Who is judi bari

An exhibit will mark this 30th anniversary at the Mendocino County Museum in Willits once it reopens. It was originally scheduled for May 2 — June 5, , but the museum was temporarily closed due to the Covid Shelter in Place policy.

The museum plans to reschedule the exhibit as soon as they know their reopening date. The bomb attack took place on the eve of Redwood Summer, planned as a summer-long effort to stop or slow down liquidation logging in coastal Northern California by the multinational timber companies operating at the time.

Many believe the attack was meant to stop the campaign. But people came—thousands, from all across the country—and carried out forest defense on a scale previously never seen. We commemorate it 30 years later because it is necessary that we never forget, and that we remember to never give up and to maintain a bold resistance to strong-arm tactics, as well as to assaults on Mother Earth. But what Judi Bari brought to the forest-protection movement and to Earth First!

That explosion, and the subsequent attack on Earth First! The bomber was never found, because the FBI never conducted a serious investigation, choosing instead to blame and harass Earth First! But a lawsuit filed by Judi against the FBI for violation of Constitutional rights was ultimately successful in , vindicating Darryl and Judi, but coming five years after Judi's untimely death from breast cancer at the age of Redwood Summer, , was a mass mobilization of students and others from across the United States to protest the deforestation of the redwood region in Northern California, which was being decimated by the corporate chain saw.

The mobilization was modeled after Mississippi Summer, a major organizing effort in the nation's civil rights movement in the South in the s. A key architect and organizer of Redwood Summer was labor and environmental leader Judi Bari. The bomb which nearly killed her was preceded and followed by a smear campaign against Earth First! Rudin, Gary Ball and others The event included a film tribute to Judi, exciting historical exhibit and much more.

Marking the moment: To mark the moment of the late morning bomb explosion, people from near and far gathered at am at the Oakland site where the bomb blasted through Judi's car, nearly killing her and forever changing the Earth First!

There was music and a speak-out. Location map. Cosponsors of these events include Earth First! Berkeley, CA phone: email: bach headwaterspreserve. Main Street in Willits, California. New location. The grants are funded from a portion of the damages awarded to the estate of Judi Bari in , when a jury delivered a stunning verdict against the FBI and the Oakland Police Department in favor of Bari and Darryl Cherney. It was the culmination of an historic 11 year civil rights case.

Naomi Wagner and Lindsey Holm, each in their unique ways, embody the spirit and passion that Judi Bari brought to environmental work. From until her death from breast cancer in , Judi was a potent and charismatic force in the growing movement to stop the corporate liquidation logging of the redwood forests of Mendocino and Humboldt Counties. Judi was also the first forest activist to reach out to the loggers and mill workers in an effort to form an alliance with environmentalists to promote logging practices that would be sustainable for generations to come.

A Willits resident, Judi was known and admired for her courage in facing hostility and danger, her boisterous sense of humor, her electrifying speaking style, and her powerful intellect. For two decades, Naomi Wagner has devoted her life to forest protection. In she walked into the Mendocino Environment Center seeking help to organize her neighborhood to fight abusive logging practices in the mountains west of Willits.

She taught herself how to interpret official Timber Harvest Plan documents and learned how the public could influence them. Naomi enthusiastically joined Judi Bari and others working to reform abusive logging practices. Already a grandmother, Naomi became active in Earth First! The list of her involvement in forest defense reads like a history of the movement. She has been arrested, spent time in jail and endured a prolonged fast as expressions of her commitment to end non-sustainable logging practices on the North Coast.

With her commitment to nonviolence and her rich experience in direct action, Naomi has trained a new generation of activists in the principles of effective action. Asked her reaction to receiving the grant, Naomi said, "I feel very honored for the recognition, but I'm also very aware of the hundreds and actually thousands of others who share the honor because we walk in Judi Bari's footsteps in working together to defend the forest against the corporations.

Twenty-two year old Lindsey Holm was born and raised in northern Humboldt County. Her childhood in the woods led her to become an expert amateur mycologist, which in turn propelled her into defending the old-growth forests of her region. Lindsey was among a group of tree-sitters attempting to save the ancient redwoods of Freshwater Creek near Eureka.

When she and others were forcibly extracted from the trees and arrested, she taught herself the law, defended their actions in court, and, without lawyers, won a settlement agreement. Lindsey has become skilled in reviewing Timber Harvest Plans, becoming familiar with the specialties of hydrology, geology and forestry as well as the statutory and regulatory aspects of logging plans.

She has recently learned GIS and mapping techniques, and is about to embark on a year-long walk through the redwood bioregion guiding professional photographers to document the condition of this still-threatened ecosystem.

Lindsey has demonstrated a voracious intellect, a matching appetite for hard work and a fierce drive to see justice done. The public is invited to attend the Saturday, June 16 celebration. Earth First! Judi and Darryl Cherney, also an Earth First! Judi had received death threats from timber industry supporters, and had reported them to police. But even as Judi was undergoing emergency surgery for her horrific bomb injuries, the Oakland Police, at the instigation of the FBI, arrested the pair, falsely charging that they were terrorists who were knowingly carrying explosives.

It was a deliberate frame-up, as a federal jury would find twelve years later. Eventually the prosecutor announced no criminal charges would be filed against them because there was no evidence they were guilty. Neither the FBI nor OPD ever pursued numerous clues or made any genuine effort to catch the real bomber, but continued to tell media that Judi and Darryl were their only suspects.

Despite the injuries that left Judi crippled for life, the pair filed a federal civil rights lawsuit to defend themselves and their movement against unlawful governmental interference with their First Amendment right to organize politically in defense of the forests. Click here for a printable PDF version of this news release. Free Adobe Reader required.

March 2, was the tenth anniversary of Judi Bari's passing on March 2, There was a memorial gathering in Albion CA to mark the date and honor Judi's memory. The film focused on the trial in Judi's 12 year lawsuit against the FBI and Oakland Police to clear her name of false charges of knowingly carrying a bomb that nearly killed her when it exploded under her driver's seat. Judi's close friend Alicia Littletree was there to sing a few songs and start a round of spontaneous story telling about Judi.

One person drove all the way from the San Francisco Bay area for the event, and drove four hours back afterwards to go to work the next morning. There were displays of photos, banners and other memorabilia of Judi and the Enchanted Meadow uprising. About 60 people attended the event at the Albion School, a good turnout for a rural area with a small and widely scattered population, and many competing events scheduled the same night. The Albion Nation has had a special affinity for Judi since she answered the community's call for help in when Louisiana Pacific Corporation began logging the redwood forest next to the estuary of the Albion River at a place called the Enchanted Meadow.

Judi helped the community stage two months of nonviolent protests to slow the logging and call public attention to it. Tactics included over a dozen treesits, locking down to logging road gates and equipment and blocking bulldozers.

After two months, an appeals court order shut down the logging as unlawful, validating the community effort to stop it. The first grant will be awarded in May, We are currently soliciting nominations from environmental groups and organizations throughout the North Coast. Nominees should be individuals who embody the qualities we so admired in Judi, and will be evaluated based on the presence of those qualities, as well as financial need.

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Judi tells how Hurwitz then began liquidating the largest remaining unprotected old-growth redwood stands in the world while using financial trickery to line his own pockets to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. Read more and listen to the interview from our Audio page. The program can now be streamed or downloaded from our Audio page. You may remember the shocking police videos that drew international outrage and condemnation when they were broadcast by network TV.

The forest activists sued in federal court for violation of their 4th Amendment rights by excessive force. There was an evenly split jury in their San Francisco federal court trial, in which they were represented by a different legal team.

Instead of setting a new trial, the judge threw the case out, ruling that no reasonable juror could find that excessive force was used, even though half of the jurors had decided exactly that.

The activists appealed, and the 9th Circuit strongly overturned the trial judge and granted a new trial. Defendants then appealed to the U. Supreme Court, which upheld the 9th Circuit decision. The second trial in September in San Francisco ended in another hung jury, this time split in favor of the plaintiffs. The third trial in April ended in a unanimous jury verdict for the eight plaintiffs, finding that Humboldt officers had used unconstitutional excessive force.

For much more information about that case, Lundberg vs. The sham biography was published in January by Encounter Books, a non-profit "conservative" publisher which serves as the propaganda publishing arm of the ultra-right-wing Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. The book, filled with literally hundreds of lies and factual errors, is an effort to discredit Judi posthumously because she is a progressive role model, a strong woman who stood up to corporate power. Before starting Encounter books, the Bradley Foundation directly funded hundreds of right-wing books, including the original trash-for-cash smear book, The Real Anita Hill by David Brock, who has since had a change of heart and confessed that the book was almost entirely false and that he was hired and paid to write it.

Like Brock, Kate Coleman has publicly admitted that she was recruited and paid to write her book, in which she attempts to discredit Judi, Earth First! Although she pretends to be a progressive and cites her participation in Berkeley's Free Speech Movement of the early s, Coleman's more recent track record includes articles smearing Black Panther party leaders in right-wing publications put out by David Horowitz, the well-known former leftist turned hard-right propagandist, editor and TV pundit.

Coleman was hired to write this attack book on the basis of an article she wrote for the Anderson Valley Advertiser, a paper whose then-editor, Bruce Anderson, carried on a famous print vendetta against Judi ever since she quit writing for his paper in and denounced him as a sexist bully. Secret Wars is Coleman's first effort at writing a book. Judging from the book it should also be her last.

Some of Judi's friends and family have looked at Coleman's book and put together a list of over factual errors and outright lies it contains, nearly two for every page of text. For a detailed rebuttal of the book and to see the lie list, please visit www. You can learn more at the FOJB website, www. Darlene Comingore, executor of the estate of Judi Bari, sent a letter to Encounter Books asking that they withdraw Coleman's book until the hundreds of errors it contains have been corrected.

The text of the letter is below. Encounter has not withdrawn Coleman's book, but there has been no visible promotion for it in nearly a year, and the book seems to have died a richly deserved death. That means , other titles are selling better, making the Coleman book one of the worst sellers. As of June 7, the book's sales rank had slipped to a new record low at ,th place among books sold by Amazon.

Although you run an ideologically-based publishing house, I trust that you have the intellectual integrity to want to avoid knowingly printing false information under the guise of non-fiction. Any book can have a few mistakes. A page-by-page listing of its factual errors and false assertions has reached entries, and the book is only pages long. You may quarrel with some of the listings, but most are indisputable. Fifteen key errors are refuted with on-line documentation, and many more will be included in the "Instant Proof" section as additional documents are assembled.

As someone who was a friend, political colleague, and ally with Judi from to the day of her death in , the portrait painted in this book is not one that I recognize. Please don't take my word for this. Coleman neither contacted me nor to my knowledge attempted to contact me to verify any assertions she presented in her book. A book can't claim to be a biography with this level of error, whether it is deliberate or just the consequence of a lazy author or incompetent fact-checkers.

That doesn't mean that Judi Bari is above criticism. The extensive critique that has been posted by her family, friends and associates at www. I look forward to hearing from you. You may contact me by phone at , by email at , or in writing in care of my attorney Mr. Daryl J. Weinroth, Esq. The lawsuit stemmed from a May 24, car bombing of the pair.

The FBI and Oakland police instantly blamed Bari and Cherney for bombing themselves even though they had conducted no investigation and all evidence collected showed they were the victims of an assassination attempt. Fee attorney James Wheaton of the First Amendment Project joined post-trial efforts to draft a fee motion, which if it prevailed, could have doubled the amount the defendants would have had to pay, setting legal precedents the FBI wanted to avoid and Oakland could not afford.

Numerous other post trial motions and pending appeals were all dropped by all sides to conclude the case. But when the dust cleared, the jury verdict remained in place.

For one of the only too rare times in history, the citizens of the United States scored a victory for civil rights over the scandal plagued, notorious Federal Bureau of Investigation. They were geniuses," she said. When asked how Judi might react to the victory, Littletree said, "Judi wouldn't have gotten over the feeling that the bombing is not solved.

That is a lingering part of the fight. Judi wouldn't give up just because the money came in. Included in the post-trial victory settlement, Cherney achieved the return of all evidence in the case.

When asked how he will spend the funds, he replied, "Acquire a modest home, help fund a continued investigation of the bombing, donate to worthy groups, and channel energy into producing CD's of eco-music. Bari played fiddle, Cherney guitar, and they both sang and wrote songs. Attorney Bob Bloom said, "If we get a few more victories like this, it might affect what the FBI, the domestic army of the United States, does to people. We the people will not stand for the FBI or any government agency clearcutting the constitution.

May a thousand lawsuits bloom from this one to hold the FBI accountable for their too-many-to-count violations of the laws they are supposed to uphold. She understood the challenge of trying to work in the woods and leave it in a better condition then when you got there. Humboldt County's economy has for over a century been dominated by the redwood logging industry, and is still the scene of heated controversy over the continued logging of the few old-growth redwood forests left in the world by Maxxam Corporation-owned Pacific Lumber Company.

Acting earlier this year, Oakland chose to honor Bari on May 24, the date she was severely injured by a car bomb explosion under her seat in as she drove through that city while organizing an environmental campaign. Bari died on March 2, of breast cancer at the age of Negotiations have been under way for months in an effort to work out a post-trial settlement that would avoid the additional expense and delay of appeals by both sides in the federal case.

The text of the Arcata proclamation follows: Proclamation Declaring November 7th Judi Bari Day Whereas, November 7th is the birthday of Judi Bari, 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; and Whereas, examples of Judi Bari's efforts include the preservation of the Headwaters Forest in Humboldt country, the protection of the Cahto Wilderness and the Albion River Watershed in Mendocino County; and Whereas, prominent environmental activist David Brower stated on the occasion of her untimely death on March 2, from cancer at the age of 47, "Judi always projected an unwavering commitment to her values and her continued urgings to affect apathy into action.

We will miss her commitment and compassion, her strength, courage and conviction. We can honor her by sharing it. Dated: November 5, Signed Robert J. FBI case. Our team shared the award with another legal team who won a large settlement reforming working and living conditions for sweatshop workers overseas.

Quoting the official announcement: Solo practitioners Dennis Cunningham, J. Simpich of Oakland, California, along with William H. Doyle against the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI and the City of Oakland for violating the civil rights of two environmental activists during a bomb investigation.

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Lesson by Bill Bigelow and student reading by Howard Zinn. Interactive activity introduces students to the history and often untold story of the U. Roles available in Spanish.

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