<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Norma, <br><br>I would love to see what you got from your colleague L. Blain.  It was not attached. Could you send it to me? Thank you so much.<br><br>Thanks, lc<br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Norma Smith <nsmith@igc.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> White Anti-racist Summit <wasummit@lists.wacan.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, September 6, 2009 6:07:42 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [WAsummit] white anti-racist response to the van jones attacks<br></font><br>Thanks for this, Dara. I've forwarded it to the "economic justice" committee I sit on for my progressive synagogue. We meet together with our "greening" committee, which, here in Oakland, includes people who have worked directly and indirectly with Van Jones for years. Our committee is associated with the Oakland Community Organizations (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.oaklandcommunity.org/">http://www.oaklandcommunity.org/</a>), a member of the PICO national network, an interfaith community organizing project. (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.piconetwork.org/">http://www.piconetwork.org/</a>). PICO and OCO are mostly people of color organizations. I'll be interested in how OCO responds to Van's resignation and what led up to it. <div><br></div><div>As I try to find more info about the resignation, I come up with mostly right-wing articles and blogs. The use of inference and smear takes on new meaning for me. I think we have to normalize the ideas of social justice. Social justice, environmental justice, racial justice, economic justice are <i>not</i> unAmerican. (So far, they haven't exactly been American, but... that's the work before us.)<br><div><br></div><div>Norma<br><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Sep 6, 2009, at 3:16 PM, Dara Silverman wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hey All,<br><br>I know it's a holiday weekend and all, but I would love to hear some perspective from others on the whole Van Jones scape-goating and and his resignation. <br><br>I haven't worked with Van closely, but I've heard about him for years, and we travel in similar circles.  <br> <br>This website highlights ways to support him individually- <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://standwithvan.com/">http://standwithvan.com/</a><br><br>I'm more interested in the systemic questions, especially what it raises for white people highlighted by my colleague Ludovic Blain below.  <br> <br>Any thoughts about action to take that could be useful? Not just in this situation, but for future situations because this won't be the last?<br><br>Percolating,<br><br>dara silverman<br><br></blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word;"><p style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;" face="Helvetica" size="3">Norma Smith</font></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;" face="Helvetica" size="3">The Edge of Each Other's Battles Project</font></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;" face="Helvetica" size="3">5245 College Ave #424</font></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;" face="Helvetica" size="3">Oakland, CA<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>94618</font></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;" face="Helvetica" size="3">(510) 465-2094</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; min-height: 14px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;" face="Helvetica" size="3"><i>The Edge of Each Other's Battles Project brings together social justice academics and community-based projects to work toward social change. 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