Claiming he was a victim of “vicious smear campaign” and accusing his opponents of
“using lies and distortions to distract and divide,” Green Jobs Czar "resigned"
Unfortunately Jones is out for superficial and sleazy comments that recently came to light. He should have been booted for his radical past as detailed on this page.
So to Jones we at AFP say Goodby, Good riddance...don't let the door hit your racist Communist ass on the way out
But Van Jones really isn't going anywhere...he's just going across the street to the Soros-funded Center for American Progress.
John Podesta (bad person), the President and CEO of the Center for American Progress Action Fund:
Van Jones is an exceptional and inspired leader who has fought to bring economic and environmental justice to communities across our country.
He has chosen to resign because he believed he was serving as a distraction to the president’s agenda. I respect that decision.
Van was working to build a common ground agenda for all Americans, and I am confident he will continue that work. Unfortunately, his critics on the right could find no common ground with him.
Clearly, Van was the subject of a right-wing smear campaign shrouded in hypocrisy. Van’s chief tormentor Glenn Beck, who spent weeks engaged in vicious name-calling, retains his perch at Fox News after calling the president a racist who has “a deep-seated hatred for white people.” Van has set a standard that Beck would never impose upon himself.
I look forward to working with Van to move our country towards a clean energy economy that empowers and lifts up all Americans.
Who is Van Jones? Officially he is Obama's Green Jobs Czar. He is responsible for creating "green jobs" to combat climate change.
Further investigation reveals a Communist revolutionary running an updated scam that raids the U.S. Treasury and uses the money to subsidize low-level dead-end jobs for blacks, repackaged as 'green jobs', make them union jobs and also distribute money to social justice agitators.
Van Jones helped found the Apollo Aliance (which wrote the $787B Stimulus package) and served on its board until recently-alongside Gerry Hudson of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), former Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) supporter Carl Pope and Joel Rogers-founder of the radical New Party-which Barack Obama joined in Chicago in 1995.
From the Apollo Alliance website (http://apolloalliance.org/state-local/boston/the-green-justice-solution/):
Most of the direct on-site jobs are construction jobs, although a number of new energy auditor jobs will also be created. Many require only modest training, making them accessible to residents without college degrees. Of the-full-year-retrofitting jobs that would be created, almost one-third would be entry-level, almost two-thirds would be skilled or semi-skilled and only one in fourteen would be supervisory. This mix of jobs creates opportunities for energy efficiency workers to move up a career ladder into union apprenticeships that offer long-term, high-wage careers in a skilled trade.
Van Jones is a convicted felon. He is also a self-proclaimed communist and a committed Marxist-Leninist-Maoist. In 1992 Jones was arrested during the Rodney King riots. While in jail he converted from a black nationalism to radical communism. He loathes capitalism because he claims it exploits nonwhite minorities worldwide. He also views police officers as the arch enemies of black people.
AFP Update Sept. 4, 2009 -- Van Jones also is a 911 Truther.
911 Truth Statement:
Respected Leaders and Families Launch 9/11 Truth Statement Demanding Deeper Investigation into the Events of 9/11
NEW YORK CITY, NY (Oct. 26, 2004) - An alliance of 100 prominent Americans and 40 family members of those killed on 9/11 today announced the release of the 911 Truth Statement, a call for immediate inquiry into evidence that suggests high-level government officials may have deliberately allowed the September 11th attacks to occur. The Statement supports an August 31st Zogby poll that found nearly 50% of New Yorkers believe the government had foreknowledge and "consciously failed to act," with 66% wanting a new 9/11 investigation.
Mr. Jones signed a statement for 911Truth.org in 2004 demanding an investigation into what the Bush Administration may have done that "deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war."
His name is listed with 99 other prominent signatories supporting such an investigation on the 911Truth.org website, including Code Pink co-founders Medea Benjamin and Jodi Evans, comedienne Janeane Garofalo, Democratic Rep. Cynthia McKinney of Georgia and others. Jones is identified as the executive director for the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights on the statement, which he founded before going to the White House. Mr. Jones is number 47.
In 1993 he earned his law degree from Yale.
In 1994, Jones formed a socialist collective, Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM. The group held study groups on Marxist theory and dreamed of creating the unachievable multiracial socialist utopia (no doubt without white people). While at STORM Jones published Reclaiming Revolution. All of STORM's members developed a basic understanding of, and commitment to revolutionary Marxist policies with a particular emphasis on the historical experience of 3rd World communist movements.
Jones: "Revolutionaries need to be militant in street actions. As leaders in the fight for liberation, we should be role models of fearlessness before the state and the oppressor."
Jones recently published the entire text to the web in August of 2009. As light started to shine on Jone's radical background the site was taken down in a fit of Stalinist-style whitewashing.
In 1996 Jones co-founded of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and Color of Change, which includes Bay Area PoliceWatch, a group devoted to protecting the community from "police brutality".
In an interview at the Center Jones expounded on eco-racism:
The reason you can be hopeful at this point is that we're entering a fourth wave of environmentalism in the United States. First, obviously, you had the Native Americans who were great stewards here, and you didn't need environmentalism when they were in charge for thousands of years. But, there was an invasion and suddenly, you need environmentalism. The opening advent of environmentalism is conservationism, it's Teddy Roosevelt, you have that wave. Then you have a second wave, which was Rachel Carson and Silent Spring, it was conservation plus regulation of those toxics and things that would harm human species as well as non-human species. It wasn't just conserving what we have but also regulating this new industrialism. The problem with that second wave of environmentalism, for all its heroic accomplishments, it had a negative outcome. That negative outcome was that, at the end of the day there was no outcome because there was no racial analysis. White environmentalists and white polluters eventually wound up steering toxics into communities of color and increasing the toxic burden for people of color, which created a third wave of environmentalism, the environmental justice movement. This says, we don't think that we need to have an environmentalism that forces people of color to bear the burden, that there should be either no toxic burden or at least an equally shared toxic burden. That became a powerful cry in the mid-80s. Now we're entering a fourth wave of environmentalism. That fourth wave says, conservation - yes, plus regulating the bad - yes, plus investing in the good. There's a new environmentalism now that's solution-based, market-driven, that says, let's invest in solar, let's invest in hydrogen, let's invest in permaculture, let's invest in organic, let's invest in high-performance buildings, let's invest in the solution side of environmental consciousness.
Jones was arrested in the 1999 Seattle protests against the World Trade Organization
One of Saul Alinsky's strategies was to take the enemy out of their comfort zone.
Van Jones in an interview with the Hip Hop rag 'That's the Joint': "We need to be about the whup-ass. Somebody's fucking up somewhere. They have names and job descriptions. You have to be creative about how you engage the enemy, because if you do it on his terms, the outcome is already known."
Jones began to repackage himself as a mainstream guy. He spruced up and began to bore from within. In a 2005 interview with the 'East Bay Express' he said:
"No concession was good enough; we never said 'Thank you.' Now, I put the issues and constituencies first. I'll work with anybody, I'll fight anybody if it will push our issues forward…. I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends."
Jones hopped on the climate change bandwagon, creating a "green" job project for low-income people in northern California. Jones eventually launched an organization (Green For All) dedicated to building an inclusive green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty.
"This no longer about jobs for rich people or for the affluent…it's about jobs for poor people, wealth building opportunities for low income people…"
This sounds like an updated enterprise zones con where the folks running the con get rich while the folks in the neighborhood get some jobs pushing a broom…but the brooms will have green handles. Maybe they'll get a green tee-shirt too.
Jones published The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems, in October 2008.
Jones has accused the nation of "environmental racism" and "eco-apartheid" for putting industrial incinerators and dumping grounds in poor neighborhoods.
"We want a green economy that is strong enough to lift people out of poverty. We're not leaving anybody behind. We don't want an eco-elite economy. We're talking about people that don't have a home. How do they get to be part of this green economy? What good is a green economy if at the end of the day, it's just eco-apartheid anyway?"
Jones on his appointment as Green Jobs Czar: Actually, my job is not so dissimilar than my job was before.... What I do, can I make it simple, I'm basically a community organizer with the federal family.
Van Jones at The State of The Black Union on Feb, 27 2009
You cannot beat global warming unless you understand that 40% of greenhouse gases are not coming from cars they're coming from buildings and 75% of greenhouse gases are coming from the cities and you cannot green the cities unless you green the ghetto and you cannot green the ghetto in 2009 without giving Pookie a job. So….*two snaps and a cirlce* unintelligible mumbling…that's a new environmental movement….Give Pookie a job! Beat this recession and global warming at the same time. Beat pollution and poverty at the same time. And recognize the True Genius of Barack Obama ™ is that the First Black President is the First Green President. He's not just trying to save you - he's going to save the whole wide world!
Van Jones At the Powershift '09 Conference, March 10, 2009
"And our Native American sisters and brothers who were pushed and bullied and mistreated and shoved into all the land we didn't want, where it was all hot and windy, well, guess what. Renewable energy. Guess what, solar industry. Guess what, wind industry. They now own and control 80% of the renewable energy resources. No more broken treaties. No more broken treaties. Give them the wealth. Give them the wealth. Give them the dignity. Give them the respect that they deserve. No justice on stolen land. We owe them a debt.
What about our immigrant sisters and brothers? What about people who came here from all around the world that we are willing to have out in the fields with poison being sprayed on them, because we have the wrong agricultural system…we are willing to poison them and poison the earth. But we don't want to give them rights, we don't want to give them respect.
All we do is take out the dirty power system, the dirty power generation in a system and just replace it with some clean stuff, put a solar panel on top of this system. We don't deal with how we are consuming water, we don't deal with how we're treating our other sister and other brothers' species, we don't deal with toxins, we don't deal with the way we treat each other, if that's not a part of this movement, let me tell you what you'll have. This is all you'll have. You'll have solar powered bulldozers, solar powered buzz saws, and biofuel bombers and we'll be fighting wars over lithium for the batteries instead of oil for the engines and we'll still have a dead planet. This movement is deeper than a solar panel, deeper than a solar panel. Don't stop there. Don't stop there. No, we're going to change the whole system. We're going to change the whole thing.
And this won't -- we have to prepare for this to be a long process even though it probably won't be. We have to prepare ourselves. We can't just push the people. We can push for (inaudible), but the people -- it must be a dance, you know. We have to listen, listen, listen, listen. And then learn. And then co-lead, try to coauthor a different future with folks. And we have to assume that's going to take a long time, but sometimes what should have taken another 20 years, Barack Hussein Obama, can take a season.
White polluters poisoning immigrants, Native Americans and blacks in the cities. So it's not really about the environment. It never was about the environment. For Van Jones this is about settling scores. This is about payback. It's about social justice and wealth redistribution.
In 1994, Jones formed a socialist collective, Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM. The group held study groups on Marxist theory and dreamed of creating the unachievable multiracial socialist utopia (no doubt without white people). While at STORM Jones published 
