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Kate Coleman: the Secrets Wars of Judi Bari.(Shorter notices)(Book Review)
Kate Coleman The Secrets Wars of Judi Bari. Encounter, 261 pages, $25.95
Who was Judi Bari? Ask a certain not-quite-endangered species of North Coast Californian and you'll get pure hagiography: She was Mother and Protector of the Redwoods, a champion of the radical Earth First! group, martyred (nearly) by the FBI (she claimed) in the mysterious 1990 pipe bombing that destroyed her Subaru. And if you ask Kate Coleman? As Darryl Cherney, one of Bari's former lovers, recently put it in the Times: "Today there are few progressive heroes left. But even the ones who have died must be killed again by literary assassins like Kate Coleman."
Or not. Coleman, whose Vast Right Wing Conspiracy-character-assassin credentials include residing in Berkeley and contributing to Mother Jones, has written an account of Barfs life so agenda-free that it borders on dull--hard as it may be to believe that Bari, a fiddler, karate enthusiast, and former employee of "California Yurts," could be made dull. So why have Coleman's readings been protested or canceled? It is through no fault of hers that Secret Wars fails to flatter Bari's memory: the facts don't, either.
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- Secret agenda.(The Secret Wars of Judi Bari: A Car Bomb, The Fight for the...
- Magazine article from: Alternatives Journal Cizek, Petr January 1, 2006 700+ words
The Secret Wars of Judi Bari: A Car Bomb, The Fight for the Redwoods, and the End of Earth First!, Kate Coleman, San Francisco: Encounter Books...tragic death from cancer in 1997, Judi Bari was the US WestCoast media darling...
- Jury awards Bari, Cherney $4.4 million.(Judi Bari)(Darryl Cherney)(Earth First!...
- Magazine article from: Earth Island Journal September 22, 2002 700+ words
...activists' constitutional rights and returned a verdict largely in favor of Earth First! activists Darryl Cherney and the Late Judi Bari. The jury found that six of the seven defendants violated Bari and Cherney's First and Fourth Amendment rights by arresting...
- Singing under oath. (The Edge).(Earth First! activists Judi Bari and Darryl...
- Magazine article from: Earth Island Journal Smith, Gar September 22, 2002 700+ words
...promised, "a humdinger." Twelve years after a bomb blast in the streets of Oakland, attorneys for Darryl Cherney and the late Judi Bari are suing the Oakland Police Department and the FBI for false arrest, illegal search, slander, conspiracy and violation...
- Jury's award leaves bombing unsolved.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Gonzales, Sandra June 17, 2002 700+ words
...activists Darryl Cherney and the late Judi Bari for a criminal investigation that smeared...the county's recycling program. ``Judi Bari was very frightened of her ex-husband...idea of a vast FBI conspiracy against Judi Bari unlikely. Sweeney declined to comment...
- Jury decides in favor of Earth First, doesn't find conspiracy.(Knight Ridder...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Anderson, Brian June 11, 2002 700+ words
...With weeks of deliberations behind them, jurors agreed with Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney who accused the FBI and Oakland police of...civil rights. The other half of this trial was to say that Judi Bari and I were innocent of bombing ourselves or carrying a bomb...
- Don't shoot the drummer. (political activist and singer Darryl Cherney)...
- Magazine article from: Canadian Dimension Eisenhower, Jean September 1, 1993 700+ words
...singer-songwriter-troubadour who was injured along with Judi Bari in a car bomb explosion in 1990. Her is currently suing the...but two cars that were completely trashed. One in which Judi Bari and I were bombed was back on May 24, 1990. That was an incredibly...
- Earth First case against FBI, police about to begin.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Anderson, Brian April 7, 2002 700+ words
...Loaded down with musical instruments and other supplies, Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney crawled into the front seats of the nearly...talking and the next minute I was in some other universe." Judi Bari died of cancer in 1997, but more than a decade after a nail...
- Framed by the FBI.(environmental activists)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: The Nation DEMPSEY, JAMES X. July 8, 2002 700+ words
...constitutional rights of environmental activists Darryl Cherney and Judi Bari, wrongly accused of terrorism in 1990, represents more than...prolonging personal and political damage. Justice was too late for Judi Bari. She died of cancer in 1997. The most sobering lesson of...
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