”I am certain nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after the mirage of social justice.”

“I have come to feel strongly that the greatest service I can still render to my fellow men would be that I could make the speakers and writers among them thoroughly ashamed ever again to employ the term ’social justice’.”

“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.”

“To avoid being mistaken for a sellout I chose my friends carefully.  The more politically active black students.  The foreign students.  The Chicanos.  The Marxist professors and structural feminists.”

Frances Beinecke President Natural Resources Defense Council

Carl Pope Executive Director Sierra Club

Robert Borosage President Institute for America’s Future

Dan W. Reicher Director of Climate Change and Energy Initiatives Google

Leo Gerard International President United Steelworkers Union

Gerald Hudson International Executive Vice President Service Employees International Union

Terence M. O’Sullivan General President Laborers’ International Union of North America

Nancy McFadden Senior Vice President of Public Affairs for PG&E Corporation

Dan W. Reicher Director of Climate Change and Energy Initiatives Google 

John Podesta President and CEO of the Center for American Progress

Joel Rogers Director Center on Wisconsin Strategy

“…The Apollo Alliance is a project organized by the Institute for America’s Future and the Center on Wisconsin Strategy. Its goals include establishing energy independence for the United States of America as well as developing cleaner and more efficient energy alternatives. Its allies are drawn from businesses environmental organizations and over 30 labor unions. …”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Alliance

“…How this guy got a job in government is beyond comprehension – unless you live in the United States under Barack Obama as president.

Meet Obama’s “Green Czar” Van Jones – former radical communist by his own admission now a born again capitalist – at least when it comes to remaking the business world into an environmentally friendly sector.

World Net Daily has the background on his past:  

Jones formerly a self-described “rowdy black nationalist” boasted in a 2005 interview with the left-leaning East Bay Express that his environmental activism was a means to fight for racial and class “justice.”

Jones was president and founder of Green For All a nonprofit organization that advocates for building a so-called inclusive green economy.

Until recently Jones was a longtime member of the board of Apollo Alliance a coalition of labor business environmental and community leaders that claims on its website to be “working to catalyze a clean energy revolution that will put millions of Americans to work in a new generation of high-quality green-collar jobs.”

(Although influential Apollo has only 14 state affiliates nationwide. Its New York office is directed by Jeff Jones a top founding member of the Weather Underground radical organization. 

Not only a former communist but a radical green to be sure. The idea of using the business community to achieve his goals is novel considering who he was running with in the past: …”

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/08/the_ivan_the_terrible_of_obama.html

“…Creating ex nihilo — literally out of nothing — used to be a theological concept God’s prerogative. Today it seems President Barack Obama and certain Western politicians claim to possess the ability to do it. Against all the laws of economics and the marketplace they believe they can create millions of ‘green’ real jobs out of thin air or at least air without carbon dioxide via cap and trade.  

If Obama & Co. were to remove their green-tinted glasses for just a moment and take a long hard look at the European experience they profess to cite as ‘proven’ they would discover those glasses have been rose-tinted all along.

The basic assumption is that technology per se generates jobs. Mostly it does not. Rather technology enables jobs — real and sustainable jobs — based on how useful the technology is to the marketplace.  To generate real industrial jobs however one needs a basic commodity to trade and in the energy business this has meant oil gas or coal.  Yet ‘green’ politicians and eco-lobbyists expect to create a revolution in green jobs based on … alternative energy sources.  The trouble is that alternative energy sources remain and will continue to be appallingly inefficient offering a very poor to mostly negative return on investment. Cut off the flow of massive public subsidies and the alternative energy industrial revolution would grind to a halt tomorrow — as the European experience already bears out.

What the EU experience shows is that for every green job created per installed MW power a real job is destroyed elsewhere in the economy. Not to mention it aids the reduction of competitiveness investment in expansion and ultimately promotes the relocation of major companies to countries without draconian carbon regimes that cause energy price hikes. …”

“…Van Jones (born 1968) is (since March 2009) the Special Advisor for Green Jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ).[1]

He is an environmental advocate a civil rights activist and attorney and an author. Formerly based in Oakland California Jones is the founder of Green For All a national NGO dedicated to “building an inclusive green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty.”[2] His first book The Green Collar Economy released on October 7 2008 was a New York Times bestseller.[3] Jones also founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights a California NGO working for alternatives to violence and incarceration.[4]

In 2008 Time magazine named Jones one of its “Environmental Heroes.”[5]Fast Company called him one of the “12 Most Creative Minds of 2008.”[6]

…”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Jones

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“…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 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.

A small but influential radical organization STORM was founded in 1994 by a group of black anti-war activists who had demonstrated together against the Gulf War three years earlier. STORM became the guiding force behind several notable front groups one of which was an anti-police collective called Bay Area Police Watch. Another STORM front was the School of Unity and Liberation (SOUL) which was a Marxist training organization; yet another was People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER) which agitated on behalf of the jobless. STORM would grow in influence until 2002 when it disbanded due to internal squabbles.

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.” …”

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2406

“…Color of Change is a Web-based grassroots organization that aims to strengthen the political voice of Black America. It was formed after the events of Hurricane Katrina a powerful storm that devastated much of the north-central Gulf Coast. Color of Change is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation and Color Of Change PAC is a 501(c)(4) non-profit corporation that engages in lobbying and public education.

Color of Change was co-founded in 2005 by James Rucker and Van Jones. Rucker had previously been Director of Grassroots Mobilization for MoveOn.org Political Action and MoveOn.org Civic Action (2003 – 2005). Van Jones is the founder and executive director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights.[1] Van Jones left the organization several years later to move on to other pursuits such as Green For All.[2] Color of Change emerged in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and was a leading advocate of the Jena Six helping that cause gain increased media national and international attention. Color of Change is still working on issues associated with the aftermath of Katrina particularly the availability of housing to those whose homes were lost or damaged. One of COC’s current campaigns is garnering support for Senate bill S.1668 which would repair and open thousands of minimally damaged public housing units.[3] …”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_of_Change

“…Jerome C. Ringo (b. born on March 2 1955) an advocate for environmental justice clean energy and quality jobs is the immediate past chairman of the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) and an associate research scholar and McCluskey Fellow for Conservation at Yale University.

In assuming the reins of the NWF in 2005 he became the first African American in history to chair a major conservation advocacy organization. Ringo is also president of the Apollo Alliance a coalition of organized labor environmentalist business and civil rights leaders dedicated to freeing the United States of dependence on foreign oil. …”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Ringo

“…George Soros is one of the most powerful men on earth. A New York hedge fund manager he has amassed a personal fortune estimated at about $7.2 billion. His management company controls billions more in investor assets. Since 1979 his foundation network — whose flagship is the Open Society Institute (OSI) — has dispensed an estimated $5 billion to a multitude of organizations whose objectives are consistent with those of Soros. (The President of OSI and the Soros Foundation Network is Aryeh Neier former Director of the socialist League for Industrial Democracy.) With assets of $859 million as of 2005 OSI alone donates scores of millions of dollars annually to these various groups whose major agendas can be summarized as follows:  

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=589

Last week NewsBusters reported President Obama’s “green jobs czar” Van Jones is co-founder of ColorofChange.org an activist organization that 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.

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. 

Beck’s segments were based in part on WND’s reporting that Jones was as an admitted radical communist and black nationalist leader. …”

“…Jones formerly a self-described “rowdy black nationalist” boasted in a 2005 interview with the left-leaning East Bay Express that his environmental activism was a means to fight for racial and class “justice.”

Jones was president and founder of Green For All a nonprofit organization that advocates building a so-called inclusive green economy.

Until recently Jones was a longtime member of the board of Apollo Alliance a coalition of labor business environmental and community leaders that claims on its website to be “working to catalyze a clean energy revolution that will put millions of Americans to work in a new generation of high-quality green-collar jobs.”

He was a founder and leader of the communist revolutionary organization Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement or STORM. The organization had its roots in a grouping of black people organizing to protest the first Gulf War. STORM was formally founded in 1994 becoming one of the most influential and active radical groups in the San Francisco Bay area.

STORM worked with known communist leaders. It led the charge in black protests against various issues including a local attempt to pass Proposition 21 a ballot initiative that sought to increase the penalties for violent crimes and require more juvenile offenders to be tried as adults.

The leftist blog Machete 48 identifies STORM’s influences as “third-worldist Marxism (and an often vulgar Maoism).”

Speaking to the East Bay Express Van Jones said he first became radicalized in the wake of the 1992 Rodney King riots during which time he was arrested.

“I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th and then the verdicts came down on April 29th” he said. “By August I was a communist.” …”

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=107088

“…The particularly unsavory left-wing pressure group Color of Change has an axe to grind with Glenn Beck — and it’s personal.

The extremist racial grievance group isn’t happy that Beck did several news packages on Van Jones President Obama’s controversial green jobs czar who describes himself as a communist. (Green really is the new red.)

Jones is a founding board member of Color of Change but Color of Change doesn’t want you to know that. Maybe having an avowed America-hating radical on the group’s board is bad public relations.

The group deleted references to Jones on its “about” page. That page used to say “James Rucker and Van Jones came together in the wake of [Hurricane] Katrina to use the organizing power of the Internet to give Black Americans and our allies a renewed and strengthened political voice.”

But now it doesn’t. …”

http://www.capitalresearch.org/blog/2009/08/12/communist-green-jobs-czars-group-takes-aim-at-tvs-glenn-beck/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLFM1SU0gaE

Phil Angelides Chairman Canyon Johnson Urban Communities Fund

Frances Beinecke President Natural Resources Defense Council

Robert Borosage President Institute for America’s Future

Leo Gerard International President United Steelworkers Union

Gerald Hudson International Executive Vice President Service Employees International Union

Mindy Lubber President CERES

Nancy McFadden Senior Vice President of Public Affairs for PG&E Corporation

Kathleen McGinty former Secretary Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection

Terence M. O’Sullivan General President Laborers’ International Union of North America

Ellen Pao Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

Michael Peck Principal MAPA Incorporated

John Podesta President and CEO of the Center for American Progress

Carl Pope Executive Director Sierra Club

Dan W. Reicher Director of Climate Change and Energy Initiatives Google

Joel Rogers Director Center on Wisconsin Strategy