Friday, September 11, 2009

The green-washing of Sept. 11

WasThe green-washing of Sept. 11
"This attempt to re-brand the horrors of Sept. 11 is part of the effort to ease America along in the radical transformation of the nation that the president promised on the campaign trail.
The vehicle for this push is the National Day of Service and Remembrance.
In April, the president signed a bill declaring Sept. 11 a day of government-sponsored community volunteerism. Since then, the Obama administration and its allies in the activist left have decided to transmogrify Sept. 11 into a celebration of recycling, solar panels and radical community organizing called Green the Block.
Using the language of markets, Green the Block tries to convince Americans that the utopian fantasy of an oil-free, so-called green economy is possible without turning the United States into a Third World country. Green the Block says it was created 'to educate and mobilize communities of color to ensure a voice and stake in the clean-energy economy.' It's a 'partnership' between the Hip Hop Caucus and Green for All, a nonprofit incorporated by Mr. Jones.
On Aug. 4, two White House media events promoting Green the Block took place."

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