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• W269742022 abstract "Van Jones is working to combine solutions to America's two biggest problems: social inequality and environmental destruction. Jones is the cofounder of the Oakland-based Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. Named for an unsung civil rights heroine, the center promotes positive alternatives to violence and incarceration. The center's Books Not Bars campaign has helped reduce California's overall youth prison population by more than 30 percent. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Jones helped to found ColorOfChange.org, an online advocacy organization. With more than 100,000 members, ColorOfChange.org is now the nation's biggest e-advocacy organization tackling Black issues. Founder of the national Green for All campaign, Jones worked with U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others to pass the Green Jobs Act of 2007. The legislation will provide $125 million in funding to train 35,000 people a year in Among many honors and awards, Jones was recently selected as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. A 1993 Yale Law graduate, Jones is also a husband and father. Jones's dual roles have given him a unique perspective on the country's problems and its potential solutions. HJAAP In the past few years, you have become one of the leading voices in the national environmental movement. The emphasis of your work is economic development in urban communities. Can you explain the green jobs, not jails approach? JONES Who has more of an interest in the economy than we do having suffered the most with pollution? Who has more of an agenda than we do in a massive reinvestment in the infrastructure of the country? We've got levies falling down, bridges falling down. You're going to have to weatherize billions of buildings to save on energy. You're going to have to cut billions of solar panels to get off of oil. Who's going to get those jobs? Rather than dismissing this as other people's agenda, we can recognize it as the agenda we've been talking about the whole time--massive reinvestment in the cities, a more full employment agenda at the end of the day. Somebody has to get these jobs and do this work. The president, whoever it turns out to be, is not going to put up all these solar panels. You are going to have to put it up. I'm going to put it up. Cousin Pookie is going to have to put it up. You begin to see political opportunity opening up for the first time since the '60s. A Black political entrepreneur like me or you could develop a very interesting constituency of working class Black folks who need more opportunities, middle class Black folks who are very concerned about the overall direction of the country, and a bunch of other people who have money, access, et cetera, and have a popular front--not a tight, united front, but a broad popular front that would generally get us in a situation where we're more advantaged than not. HJAAP In June 2007, the city of Oakland adopted a proposal from the Ella Baker Center and the Oakland Apollo Alliance to create a green jobs corps. The corps will train youth for eco-friendly green-collar jobs. What did you all ask for in that campaign? JONES: We initially asked the city council to allocate $100,000. It became $250,000 to start a job training program in Oakland. And we focused on the trades. The process by which we arrived at that was to really talk--to really have one of our staff members talk to a number of people in Oakland city government and build a consensus that the young people of Oakland really needed more opportunity to be a part of the growing part of northern California's economy. We held town hall meetings, which we called solution salons, a couple of rallies, and then a very constructive hearing at committee level and city council. The proposal received a unanimous vote from the city council. …" @default.
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• W269742022 title "Taking Leadership in the Green Economy: A Conversation with Van Jones" @default.
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