Painting by Robert Shetterly, from his Americans Who Tell The Truth series
Time To Knuckle Up:On Van Jones’ Resignation
by Jeff Chang
There’s another story here: no hip-hop head who cares about changing the world is going to be safe from personal attack in the coming years. We’re coming into power now, and that means we’ve got to knuckle up.
Over a decade ago, Van had been involved with an activist collective called STORM, a group that did important work in building the Bay Area youth movement. That movement expanded and transformed, and helped make the Bay a center of hip-hop activism during the 90s, directing attention to police brutality, the prison-industrial complex, youth unemployment, and neighborhood violence in new ways.
In the past several years, Van’s main work has been around green jobs and energy policy. He has largely been working in and with mainline environmental organizations, “safe” organizations, in other words. He even appears as a core figure in pro-globalization writer Thomas Friedman’s new book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew America. Van was building national networks and a bipartisan, multiracial consensus. He was a hip-hop gen success story, and when he was appointed to the White House, many of us cheered.
Read the Full Essay @ Can't Stop, Won't Stop
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5 Reasons Why Van Jones and Progressives are Better Off With Jones Out of the White House
by Don Hazen,
The truth is, progressives need Van Jones working on the outside providing vision and leadership, not on the inside with his mouth buttoned.
Read the Full Essay @ Alternet
by Jeff Chang
There’s another story here: no hip-hop head who cares about changing the world is going to be safe from personal attack in the coming years. We’re coming into power now, and that means we’ve got to knuckle up.
Over a decade ago, Van had been involved with an activist collective called STORM, a group that did important work in building the Bay Area youth movement. That movement expanded and transformed, and helped make the Bay a center of hip-hop activism during the 90s, directing attention to police brutality, the prison-industrial complex, youth unemployment, and neighborhood violence in new ways.
In the past several years, Van’s main work has been around green jobs and energy policy. He has largely been working in and with mainline environmental organizations, “safe” organizations, in other words. He even appears as a core figure in pro-globalization writer Thomas Friedman’s new book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew America. Van was building national networks and a bipartisan, multiracial consensus. He was a hip-hop gen success story, and when he was appointed to the White House, many of us cheered.
Read the Full Essay @ Can't Stop, Won't Stop
***
5 Reasons Why Van Jones and Progressives are Better Off With Jones Out of the White House
by Don Hazen,
The truth is, progressives need Van Jones working on the outside providing vision and leadership, not on the inside with his mouth buttoned.
Read the Full Essay @ Alternet
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