40 Facts About Judi Bari

Judith Beatrice Bari was an American environmentalist, feminist, and labor leader, primarily active in Northern California after moving to the state in the mid-1970s.

Judi Bari was driving with colleague Darryl Cherney, who had minor injuries.

Judi Bari's parents were Jewish and Italian in ancestry, respectively.

Judi Bari was the second of three daughters; her older sister is Gina Kolata, a science journalist for the New York Times; and younger is Martha Bari, an art historian.

Judi Bari said that her college career was most notable for "anti-Vietnam War rioting".

Judi Bari began working as a clerk for a chain grocery store and became a union organizer in its work force.

Judi Bari moved to the Bay Area in Northern California, which was a center of political activism.

Judi Bari edited, wrote, and drew cartoons for political leaflets and publications.

Around 1985, Judi Bari moved north with her husband and two children to the vicinity of Redwood Valley in Mendocino County, California.

Judi Bari doubled the company's rate of timber harvesting as a means of paying off the acquisition cost.

That year, Judi Bari organized the first forest blockade, to promote expanding the South Fork Eel River Wilderness, managed by the US Bureau of Land Management.

Judi Bari filed a legal suit accusing a logger of assault, and claiming law enforcement did not protect her from attack.

Judi Bari emphasized non-violent action and began to incorporate music into her demonstrations.

Judi Bari played the fiddle and sang original compositions by Darryl Cherney, who played guitar.

Some activists and area residents found Judi Bari to be egocentric, humorless, and strident.

Judi Bari was instrumental in recruiting demonstrators from college campuses across the United States.

Judi Bari had local connections and a rapport with some lumber industry workers that was developed during her organizing efforts of an IWW local.

On May 22,1990, Judi Bari met with local loggers to agree on ground rules for nonviolence during the Redwood Summer demonstrations.

Judi Bari stopped for a press conference in Ukiah and for a meeting at the Seeds of Peace collective house in Berkeley.

Judi Bari suffered severe injuries and Cherney suffered lesser ones.

Judi Bari was arrested for transporting explosives while she was still in critical condition with a fractured pelvis and other major injuries.

Judi Bari raised suspicion that the FBI knew about the bomb beforehand and might have been responsible for it.

Judi Bari offered cooperation with investigators in return for legal immunity; but her offer was refused.

Judi Bari told Talbot in confidence that she had doubts about her former husband, and that he abused her during their marriage.

Judi Bari wrote about Sweeney as a suspect more directly in a 2002 article published on Salon.

Talbot had reported a 1989 letter signed by "Argus" that was sent to the Chief of the Ukiah Police Department, offering to be an informant against Judi Bari regarding marijuana dealing.

Judi Bari claimed in her article that the "Argus" letter had to have been written by Irv Sutley, a Peace and Freedom Party activist whom she had met in 1988.

Judi Bari knew that the 1988 divorce had been bitter.

Judi Bari discussed the issues with journalist Alexander Cockburn of CounterPunch, a political magazine.

Anderson reconsidered his support of Judi Bari's position, arousing anger among her supporters.

Judi Bari submitted facsimiles of the three letters and their envelopes, along with exemplars of text written by various suspects, to Don Foster.

Maxwell said that Davis had told her that Judi Bari had suggested a murder-for-hire solicitation against Sweeney.

Judi Bari said that Sweeney had abused her during their marriage.

Judi Bari became a political writer as part of her interests in feminism, class struggle, and ecology.

Judi Bari emphasized non-violent actions and public education in an effort to build collaboration in the region.

In 1994 Judi Bari was part of a congressional advisory committee, chartered by Congressman Dan Hamburg, trying to develop a proposal for a Headwaters Forest Reserve of 44,000 acres.

On March 2,1997, Judi Bari died of breast cancer at her home near Willits.

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.

Judi Bari said the book's detractors were dedicated to preserving an incomplete and distorted memory of Ms.

Judi Bari felt her death lifted his responsibility to protect her confidences.