Enviro-Marxists join forces with Latino Marxists.(Earth Day Network )

Earth Day Network (EDN), the militant environmental organization headed by Earth Day co-founder Denis Hayes, is joining with radical Hispanic groups to co-host a National Latino Congress on Public Policy and Political Participation, September 6-10, in Los Angeles. Hayes, who began his enviro-activism in the Rockefeller-created Worldwatch Institute, now, in addition to EDN, also heads the Bullitt Foundation, which lavishes grants on leftist green causes.

One of Hayes' objectives over the past decade has been to broaden the demographic of the revolutionary green movement beyond its core constituency of white yuppies and hippies. To that end he has recruited the usual tax-exempt foundations--Ford, Rockefeller, Hewlett, Tides, MacArthur, et al.--to fund efforts aimed at recruiting leaders of Black, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American organizations into the radical environmental agenda, even though the negative impact of the regulatory and tax consequences of that agenda will disproportionately harm those ethnic groups. Jesse Jackson was one of the early black activists to jump on the green bandwagon. But Hayes and company have long ...