Van Jones
Summary
Anthony "Van" Jones (born September 20, 1968) is an American environmental advocate, civil rights activist and attorney. Jones is a co-founder of three non-profit organizations. In 1996 he founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, a California non-governmental organization (NGO) working for alternatives to violence. In 2005 he co-founded Color of Change, an advocacy group for African Americans. In 2007 he founded Green For All, a national NGO dedicated to "building an inclusive green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty." His first book, The Green Collar Economy, was released on October 7, 2008, and reached number 12 on the New York Times Best Seller list.
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Scott Mendelson: Rush Limbaugh's Advertiser Desertion Feels Good, But Why Doesn't It Feel Right?
About a week after Rush Limbaugh's [insert negative adjective here] comments about Sandra Fluke, a law student who testified before Congress regarding the ongoing "debate" about contraception, the long-time right-wing talk-radio host's show has lost 30 sponsors as a result of public outcry and calls for advertiser boycott. As someone who has followed politics for the last 20 years, a practice that inevitably involves hearing or reading about any number of god-awful things Limbaugh has uttered over the decades, I suppose I have to wonder: what took so many of his sponsors so long? As a political liberal who has witnessed not only the sheer absurdity of many of Limbaugh's often fact-free rants, as well as the incredible power he holds over Republican office holders, it fills me with no little good cheer to see him getting his ass kicked over his misogynistic tirade against a private citizen who exercised her right to testify before Congress over a matter of personal concern to her (and her friend, who needed contraception for the treatment of ovarian cysts).
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Fox News Pundits Tear Into MSNBC, Defend Pat Buchanan
A Fox News host and contributor tore into MSNBC on Saturday for its treatment of controversial pundit Pat Buchanan.
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Pat Buchanan Blames Gays, Civil Rights Groups For Recent Troubles
Embattled pundit Pat Buchanan lobbed another grenade at MSNBC on Tuesday, saying that a smear campaign by "militant gay rights groups" and Van Jones was contributing to his months-long absence from the network.
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Joe Biden Isn't Sure Who Van Jones Is
Vice President Joe Biden made remarks Tuesday on a local radio show that suggested he didn't know who former White House adviser Van Jones was.
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Van Jones: Progressives Launching 'October Offensive' To Rival Tea Party
Former White House adviser Van Jones says that progressives are going to launch an "October offensive" to rival the Tea Party, in the spirit of the Arab Spring protests across the Middle East.
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Fox News Panel Mocks Children In Progressive Video
A Fox News panel mocked a group of children who appeared in a progressive video, calling them "dorks" and "bastards. ".
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Fox Ignores Cease-And-Desist Letter, Smears Van Jones As "Self-Avowed Marxist"
OnFox & Friends, Fox's Peter Johnson Jr. smeared former Obama special adviser Van Jones as a "self-avowed Marxist," despite a June 20 cease-and-desist letter from Jones' lawyer demanding that Fox News stop repeating its "sensational and inflammatory" attacks on Jones, including the false claim that Jones is a "Marxist. " Indeed, in the letter, Jones' lawyer notes that he "is not a member of any Communist Party or Marxist organization" and that he is "firmly pro-market.
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Beck Theorizes That The "Plan" Is For China To "Occupy The West"
Glenn Beckaccused theObama Administrationof orchestrating a "plan" toallow China and Mexico to "occupy the West. "This followsa long list of comments Beck has made raising the possibility thatChinamight enslave Americans.
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The questions hanging over Murdoch, USA | Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan
The spreading contagion may show up the cracks in News Corp's vast American media holdings.
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Latest Hacking Outrage Is Very Bad News for Rupert Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch knows better than anyone that for a tabloid story to have legs, it has to have a face. That’s why the trashier precincts of cable news are an unending parade of villains and victims — Natalee Holloway, George Tiller, Van Jones, Casey and Caylee Anthony, et cetera. Big and important though it undoubtedly is, the gradually unfolding saga of illegal cell-phone hacking by operatives of Murdoch’s News of the World has lacked a face.
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