Marian Douglas-Ungaro
“As a Green, Van Jones can be a strong national voice for justice and the environment, independent of the constraints of the Democratic Party hierarchy, the corporate lobbies that pull their strings, and the right-wing appeasement and selling out of grassroots social movements that appears to be their strategy,” said Marian Douglas-Ungaro of the DC Statehood Green Party and the Green Party Black Caucus.
Greens called Mr. Jones, who resigned last Saturday after coming under rightwing attack, the best of what the Obama Administration had to offer America, but said that Mr. Jones’ principles were bound to clash with President Obama’s capitulations to corporate lobbies and to ‘blue dog’ Democratic and Republican ideologues.
The Green Party invites Van Jones, with his decades of experience working for justice and the environment, to join a political party that embraces and defends that agenda and the people who work for it — the Green Party. Like the Greens, Van Jones sees green jobs and a healthy environment as interconnected pillars of a sustainable and just economy. We encourage Van to bring that agenda into the electoral arena as a Green Party member, leader and possible future candidate, either nationally, statewide in California, or locally in Oakland, his home.
Greens offered ‘Top Ten reasons why Van Jones should give up on President Obama and the Democratic Party, and come home to the Green Party”
(1) The Obama Administration’s failure to defend Mr. Jones recalls similar retreats by the Clinton Administration, when Bill Clinton allowed Republicans and some Democrats to bully him into removing Assistant Attorney General nominee Lani Guinier and Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders. The targets tend to be Black — consistent with Republican fury over the election of Barack Obama to the White House. Read more »
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