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To: bentway who wrote (511001)	9/7/2009 7:06:55 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579807

Van said he was a communist. I don't know how much clearer it can be. Plus he's a Truther.

To: bentway who wrote (511001)	9/7/2009 7:10:15 PM
From: Brumar89	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579807

"By August, I was a Communist." Van Jones ....But in jail, he said, "I met all these young radical people of color -- I mean really radical, communists and anarchists. And it was, like, 'This is what I need to be a part of.'" Although he already had a plane ticket, he decided to stay in San Francisco. "I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary." In the months that followed, he let go of any lingering thoughts that he might fit in with the status quo. "I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th," he said. "By August, I was a communist." In 1994, the young activists formed a socialist collective, Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM, which held study groups on the theories of Marx and Lenin and dreamed of a multiracial socialist utopia. eastbayexpress.com Will Chris have the integrity to admit he was wrong? I say no.