First from Trevor Loudon of New Zeal:
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”
A few short years ago Anthony (Van) Jones was a Bay Area radical agitator-a committed Marxist-Leninist-Maoist, waging war on the police and capitalist system.
Today Van Jones holds a key position in the US government and has the ear of President Barack Obama.
According to the White House Blog March 10th, 2009
The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) Chair Nancy Sutley announced yesterday that Van Jones – an early green jobs visionary — will start Monday as Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at CEQ:
Van Jones has been a strong voice for green jobs and we look forward to having him work with departments and agencies to advance the President’s agenda of creating 21st century jobs that improve energy efficiency and utilize renewable resources. Jones will also help to shape and advance the Administration’s energy and climate initiatives with a specific interest in improvements and opportunities for vulnerable communities.
Jones is the founder of Green For All, an organization focused on creating green jobs in impoverished areas. He is also the co-founder of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and Color of Change, and was the author of the 2008 New York Times best-seller, The Green Collar Economy.
Anthony (Van) Jones with Clinton, Al Gore, Obama and Bono
Today Van Jones mixes not with street level militants, but with the cream of the left “establishment“.
But who is Van Jones? Has he really abandoned his communist beliefs?
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 law students to act as legal observers during the trial of policemen charged with assaulting Rodney King.
Not guilty verdicts in the King case led to mass rioting-which Jones joined in.
Arrested and jailed, Van Jones met a whole new circle of friends.
From the East Bay Express
November 2nd 2005
“I met all these young radical people of color – 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…I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th..By August, I was a communist.”
The communist organisation Van jones went on to lead was called Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM).
According to the leftist blog Machete 48
Returning to Van Jones, with all the shimmer associated with a rising star, many forget that a man now advising the president was a member of a revolutionary organization in the SF Bay Area called STORM (Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement). Throughout the group’s history, Van Jones was seen as a public figure within the Bay Area left and a leading member of STORM.
STORM had its roots in a grouping of people of color organizing against he Gulf War in the early 1990’s and was formally founded in 1994. The group’s politics had a number of influences, but evolved towards what could be best characterized as third worldist Marxism (and an often vulgar Maoism). The group grew in influence until its disbanding in 2002 amid problems of internal dynamics and especially controversy around the leadership roles that members played in the youth movement (such as the fight against Proposition 21). Nearly the entire membership of the organization was staff members for various social movement non-profits in the Bay Area, many linked to the Ella Baker Center, which Van Jones steered.
While never large, STORM was one of the most influential and active radical groups in the Bay Area, controlling numerous front organisations including Bay Area Police Watch, one of several anti police activities Jones was involved in.
Other STORM fronts included a Marxist training organisation-School of Unity and Liberation (SOUL) and an unemployed rights group-People Organized to Win Employment Rights(POWER).
Jones and STORM were also very active in the anti Iraq War demonstrations of the early 2000’s.
While way out on the left STORM also worked with “mainstream” communists.
Bay Area left identity Elizabeth (Betita) Martinez was close to Jones and helped “mentor” his Ella Baker Human Rights Center.
Martinez was a long time Maoist who went on to join the Communist Party USA breakaway organisation Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS)in the early 1990s.
Martinez still serves on the CCDS advisory board alongside radicals such as Angela Davis, Timuel Black (a personal friend of Barack Obama who served on his 2004 Senate campaign committee) and musician Pete Seeger (who performed at Obama’s Washington Inauguration Concert.Martinez and Jones worked together on several projects including attending a Challenging White Supremacy workshop which much impressed Jones;
Martinez is also a board member of Movement for a Democratic Society, the radical parent body of Progressives for Obama
“To solve the new century’s mounting social and environmental problems, people of color activist and white activists need to be able to join forces. But all too often, the unconscious racism of white activists stands in the way of any effective, worthwhile collaboration. The Challenging White Supremacy Workshop is the most powerful tool that I have seen for removing the barriers to true partnerships between people of color and white folks. If the CWS trainings were mandatory for all white activists, the progressive movement in the United States would be unstoppable.”
Read the rest HERE
THEN ADD THIS:
Obama File 73 Weather Alert! Obama’s “Green Jobs” Czar Linked to Former Terrorist Supporters?
http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2009/04/blog-post_08.html
Now it turns out that Van Jones, president Obama’s newly appointed “Green Jobs” Czar (Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality) may also have a little Weather Underground influence in his background.
While Jones is even younger than Obama, the connections may still have serious security implications.
Van Jones was, until around 2002, a leader of a Bay Area communist sect Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary movement (STORM). It seems that Jones was also linked to or influenced, to some degree, by two former Weather Underground supporters, Bay Area activists Jon and Nancy Frappier.
In 2005, Van Jones and Diana Frappier launched the Ella Baker Center’s Green-Collar Jobs Campaign. This led to the establishment of the US’s first “Green Jobs Corps” in Oakland.
In 2007, Van Jones announced a new national organization
Green For All-to take the Green Jobs campaign nationwide.
Diana Frappier serves on the board of Green For All. Jon and Nancy Frappier are listed as donors to the organization.
[ My Note here]: Van Jones tied to WeatherUnderground (Bill Ayers anyone?) also connected to cc-ds.org.
Van Jones’ connection: Carl Pope Serves on the ARW Board of Directors and is Executive director of the Sierra Club.
In 1966 Pope was active in Students for a Democratic Society protests at Harvard University.
Pope is a board member of the green/labor caolition, the Apollo Alliance with DSA member Gerry Hudson and IPS Trustee and former director Robert Borosage.
Pope also works closely with another former Apollo Alliance board member, Van Jones. A “former” revolutionary communist, Jones now works with Hilda Solis as a “green jobs” advisor to president Obama.
Read this blog that includes Van Jones:
From the LEFT FORUM 2009:
I had to quickly get to the next panel, since I was on it, and there was only about five minutes between sessions. “Building a Progressive Majority and Advancing a Vision of Socialism” was the title, and it was pulled together by my group, Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, and chaired by Pat Fry, an SEIU staffer. I led off by presenting Van Jones’s program for Green Jobs for inner city youth, but framing it as a larger structural reform project that could, if done right, unite a progressive majority and help get us out of the current crisis. At the same time, we had to unite a militant minority around socialist tasks, so I offered the solidarity economy movement and its projects as practical examples of cooperative forms that could, within the capitalist present, point to a socialist future.
Read entire article HERE
Muckety Map of his connections:
My end note:
So there you have it AMERICA! A “Green Jobs” Czar that has ties to the Weather Underground, the Maoists/Marxists in charge of the “Green Jobs” that Obama boasts will create jobs in America.
These will tie into all the UNIONS. Anna Burger and Hilda Solis will see to that.
The Cap and Trade Bill passed by the House; now headed to the Senate all tied into Clinton, Gore and Obama. Who will profit from this bill?
Will anyone in the Congress even question Van Jones’ connections?
AMERICA: Do you feel duped, hoodwinked or boondoggled yet?
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