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Revision as of 23:34, August 13, 2009
Van Jones is a self-proclaimed radical communist activist and Obama administration Green Czar.[1]
Jailhouse conversion to communism
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 riots which left 55 dead.[2] Jones was arrested in the riots. In jail, Jones met a whole new circle of friends. In Jones own words,
| “ | 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 ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary.... I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th. By August, I was a communist.[3] | ” |
Eco-apartheid
| “ | 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. | ” |
STORM
Jones was a founder and leader 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 Maoism)."[4][5]
See also
- Communist Party of the United States
- Subversive Activities Control Board
- Attorney General's List of Totalitarian, Fascist, Communist, Subversive, and Other Organizations
- National Lawyers Guild
- Eco-racism
References
- ↑ Will a 'red' help blacks go green?, White House appoints 'radical communist' who sees environment as racial issue, WorldNetDaily.com, April 12, 2009.
- ↑ 12 Years After the Riots, Rodney King Gets Along], J. Emilio Flores, The New York Times, September 19, 2004.
- ↑ Eliza Strickland, The New Face of Environmentalism, November 2005.
- ↑ Obama File 72 Obama Appoints "Former" Communist To White House "Green Job", Trevor Louden, April 06, 2009.
- ↑ Machete 48