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DESCRIPTION:CJTC Eighth Annual Spring Speaker with Van Jones, "Growing Greener, Growing 
 Together: Sustainability, Social Justice, and the Future of the Progressive 
 Movement"\nWednesday, April 25th, 2007 at 7:00 p.m. at the College's Nine 
 and Ten Multipurpose Room\n\nVan Jones is the founder and National 
 Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, a national 
 organization in Oakland, CA, that has focused on positive alternatives to 
 incarceration and violence in urban America. Jones and the Center helped 
 launch an initiative in 2000 called Books Not Bars which today supports the 
 largest advocacy network of parents of incarcerated children in the United 
 States and includes the parents or grandparents of more than 25 percent of 
 all of California's youth prisoners.\n\nHow do you go from addressing 
 incarceration to tackling global warming? Jones has always been an expert 
 at building bridges between issues and people. He is one of the few people 
 to have been both arrested in the 1999 Seattle protests against the World 
 Trade Organization, and then invited three years later to attend the World 
 Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the premier gathering of global 
 economic leaders, to receive as a "Global Leader of Tomorrow" award. And he 
 has been a passionate advocate for the environment - serving as a board 
 member of the Rainforest Action Network and Bioneers - but consistently 
 focused on how this can blend with issues of social equity.\n\nJones is now 
 writing a book called Green-Collar Jobs: How To Beat Global Warming, Cut 
 Poverty & Unite America in which he places the poor and the disadvantaged 
 at the center of a new, solution-based environmentalism. Jones also serves 
 on Oakland Mayor-elect Ron Dellums' Green Economic Initiatives Task Force, 
 helping to champion the idea of aggressively attracting eco-friendly 
 employment and businesses to inner-city Oakland. His argument: the coming 
 battle to save the planet could actually result in a sort of eco-apartheid 
 unless we are able to make sure that low-income areas and communities of 
 color are early participants in the creation of new "green-color" jobs and 
 industries.\n\nVan Jones is a powerful and inspirational speaker, and 
 follows a distinguished series of orators from our past spring series. We 
 think he will be of special interest to our students - partly because of 
 his role as a progressive activist and intellectual, partly because of his 
 blending of environmental, spiritual, and social justice concerns, and 
 partly because he truly represents a new generation of leadership, one that 
 has learned not just to protest but to prescribe, not just to critique but 
 to build bridges between unlikely allies.\n\nView a clip of Van Jones on 
 the CJTC website. \nhttp://cjtc.ucsc.edu\n\n--\n\ninformation on more 
 events!\nhttp://indybay.org/newsitems/2007/04/09/18392983.php \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/04/09/18392987.php
SUMMARY:Van Jones: "Growing Greener, Growing Together"
LOCATION:College's Nine and Ten Multipurpose Room\nUC Santa Cruz
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/04/09/18392987.php
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