Bubbling Up
amazing what lies in the swamp
A little HisStory resurfaces on Bill "I don’t think we did enough" Ayers and Bernardine "what - me worry?!?" Dohrn—“just some folks in the neighborhood.”
Leaders of San Francisco’s police officers union have accused Weather Underground co-founder Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, of taking part in the 1970 bombing of a city police station that killed a sergeant.
As soon as we had all assembled, Bill began a criticism session of myself and my associates for having spent too much time preparing for actions (bombings) and not doing anything. He reminded us of the commitment all of us had made to the overthrow of the U.S. government at the National Council Meeting in Flint the previous December and how our inactivity was harming the Cubans, the Vietnamese and the Chinese. Bill went on to describe how Bernardine Dorhn, a Weather Underground central committee member and considered the leader of the Weather Underground, had to plan and commit the bombing of the Park Station in San Francisco. This bomb contained fence staples and was placed on a window ledge during a shift change ensuring the presence of the greatest number of police officers and the greatest possibility of death and injury. Several Police Officers were injured and one, Sergeant McDonnell, was killed by fence staples used in the bomb. He was in the hospital for two days before he succumbed to his injuries.
Wonder what this guy thinks:
The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) Chair Nancy Sutley announced yesterday that Van Jones – an early green jobs visionary—will start Monday as Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at CEQ
Jones started his human-rights work in San Francisco with an internship at the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1993 and returned to the Bay Area, where he started Bay Area Police Watch, a referral hot line for victims of police misconduct. He quickly earned a reputation for his brash remarks and aggressiveness in fighting against racial bias, high incarceration rates and police brutality. ...
said James Rucker, Jones’ partner in Color of Change. “He is a tireless advocate, and once he is on something, he pursues it with a religious fervor.”
Jones’ focus on inequality eventually expanded from police brutality and prisons to connecting poverty and environmentalism.
Not everyone makes the connection between solar panels and police brutality—but human rights activist Van Jones does. Jones founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in 1996 to help victims of police brutality navigate the U.S. justice system. Since then, the organization’s mission has expanded: The center now works to reduce the San Francisco Bay Area’s prison population and to ensure that ex-inmates can find jobs that positively impact on the environment. Along with creating what he calls “green collar jobs,” Jones has received the Rockefeller Foundation’s Next Generation Leadership Fellowship and Reebok’s Human Rights Award. He serves on the boards of Social Venture Network, National Apollo Alliance, Bioneers, Rainforest Action Network, and Julia Butterfly Hill’s “Circle of Life” organization.
Well, the only reason that we have the unsustainable accounting that we have right now is because incinerators, dumping grounds, and sacrifice zones were put where poor people live.... It’s the environmental racism that allowed the powerful people in society to turn a blind eye for decades to the downsides of the industrial system that got us to this point. ...
The other thing is that the environmental justice agenda is also changing. Before, it was much stronger on demanding equal protection from environmental bad. Now we are also demanding equal opportunity and equal access to environmental good.
Sounds like just the right fella —connected to just the right population—to raise that “civil service” army ∏eh W∅n is so fond of. They can check us all for “green” compliance.
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