Van Jones Breaks Silence to Talk with Tavis Smiley!!
Van Jones explains his resignation from the Obama administration for the first time.
Van Jones explains his resignation from the Obama administration for the first time.
According to a Public Opinion Strategies survey that was taken last week by the Retail Association of Nevada, 80% of Nevada residents say that state politics are headed in the wrong direction. Last May, the poll was at 73%. The study also shows that 64% of Nevada residents feel as though the worst is still to come for the shaky economy.
More than half of the respondents polled negatively towards both Nevada’s governor, Jim Gibbons and U.S. Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid. When asked if Nevada state legislator have performed well enough to be considered for re-election, almost three fourths of the respondents said they definitely or probably would vote for a different person next time around.
Anthony (Van) Jones, who resigned as an environmental policy adviser to the Obama administration after coming under fire from conservatives for past statements and political activities, has been named as a visiting fellow at Princeton University for the coming academic year. A statement being released by the university today says that Mr. Jones will be a distinguished visiting fellow at both its Center for African American Studies and its Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy, and that he will teach a course on race, ecology, and the environment during the spring 2011 semester. Mr. Jones, a 1993 graduate of Yale Law School and co-founder of three advocacy organizations, served as a special adviser to the White House Council on Environmental Quality from March to September of 2009. He left the position after being attacked for publicly using a crude insult in reference to Republicans, signing a petition that questioned whether the Bush administration deliberately allowed the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and having past connections to a radical Bay Area group with Marxist origins.
99problems.org’s DJ Willie Shakes is hitting the streets of America to talk to folks about Census 2010. Check out our promo of his trip to Philly and Pittsburgh. Census forms hit your mailbox (not your inbox) in March!!! It only takes 10 mins to fill them out. Do it! It’s super important.
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