van Jones is also a co-founder
of Color of Change, a
left-wing racial-grievance group that is urging advertisers to boycott
Beck’s TV program after Beck accused Obama of being "racist."
The
extremist group isn’t happy with Beck for a number of reasons, chief
among them the fact that he did several unflattering news packages on
Jones. The White House may even be behind a push to destroy Beck
by convincing advertisers to stop buying time on his show.
Jones
is also a cheerleader for the Obama administration’s planned "National
Day of Service" on -- of all days -- 9/11.
It’s not likely
many lawmakers in April thought that the community service measure they
voted for meant that 9/11 was going to be turned into a celebration of
ethanol, carbon emission controls, and radical community organizing.
Solidarity With U.S. Victims
One day after the 9/11 attacks, the organization founded by Obama's
"green jobs czar" held a vigil in which it expressed solidarity with
Arab and Muslim Americans as well as what it called the victims of "U.S.
imperialism" around the world.
World Net Daily previously
reported Van Jones, special adviser for green jobs, enterprise and
innovation to the White House Council on Environmental Quality, is an
admitted black nationalist and radical communist.
Jones was the
leader and founder of a radical group, the communist revolutionary
organization Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or
STORM.
STORM's official manifesto, titled, "Reclaiming
Revolution," has surfaced on the Internet.
Scott at Powerline blog
reminds us that they have written about Obama's green jobs
commissar
Van Jones as a Communist in the White House. Jim Hoft posts the
video of Jones unburdening himself before a friendly audience without
inhibition. Jones gives new meaning to the term vulgar Marxist.
Now courtesy of Breitbart.tv and Naked Emperor News we have Jones
explaining the deep meaning of the Obama administration's devotion to
"green jobs." The goal of green jobs is complete revolution step by step
away from gray capitalism until the forces of oppression are overcome.
The video concludes with a tribute to Jones from Obama alter ego Valerie
Jarrett.
Thank you for the explanation, Comrade Jones.
Obama's Green Czar Speaks (00:32)
UPDATE: Jim Hoft also notes that Comrade Jones appears to
be a
9/11 Truther. He's the kind of guy Bill Clinton has previously
said
should be ashamed of himself ("how dare you?"), on that ground alone.
The Manchurian Candidate
David Horowitz says that those who were surprised by the White House
appointment of Van Jones -- a
self-styled "communist," and a proponent of the idea that the Katrina
catastrophe was caused by "white supremacy," haven’t been paying
attention to developments on the left since the fall of Communism, or to
Obama’s extensive roots in its political culture. Van Jones is the
carefully groomed protégé of a network of radical organizations --
including Moveon.org
-- and of Democratic sponsors like billionaire
George Soros and
John Podesta, former Clinton chief of staff and co-chair of the
Obama transition team.
At the time of his appointment as Obama’s
"Green Jobs" czar -- and despite a very recent 10-year history of
"revolutionary" activity -- Jones was a member of two key organizations
at the very heart of what might be called the executive branch of the
Democratic Party. The first is the
Center for American Progress which was funded by Soros and is headed
by Podesta. The second is the
Apollo Alliance, on whose board Jones sits with Podesta, Carol
Browner and Al Gore. This is a coalition of radicals, leftwing
union leaders and corporate recruits, which had a major role in
designing Obama’s green economy plans, including the "cash for clunkers"
program. The New York director of the Alliance, who will be
writing its applications for tens of millions of dollars in "stimulus"
funds, is Jeff Jones (no
relation) who was a co-leader of the terrorist
Weather Underground along with Obama’s close friend and political
ally William Ayers.
According to his own account, Van Jones became a "communist" during a
prison term he served after being arrested during the 1992 Los Angeles
race riots. For the next ten years Jones was an activist in the
Maoist organization STORM
-- "Stand Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement." When
STORM disintegrated Jones joined the Apollo Alliance and the Center for
American Progress Democrats. As he explained to the East Bay
Express in a 2005 article, he still considered himself a "revolutionary,
but just a more effective one." "Before," he told the Express, "we
would fight anybody, any time. No concession was good enough;…
Now, I put the issues and constituencies first. I’ll work with
anybody, I’ll fight anybody if it will push our issues forward.... I’m
willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep
satisfaction of radical ends."
Pursuing the deep satisfaction of
radical ends is the clear sub-text of Jones’ 2007 book, The Green Collar
Economy which comes with a Forward by Robert Kennedy Jr. and
enthusiastic blurbs from Nancy Pelosi and Al Gore. According to
Jones, the Katrina tragedies were caused by global warming, white
supremacy, free market economics and the "war for oil" in Iraq.
This "perfect storm" of social evils deprived poor blacks of the
protection of adequate levees and private vehicles which would have
allowed them to escape. The fact that a fleet of public buses was
available but the black mayor and the black power structure in New
Orleans failed to deploy them go unmentioned in Jones’ indictment of
white racism. Instead, "The Katrina story illustrates clearly the
two crises we face in the United States: radical socioeconomic
inequality and rampant environmental destruction." To deal with
these crises "we will need both political and economic transformation --
immediately."
How did John Podesta and Al Gore and Barack Obama
come to be political allies of a far left radical like Van Jones, a 9/11
conspiracy "truther" and a supporter of the Hamas view that the entire
state of Israel is "occupied territory?" To answer this question
requires an understanding of developments within the political left that
have taken place over the last two decades, and in particular the
forging of a "popular front" between anti-American radicals and
"mainstream liberals" in the Democratic Party.
Obama's adviser Van Jones has
resigned amid controversy over past inflammatory statements, the
White House said early Sunday.
Jones, an administration official
specializing in environmentally friendly "green jobs" with the White
House Council on Environmental Quality was linked to efforts suggesting
a government role in the 2001 terror attacks and to derogatory comments
about Republicans.
Nonsense
-- the reason he quit is he was outed as the American-hating,
scum-sucking commie he is.
The resignation comes as Obama is working to
regain his footing in the contentious health care debate.
Jones
issued an apology on Thursday for his past statements. When asked
the next day whether Obama still had confidence in him, White House
press secretary Robert Gibbs said only that Jones "continues to work in
the administration."
The matter surfaced after news reports of a
derogatory comment Jones made in the past about Republicans, and
separately, of Jones' name appearing on a petition connected to the
events surrounding the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. That 2004
petition had asked for congressional hearings and other investigations
into whether high-level government officials had allowed the attacks to
occur.
"On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean
energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign
against me," Jones said in his resignation statement. "They are
using lies and distortions to distract and divide."
Jones said he
has been "inundated with calls from across the political spectrum urging
me to stay and fight." But he said he cannot in good conscience
ask his colleagues to spend time and energy defending or explaining his
past. Jones flatly said in an earlier statement that he did not
agree with the petition's stand on the 9/11 attacks and that "it
certainly does not reflect my views, now or ever."
As for his
other comments he made before joining Obama's team, Jones said, "If I
have offended anyone with statements I made in the past, I apologize."
Despite his apologies, Republicans demanded Jones quit.
Rep.
Mike Pence of Indiana said in a statement, "His extremist views and
coarse rhetoric have no place in this administration or the public
debate." Missouri Sen. Christopher Bonds said Congress should
investigate Jones's fitness the job.
Fox News Channel host Glenn
Beck repeatedly denounced Jones after a group the adviser co-founded,
ColorofChange.org, led an advertising boycott against Beck's show to
protest his claim that Obama is a racist. James Rucker, the
organization's executive director, has said Jones had nothing to do with
ColorofChange.org now and didn't even know about the campaign before it
started.
Jones, well-known in the environmental movement, was a
civil-rights activist in California before shifting his attention to
environmental and energy issues. He is known for laying out a
broad vision of a green economy. Nancy Sutley chair of the
council, said in a statement released early Sunday that she accepts
Jones resignation and thanked him for his service.
"Over the last
six months, he had been a strong voice for creating jobs that improve
energy efficiency and utilize renewable resources," she said. "We
appreciate his hard work and wish him the best moving forward."
Well, that's a start.
Until
the commie's resignation, there was not a single word reported in the
New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, NBC News,
CBS News, ABC News or CNN, about Jones outrageous politics, statements
and positions.
Van Jones Is Back
Van
Jones, Obama's controversial former "green jobs" czar, is now
serving on the advisory board of an independent environmental
organization actively working with the White House, even as the
Climategate scandal grows.
Jones resigned in September after
it was exposed he founded a communist revolutionary organization and
signed a statement that accused the Bush administration of possible
involvement in the 9/11 attacks.
Jones is one of 20 advisers to
the University of Colorado–based Presidential Climate Action Project, or
PCAP, which draws up climate-policy recommendations for the White House
and has been working with members of the Obama administration.
The PCAP last September released a lengthy proposal to guide the
environmental policies during the first 100 days of the 44th U.S.
president regardless of whether Obama or Sen. John McCain won the
election.
William S. Becker, the PCAP's executive director,
confirmed his group is "about to propose a new and more assertive
strategy for Obama to raise the bar on the U.S. climate goal, with or
without Congress."
Becker said his group's initial proposals
have received a "very positive reception from the moment we delivered
(the 100-day proposal) last November to John Podesta, co-chair of
Obama's transition team."
"We continue to work with some
colleagues inside the (Obama) administration, as well as continuing to
push for bold action from the outside," he said.
Hell, the
commie never went away -- they just rearranged the chairs -- Obama ain't
gonna throw a brother under the bus, especially one he agrees with.
There's No Justice
Van Jones, Obama's former "green energy czar" forced
to resign over endorsing views that President George W. Bush may have
deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen as well as controversy over his past
as a radical communist, appears to have
landed on his feet. Many of his views may have been
unacceptable to the vast majority of the American public, but he's more
than welcome at an Ivy League university and one of D.C.'s most
prominent liberal think tanks:
Van Jones, the environmental justice advocate who
relinquished his post as a White House adviser five months ago after
coming under fire from conservative activists, is reemerging on the
public policy stage to push for green jobs.
In his first
interview since stepping down as Obama's environmental adviser on
Sept. 5, Jones said that a green jobs policy represents the best
chance of both aiding poor Americans and bridging the political
divide.
"When the food fight is over, there's one spot of
clean common ground in American politics, and that is the need for
us to be leading on energy, clean energy, and for us as a country to
be more secure with all those jobs," Jones said Tuesday.
Jones, who has been consulting for companies and nonprofits on
environmental issues, will start teaching at Princeton University in
June and is rejoining the Center for American Progress, a liberal
think tank, next month. On Friday, he will receive the NAACP's
President's Award, for achievement in public service, the
organization announced Tuesday.
Also, is it standard practice for Washington Post
reporters to uncritically use loaded terms such as "environmental
justice advocate?"
Nutroots Gives Standing Ovation To Commie
9/11 Truther and self-described communist, Van Jones, gets
standing ovation at Netroots Nation (00:25) The self-described communist, Van Jones, is still a star in
Progressive circles.
Nutroots Nation gave a standing ovation to
Obama's former Green Jobs Czar this weekend at their national
convention.
What does that tell you? When did
commies become heroes in America?
During his speech, Jones said that he
threw himself a long "pity party" after his exit from the
administration, but compared his own struggle to the larger state of the
nation. He made the case for investing in new energy technologies, and
dismissed concerns about the deficit.
"There’s plenty of money
out there, the only question is how to spend it," Jones said.
Communist Van Jones On "Social Justice"
Obama's Favorite Commie
The radical far left group ColorofChange led by
commie-Truther Van Jones is targeting "Celebrity Apprentice" after
Donald Trump’s continued attacks on America’s worst president ever,
Barack Obama.
The radical group wants the celebrity stars to
denounce Trump and call him a racist for daring to question Barack
Obama’s hidden school records.
Reuters
reports: A [left-wong]
African-American political advocacy group is targeting "Celebrity
Apprentice" star Donald Trump in the aftermath of what many feel are
racially tinged political comments made about Obama.
On
Thursday, the organization ColorOfChange launched a Twitter-based
campaign to persuade black "Celebrity Apprentice" cast members Star
Jones and Lil Jon to denounce Trump for what the group terms
"race-baiting."
Trump has made headlines in recent weeks by
repeatedly questioning whether Obama was born in the U.S.
Obama released [what he
claims is] his longform birth certificate April 27
with the hope of settling the matter, but the issue has been kept
alive by a segment of the "Birther" movement.
"This is the
first organized attempt to target these celebrities and demand that
they, as prominent African-Americans, take a public stance against
Donald Trump’s ongoing attacks against President Obama,"
ColorOfChange said in a statement.
I really
should refer to Jones as Obama's "currently" favorite Commie -- he's
been so close to so many
of them.
In Defense Of
Blogger Trevor Loudon, who broke the story about Van Jones' communist
background, thinks White House official Valerie Jarrett needs to be
seriously scrutinized. She appears to have had a family connection to
Barack Obama's childhood mentor, Communist Party member Frank Marshall
Davis.
For the record, Jones technically worked at the White House Council
on Environmental Quality (CEQ), established within the Executive Office
of the President. It "coordinates Federal environmental efforts and
works closely with agencies and other White House offices in the
development of environmental policies and initiatives." Yet, he never
went through a Senate confirmation hearing.
Meanwhile, representatives of various George Soros-funded
organizations have come to the defense of the identified communist.
John Podesta, the President and CEO of the Center for
American Progress Action Fund, hailed Jones as an "exceptional and
inspired leader who has fought to bring economic and environmental
justice to communities across our country."
Justin Ruben of MoveOn.org said Jones had "worked tirelessly to bring
jobs and environmental progress to some of the poorest communities in
our nation. His dedication and leadership are exactly what we need more
of in Washington. And his resignation is a loss to this Administration."
Josh Silver of the Free Press called Jones "one of our most visionary
and principled young leaders."
Podesta said that Jones had "chosen to resign because he believed he
was serving as a distraction to the President's agenda. I respect that
decision." Podesta was co-chair of the Obama-Biden Transition project
and employed Jones before he went to the White House CEQ.
But how could he have been a "distraction" when the major
media had been ignoring the story? Jones was forced to resign, as the
Marxist "progressives" at the Rag Blog website fully understand, because
the investigation of Jones was getting too close for comfort for Obama
and his inner circle. Sacking Jones was a way for the White House and
the major media, just beginning to take an interest in the story, to
move on.
It is apparent that Jones was thrown "under the bus" because too many
of Obama's close associates, including Jarrett, are implicated in his
hiring. Jarrett had said that "we" had recruited Jones. Who is "we?"
Obama himself obviously approved the decision to bring him aboard.
After all, he is the President. Jones and Obama were photographed
together. What is the nature of their relationship?
Rep. Mike Pence was the only member of the House Republican
Leadership to call for Jones to go. But the resignation has not resulted
in any coherent explanation of how he was hired in the first place.
Just before Jones jumped ship, Senator Kit Bond of Missouri sent a
letter asking for congressional hearings into the appointment. Among
other things, he noted, "Last year, Mr. Jones in a radio interview
stated his goals as a 'complete revolution' to 'transform the whole
society' away from capitalism. These recent comments remove the
credibility of his assertions that his past radical statements and
actions such as the creation of the group Standing Together to Organize
a Revolutionary Movement (STORM) rooted in Marxism and Leninism merely
reflect youthful sentiments in the distant past.
"
In fact, there's no evidence that Jones outgrew his
communism. He never replied to AIM's telephone calls or emails and we
were forced to file a series of Freedom of Information Act requests to
try to get answers.
His Marxist rhetoric about a "complete revolution" was made to
"Uprising Radio" in April of 2008 and brought to light by Breitbart TV.
Going beyond "systems of exploitation and oppression is a process,"
Jones said, that will take us beyond "eco-capitalism." He explained, "So
the green economy will start off as a small sub-set and we're going to
push it and push it and push it until it becomes the engine for
transforming the whole society."
In other words, environmentalism and "green jobs" are the cover for
implementing Marxism. Obviously, Jones has not changed. Only his methods
have changed.
Bond sent his letter in his capacity as ranking member of the Green
Jobs and the New Economy Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on
Environment and Public Works. But the chairman of this subcommittee, to
whom Bond sent the letter, is socialist Senator Bernie Sanders of
Vermont, a booster of Jones! So the chances of any hearings were always
zero to begin with.
Josh Silver of the Soros-funded Free Press said that "progressives"
have a responsibility to "defend the public servants and innocent people
who are being attacked..."
Their idea of "innocent" is someone who openly associated
himself with an international movement that has taken the lives of more
than 100 million truly innocent people. International communism is still
the biggest "death panel" the world has ever known.
The Return Of Van Jones
Joseph Williams says As an
unabashed and high-profile liberal on Barack Obama’s White House staff,
former "green energy" czar Van Jones was to Republicans what a red cape
is to a snorting bull: an irresistible target.
So when he resigned in 2009 under withering fire from the
right -- triggered by a video of him disparaging the GOP, followed by
revelations of a tenuous connection to Sept. 11 conspiracy theorists --
few doubted Jones was finished in Washington. He acknowledged as
much a year later, writing in The New York Times that politics has
become "a combination of speed chess and Mortal Kombat: one wrong move
can mean political death."
What a difference two years can make.
While still a high-value target for conservatives, the charismatic
Jones has rebounded from his messy departure to become a superstar of
the resurgent left, founding -- with MoveOn.org -- the American Dream
Movement, a grass-roots political force modeled after the tea party. His
issue is no longer just green jobs, but to push back against the right's
domination of economic policy and social issues that he dates to the
2010 election.
"I thought progressives were too quick to go from
hopey to mopey" during the past two years, Jones told POLITICO in a
recent interview. "They skipped the fight in the middle."
The tea
party, he said, impressed him by "the way they were able to gather so
many organizations and individuals under an open-source brand. There
just wasn't a voice on the economy for progressives and moderates that
was coherent and passionate like them. I thought that was really
fascinating, so I studied them."
Jones helped organize a
September summit, "Take Back the American Dream," drawing more than 200
progressive organizations, and worked with groups in Ohio to defeat a
bill which would have tightly restricted unions' collective-bargaining
power. And the themes of jobs and economic equality pushed by "Rebuild
the Dream" -- as the umbrella organization is known -- dovetail with the
economic message of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
To his
supporters, Jones's combative stance personifies the uncompromising
liberal they wish Obama would be. But Jones credits the vocal right and
the relative inaction of liberals more than he blames Obama for the
predicament in which the left finds itself.
"I'm not mad at the
tea party for being so loud," he said. "I'm mad at the progressives for
being so quiet the past couple of years and not having that fire and
that intensity at the grass-roots level to give both parties something
to respond to that's not just cut, cut, cut.
"You hear people
talking about a disappointment [in Obama] and this kind of thing. I'm
still of the view it was never, 'Yes, he can.' It's supposed to be,
'Yes, we can.' And the 'we' was not evident in a couple of those years."
But with issues ranging from Code Pink's end-the-war stance to
Planned Parenthood's fight to protect Roe v. Wade and labor's battles
for preservation of its rights, unifying the left is a tall order. And
until recently, "Rebuild the Dream" seemed to be gaining little
traction. Jones' summit drew a few thousand participants and scant media
attention, and only a few hundred of them attended a "Jobs, Not Cuts"
rally on Capitol Hill.
Allies, however, insist Jones's message is
resonating with frustrated liberals and that the Occupy Wall Street
movement presents him with an opportunity to elevate his message.
"We're tired of people rigging the game. That's the message of this
movement," Jones said in an interview on MSNBC, commenting on OWS's "day
of action" that it now "it's time to turn the anger into answers."
