Abstract

Beat the Devil

The article presents information related to several political issues. The speaker of revolutionary sentiments was a mainstream Big Labor chieftain, Jack Henning, executive secretary-treasurer of the California Labor Federation, addressing the biennial convention of the state A.F.L.-C.I.O. at the end of July. Casting aside his prepared text, Henning told the 346 delegates in the Radisson Hotel in Sacramento that he wanted to speak on certain essential aspects of the labor movement in the present time. Floyd Tucker, editor of the California "A.F.L.-C.I.O. News," reconstructed Henning's informal remarks from notes and a tape recording. When people talk about mainstream environmental politics, they always find themselves talking about money, as dispensed by nonprofits, most of whom are mustered in the Environmental Grantmakers Association, which is dominated by the Rockefeller Family Fund and Pew, both of which have a long-term obsession with global population control as the Pew annual report grandly puts it.