“You go the the laundromat, you go to a sports bar, you go to a house of worship, ask people what the number one concern is. The economy, jobs, economic issues. And we don’t have anything to ask them to join.”
Has Van Jones Tipped His Hand on His Next Big Step to Mobilize the Left?
Tiffany Gabbay
The Blaze
6/5/2012
If you were asked to name a progressive labor movement, you might automatically chime in and say, “AFL-CIO.” If you were asked to name a progressive environmental movement, you might answer, “Sierra Club.” If you were asked to name a left-wing women’s rights movement, you could easily think of the feminist group the National Organization for Women (NOW). Now if you were asked to name a progressive economics movement, who or what would come to mind? If you are drawing a blank, that is because, at least as far as former Green Jobs “Czar” Van Jones is concerned, there isn’t one. That is what he apparently hopes to change.
“And so I felt that the reason the Tea Party worked and the reason the Tea Party was so good against us was progressives are very good at building organizations around everything but the economy,” he said during a recent appearance at the University of Chicago.
Indeed, Van Jones is a mobilizer. While the basis for his arguments against the right is often surface-level, he has proven to be an effective speaker among his own contingent and in his push to get like-minded people on board with his “dreams” for a new, Green Economy…
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