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'''Van Jones''' is a self-proclaimed [[radical]] [[communist]] activist and [[Obama administration]] Green Czar.<ref>[http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=94771 Will a 'red' help blacks go green?, White House appoints 'radical communist' who sees environment as racial issue], ''[[WorldNetDaily.com]]'', April 12, 2009.</ref>  Jones previously served on the board of an environmental activist group at which a founder of the [[Weather Underground]] [[terrorist]] organization is a top director.<ref>[http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=106653 ''Obama's 'green jobs czar' worked with terror founder]Van Jones served on board of activist group where ex-Weatherman serves as top director'', By Aaron Klein, [[WorldNetDaily]], August 13, 2009.</ref>  

'''Van Jones''' is a self-proclaimed [[radical]] [[communist]] activist and [[Obama administration]] Green Czar.<ref>[http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=94771 Will a 'red' help blacks go green?, White House appoints 'radical communist' who sees environment as racial issue], ''[[WorldNetDaily.com]]'', April 12, 2009.</ref>  Jones previously served on the board of an environmental activist group at which a founder of the [[Weather Underground]] [[terrorist]] organization is a top director.<ref>[http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=106653 ''Obama's 'green jobs czar' worked with terror founder]Van Jones served on board of activist group where ex-Weatherman serves as top director'', By Aaron Klein, [[WorldNetDaily]], August 13, 2009.</ref>  

==Jailhouse conversion to communism==

==STORM==

Jones was a founder and leader<ref>[http://machete408.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/revolutionaries-in-high-places-van-jones/ Revolutionaries in High Places- Van Jones], by adamfreedom March 23, 2009.</ref> of the communist revolutionary organization [[Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement]] (STORM). The organization had its roots in a group protesting the first Gulf War. The leftist blog Machete 48 identifies STORM's influences as "third-worldist [[Marxism]] (and an often vulgar [[Mao]]ism)."<ref>

[http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2009/04/obama-file-72-obama-appoints-former.html Obama File 72 Obama Appoints "Former" Communist To White House "Green Job"], Trevor Louden, April 06, 2009.</ref><ref>[http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:9UyDTPx6dGEJ:machete408.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/revolutionaries-in-high-places-van-jones/+van+jones+demos&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=nz Machete 48]</ref>  In the early 2000s, Jones and STORM were active in the anti-[[Iraq War]] demonstrations organized by [[International ANSWER]], a [[left wing]] [[anti-Semitic]]<ref>[http://www.adl.org/Israel/answer.asp ANSWER, Antiwar Rallies and Support for Terror Organizations], ''Anti-Defamation League'', August 22, 2006</ref> front group for the [[Marxist-Leninist]] [[Workers World Party]] (WWP).

Van Jones first moved to San Francisco in the spring of 1992, while studying law at [[Yale]], when the [[leftist]] [[Lawyers Committee for Human Rights]] hired several law students to act as legal observers during the trial of policemen charged with assaulting [[Rodney King]]. Not guilty verdicts in the King case led to [[riot]]s which left 55 dead.<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/19/national/19king.html ''12 Years After the Riots, Rodney King Gets Along''], J. Emilio Flores, ''[[The New York Times]]'', September 19, 2004.</ref>  Jones was arrested in the riots.  In [[jail]], Jones met a whole new circle of friends.  In Jones own words,

==Community organizing during a riot==

{{Cquote|I met all these young radical people of color - I mean really radical, communists and [[anarchist]]s. 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 [[revolution]]ary.... I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th. By August, I was a communist.<ref>Eliza Strickland, [http://www.truthout.org/article/eliza-strickland-the-new-face-environmentalism ''The New Face of Environmentalism''], November 2005.</ref>}}

{{Cquote|I met all these young radical people of color - I mean really radical, communists and [[anarchist]]s. 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 [[revolution]]ary.... I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th. By August, I was a communist.<ref>Eliza Strickland, [http://www.truthout.org/article/eliza-strickland-the-new-face-environmentalism ''The New Face of Environmentalism''], November 2005.</ref>}}

{{Cquote|I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends....Our question is: Will the green wave lift all boats? That's the moral challenge to the people who are the architects of this new, ecologically sound economy. Will we have eco-equity, or will we have eco-apartheid? Right now we have eco-apartheid.}}

{{Cquote|I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends....Our question is: Will the green wave lift all boats? That's the moral challenge to the people who are the architects of this new, ecologically sound economy. Will we have eco-equity, or will we have eco-apartheid? Right now we have eco-apartheid.}}

 

==See also==

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