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Van Jones appears a lot in Transforming Power.  I first found out about him by listening to Velcrow Ripper's podcast a few years ago.  Van was speaking to the Network of Spiritual Progressives.  That's where i heard that line about Martin Luther King.   I figured I gotta meet this guy and I did at Hollyhock that year where he was the keynote speaker.  I've kept up with him since and think he is one of the most visionary thinkers and activists on the planet.  The best news I've heard in a while was that President Obama hired Van Jones as his special advisor on Green Jobs.  Yes Magazine has an interview with Van about why he took the job.

Here is part of what he had to say

"We have a president who's committed to climate solutions and who's also committed to economic recovery and who has a longstanding commitment to civil rights and equal opportunity. You put those three things together and I think that this administration's going to do an extraordinary job, and I think it's also important that people who have a grassroots perspective on some of these things have the opportunity to serve and to support what the president is trying to do. And so to me that's the main thing. We've got a president like this who's trying to do what he's trying to do, it's important that everybody step up in all the ways that they can."

I think Obama is a leader of remarkable qualities even though I disagree with many of his policies.  The fact that he hired the movement person who has advanced the most progressive approach to Green Jobs in the country as the White House advisor on Green Jobs tells me that he is moving in the right directions.  Very exciting

  Read an in depth interview with Van about Green Jobs before his appointment too.