Racism – Speak Up on Van Jones’ Resignation

Dear Friends, Colleagues and Supporters,

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2. Speak Up!

This weekend, an environmental justice hero resigned from the White House. Van Jones was the victim of a vicious smear campaign led by FOX News hatemonger Glenn Beck.
Van’s career as a voice for the poor is legendary, which is why Beck sought to destroy his career in the Obama administration.
To see who the real Van Jones is, watch this video from our series "This Brave Nation"
We can never allow this to happen again. FOX will continue its witch hunt. We must be prepared to speak out and fight back. We want to hear from you.
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Van Jones is in the news for resigning his post as Special Advisor for Green Jobs at the Council on Environmental Quality. Jones was the victim of a smear attack by lack-of-credibility-laden Glenn Beck, solely because Beck was the target of an advertising boycott by ColorofChange.org, a group Jones founded in 2005, after Beck claimed that Obama is a racist. (The Buzz Flash Blog)

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As always your writings are damn good and right on target. It is a damn shame that racist white folks are trying to make our President of these United States to be a thug or anything except the intelligent black man that he is.

I am waiting on the Democrats to use their power while they have it to push Health Care Reform and other issues. The Dems must stop waiting on these racist Republicans to vote along with them because it ain’t going to happen as long as the President stays black. C. Dancy II – DCN Publisher

Van Jones, special advisor to the President’s Council on Environmental Quality, has resigned from the administration. To be honest, he was forced out. Oh, perhaps not directly, but if not, then by the stunning silence of his employer. An employer more concerned about appeasing the right-wing bullies who sought to make Jones a liability for him, than about standing up for a brilliant thinker on both economics and ecological issues, and confronting the conservative talk-show hosts who have libeled and slandered Jones (literally) over the past month.

The right has shown no shame in their relentless pursuit of Jones’s political scalp. They have fabricated from whole cloth details of his life, calling him a convicted felon and instigator of the 1992 Los Angeles riots. This, in spite of the fact that he has no criminal record whatsoever and wasn’t even in Los Angeles when those riots were happening. His arrest at that time was part of a sweep of dozens of peaceful marchers in San Francisco, involved in a protest at the time of the riots. He was released, charges were dropped, and he was paid damages by the city. This is not what happens to criminals, but rather, innocent people who have done nothing wrong. Jones should sue the living shit out of Beck, . . . (Read More @ Tim Wise)

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The end of Van Jones’ brief career as a White House insider, in the semi-obscure position of special adviser for green jobs at the Council on Environmental Quality, is likely good for Van Jones and very good for progressives.

Yes, currently it seems as if Fox News’ Glenn Beck — who spent the past few weeks viciously smearing Jones — has won one. In fact, Beck has done Jones, and all of us, a mitzvah. (Alternet)

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