Van Jones
Van Jones
Van Jones is an activist working to combine solutions to social inequality and environmental destruction. He founded Green for All and the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, which promotes alternatives to violence and incarceration, in 1996.
He has won many honors including a Reebok Human Rights Award and an Ashoka Fellowship, and has served on the boards of many groups, including: the National Apollo Alliance, Social Ventures Network, Rainforest Action Network and Bioneers. The City of Oakland has adopted the Ella Baker Center's "Green Jobs Corps" proposal, and Van is pushing to create the first-ever Green Enterprise Zone in Oakland.
Most recently, Van Jones was the Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
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- Van Jones invites us to bring down the social walls that we ourselves have built, and work together to counter the timeworn strategy of divide and conquer that benefits ruling elites.
- Van Jones, founder and national executive director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, is a major figure in challenging the criminal justice system and its over-incarceration of urban youth.
- It is the chief moral obligation of our time to build a green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty. Van Jones urges us to carry our spiritual, cultural and economic movements into the electoral arena to transform politics and forge a green "New Deal" coalition. Available as CD, DVD, and downloadable MP3
