04-12-2012, 08:43 AM
Judi Bari was a union organizer and an Earth First organizer, she was the mother of two children, a professional carpenter, here in the Redwood region of California.
That in a way is what made her so dangerous to the status quo because that what we know so well, a world divided and conquered by those that would rather us fight each other than those at the top.
Judi Bari was a unifier, she was somebody who brought loggers, timber workers, mill workers, truck drivers together with environmentalists to find our common goals, and to focus attention on the corporate elites who are manipulating all of us.
The issues are the same today as they've been for the last 6000 years of recorded history.
Human beings have been logging the forests since the cedars of Lebanon. Judi was taking on the issue of mowing down ancient Redwood trees that stand 350 feet tall, 15 feet wide, 2000 years in age.
A single Redwood can hold 4000 gallons of water. They're worth 50 thousand dollars a piece.
Redwood Summer did emulate Freedom Summers sometimes called Mississippi Summers in the deep South.
The point was the same as long as things happened in the deep South without anybody looking, they could continue, Jim Crow would continue.
The mowing down of our eco-system which we believe is a civil rights movement as much as a environmental movement because our ability to live on this planet depends on our ecosystem staying intact.
We invited college kids as well as anyone who wanted to participate and that's what Redwood Summer was.
We received about 3 dozen death threats mostly by letter, by phone and some in person over a short period of time, about a month and a half, right after we announced Redwood Summer.
We decided to get out of rural areas, so we were touring universities, as we were leaving Oakland, where Judi had spent the night heading toward Santa Cruz. Judi ordered me into her car, we drove for a couple of minutes a bomb exploded under her seat.
Fracturing her pelvis, causing intestinal damage, pulverizing her lower vertebrae.
Instantly within 5 minutes the FBI and Oakland Police showed up.
They knew the bomb was a booby trap, designed to only go off in a moving car.
They looked at the death threats and immediately dismissed them as irrelevant.
Violence is a dominant gene. You can have a thousand peaceful people but one violent person can ruin for everybody else.
The FBI and the Oakland Police were eventually found liable for violating the First Amendment of the US Constitution. It wasn't that they were mistaken, they knew we were innocent.
They found the motion trigger that said the bomb could only go off in a moving vehicle.
Right to her death, the FBI and the Oakland never asked Judi one question.
Judi Bari was a full-time working carpenter. She supervised a construction crew.
WhoBombedJudiBari.com
Guest - Darryl Cherney, born in New York City where he was a child actor. For 20 years he has been an activist, topical singer -songwriter and organizer in Humboldt County California. He helped spearhead the successful campaign to protect the redwoods, including Headwaters Forests, now a national preserve. As creator and president of Environmentally Sound Promotions, the non-profit organization, he has produced five albums of his original songs dedicated to environmental protection. He also produced Judi Bari?s spoken word CD, Who Bombed Judi Bari?, and the benefit compilation, If a Tree Falls. Great and LONG interview [mp3] in the middle of this show HERE. [Law and Disorder Dec. 3, 2012]
That in a way is what made her so dangerous to the status quo because that what we know so well, a world divided and conquered by those that would rather us fight each other than those at the top.
Judi Bari was a unifier, she was somebody who brought loggers, timber workers, mill workers, truck drivers together with environmentalists to find our common goals, and to focus attention on the corporate elites who are manipulating all of us.
The issues are the same today as they've been for the last 6000 years of recorded history.
Human beings have been logging the forests since the cedars of Lebanon. Judi was taking on the issue of mowing down ancient Redwood trees that stand 350 feet tall, 15 feet wide, 2000 years in age.
A single Redwood can hold 4000 gallons of water. They're worth 50 thousand dollars a piece.
Redwood Summer did emulate Freedom Summers sometimes called Mississippi Summers in the deep South.
The point was the same as long as things happened in the deep South without anybody looking, they could continue, Jim Crow would continue.
The mowing down of our eco-system which we believe is a civil rights movement as much as a environmental movement because our ability to live on this planet depends on our ecosystem staying intact.
We invited college kids as well as anyone who wanted to participate and that's what Redwood Summer was.
We received about 3 dozen death threats mostly by letter, by phone and some in person over a short period of time, about a month and a half, right after we announced Redwood Summer.
We decided to get out of rural areas, so we were touring universities, as we were leaving Oakland, where Judi had spent the night heading toward Santa Cruz. Judi ordered me into her car, we drove for a couple of minutes a bomb exploded under her seat.
Fracturing her pelvis, causing intestinal damage, pulverizing her lower vertebrae.
Instantly within 5 minutes the FBI and Oakland Police showed up.
They knew the bomb was a booby trap, designed to only go off in a moving car.
They looked at the death threats and immediately dismissed them as irrelevant.
Violence is a dominant gene. You can have a thousand peaceful people but one violent person can ruin for everybody else.
The FBI and the Oakland Police were eventually found liable for violating the First Amendment of the US Constitution. It wasn't that they were mistaken, they knew we were innocent.
They found the motion trigger that said the bomb could only go off in a moving vehicle.
Right to her death, the FBI and the Oakland never asked Judi one question.
Judi Bari was a full-time working carpenter. She supervised a construction crew.
WhoBombedJudiBari.com
Guest - Darryl Cherney, born in New York City where he was a child actor. For 20 years he has been an activist, topical singer -songwriter and organizer in Humboldt County California. He helped spearhead the successful campaign to protect the redwoods, including Headwaters Forests, now a national preserve. As creator and president of Environmentally Sound Promotions, the non-profit organization, he has produced five albums of his original songs dedicated to environmental protection. He also produced Judi Bari?s spoken word CD, Who Bombed Judi Bari?, and the benefit compilation, If a Tree Falls. Great and LONG interview [mp3] in the middle of this show HERE. [Law and Disorder Dec. 3, 2012]
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass