Van Jones

• He was a black nationalist before he went to jail, then came out a Marxist organizer
• Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM (multi-racial socialist utopia)
• Has ties to ACORN, the SEIU, and Center for American Progress.
• Ties the Green Movement, the Labor Movement (Unions), and Community Organizing together.
• The Apollo Alliance “is designed to bring together the elements of organized labor with the community organizers with the green groups, the environmental groups, and to access all of the big foundation money that’s been supportive of those causes in the past,” explained Phil Kerpen, director of policy for Americans for Prosperity.
• They really admire the Apollo mission, the moon-shot mission, and they think that we need a similar centrally-planned, organized massive mobilization to reorder society and take control of energy and their various other objectives. They admire that and they want it like a moon shot.
• The Tides Foundation and the Tides Center are the parent organizations that host the Apollo Alliance.
• Dan Carol – a co-founder of Apollo Alliance is on the board of the Tides Foundation.
• Wade Rathke, one of the founders of ACORN was a founding member of the Tides Foundation
• Joan Bronfman and Quinn Delaney (on the Tides Board) were on Barack Obama’s Inagural Committee
• Apollo Alliance helped write the Stimulus Bill