Explanatory commentary by Judi Bari, copied from 1990: A Year in the Life of Earth First! published in the Anderson Valley Advertiser, January 2, 1991, reprinted in Reprinted in Timber Wars, © 1994 Common Courage Press (recopied according to "Fair Use" guidelines)
May began with the unprecedented denial of Charlie Hiatt’s logging plan in Anderson Valley, after local residents made an issue of the cutting of baby trees.[1] The Board of Supes put Mississippi Summer on their agenda and ordered us to appear. We found the room filled with hostile gyppo owners and L-P security, openly calling for the use of violence against our non-violent protests. When I showed them the death threats, Marilyn Butcher said, “You brought it on yourself, Judi.” When I referred to Charlie Stone’s right-wing anti-EF! radio show as “radio K-KKK,” Butcher and Sheriff Shea stormed out.
- (Mendocino County Supervisors Grill the Organizers of) Mississippi Summer - By Rob Anderson, Anderson Valley Advertiser, May 2, 1990
We reacted by working with Art Harwood to set up negotiating meetings with the gyppos to try and prevent violence. We held a rally in Ukiah, where 100 people heard Brian Willson call for non-violence.
- Rally for Nonviolent Summer - By Staff, Willits News, May 23, 1990
Then, just as it seemed we were making progress, someone put a bomb in my car. It exploded in Oakland, while Darryl and I were traveling to Santa Cruz to recruit students for what was now called Redwood Summer.
May 24, 1990: The Bombing of Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney
- Activists Bombed, Busted - By Richard Johnson, Mendocino Country Environmentalist, May 29, 1990
- Was it a Government Plot? - By Richard Johnson, Mendocino Country Environmentalist, May 29, 1990
- The Car Bombing: Four Responses - By Lynne Dahl, Anderson Valley Advertiser, May 30, 1990
- The Stupid People Problem - By Rob Anderson, Anderson Valley Advertiser, May 30, 1990
- Terrorist Strikes Earth First! - By Alexander Cockburn, Anderson Valley Advertiser, May 30, 1990
- We All Live in Mississippi - By Lawrence Livermore, Anderson Valley Advertiser, May 30, 1990
- Bombed but Not Broken - By Santa Rosa Earth First!, Country Activist, June 1990
- The Bombing: We’re All Involved - By Louis Korn, Country Activist, June 1990 and Santa Rosa Press Democrat, June 1, 1990
- IWW Members Bari and Cherney Framed - By Staff, Industrial Worker, June 1990
- Possible Labor Connection to Earth First! Bombing: Incident May Have Been Effort to Disrupt Budding Logger & Environmentalist Alliance - By Michele DeRanleau, San Francisco Weekly, June 6, 1990
- Who Bombed Judi and Darryl? - By Rob Anderson, Anderson Valley Advertiser, June 6, 1990
- Back to Bombs? - By Nat Bingham, North Coast News, June 7, 1990
- Call [Redwood Summer] Off! - Open Letter by Art Harwood – Willits News, June 6, Mendocino Beacon, June 7, North Coast News, June 7, and Santa Rosa Press Democrat, June 7, 1990
- Redwood Summer Bombing: Evil Police Smear - By Richard Johnson, Mendocino County Environmentalist, June 15, 1990
- Judi & Darryl Still Fighting Despite Bomb Damage - By Karen Pickett, Earth First! Journal, Litha / June 21, 1990
- Bombing Spotlights Efforts to Link Labor, Environment - By Daphne Wysham, Labor Notes, August 1990; Reprinted in the Anderson Valley Advertiser, December 12, 1990
- Earth First!ers = Elitist Agitators - Response by Don Nelson, IWA Local #3-469, Labor Notes, September 1990
- Support for Environmentalists - A response to Don Nelson from Richard Myers, Treasurer IBEW Local #2300 Northglenn, Colorado, Labor Notes, September 1990
The bomb nearly killed me. It maimed me for life, and took me out for the entire summer. Darryl and I were arrested, and Darryl was interrogated in jail as the FBI moved in to try and blame us for the bombing. Richard Held, the FBI agent who got famous in COINTELPRO, was in charge of our case. They spent the next few months smearing us in the press with selected leaks and innuendos, before finally admitting that they had no evidence against us. Still, our names have not been cleared by the FBI.
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The Movement Rallies Behind Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney
- Letter to the IWW Membership from Utah Phillips - By Utah Phillips, Original Source Document, June 6, 1990
- EF! Protests FBI Smear - By Staff, Earth First! Journal, Litha / June 21, 1990
- Solidarity Forever: Wobs Rally to Support Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney - By Orin Langelle and Martin St. John, Industrial Worker, July 1990
- Reaction from Around the IWW - By various authors, Industrial Worker, July 1990
- Union Activists Support Judi & Darryl - Resolution, reprinted in the Industrial Worker, July 1990
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[1]This actually happened in February 1990.