FUSsa-talk Mailing List: Fwd: Van Jones forced out!

[Robert Tapp (tappx001]

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> From: Robert Tapp <tappx001 [at] umn.edu>
> Date: September 8, 2009 12:31:48 PM CDT
> To: Humanist Institute Discussion List <hidisc [at] humanistinstitute.org>
>
> Subject: Van Jones forced out!
>
> Tikkun on this shocking and startling resignation
>
> > This moment will be looked back upon as giving a signal of  
> > encouragement to some of the most fascistic elements in the  
> > American political Right
>
> Michael Lerner notes that he signed that same statement regarding  
> the negligence of the Bush administration preceding 9/11 (I signed  
> it too)
>
>         http://www.tikkun.org/article.php?story=20090908084856114
>
> Van Jones gave the UUA Ware Lecture in 2008 (and you can still watch  
> it at #4061)
>
>         http://www.uua.org/events/generalassembly/2008/112314.shtml
>
> Jones is an eloquent environmental leader, so this is a major defeat/ 
> cave-in for the  Obama presidency. Will the public option on  
> healthcare be next? Humanists who have the misfortune to live in  
> aras where the school system censored the US President today should  
> be especially vocal.
>
> Bob