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==Community organizing during a riot==

==Community organizing during a riot==

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 organizers to be on hand for the trial of policemen charged with beating [[Rodney King]]. Not guilty verdicts in the officer's case resulted in [[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> Although Jones had been working for the [[communist front]] organization STORM for one year, Jones and the truthout.org web site put forward a cover story that made it appear Jones experienced a jailhouse conversion to communism.  Like another [[Obama]] associate, [[Bernardine Dohrn]], Jones is a lawyer, avowed communist, associated with communist front organizations, and arrested in the aftermath of a deadly riot.  The truthout.org site gives this biographical information on Jones:

On April 29, 1992, more than a year after the founding of STORM, members of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) looted and trashed the downtown and government districts of [[Los Angeles]], triggering the infamous [[Rodney King]] riots. The RCP is known as the premier Maoist party in the United States.<ref>[http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6197 Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP).] Retrieved from dicoverthenetworks.org, March 8, 2010. In 1962 a group of Maoist radicals split with the [[Soviet]] spnosored [[CPUSA]] and formed the  Progressive Labor Movement (PLM). By 1966, the PLM renamed itself the [[Progressive Labor Party]] (PLP), which joined forces with the [[Students for a Democratic Society]] (SDS). PLP tried unsuccessfully to take over SDS's National Office, thereby pushing SDS even further to the left -- toward hard-line Maoism. Opposition to PLP tactics led to the formation of yet another Maoist faction, the Revolutionary Youth Movement, which eventually split into two -- one becoming the notorious terrorist group [[Weatherman]]; the other spawning a 1969 splinter group called the Bay Area Revolutionary Union (co-founded by H. Bruce Franklin, Robert Avakian, and Charles Hamilton), which would become the Revolutionary Communist Party in 1974."</ref> During the days immediately preceding the violence, RCP, which maintained close ties to the L.A. gangs known as the Crips and the Bloods, circulated throughout South Central Los Angeles a leaflet featuring a statement by RCP National Spokesman Carl Dix, titled ''It's Right To Rebel,'' a quote popularized by [[Mao Zedong]]. Encouraged by Dix, RCP activists helped lead the riots that would leave 58 people dead and more than 2,300 people injured.<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>

 

While studying law at [[Yale]], Van Jones traveled to San Francisco in the spring of 1992 when the [[leftist]] Lawyers Committee for Human Rights hired several organizers to be on hand for the trial of policemen charged with the beating of Rodney King. Jones was arrested in the aftermath of the riots. While in jail Jones is said to have experienced a jailhouse conversion to communism although the record shows Jones founded STORM a year earlier as a communist organization.  The truthout.org site gave this cover story:

{{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>}}

==9/11 Truthers==

==9/11 Truthers==