Published: 1 years 311 days ago
Sacramento News & Review: Van Jones is coming to Sacramento. He will be the featured speaker at Mayor Kevin Johnson’s monthly Greenwise initiative meeting on July 20. The initiative is a yearlong project with the goal of making Sacramento the country’s greenest city. Each month, a diverse group of area residents gather to receive updates and participate in developing local environmental policy.
After being targeted numerous times on Glenn Beck’s show, Jones resigned from his post as Obama’s green-jobs czar. Some of you may want to see Van Jones simply because of Beck’s negative endorsement! I have to agree. In his tour de force book, The Green Collar Economy, Jones has brilliantly linked up the environmental and social justice movement and shown how they can work more effectively together.
Bringing Van Jones here to speak is not a safe political thing to do. Standing up to a bully, especially a bully with a television show, takes courage. I applaud Kevin Johnson for taking this risk.
http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/content?oid=1453770
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