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[[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 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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| name        = Van Jones
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| birth_date  = September 20, 1968
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| birth_place = Jackson, Tennessee
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| nationality = American
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| spouse      = Jana Carter<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/fashion/van-jones-cnn-2016-presidential-election.html?_r=0 How Van Jones Became a Star of the 2016 Campaign], [[The New York Times]]</ref>
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'''Anthony Kapel "Van" Jones''' (born September 20, 1968) is longtime [[Marxist]], [[Obama]] crony, and [[CNN]] contributor.
  
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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>  
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Jones has been involved in the anti-police movement since at least 1991 beginning in [[Oakland]], [[California]].  Since the [[Biden Crime Bill of 1994]], more than 2.5 million [[black]] males have been incarcerated under the [[Democratic party]]'s [[New Jim Crow]] regime.<ref>http://www.prisonpolicy.org/research/incarceration_rates_growth_causes/</ref> Jones referred to Trump's election victory as a "whitelash",<ref>[https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/van-jones-trump-2016-presidential-election-231048 Van Jones: Trump vote is a 'white-lash']</ref>, but has since lauded President Trump for taking the initiative on [[criminal justice reform]].<ref>https://www.thewrap.com/cnn-van-jones-praises-trump-on-prison-reform-you-got-to-give-him-some-credit/</ref><ref>https://www.thedailybeast.com/van-jones-defends-presidential-trump-praise-not-saying-hes-george-washington</ref><ref>https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/02/cpac_invites_van_jones_to_celebrate_the_greatest_lie_of_our_generation.html</ref><ref>https://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnns-van-jones-to-cpac-crowd-conservative-movement-is-now-the-leader-on-criminal-justice-reform/</ref> Van Jones before 2020 elections make video agree on Trump process to not concede in 2020 election, called it perfectly legal and perfectly constitutional.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9Dv73pvr1c CNN’s Van Jones Agrees With Trump About 2020 Election!]</ref>
  
 
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==STORM==
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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>
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Jones began his Marxist and anti-police activity in 1991 as a founding organizer<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]] [[revolution]]ary organization, Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM). The organization had its roots in a group protesting "U.S. Imperialism" during the [[Persian Gulf War]] of 1991. The leftist blog Machete 48 identifies STORM's influences as "[[third-world]]ist [[Marxism]] (and an often vulgar [[Mao]]ism)."<ref>
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[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).
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[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>
  
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On the night after the [[September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks]] STORM held a vigil in [[Oakland]], [[California]], "mourning the victims of U.S. imperialism around the world." In a document entitled, ''Reclaiming Revolution: history, summation & lessons from the work of Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM)'', Jones is quotesd as saying,
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===Revolutionary vanguard===
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:''Main article : [[Revolutionary vanguard]]''
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STORM considered itself a revolutionary vanguard party. In Marxist thought, a "revolutionary vanguard" are advocates of perpetual revolution. Marxist organizing takes years, and only a few hardcore individuals survive all the failed organizing attempts, such as anti-war movements, anti-police movements, Occupy Wall Street, etc. Most protesters who participate in these causes loose interest after a war ends or an election changes priorities. A cadre of hardcore, trained Marxists however, fight on, waiting until the time is right for a general revolution.
  
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:"Anti-Arab hostility is already reaching a fever pitch as pundits and common people alike rush to judgment that an Arab group is responsible for this tragedy," said Van Jones, founder and national executive director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. "We fear that an atmosphere is being created that will result in official and street violence against Arab men, women and children."
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The role of the vanguard doesn't end there. Once Marxists secure power, the perpetual revolution continues, rooting out Marxist non-believers and building the [[Progressive]] [[utopia]].  
  
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"Reclaiming Revolution" also blamed the U.S. for 9/11. A passage on page 45 (27 of the PDF file) reads:
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In ''Reclaiming Revolution'', STORM editors discussed their [[Maoist]] [[Self-criticism|self-critical]] evaluation of accusations other groups made <ref>''Reclaiming Revolution, p. 10.''</ref> that STORM considered itself the revolutionary vanguard of Marxism. They write,
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{{Cquote|We did not understand clearly enough the distinction between cadre organization, revolutionary parties, revolutionary organization and vanguard organization.<ref>''Reclaiming Revolution, p. 40.</ref>}}
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STORM repented of this grievous Marxist error as a "lesson learned,"
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{{Cquote|We were a cadre organization that was working to build revolutionary mass organizations and to lay the groundwork for a future revolutionary party (or parties) by building a broad revolutionary internationalist trend.<ref>Ibid. Also p. 42.</ref>}}
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STORM's error was not being clear to members that they were an "advance guard" organization, and not a "vanguard organization."<ref>Ibid, p. 33.</ref>  Jones and Garza had to learn where they fit into the broader, global international socialist struggle.
  
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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>
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===Maoist influence===
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[[Image:Jones-van-storm-reclaiming-revolution-cover.jpg|right|Communist literature]]
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:{{See also|Maoism}}
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STORM's own literature describes its "Maoist orientation"<ref>[https://archive.org/details/ReclaimingRevolution  ''Reclaiming Revolution]: history, summation & lessons from the work of Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM)'', Spring 2004, p. 23 pdf.</ref> which conducted  "a group reading of Mao's ''On Practice'' and ''On Contradiction.''"<ref>Ibid, p. 25 pdf.</ref> The group studied [[Lenin]]'s theories of the state, revolution, the party, and "the political ideas of Mao Tse-tung."<ref>Ibid, p.15 pdf.</ref> STORM's own history further states, "We also pushed at or went beyond the limits of the traditional Marxist canon, studying such topics as revolutionary feminism, the Palestinian [[National liberation movement|liberation struggle]], [[transgender]] liberation, methods of evaluation, self-care for cadre and revolutionary mass [community] organizing."<ref>Ibid, p. 25 pdf.</ref> STORM was extensively involved in the [[community organizing]] movement.<ref>Ibid, pp. 8, 10, 15 pdf.</ref>
  
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====Rectification Study====
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:{{See also|Rectification}}
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Jones writes in ''Reclaiming Revolution'':
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{{quotebox|We contrasted [[Alinsky]] organizing models, [[SNCC]]'s grassroots model and  [[Marxist-Leninist]] metho