Former Obama Green Energy Czar and progressive political activist Van Jones is starting his own movement.
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Riding the wave of the Occupy movement, Jones’ the American Dream Movement, a coalition of hundreds of progressive organizations, formed to become what Jones describes as the open-source brand of the Tea Party.
Naturally, Republicans are taking aim again: It’s “the same Marxist foolishness that he’s been preaching,” says one GOP spokesman. “He’s on the wrong side of history here.”
