The former Green jobs czar, who resigned from the Obama administration in 2009 amid controversy over some of his statements, has launched a new organization/movement that aims to ensure that every American can have a stable job, a home, and retire without worrying how they will make ends meet.
Thursday night in New York City, between a DJ set by artist Shephard Fairey and the Roots Jones officially unveiled his 'Rebuild the Dream' movement aimed primarily at the thousands of middle-class workers who have lost their jobs, their homes due to foreclosure and their livelihoods in the past few years, writes the Huffington Post.
Rebuild the Dream appears to counter the racist and divisive rhetoric of the Tea Party movement, which too often uses racist imagery and language to push for smaller government and jobs and homes for American citizens.
'We are being lied to,' Jones said often throughout his hourlong presentation at the Town Hall theater in Times Square.'We are not broke. We're the richest country in the history of the world.'"
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