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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 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. Although Jones had been working for the [[communist front]] organization STORM for already, Jones, and the truthout.org web site put forward a cover story that Jones experienced a 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 organizers to be on hand for 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>  Although Jones had been working for the [[communist front]] organization STORM for one year already, Jones and the truthout.org web site put forward a cover story that 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.

{{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>}}