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 Stories About: economy AND environmental justice AND environmental movement
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The Van fan club
GOOD magazine's profile on the black green activist |
Maywa Montenegro |
09 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| What Grist readers might have predicted over a year ago, when David interviewed Van Jones, is quickly becoming reality. In October, Thomas Friedman, in a gushing editorial, called Jones a 'rare bird' who 'exudes enough energy to light a few buildings on his own.' Now he's appeared on the Colbert Report where, despite the always-awkward position of Stephen's interviewees, he managed to land 'green jobs' in the mental dictionary of millions of young viewers. I had th ... |
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| Topics: business, economy, environmental justice, environmental movement, green jobs, hotties, Van Jones (all these topics) |
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A dream reborn
Forty years gone: MLK's dream today would be colored green |
Van Jones |
04 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
| The following are my introductory remarks to the Dream Reborn conference, beginning today and running through the weekend in Memphis, Tenn. Forty years ago today, on April 4, 1968, a sniper assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King had come to Memphis, Tennessee, to aid striking sanitation workers. The preeminent civil rights leader of his time, he was only 39 years old. Four decades have passed since that fateful day. As of this month, Dr. King has been gone fro ... |
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| Topics: economy, environmental justice, environmental movement, grassroots activism, green jobs, politics, Van Jones (all these topics) |
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Why I Am Not an Environmentalist
The environmental movement won't thrive until it addresses economic development in low-income communities |
Orson Aguilar |
31 May 2005 |
Soapbox |
| Growing up in east Los Angeles as the son of Central American immigrants, the everyday challenges faced by the people in my community seemed far removed from the American dream: the lack of good housing and jobs, failing schools, scraping together money for groceries, and all-too-common police brutality. If you had asked us, we ... |
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| Topics: economy, environmental justice, environmental movement (all these topics) |
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