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[[File:VanJones.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Self-proclaimed [[communist]] and [[Obama administration]] Green Czar Van Jones]]
 
[[File:VanJones.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Self-proclaimed [[communist]] and [[Obama administration]] Green Czar Van Jones]]
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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>  
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'''Van Jones''' is a self-proclaimed [[radical]] [[communist]] activist who served as the [[Obama administration]]'s 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>  He announced his resignation at midnight, September 6, 2009 after a series of controversies over past inflammatory statements. <ref>http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5itKcwMMlf6EtyLvYW9VjF2xcVK7gD9AHJII00</ref>
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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>  
    
==STORM==
 
==STORM==
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:"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. <ref>[http://spectator.org/blog/2009/08/29/van-jones-and-his-stormtrooper Van Jones and His STORMtroopers Denounced America the Night After 9/11], By Matthew Vadum, AmSpecBlog, 8.29.09.</ref>
 
:"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. <ref>[http://spectator.org/blog/2009/08/29/van-jones-and-his-stormtrooper Van Jones and His STORMtroopers Denounced America the Night After 9/11], By Matthew Vadum, AmSpecBlog, 8.29.09.</ref>
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Additionally, Van Jones signed a petition in 2004 suggesting that high-level government officials may have been behind 9/11. <ref>http://www.washingtontimes.com/weblogs/back-story/2009/sep/03/green-jobs-czar-signed-truther-statement-in-2004/?feat=home_blogs</ref>  
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Additionally, Van Jones signed a petition in 2004 suggesting that President [[George W. Bush]] and high-level government officials may have been behind 9/11. <ref>http://www.washingtontimes.com/weblogs/back-story/2009/sep/03/green-jobs-czar-signed-truther-statement-in-2004/?feat=home_blogs</ref> However, he later said that he did not carefully review the language in the petition before agreeing to sign his name. <ref>http://twitter.com/jaketapper/statuses/3748611519</ref>
    
==Community organizing during a riot==
 
==Community organizing during a riot==
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==References==
 
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