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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 Weatherman co-founder [[Jeff Jones]] serves as top director'', By Aaron Klein, [[WorldNetDaily]], August 13, 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 Weatherman co-founder [[Jeff Jones]] serves as top director'', By Aaron Klein, [[WorldNetDaily]], August 13, 2009.</ref>
==STORM==
==Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement==
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>
===Roots predate Jones claim when he became a communist===
[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).
Jones was a founding organizer 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 "U.S. Imperialism" during the [[Persian Gulf War]] of 1991. The leftist blog Machete 48 identifies STORM's influences as "third-worldist [[Marxism]] (and an often vulgar [[Mao]]ism)."<ref>
[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>
===Maoist influence===
STORM's own literature describes it's "Maoist orientation"<ref>http://www.capitalresearch.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/stormsummation.pdf ''Reclaiming Revolution]: history, summation & lessons from the work of Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM)'', Spring 2004, p. 23 pdf.</ref>
===Affiliation with left-wing hate groups=
In the early 2000s, Jones and STORM werco-sponsors of 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).
===Blame America===
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 quoted as saying,
{{Cquote|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.}}
''Reclaiming Revolution'' also blamed the U.S. for 9/11. A passage on page 45 (27 of the PDF file) reads:
{{Cquote|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>}}
==Community organizing during a riot==
==Community organizing during a riot==