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  Judi Bari - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Judi Bari (November 7, 1949 March 2, 1997) was an American environmentalist and labor leader, a feminist, and the principal organizer of Earth First!
On May 24, 1990, Bari was severely injured by a pipe bomb which exploded on the floor behind the driver's seat of her car as she and fellow Earth First!
In a major reversal of position, on May 20, 2003, the Oakland City Council unanimously voted a resolution saying: "Whereas, Judi Bari was a dedicated activist, who worked for many social and environmental causes, the most prominent being the protection and stewardship of California's ancient redwood forests.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Judi_Bari   (327 words)

  
 Judi Bari - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Judi Bari (November 7, 1949 – March 2, 1997) was an American environmentalist and labor leader, a feminist, and the principal organizer of Earth First!
In 2002, a jury in their federal exonerated Bari and Cherney by ordering four FBI agents and three Oakland Police officers to pay a total of $4.4 million to Cherney and to Bari's estate for violation of their First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and for false arrest and unlawful search and seizure.
In a major reversal of position, on May 20, 2003, the unanimously voted a resolution saying: "Whereas, Judi Bari was a dedicated activist, who worked for many social and environmental causes, the most prominent being the protection and stewardship of California's ancient redwood forests.
www.lighthousepoint.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Judi_Bari   (425 words)

  
 Judi Bari / Daryl Cherney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Judi Bari and Daryl Cherney were almost killed by a bomb placed in their car in Oakland, California on May 24, 1990.
Judi Bari was in fact one of a minority of Earth First!ers in early 1990 calling for a halt to "tree-spiking," since mill owners were content to allow spiked trees to injure timber workers and generate bad publicity for radical environmentalists.
Bari and Cherney were on their way to perform at UC Santa Cruz as part of an ongoing Redwood Summer roadshow, designed to attract college students to participate in summer-long protests calling for sustainable logging and a timber worker-environmentalist alliance.
www.drewhendricks.freeservers.com /judibari.htm   (1941 words)

  
 t r u t h o u t - Kelpie Wilson | Judi Bari Survives Character Assassination
Judi continued her work as a leader in both the ecology and labor movements, but she was in constant and excruciating pain.
Judi died in 1997 of a sudden and aggressive cancer.
Judi Bari's reputation will survive this latest assassination attempt, but it's important to ask why she is still being targeted.
www.truthout.org /docs_05/012005X.shtml   (1557 words)

  
 The Bombing of Judi Bari & Darryl Cherney: New Evidence
Ten years ago, Judi Bari and a few friends decided that the best way to call attention to the over-logging of the redwoods on the north coast was to hold a summer-long demonstration, similar to the civil rights freedom marches in the south during the early sixties.
Bari stated that the typewriter used to write the "Argus" letter was also used to type one or more of the threats on her life and that this typewriter was from the office of the Peace and Justice Center in Santa Rosa.
Bari claimed that because of a certain idiosyncrasy in the type, she was able to identify the typewriter.
www.flatlandbooks.com /bariart.html   (8507 words)

  
 (3/2/97) Judi Bari Dies But Her Struggle Continues
Bari was perhaps most widely known as the survivor of a 1990 car bombing, which nearly killed her and left her crippled.
Bari barely survived the bomb blast, which fractured her pelvis in several places, pulverized her tailbone, and caused extensive tissue and nerve damage, crippling her and leaving her with constant pain.
Bari said afterwards that the experience made her feel like Huckleberry Finn listening to his own funeral eulogy, but that she was encouraged and strengthened by the outpouring of love and support.
www.monitor.net /monitor/bari/barideath3.html   (2818 words)

  
 North Coast Journal -- January 1997: PEOPLE - Judi Bari's last stand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Bari finally agreed to publicly elaborate on a new fight she knows she can't win, and a kind of acceptance that is unexpected from someone who has relished taking on the impossible in her life of activism.
Bari is the most widely known of a cadre of activists who have transformed the North Coast environmental movement into a series of community-based action groups pressing environmental-related issues on a variety of fronts.
Bari said she feels the physical pain and psychological trauma inflicted on her from the 1990 bombing was much greater.
www.northcoast.com /~ncjour/jan97/1-97.people.html   (2476 words)

  
 MetroActive News & Issues | Judi Bari
Bari's death follows a hearing last week in a lawsuit she and her colleague Darryl Cherney filed against the FBI and Oakland police in connection with a 1990 car bombing that seriously injured Bari.
Bari and Cherney say the authorities failed to investigate their allegation that the bomb was planted by timber industry officials, with possible assistance of the FBI.
Bari and Cherney, key figures in protests against the timber industry in Northern California, were injured on May 24, 1990, when a bomb exploded in a car they were driving on Park Boulevard.
www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/03.06.97/bari-obit-9710.html   (442 words)

  
 Judi Bari Dies But Her Spirit Lives On
Judi Bari was a fighter and organizer for social and environmental justice.
Bari's most significant focus, California's redwoods, began when she was working as a construction carpenter, and wondered about the beautiful fine-grained redwood boards she was hammering nails into.
The bombing and police accusations against Bari and Cherney were reported by the international media, fed by a series of statements from police and FBI claiming to have found incriminating evidence in searches of Bari's house, allegedly proving she was involved in making the bomb.
www.mecgrassroots.org /NEWSL/ISS23/23.01bari.html   (2988 words)

  
 Earth Firster! Judi Bari Avenged at Last (News) Abbie Jarman
activists Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney squashed the FBI and Oakland police department in the courtroom, as jurors found six agents and officers guilty of framing the two and violating their civil rights.
In May of 1990 Bari and Cherney were in Oakland with Earth First!, organizing protests against the logging industry, when a pipe bomb exploded in their car, injuring both.
Bari and Cherney saw the bomb-planting and subsequent public defamation as a conspiracy to oppress them and Earth First!, a notoriously disobedient organization.
www.utne.com /webwatch/2002_148/news/2964-1.html   (209 words)

  
 Kate Coleman | The Secret Wars of Judi Bari   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
A legendary figure among Northern California activists, Judi Bari was a veteran of the Vietnam protests of the 1960s who moved to militant feminism and environmentalism after the war ended.
Drawing on extensive interviews with her friends, comrades, and critics, Kate Coleman describes Bari's struggle for selfhood against her husband; against those in her movement who felt that she was not radical enough; and ultimately against the FBI and the state of California.
Judi Bari's wars continued until her death from cancer almost seven years after the explosion that changed her life forever.
www.encounterbooks.com /books/sewa/sewa.html   (303 words)

  
 Bari v FBI-Plaintiffs Rest Their Case; The Late Judi Bari’s Heartwrenching Testi : LA IMC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Judi’s deposition brought tears to the eyes of many in the audience and the jury box.
It concluded with a radiant smile from Judi when she learned that the FBI and OPD attorneys, who’d sought to delay her testimony for years despite calling her their prime suspect, declined to ask her any questions at all.
George Shook, banjo player who performed with Judi and Darryl and traveled with Darryl during the seven days prior to the bombing, testified that even though he was taken into custody (and held for five hours), he was never asked any questions by either the FBI or OPD.
laindymedia.org /news/2002/05/16551.php   (310 words)

  
 RW ONLINE:Remembering Judi Bari: Sister in the Fight to Save Planet
Judi was an uncompromising defender of the environment and a fighter against corporate environmental plunder.
Judi Bari was living in Mendocino County and working as a carpenter in the late 1980s when she became involved in defending the remaining forests in the area.
To her last breath, Judi Bari was a defiant rebel--an uncompromising fighter against the corporate rape of the planet who kept her love for the people.
rwor.org /a/firstvol/900-905/901/bari.htm   (2557 words)

  
 Right wing attacks Judi Bari
Bari was convinced she was targeted because of her timber activism, possibly with the provocation or cooperation of police agencies.
As Judi would be the first to admit, she was nobody without the courage and commitment of thousands of protestors who stand up to environmental crimes.
Bari noted that a Stenberg ally, Charlie Acker, had written to KZYX complaining that "Judi Bari is Stenberg's arch political rival." Bari denied this and said it was Harry Merlo of L-P and Richard Held of the FBI who were her arch political rivals.
www.colemanhoax.com   (2216 words)

  
 The Judi Bari Website
Judi Bari was nearly killed in a still-unsolved terrorist attack on May 24, 1990, when a motion-triggered pipe bomb wrapped with nails exploded directly under her driver's seat.
Judi was very ill and was lying on a couch propped up with pillows but she told her truth and got it on record.
Judi Bari founded the nonprofit Redwood Justice Fund and its Redwood Summer Justice Project in 1991 to organize political and financial support for her lawsuit against the FBI and Oakland Police, which was finally won in 2002 and ultimately settled in 2004.
www.judibari.org   (8979 words)

  
 AlterNet: Judi Bari Vindicated in Historic Ruling
Cherney and Bari's estate were awarded $4.4 million in their federal civil rights lawsuit against four FBI agents and three Oakland Police officers.
During their investigation of the incident, the Oakland Police and FBI blamed Bari and Cherney for the explosion, accusing them of being terrorists who were carrying the explosives to use as a bomb.
Bari and Cherney were arrested but never charged with any crimes in the case, nor was anyone else ever charged.
alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=13354   (1421 words)

  
 Judi Bari Verdict   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Awarding $2.9 million to the estate of the late Judi Bari and $1.5 million to Darryl Cherney, the jury found four FBI men and three Oakland police officers liable for First and Fourth amendment violations.
Bari had long been receiving death threats from anti-environmental paramilitary groups made up of timber workers, with names like the Sahara Club (a play on Sierra Club.) One threatening letter even showed her own face in the crosshairs of a rife.
On March 2, 1999, Judi Bari died at her home in Mendocino County, of breast cancer that had metastasized to her liver.
www.paow.org /id78.htm   (1150 words)

  
 Home page of FRIENDS OF JUDI BARI - FOJB   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Judi Bari was a radical environmental leader, a feminist, a mother and a staunch advocate of nonviolence.
Judi sued the FBI for trying to frame her for political reasons, and she won the case in 2002, but didn't live to see her victory.
Judi's friends don't think she was a flawless saint; she was as human as the rest of us, but she was a hero and an inspirational figure to the environmental, feminist and labor movements because of her courage, eloquence, intelligence and sharp wit.
www.fojb.org   (2128 words)

  
 Is the biographer of activist Judi Bari a tool of the right -- or just a skeptical liberal?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Bari's ex-husband, Mike Sweeney, has a Web site, ColemanHoax.com, listing 351 alleged errors and falsehoods in Coleman's 232-page book -- everything from the size of Bari's backyard to charges that Sweeney beat and raped her.
Immediately after the 1990 car bombing, while Bari was in Oakland's Highland Hospital, she and Cherney were arrested on suspicion of knowingly transporting the bomb.
Coleman says many of the errors will be corrected in subsequent editions, and she argues that they don't undermine "the gist of the thesis" -- that Bari became distracted from timber activism in the wake of the bombing and concentrated on lawsuits and her own role as an environmental martyr.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/02/01/DDG3HB2CFV1.DTL   (1658 words)

  
 RW ONLINE:FBI COnspiracy Against Judi Bari   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Bari and Cherney were on a tour of northern California to promote Redwood Summer, an action campaign modeled after the Mississippi Freedom Summer civil rights actions of the 1960s.
Bari and Cherney had just left the house they were staying at in Berkeley to go to an organizing meeting in Santa Cruz when a motion sensor caused the bomb to explode, ripping apart Bari’s pelvis, crippling her for life.
Bari had been outspoken arguing against tree spiking (where a metal spike is placed in a tree that can injure a logger if an attempt is made to cut down the tree).
rwor.org /a/v23/1120-29/1128/judibari.htm   (2609 words)

  
 CorpWatch : USA: Judi Bari vs. John Ashcroft
Cherney and the Bari estate were awarded $4.4 million from the FBI and the Oakland police department.
The government dropped its charges against Bari and Cherney for lack of evidence six weeks later, but it had already illegally searched their homes, and it continued to say they were the only suspects.
Bari and Cherney sued on the grounds that the FBI and the Oakland police violated their First and Fourth Amendment rights by falsely arresting them, by making unlawful searches of their homes, and by engaging in a political conspiracy to smear them.
www.corpwatch.org /article.php?id=2771   (696 words)

  
 Judi Bari vs. The FBI: Countdown To Trial
The Arizona arrests happened one year, almost to the day, before Judi and Darryl were accused by the FBI of bombing themselves in Oakland, and the case shows the FBI's prior interest in Earth First!, especially trying to falsely associate EF!ers with explosives.
Judi and Darryl's lawyers have filed a motion that's one last attempt to get Special Agent in Charge Richard Held back into the case, and force the FBI to hand over all the documents they've withheld from us.
Organizers and activists are needed to seize the moment, and ensure that the trial of Judi Bari vs. the FBI is heard around the nation.
www.mecgrassroots.org /NEWSL/ISS39/39.06Judi.html   (959 words)

  
 More on Judi Bari
Rob Anderson denounced Bruce Anderson's obsession with Judi Bari and Mike Sweeney: “The AVA is bombing its own credibility every week…chewing over the same cud of rumor, half-truth and baseless accusation,” Rob wrote in March, 2000 in his own newsletter, Mendoland.
“Prediction: Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney will soon settle their case with the FBI for big money since from the day of the bomb it has been evident there were no grounds for their arrest.
The temptation to settle scores with Judi Bari, now that she was dead and could no longer answer back, was sufficient to overcome all of their past enmities.
www.colemanhoax.com /PT2.html   (4804 words)

  
 Judi Bari Bombing Case Appeal Heard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Dozens of supporters of Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney's civil rights lawsuit against the FBI and Oakland Police packed into the gilded courtroom of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on April 15th.
FBI and OPD testimony shows that the two agencies wrote it together, collaborating to mislead the judge that they actually had evidence that Judi and Darryl were dangerous and known terrorists who had blown themselves up with their own bomb.
For more information about the bombing of Judi Bari and the civil rights lawsuit against the FBI and Oakland Police, visit the Judi Bari website at http://www.monitor.net/~bari or call Redwood Summer Justice Project at (707)887-0262.
www.zmag.org /Bulletins/pbariapp.htm   (1074 words)

  
 EVE ONLINE | Judi Bari Dies
Judi Bari, 47, died of breast cancer at her cabin home in
Judi and her political comrade, Darryl Cherney, who was also in the car, regarded the bombing as a political assassination attempt.
Judi's law suit against the Government for civil rights violations was in progress at the time of her death.
eve.enviroweb.org /grassroots/judi.html   (355 words)

  
 Revolutionary Ecology
I was a social justice activist for many years before I ever heard of Earth First!.
The section on patriarchy differs slightly from the version in Alarm, as it was updated and revised by Judi, and given as a talk at the Willits Environmental Center in June, 1996.
To be placed on the mailing list to receive updates on Judi Bari's lawsuit against the FBI, or to make a tax deductible contribution to help fund the lawsuit, please contact:
www.judibari.org /revolutionary-ecology.html   (4288 words)

  
 JUDI BARI: DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE! | World War 4 Report
Bari last entered the news in June 2002, when a federal jury in Oakland
As Bari was being rushed to the hospital,
Bari died of metastatic breast cancer at her northern California home in
www.ww4report.com /node/275   (941 words)

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