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SACRAMENTO PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE: CAN VAN JONES GALVANIZE US TO REBUILD THE AMERICAN DREAM?

SACRAMENTO PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE: CAN VAN JONES GALVANIZE US TO REBUILD THE AMERICAN DREAM?

CAN VAN JONES GALVANIZE US TO REBUILD THE AMERICAN DREAM?

OpEdNews.com
June 28, 2011

By Julia Dalton

Van Jones is calling all people of conscience who care about America to get involved, stand up and help rebuild the American Dream.

Thursday evening I attended the "Rebuild the Dream" event in New York City hosted by Van Jones, featuring the musical group ROOTS with Shepard Fairey DJing. Honestly I went to hear Jones but also to see Fairey whose "Make Art Not War" poster hangs in my living room.

I didn't know much about Jones except he was Obama's Green Energy czar and was thrown under the bus when he was labeled a radical, leftist, commie, raised by Black Panthers or some other such nonsense by the king of