Memory and vision: The Apollo Alliance and eco-apartheid

…The Apollo Alliance


Van Jones, leader of the Ella Baker Center in Oakland, has become one of the most effective critics of eco-apartheid, his term for the continuing failure of the environmental movement to understand the role racism and class divisions in the US play in frustrating the environmental agenda. Jones is also clear that African Americans and other people of color people have a huge stake in environmental justice, and that environmental justice need not contradict the goals of justice in other arenas. His articles The Unbearable Whiteness of Green and Beyond Eco-Apartheid should be read by every global warming and peak oil activist.

No one can reasonably contest Van Jones