Apparently you don't realize that those words are from the mouth of Van Jones himself. Follow the link and read his words for yourself. I found that one myself. It's from a site you would approve of--Mother Jones.
I 'm not aruing the source or whether he said it or not. I'm just saying...'So?'
Show us where Van Jones has renounced communism.
* He has NEVER served time in prison. He was rounded up along with other peaceful protestors and was quickly released and later compesated by the police for the unlawful arrest. This is a fairly easy fact to check, so why does Beck keep peddling it?
* He's not a mysterious 'czar' The press release announcing his appointment to the White House Council on Environmental Quality. He's a WH staffer.
* Beck keeps insisting he was never vetted. Paterson was called by the FBI during Jones' vetting process.
* The communist quote was taken out of context from a article that makes it clear even in the headline ( "The New Face of Environmentalism" subtitled - Van Jones renounced his rowdy black nationalism on the way toward becoming an influential leader of the new progressive politics") .that he had renounced his youthful radicalism and had found a better way in socially responsible capitalism. *You should read it.
You have an extraordinary inability to read words and derive meaning from them.
You're the one who defined 'revolutionary' as a code word for 'communism'.
Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits."
"It's the environmental racism that allowed the powerful people in society to turn a blind eye for decades to the downsides of the industrial system that got us to this point."
He's right. The big companies spread their money around with the people in power to get the permits and codes changed that they wanted. I wrok for a national company that services all variety's of industry. I see it all the time. From some Mom and Pop restaurant that pays the health inspector to overlook the rats in the basement, to national companies that get codes changed when their retention ponds start getting to toxic. Where do YOU think THAT money goes? To the unemployed in the ghetts?
"Well, the only reason that we have the unsustainable accounting that we have right now is because incinerators, dumping grounds, and sacrifice zones were put where poor people live. It would never have been allowed if you had to put all the incinerators and nasty stuff in rich people's neighborhoods..."
You got that shit right. I've seen them keep hospitals, hospices, prisons, factory's and whatever else they don't want from even getting into the neighborhood. And the ones that pull out...the mess gets cleaned up as opposed to the post-apocolyptic looking crap that they leave behind in the cities and poor areas.
"It's the environmental racism that allowed the powerful people in society to turn a blind eye for decades to the downsides of the industrial system that got us to this point."
And it still continues.
"The other thing is that the environmental justice agenda is also changing. Before, it was much stronger on demanding equal protection from environmental bad. Now we are also demanding equal opportunity and equal access to environmental good."
"We want an equal share, an equitable share, of the work wealth and the benefits of the transition to a green economy."
"....we want to make sure that the green economy is an equal-opportunity, diverse economy that can lift millions of people out of poverty."
"We don't want it to be an ecoapartheid economy where the vast majority of the owners and workers and consumers and beneficiaries of the green economy are all one race."
Why can't this green economy happen in the city's? What is wrong with bringing these factories and bussiness' back into the city's so the people there can benefit? Why should it only happen in influential areas that have the money to buy these guys dinners, vacations, and cruises? It happens. I keep tryin to tell myself it doesn't, but then another contract comes up for bid and the money starts a flying under the table. The dinners, lunches, meetings at odd hours at odd places.
"What are some of the policies that you're envisioning would create this more level green-jobs market?"
"It's a two-part answer. First you've got to have a green economy. Then you've got to make it just and inclusive. You've got to put a price on carbon; that's got to be a top priority for the new administration."
What is the problem with putting a price on carbon. IMO, it's flawed in the aspect that these company's will only trade and buy up what they need from each other anyway to skirt around any restrictions .
"The minute the rules change so that we punish the polluters, so the polluters have to pay, and the people who are doing things in a clean and green way are benefited, which can happen within the year, then you're going to see a massive transfer of both public and private capital into the clean and green sector."
The polluters should pay. They should start by paying to have the crap they left behind cleaned up. If you're ever this way, let me know. I can take you to one site that would blow your mind. Even if you didn't buy into anything else I have said here you would see this and say 'They can't do THAT!' and wouldn't shed a tear if they got fined. And that's just one I could show you. They're all over the country.
"We want a really aggressive cap. We want to make the polluters pay. We don't care if they pay by buying permits or paying taxes."
All he's saying is one way or another they are gonna pay for the pollution. EVen if they have to get creative.
"Now, the real question is who's going to get those jobs."
"When the government moves, then capital will move, and when capital moves, then jobs will be created. We want to say very early and very loud, not after we see the big green economic boom, the real boom that's coming, but before, that the jobs question is critical, justice is critical, equal opportunity is critical, and pathways out of poverty are critical."
"We're so clear about this because with the Silicon Valley tech boom, communities of color, poor people got nothing out of it. By the time we got into the argument, to talk about "Let's close the digital divide," the only thing Silicon Valley could think of to do is to give us recycled computers."
"We don't want, having already fought the digital divide in the '90s, to now have to deal with an eco divide."
I really don't know what YOU'RE reading into all of this and what you're so afraid of.
You need help.
So you're FINALLY willing to come over to my side?!?!? Why I don't know what to say. vstyler must be spitting beer at his monitor.
