Look who's behind D.C. chaos plot

Van Jones

Van Jones, President Obama's former "green" jobs czar, is a sponsor of this week's "Take Back the Capital," a Washington, D.C., disruption plot being deployed by the Occupy movement.

Protest tactics are set to include campaigns outside congressional offices as well as swarming the K Street lobby center to "track down those responsible for crashing the economy."

Jones' Rebuild the Dream movement is listed among the official sponsors of the event, along with USAction, Interfaith Worker Justice, Faith in Life, MoveOn.org, the Center for Community Change, the Service Employees International Union and the AFL-CIO.

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The Occupy event started yesterday, with protesters setting up shop at what the movement calls the People's Camp, a public square near 14th Street and Constitution Avenue in northwest D.C.

According to Occupy's main website, plans for the event include the following:

Today –
From the People's Action Center, we'll form groups and fan out to congressional offices, to remind members of Congress that the Capitol is the People's House, and demand that they represent the 99%.

Tomorrow – Make Wall Street Pay:
We'll swarm K Street, the lobbying center for the world's most powerful corporations, and track down those responsible for crashing the economy and causing millions of 99%-ers to lose their jobs and homes—while failing to pay their fair share of taxes."

Thursday – Demand Justice for the 99%:
The day's events will include multiple speak-outs throughout the Capitol, a national prayer vigil with unemployed folks and faith leaders, a mass march on key congressional leaders, and a lively jubilee action.

Friday – Take It Home:
We'll pack up and head home, and keep the pressure on our representatives in Congress to do right by the 99%.

This is not Jones' first involvement with the Occupy movement.

His Rebuild the Dream movement, which also goes by the name The American Dream Movement, reportedly held more than 200 teach-ins around the country to talk about the economic issues raised by Occupy.

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This past weekend, Jones sent the conservative blogosphere ablaze after he used his Twitter account to forward an Occupy announcement calling for the blockading of West Coast ports starting next week.

Communist group founder

In September 2009, Jones resigned as Obama's "green jobs" czar after it was exposed he founded the communist revolutionary organization Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM. It was also reported he signed a statement that accused the Bush administration of possible involvement in the 9/11 attacks.

Speaking to the East Bay Express, Jones said he first became radicalized in the wake of the 1992 Rodney King riots, during which time he was arrested.

"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.

"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.' I spent the next 10 years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary," he said.

Succeeding revelations about Jones by WND included:

• One day after the 9/11 attacks, Jones led a vigil that expressed solidarity with Arab and Muslim Americans as well as what he called the victims of "U.S. imperialism" around the world.
• Just days before his White House appointment, Jones used a forum at a major youth convention to push for a radical agenda that included spreading the wealth and "changing the whole system."
• Jones' Maoist manifesto while leading the group Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM, was scrubbed from the Internet after being revealed by WND.
• Jones was the main speaker at an anti-war rally that urged "resistance" against the U.S. government – a demonstration sponsored by an organization associated with the Revolutionary Communist Party.

In a 2005 conference, Jones characterized the U.S. as an "apartheid regime" that civil rights workers helped turn into a "struggling, fledgling democracy."

With research by Brenda J. Elliott