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Speak Out was a website designed "to make activism as easy as possible." It sympathizes with progressive ideals.[1]
Anti-Iraq War activism
In the early 2000s Van Jones was heavily involved in ant-Iraq War activity in the Bay Area.
In January 2002, a group of San Francisco leftists, mainly former Maoists or involved with STORM or Committees of Correspondence and including Jones, founded a national anti-Iraq War newspaperWar Times[2].
- The pilot issue of War Times, a new biweekly newspaper opposing the "war on terrorism," will roll off the press on February 14... Featuring an exclusive interview with Danny Glover and a letter to President Bush from Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu, the premier of this bilingual, free publication will be distributed in several dozen cities across the country.
Serving on the War Times Organizing Committee were;
- Jan Adams, former associate director, Applied Research Center
- Linda Burnham, executive director, Women of Color Resource Center
- Jung Hee Choi, Women of Color Resource Center
- Max Elbaum, former managing editor, CrossRoads magazine
- Arnoldo Garcia, National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
- Adam Gold, STORM
- Rebecca Gordon, Seminarians for Peace
- Felicia Gustin, co-director, Speak Out
- Van Jones, national executive director, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
- Betita Martinez, director, Institute for MultiRacial Justice
- Steve Williams, executive director, POWER
- Bob Wing, former executive editor, ColorLines magazine
External links
- Speak Out website, which seems to be untouched since August 2008[3]