1) White House advisor Van Jones resigns
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/09/06/van_jones/index.html
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The dismissal of Van Jones
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/sep2009/pers-s07.shtml
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Obama's 'green jobs czar' worked with terror founder
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=106653
Van Jones served on board of activist group where ex-Weatherman
serves as top director
Posted: August 13, 2009
By Aaron Klein
JERUSALEM Van Jones, the man appointed as "green jobs czar" to the
White House, previously served on the board of an environmental
activist group at which a founder of the Weather Underground
terrorist organization is a top director.
WND previously reported Jones was as an admitted radical communist
and black nationalist leader.
He was appointed to serve as the special adviser for green jobs,
enterprise and innovation at the White House Council on Environmental
Quality. According to the White House blog, Jones' duties include
helping to craft job-generating climate policy and to ensure equal
opportunity in the administration's energy proposals.
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.
Jeff Jones' bio on the Apollo website boasts the activist campaigned
to remove PCBs from the Hudson River, clean up toxic pollution in
inner-city and rural neighborhoods, and reverse global warming.
The bio states that from 1995-2005, Jeff Jones served as the
communications director of Environmental Advocates of New York.
Previously, he was a reporter covering state politics and policy for
a variety of news organizations.
Not mentioned is that Jeff Jones was a leading anti-war activist and
terrorist group founder who spent time on the run from law
enforcement agencies while his group carried out a series of bombings
of U.S. government buildings.
Jeff Jones joined the Students for a Democratic Society, or SDS, from
which the Weathermen splintered in the fall of 1965. Two years later,
he became the SDS's New York City regional director, a position in
which he participated in nearly all of the group's major protests
until 1969, including the 1968 Columbia University protests and the
violent riots that same year at the Democratic National Convention.
In 1969, Jeff Jones founded the Weathermen with terrorists Bill Ayers
and Mark Rudd when the three signed an infamous statement calling for
a revolution against the American government inside and outside the
country to fight and defeat what the group called U.S. imperialism.
President Obama came under fire for his longtime, extensive
association with Ayers.
Jeff Jones was a main leader and orchestrator of what became known as
the Days of Rage, a series of violent riots in Chicago organized by
the Weathermen. The culmination of the riots came when he gave a
signal for rowdy protestors to target a hotel that was the home of a
local judge presiding over a trial of anti-war activists.
Jeff Jones went underground after he failed to appear for a March
1970 court date to face charges of "crossing state lines to foment a
riot and conspiring to do so." He moved to San Francisco with Ayers'
wife, Bernardine Dorhn. That year, at least one bombing claimed by
the Weathermen went off in Jones' locale at the Presidio Army base.
Jones' Weathermen would take credit for multiple bombings of U.S.
government buildings, including attacks against the U.S. Capitol
March 1, 1971; the Pentagon May 19, 1972, and a 1975 bombing of the
State Department building.
Jeff Jones did not return WND phone and e-mail requests for comment.
White House adviser Van Jones, meanwhile, is not impartial to radical
activism.
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."
"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 10 years of my life working
with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a
revolutionary," he said.
Trevor Loudon, a communist researcher and administrator of the New
Zeal blog, identified several Bay Area communists who worked with
STORM, including Elizabeth Martinez, who helped advise Jones' Ella
Baker Human Rights Center, which Jones founded to advocate civil
justice. Jones and Martinez also attended a "Challenging White
Supremacy" workshop together.
Martinez was a long time Maoist who went on to join the Communist
Party USA breakaway organization Committees of Correspondence for
Democracy and Socialism, or CCDS, in the early 1990s, according to
Loudon. Martinez still serves on the CCDS council and is also a board
member of the Movement for a Democratic Society, where she sits
alongside former Weathermen radicals Ayers and Dorhn.
One of STORM's newsletters featured a tribute to Amilcar Cabral, the
late Marxist revolutionary leader of Guinea-Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands.
The tribute is noteworthy because Jones reportedly named his son
after Cabral and reportedly concludes every e-mail with a quote from
the communist leader.
STORM eventually fell apart amid bickering among its leaders.
Van Jones then moved on to environmentalism. He used his Ella Baker
Center to advocate "inclusive" environmentalism and launch a
Green-Collar Jobs Campaign, which led to the nation's first Green
Jobs Corps in Oakland, Calif.
At the Clinton Global Initiative in 2007, Jones announced the
establishment of Green For All, an activist organization which in
2008 held a national green conference in which most attendees were
black. Jones also released a book, "The Green Collar Economy," which
debuted at No.12 on the New York Times' bestseller list the first
environmental book written by an African American to make the list.
His appointment as a White House environmental adviser was announced March 10.
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The Blogger Who Nailed Van Jones
http://www.usasurvival.org/ck090709.html
By Cliff Kincaid
9/7/09
If the Van Jones resignation is blamed on his statements about
Republicans and 9/11, a great lesson will have been lost. As we
argued in a previous column, "It's the communism, stupid." If people
don't recognize the dangers of having a communist in the White House,
then the nature of the scandal will not have been understood. Blogger
Trevor Loudon of New Zealand broke the story
http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2009/04/obama-file-72-obama-appoints-former.html
on April 6 and has some thoughts on what happened and where this
story is heading.
His main point is that Van Jones and Barack Obama share the same
Marxist ideology and background. Obama, however, is more careful and clever.
There's an old saying, "If you don't know where you're going, it
doesn't matter which road you take." As Trevor Loudon argues, Jones
and Obama know precisely where they're going. And the Jones
resignation doesn't mean that Obama will take a detour from the road
that he wants to take the country on. Indeed, as Loudon explains,
they are both on the same road.
The development of the scandal, which was seized upon by World Net
Daily, Glenn Beck and other media outlets and personalities, began in
Loudon's research into the existence of communist networks. Loudon
blogs at www.newzeal.blogspot.com A compilation of his most
important articles on Jones can be found
here. http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/LoudonrprtJones.pdf
Loudon tells me, "I began to investigate Van Jones after seeing
several separate pieces of information. I first came across the name
in the mid 1990s in a New Zealand socialist publication which had a
small clip about Van Jones -- a Yale educated lawyer involved in
STORM -- Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement. The
name stuck."
While researching the far-left think Institute for Policy Studies
(IPS), which Loudon considers the Obama administration's "ideas
bank," Loudon found a piece by IPS staffer Chuck Collins recommending
Van Jones for a top government job. A September 26, 2008 article,
posted on the IPS website by Chuck Collins, offered 22 names they
thought would make suitable appointments for an Obama administration.
He included, "Van Jones, of the Ella Baker Center, to direct the
Commerce Department's new 'green jobs initiative.'"
Remember that this was before the election.
"I researched Jones again at that point and found he was a fellow at
the Center for American Progress," Loudon says, referring to the
George Soros-funded entity.
Then a few days after the election he found a statement from former
Weather Underground terrorist leader Mark Rudd, who was trying to
ease fellow leftists' concerns at some of Obama's so-called
"moderate" or "conservative" appointments, mostly in the economic
realm. Rudd declared:
http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/mark-rudd-lets-get-smart-about-obama.html
"Obama plays basketball. I'm not much of an athlete, barely know the
game, but one thing I do know is that you have to be able to look
like you're doing one thing but do another. That's why all these
conservative appointments are important: the strategy is feint to the
right, move left. Any other strategy invites sure defeat. It would be
stupid to do otherwise in this environment.
"Look to the second level appointments. There's a whole govt. in
waiting that [John] Podesta has at the Center for American Progress.
They're mostly progressives, I'm told (except in military and foreign
policy). Cheney was extremely effective at controlling policy by
putting his people in at second-level positions."
Podesta was co-chair of the Obama-Biden Transition Team.
When Jones was appointed "Green jobs Czar" in March 2009 at the White
House Council on Environmental Quality, Trevor got serious. His first
article about Jones' communist connections appeared on April 6,
prompting me to file a series of Freedom of Information Act requests
http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/Kincaid_FOIA_Obama_Green_Jobs_Czar.pdf
into the question of who recommended and hired Jones. The results
amounted to Obama Administration stonewalling.
Loudon explains how relatively easy it was to ascertain the basic
facts about Jones: "It didn't take more than a few keystrokes to
realize that STORM was very influential in the San Francisco Bay Area
and had ties to both the Cuban and South African Communist Parties.
Jones' group -- and particularly Jones himself -- had ties to two
former Weather Underground supporters -- Jon and Nancy Frappier and
the Bay Area branch of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy
and Socialism. Jones was the keynote speaker at a CCDS fundraiser in
Berkeley as late as February 2006."
This Bay Area branch of the CCDS is basically the same "alliance" of
former Weathermen, 60s Maoists and modern communists who supported
Obama in Chicago, Loudon explains.
Explaining more of the connections, Loudon goes on, "Two of Jones'
Bay Area radical friends, Betita Martinez (a former Maoist and CCDS
member) and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (a former Maoist and one-time
Weatherman supporter), served on the board of Movement for a
Democratic Society, along with Weather underground leaders Mark Rudd
and Bernardine Dohrn."
He adds, "Obama's old friend Bill Ayers was also involved, as were
leaders of CCDS, including Angela Davis, who works with several Bay
Area STORM alumni, leaders of the Communist Party USA, Democratic
Socialists of America and several Institute for Policy Studies
trustees and personnel, including E. Ethelbert Miller, Barbara
Ehrenreich and Bill Fletcher Jr. The last two are members of
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and founders in 2008 of
Progressives for Obama."
Obama's socialist backing goes back at least to 1996, when he
received the endorsement of the Chicago branch of the DSA. Our
February 14, 2008, column, "Obama's International Socialist
Connections," explains all of this.
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-international-socialist-connections/
Now that Jones has resigned, Loudon says that "the focus needs to go
on who hired him and why an easily identifiable communist
revolutionary with a police record could serve as a presidential adviser."
He explains, "The Obama administration boasted of its extreme vetting
procedures, so I find it unlikely that if a blogger from New Zealand
could identify Jones as a communist militant that the White house didn't know."
In terms of the evidence about who recommended and hired Jones,
Loudon says that the focus that we have put on far-left Oakland
Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee is correct, since she was "almost
certainly complicit in getting Jones hired." Lee is chair of the
Congressional Black Caucus, was a presidential campaign adviser to
Obama, and is a friend of Jones and Obama. Jones and Lee worked
together on "green jobs" in Oakland.
At the same time, Obama's "brain" Valerie Jarrett is on tape as
saying "they" have been watching Jones for years and were happy to
recruit him. Since Jarrett is in the White House, "the spotlight must
go on Jarrett," Loudon argues. "But eventually it must come back to
the president himself."
He explains, "Jones and Obama have worked with the same people all the way."
For example, Loudon notes that, "In 1999 Obama was called to New York
to set up a left-wing think tank called Demos.
http://www.demos.org/board.cfm He served for a time on the Demos
board of trustees. Jones is still listed a member of the Demos board.
Demos is a partner organization to the Institute for Policy Studies
and also works closely with ACORN and Project Vote -- names very
familiar to any Obama watcher."
Explaining the rise of Van Jones, Loudon says, "Seven years ago Van
Jones was a Bay Area Alinskyite street communist. After hooking up
with the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism,
Democratic Socialists of America, former '60s Maoists, Weather
Underground supporters and Demos, he managed to land a job in the White House."
By comparison, "Twenty two years ago Barack Obama was a Chicago
Alinskyite 'community organizer.' After hooking up with the
Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, Democratic
Socialists of America, former '60s Maoists, Weather Underground
supporters and Demos, he managed to land a job in the White House."
Just a coincidence?
Loudon concludes, "Jones' resignation is a blow for the left and a
victory for freedom, but it is only the beginning in unmasking a
whole series of White House radicals. They may not have been as loud
mouth and indiscrete as Van Jones -- but that makes them more
dangerous, not less. Millions of Americans now have some inkling of
what is happening to their country. Now is the time to amp up the
pressure and research."
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Read the Cliff Kincaid-Trevor Loudon report, From Arms to Education
to Political Power: Return of the SDS and the Weather Underground.
http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/Kincaid-Loudon.pdf
Watch Trevor Loudon's remarks at the ASI conference on "Justice for
Victims of Weather Underground Terrorism."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-qjjK3ZcRs
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