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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: | | ''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>}} | | {{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>}} |
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| | + | In 2004 Jones signed a petition sponsored by the conspiratorial 9/11 Truthers.org in 2004 alleging President [[George W. Bush]] and high-level government officials may have been behind 9/11. <ref>http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20041026093059633</ref><ref>http://www.washingtontimes.com/weblogs/back-story/2009/sep/03/green-jobs-czar-signed-truther-statement-in-2004/?feat=home_blogs</ref> |
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| | + | ==Apollo Alliance== |
| | + | In 2004, Jones became a founding board member of the Apollo Alliance for "clean energy and green-collar jobs." [http://apolloalliance.org/blog/?tag=van-jones] [http://www.fundersnetwork.org/files/Looking_Forward_PDF_for_Viewing.pdf p.87] [[Jeff Jones]] of the [[Weather Underground]] is the New York State director of Apollo Alliance. |
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| | Like other associates of [[Barack Obama]], [[Bernardine Dohrn]] for example, Van Jones is a lawyer, avowed communist, associated with [[communist front]] organizations, and arrested in the aftermath of a deadly riot. | | Like other associates of [[Barack Obama]], [[Bernardine Dohrn]] for example, Van Jones is a lawyer, avowed communist, associated with [[communist front]] organizations, and arrested in the aftermath of a deadly riot. |
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| | ==Eco-apartheid== | | ==Eco-apartheid== |