Posted on 08/15/2009 7:57:09 AM PDT by Freedom Rings No.1
Edited on 08/16/2009 5:23:40 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
President Obama's "green jobs czar" is co-founder of a black activist organization that has led a campaign prompting major advertisers to withdraw from Glenn Beck's top-rated Fox News Channel program.
In recent weeks, Beck has done several critical segments about Van Jones, who was appointed as the special adviser for green jobs, enterprise and innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
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Now Colors of Change, an activist organization seeking to "strengthen Black America's political voice" has led a furious campaign against Beck culminating in major companies such as Geico and Lawyers.com pulling their spots from the Fox News star's daily show. The group also says it has garnered about 75,000 signatories for an online petition against Beck to be sent to advertisers.
Thanks I already fixed it in subsequent post. Somebody pointed out that I had two http’s.
unbelievable the collusion between radicals and Bro.
It appears that the RedState site is down. I’ve tried every link posted on this thread, and tried to connect through a Google search. All I’m getting are Internal Error messages. There’s definitely a problem with the site.
As of 9:30AM PST all the links (the one without the double http, as well as directly copying and pasting the URL) return a 500 internal server error. As does restate.com home page.
It's up to the POTUS to decide how he runs the office. He can send out swarms of hunchBacked lackeys to do his thinking for him; they can fax their own executive orders back to the WH for a drooling BH0 to sign in the oval office.
If they are not official employees of the executive office, local law enforcement could make their life rather uncomfotable for their blatant disturbance of the peace.
;^>
Don’t know what to tell you. It was working before. Forgive me for the initial mistake.
Malcolm X was influential in the same neighborhood as Saul Alinsky - and at the same time... Hyde Park set the stage...
I don’t call them Obammie’s Commies for the fun of it.
Becks ratings are very high. We tape the show so as not to miss a word and so do all my friends.
Yeah, just coming out and telling the truth. That Beck is a trouble maker! /s
Are you serious?
I think these thugs are overplaying their hand. This ain’t Chicago and the American people don’t like thugs.
Beck says he’s an independent.
Beck is one of the few people in the public eye who unfailingly promotes the Constitution and the wisdom of our Founding Fathers. He is attacked for it, his family threatened, and you have no sympathy for him?
Perhaps you might rethink your requirements for being sympathetic.
You may not agree with that one statement, but Beck is literally putting his life on the line to put a spotlight on government corruption. We should all be thanking him. He is certainly doing more than I am regarding the fight for our country, and I'd be willing to wager that he is doing more than you are, as well.
No sympathy. You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
You are wrong. The reason we have a Marxist in the WH is precisely because Pubbies—including actual conservative pubbies—do not call a spade a spade. Bush’s “New Tone” did nothing for him. In fact, it energized the left into launching more outrageous attacks on him.
Beck is drawing fire because he hit a nerve. We need to be hitting more nerves.
Well, there ya go.
So people who don’t agree with you should be ashamed of themselves?
Look ashamed.
Call your Senator and Representative and ask him which of the czars is replacing him/her and could he/her please give you the address and phone number of that czar.
This clown is a real piece of work...
If a WHITE GUY with this racist of a background had found his way into the whitehouse, they’d be burning tires on Pennsylvannia Avenue!!
* Became a Communist in the aftermath of the 1992 “Rodney King riots” in Los Angeles
* Founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in 1996
* Was active in the anti-Iraq War demonstrations organized by International ANSWER
* Served as a board member of the Rainforest Action Network and Free Press
* In March 2009, President Barack Obama named Jones to be his so-called “Green Jobs Czar.”
Born in 1968 in rural West Tennessee, Van Jones earned a B.A. degree from the University of Tennessee at Martin and then attended Yale Law School. During his years at Yale, Jones served as an intern with the San Francisco-based Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights (LCCR), which views the United States as an irredeemably racist nation and “champions the legal rights of people of color, poor people, immigrants and refugees, with a special commitment to African-Americans.”
Jones says that he first became politically radicalized in the aftermath of the deadly April 1992 Los Angeles riots which erupted shortly after four L.A. police officers who had beaten the infamous Rodney King were exonerated in court. “I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th,” says Jones, who is black, “and then the verdicts came down on April 29th. By August, I was a communist.”
Jones was arrested during the L.A. riots and spent a short time in jail. “I met all these young radical people of color,” he recalls, “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.”
After earning his Juris Doctorate from Yale in 1993, Jones relocated to San Francisco, where he helped establish Bay Area PoliceWatch, a hotline and lawyer-referral service that began as a project of LCCR. In 1996 he founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, which, claiming that the American criminal-justice system is infested with racism, seeks to promote alternatives to incarceration. According to the Baker Center:
“Decades of disinvestment in our cities have led to despair and hopelessness. For poor communities and communities of color it’s even worse, as excessive, racist policing and over-incarceration have left people even further behind.”
By the late 1990s, Jones was a committed Marxist-Leninist-Maoist who viewed police officers as the arch-enemies of black people, and who loathed capitalism for allegedly exploiting nonwhite minorities worldwide. He became a leading member of Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM), a now-defunct Bay Area Marxist-Maoist collective that was staffed by members of various local nonprofits, a number of whom had ties to the Ella Baker Center.
In the early 2000s, Jones and STORM were active in the anti-Iraq War demonstrations organized by International ANSWER, a front group for the Marxist-Leninist Workers World Party. STORM also had ties to the South African Communist Party and it revered Amilcar Cabral, the late Marxist revolutionary leader (of Guinea-Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands) who lauded Lenin as “the greatest champion of the national liberation of the peoples.” (In 2006 Van Jones would name his own newborn son “Cabral” — in Amilcar Cabral’s honor.)
During his tenure with STORM, Jones collaborated on numerous projects (including antiwar demonstrations) with local activist Elizabeth “Betita” Martinez, who served as a “mentor” for members of the Ella Baker Center. Martinez was a longtime Maoist who went on to join the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS), a Communist Party USA splinter group, in the early 1990s. To this day, Martinez continues to sit on the CCDS advisory board alongside such luminaries as Angela Davis, Timuel Black (who served on Barack Obama’s 2004 Senate campaign committee), and musician Pete Seeger. Martinez is also a board member of the Movement for a Democratic Society, the parent organization of Progressives for Obama. Martinez and Van Jones together attended a “Challenging White Supremacy” workshop which advanced the theme that “all too often, the unconscious racism of white activists stands in the way of any effective, worthwhile collaboration” with blacks.
In 2005 Jones and the Ella Baker Center produced the “Social Equity Track” for the United Nations’ World Environment Day celebration, a project that eventually would evolve into the Baker Center’s Green-Collar Jobs Campaign — “a job-training and employment pipeline providing ‘green pathways out of poverty’ for low-income adults in Oakland.”
Soon after attending the Clinton Global Initiative in September 2007, Jones launched “Green For All,” a non-governmental organization “dedicated to building an inclusive green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty … advocating for local, state and federal commitment to job creation, job training, and entrepreneurial opportunities in the emerging green economy - especially for people from disadvantaged communities.”
In 2008 Jones published his first book, The Green Collar Economy, which focused on environmental and economic issues. The book received favorable reviews from such notables as Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi, Laurie David, Winona LaDuke, environmentalist Paul Hawken, and NAACP President/CEO Ben Jealous.
Jones has served as a board member of numerous environmental and nonprofit organizations, including the Rainforest Action Network; Free Press; Bioneers (which accepts the United Nations Millennium Ecosystem Report’s warning that “[h]uman activity is putting such strain on the natural functions of Earth that the ability of the planet’s ecosystems to sustain future generations can no longer be taken for granted”); the National Apollo Alliance (which seeks “to catalyze a clean energy revolution that will put millions of Americans to work in a new generation of high-quality, green-collar jobs”); the Social Venture Network (which aims “to build a just economy and sustainable planet”); and Julia Butterfly Hill’s “Circle of Life” environmental foundation.
Jones was also a Senior Fellow with the Center for American Progress and a Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences.
In March 2009, President Barack Obama named Jones to be his so-called “Green Jobs Czar.” Jones’ formal title is “Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation” for the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
In a July 2009 interview with Newsweek magazine, Jones said he could not explain exactly what a “green job” is:
“Well, we still don’t have a unified definition, and that’s not unusual in a democracy. It takes a while for all the states and the federal government to come to some agreement. But the Department of Labor is working on it very diligently. Fundamentally, it’s getting there, but we haven’t crossed the finish line yet.”
If Bush appointed David Duke as a “czar”, people would call him a racist, never apologize for it, and hammer that point home till the end of time. We on the right, apologize for speaking “too clearly”, and not hiding our thoughts behind rhetoric. When we do speak quietly and patiently, using logic, we are using “code words” to express racism. The point is, why apologize for the truth? The right is accused of being racist NO MATTER THE CONTENT OF WORDS or meaning, why tell anyone on our side that is speaking the truth(Glenn Beck) to modify HIS words?
Don’t you get it people? You MUST make your points truthfully, vociferously and NEVER EVER EVER apologize, except to those you care about, and I could care less if my political opponents live or die.
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