#JudiBari, #IWW & #EarthFirst activist, died of cancer on #ThisDayInHistory in 1997, aged 47. In 1990, #FBI & #OaklandPD framed her for the car bomb that almost killed her. Yep, someone tried to assassinate her, and she was blamed. The blast left her in pain the rest of her life.
Judi Bari gives the raised fist salute outside the Oakland Federal Courthouse after winning a round in her civil rights lawsuit against the FBI and Oakland Police on March 3, 1995. By Photo by Xiang Xing Zhou, staff photographer for the San Francisco Daily Journal legal newspaper. Copyright 1995 San Francisco Daily Journal., Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=842985
Today in #LaborHistory 2/2/1997: #EarthFirst Activist & #IWW organizer #JudiBari died. She & Darryl Cherney survived bomb attack in #Oakland, CA 1990, while organizing for #RedwoodSummer to end clear-cutting of #California redwood forests. #Police & #FBI blamed her; handcuffed her to hospital bed.
Judi Bari sought to organize entire communities against class domination and Earth exploitation and for a “culture of life.” Collective grassroots action. Today, institutions fail us, broken or misdirected by kleptocrats. There is still power — counterpower — in community. #judibari
At the start of Rip Current ep. 2, hear me describe an encounter with visionary environmentalist Judi Bari one year after the vicious car-bomb attempt on her life. #Judibari @tobyballnh.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
Here's the full discussion, with Darryl Cherney, @alicialittletree.bsky.social, the late great Dennis Cunningham, Ben Rosenfeld, and myself. #judibari www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9fu...
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1949, #IWW and #EarthFirst activist #JudiBari was born. In 1990, #FBI and #OaklandPD framed her for the car bomb that almost killed her. That's right, someone tried to assassinate her, and she was blamed. The blast left her in pain the rest of her life.
This Labor Day, KPFA revisits the 1990 Oakland car bombing that nearly killed Judi Bari & injured Darryl Cherney.
Decades later, the question still lingers: Who bombed Judi Bari?
📻 Sept 1 • 6PM • KPFA 94.1FM & kpfa.org
#KPFA #JudiBari #LaborDay
This is a poster for Who Bombed Judi Bari. Poster shows image of Bari speaking to supporters, with a raised fist. It also shows the remains of her bombed out car, law enforcement, and Cherney speaking in front of a Redwood Summer banner. The poster art copyright is believed to belong to the distributor of the film, the publisher of the film or the graphic artist. By https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1754621/, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=64097552
Today in #LaborHistory 5/24/1990: #EarthFirst! & #IWW members #JudiBari & #DarrylCherney were bombed in #Oakland. #Police arrested them, destroyed evidence, & began witch hunt of local #activists. 5 yrs after Bari’s death from #cancer, they won lawsuit against police for violating their Rights
Judi Bari, Earth First! environmentalist, IWW organizer, Bay Area activist icon #judibari #intersectionalfeminists #earthday #environmentalists
Judi Bari gives the raised fist salute outside the Oakland Federal Courthouse after winning a round in her civil rights lawsuit against the FBI and Oakland Police on March 3, 1995. By Photo by Xiang Xing Zhou, staff photographer for the San Francisco Daily Journal legal newspaper. Copyright 1995 San Francisco Daily Journal., Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=842985
Today in #LaborHistory 2/2/1997: #EarthFirst Activist & #IWW organizer #JudiBari died. She & Darryl Cherney survived bomb attack in #Oakland, CA 1990, while organizing for #RedwoodSummer to end clear-cutting of #California redwood forests. #Police & #FBI blamed her; handcuffed her to hospital bed.
NPR has "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" & many fine musicians who sang it, and
Gaia help me I can't stop laughing over organizer/forest defender #JudiBari singing "Will The Fetus Be Aborted" in the hellscape @Milken's corrupt junkbond orc made of Humboldt....
Who knew @FBI’d unleash on @POTUS the failed Cold War toolbox they’d used on #JudiBari (when they weren’t along w/ @oaklandpoliceca apparently complicit in attempting to assassinate her & Darryl
Cherney) Dave Foreman, Peg Millet, & other @efjournal forest defenders - but nail DT?
This is based on paranoid @FBI director Hoover’s awkward, closeted love for his life long @FBI gay partner #ClydeTolson as Hoover’s Chicago FBI under #RichardHeld murdered #FredHampton & then presided over SF @FBI during the #JudiBari assassination attempt, right @FBINAAQuantico?
Come fa notare @TelecomixBSRE, gli ambientalisti sono sotto attacco in Turchia ora e in modo simile in USA #JudiBari http://is.gd/MSb7mq
