Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM),
the revolutionary group formed by self-described "communist" and
"rowdy black nationalist" Van Jones, held a vigil in Oakland,
California, "mourning the victims of U.S. imperialism around the
world" on the night after Sept. 11, 2001.
The reason this is important is because Van Jones is now
President Obama's green jobs czar. He does not appear to have
distanced himself from his past communist activities and is now
part of the Obama administration's push to turn Sept. 11 into a
National Day of Service focused on the promotion of the
radical environmentalist agenda.
The vigil was reported by World
Net Daily which excerpted parts of a history of the
now-disbanded group.
Apparently, after the WND article was posted online, the website
on which the original document was posted was overwhelmed by
visitors and unavailable. I found the article in the "Way Back
Machine" website (web.archive.org), an archival resource. The
2004 document, called "Reclaiming Revolution: history, summation
& lessons from the work of Standing Together to Organize a
Revolutionary Movement (STORM)," may be found on the archival
site
here. (In case that becomes unavailable, the document
"Reclaiming
Revolution" is available at the link embedded in this
sentence.)
Jones also founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, which
joined in the vigil according to an Ella Baker Center
press release from 2001. The press release contained this
passage that quoted Jones:
"Anti-Arab hostility is already reaching a fever pitch as pundits
and common people alike rush to judgment that an Arab group is
responsible for this tragedy," said Van Jones, national executive
director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. "We fear that
an atmosphere is being created that will result in official and
street violence against Arab men, women and children."
"Reclaiming Revolution" also blamed the U.S. for 9/11. A passage
on page 45 (27 of the PDF file) reads:
That night, STORM and the other movement leaders expressed
sadness and anger at the deaths of innocent working class
people. We were angry, first and foremost, with the U.S.
government, whose worldwide aggression had engendered such hate
across the globe that working class people were not safe at
home. We honored those who had lost their lives in the attack
-- and those who would surely lose their lives in subsequent
U.S. attacks overseas.
Michelle Malkin discussed STORM and "Reclaiming Revolution" on
the
"Glenn Beck Program" on Aug. 25.
