Judi Bari Archives

Judi Bari was an Earth First! activist and a union organizer. She belonged to a number of unions, including the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).  A great deal of her story is described in my (online) book, Redwood Uprising which is featured on this site.  

In 1989, Judi Bari, Darryl Cherney, a handful of timber workers and several other Earth First!ers chartered the Humboldt and Mendocino counties general membership branch of the IWW, colloquially known as "Earth First - IWW Local #1", which was an example of green syndicalism in both theory and praxis. 

Judi was not only a talented organizer, she was also a skilled artist and an excellent writer as well.  Here are some of her writings, including those featured in her 1993 anthology, Timber Wars (you may download a PDF File of the book; because, although the book is copyright, it is out of print, and its publisher is now defunct) featured in bold.

These articles, audio files, and videos are arranged in chronological order and are written by Judi Bari, unless otherwise indicated:
 

1949

• Judi Bari born in Silver Spring, Maryland - November 7, 1949.

1979

• Aristocracy Forever - lyrics by Judi Bari, 1979 (based on Solidarity Forever by Ralph Chaplin), featured in various editions of the IWW's Little Red Songbook.

 
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1988

• Judi Bari joins Earth First! and the IWW - September 1988.
• Environmental Group Joins UFW in Grape Boycott - By Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney, Country Activist, Mid September 1988; reprinted and abridged in the Industrial Worker, October 1988.
• California Rendezvous - By Judi Bari, Earth First! Journal, Samhain (Nov. 1), 1988.
• Guilty, Guilty: Earth First! - IWW Greenhouse Demo - Composite of two articles from Industrial Worker, March 1989 and Earth First! Journal, Nov. 1, 1988; A substantially shortened summary also appeared in the Mendocino Commentary, October 6, 1988.

1989

• Waferboard, the Final Solution - Speech Given by Judi Bari at an Earth First! demonstration in front of L-P's chip mill near Ukiah, California, June 16, 1989, reprinted in Timber Wars.
• Timberlyin' Issue #1 (PDF file) - Compiled by Judi Bari, Kelly Bettiga, Kyle Bettiga, Darryl Cherney, Pete Kayes, John Maurer, and Lester Reynolds, June-July 1989.
• Californians Start a New Fad: Tree Sitting Becomes a Pastime - Industrial Worker, August 1989 and Earth First! Journal, Mabon (September 23), 1989.
• Timberlyin' Issue #2 (PDF file) - Compiled by Judi Bari, Kelly Bettiga, Kyle Bettiga, Darryl Cherney, Pete Kayes, John Maurer, and Lester Reynolds, October 1989.
• [Leaflet] Inaugural IWW Local #1 leaflet hand drawn by Judi Bari - October 1989
• Timber Wars: Footloose Wobs Urgently Needed - Industrial Worker, October 1989; an abridged version is reprinted in Timber Wars.
• From Cheerleader to Earth First!: Judi Bari - By Bruce Anderson, Anderson Valley Advertiser, November 11, 1989.
• Minutes of the founding meeting of IWW Local #1 - Recorded by Judi Bari, November 19, 1989.
• IWA Rank-and-File Union Millworkers Reply: Victims of G-P’s Fort Bragg Mill PCP Spill Speak Out - Written by Ron Atkinson, Cheryl Jones, Joe Valdao, Julie Wiles, and Treva VandenBosch edited by Judi Bari - Anderson Valley Advertiser, December 13, 1989, Mendocino Commentary, December 14, 1989 and the Industrial Worker, January 1990.
• [Leaflet] What is the IWW? and What Are We Doing in Fort Bragg? (PDF file) - leaflet produced by Judi Bari, et. al,. late 1989.
• Letter from Judi Bari to the Bay Area IWW - ca December 1989.

1990

• Letter from Judi Bari to the IWW member Jess Grant - ca January 1990.
• IWW Local 1 Letters to OSHA on behalf of the IWA Rank and File Millworkers - By Judi Bari, et. al., January 27, 1990, February 1990.
• IWW Defends Millworkers - By Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney, Industrial Worker, March 1990.
• [Leaflet] Redwood Summer meeting leaflet by Judi Bari - March 1990.
• [Leaflet] IWW Local #1 leaflet hand drawn by Judi Bari - March 1990.
• [Leaflet] Redwood Summer recruiting leaflet by Judi Bari - April 1990.
• Earth First! Replies to Critics - Santa Rosa Press Democrat, April 10, 1990.
• Northern California Earth First! Renounces Tree Spiking - Text of a Press Conference held April 11, 1990 at the Louisiana Pacific Mill, Samoa, California - Reprinted the Country Activist, June 1990, Earth First! Journal, Beltane (May 1), 1990, and abridged in the Mendocino Commentary, April 12, 1990.
• Letter from Judi Bari to the Gene Lawhorn - ca April 14, 1990.
• [Leaflet] Redwood Summer leaflet hand drawn by Judi Bari - May 1990.
• In The Middle of Run Away History: Judi Bari, Earth First! Organizer – Mississippi Summer in the California Redwoods - Interviewed by Beth Bosk – New Settler Interview, Issue #49, May 1990.
• Judi Bari & Darryl Cherney targeted for assassination by car bombing in Oakland, California - 11:53 AM, Pacific Daylight Time, May 24, 1990.
• Workers, Corporations, and Redwood Summer: Whose Side Are We On? - Judi Bari, et. al, Redwood Summer Coalition - from the Redwood Summer Handbook, second edition, ca June 1990.
• [Audio] Why Join Earth First!? - Judi Bari recorded from her hospital room at Highland Hospital, Oakland, CA, June 1990.
• An Interview With IWW & Earth First! Organizer, Judi Bari - By Troy L Garner, Ecology Center Newsletter [Terrain], September 1990.
• The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Anderson Valley Advertiser, September 26, 1990; reprinted in Timber Wars.
• The Truth About Earth First! and Loggers - Anderson Valley Advertiser, December 26, 1990; Reprinted in Timber Wars.

 
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1991

• Why I am not a misanthrope - By Judi Bari, Earth First! Journal, February 2, 1991; reprinted in Timber Wars.
• The Sierra Club Surrender - Anderson Valley Advertiser, March 20, 1991; reprinted in Timber Wars.
• The PALCO Papers - Anderson Valley Advertiser, March 27, 1991; Reprinted in Timber Wars
• Notes From Hell - Working at the L-P Mill - Anderson Valley Advertiser, April 17, 1991; Reprinted in Timber Wars.
• Why I Hate The Corporate Press - Anderson Valley Advertiser, April 24, 1991; reprinted in Timber Wars.
• Community Under Siege - Speech given by Judi Bari at the Cinco de Mayo/May 5 gathering in Booneville, California. Footnotes added by Jym Dyer; republished in the Anderson Valley Advertiser, May 8, 1991; Reprinted in Timber Wars.
• Misery Loves Company - Anderson Valley Advertiser, May 22, 1991.
• Who Bought Steve Talbot? - Anderson Valley Advertiser, May 29, 1991; reprinted in Timber Wars.
• A Conversation with Earth First! Activist Judi Bari - by Christine Keyser, On the Issues, Summer 1991.
• Last Ditch Logging - Anderson Valley Advertiser, July 10, 1991, Reprinted in Timber Wars.
• [Leaflet] Osprey Grove Leaflet by Judi Bari - September 1991.
• Why I Hate The Government - Industrial Worker, October 1991.
• The Texas Chainsaw Chancellor (originally titled, "The Chancellor is a Bank Robber") - Anderson Valley Advertiser, October 9, 1991; reprinted in Timber Wars.

1992

• [Audio] Ten Earth First! Logging Rules - Excerpt of a speech by Judi Bari at the State Capitol, Sacramento, California, January 8, 1992.
• The Feminization of Earth First! - Ms Magazine, May 1992; Reprinted in Timber Wars.
• [Audio] Yarning - Excerpt of a speech by Judi Bari, Enchanted Meadow, Albion, CA, June 1992.
• [Audio] Beth Bosk interviews Judi Bari as well as loggers Jim Murphy and Virgil Maxwell - KZYX FM, June 9, 1992.
• What the L-P Memos Really Mean - Anderson Valley Advertiser, June 10, 1992, Reprinted in Timber Wars.
• Taking Back the Woods - Judi Bari Interviews Ernie Pardini on KZYX FM in Philo, reprinted in the Anderson Valley Advertiser, July 29, 1992 and Timber Wars.
• Dear Molly Maguire and Nedd Ludd: Mail Handler Judi - Featured in the Industrial Worker, August 1992.
• Judi Bari interviews Louisiana Pacific Mill Workers - Transcript of a KZYX FM radio interview; Reprinted in August 1992 issue of the Industrial Worker.
• The New Wave of Environmental Loggers (Part 1) - Transcript of a KZYX FM radio program; also featured in the Anderson Valley Advertiser, September 23, 1992.
• The New Wave of Environmental Loggers (Part 2) - Transcript of a KZYX FM radio program; also featured in the Anderson Valley Advertiser, September 30, 1992.
• The Foundations of Future Forestry: Interview with Judi Bari - Interview by Chris Carlsson and Med-O - Industrial Worker, December 1992; a different version of this interview appeared as The sh*t raiser speaks! Interview with Judi Bari - in Processed World, Winter 1992-93.

1993

• Charles Hurwitz Strikes Again - By Judi Bari, Anderson Valley Advertiser, February 13, 1993.
• The Secret History of Tree Spiking: Part 1 - Anderson Valley Advertiser, February 17, 1993, and the Earth First! Journal, December 21, 1994; reprinted in Timber Wars.
• The Secret History of Tree Spiking: Part 2 - Anderson Valley Advertiser, March 8, 1993; reprinted in Timber Wars.
• The Secret History of Tree Spiking: Part 3 - By That Green Union Guy - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, April 11, 2015 (written as a sequel to Parts 1 and 2 for the 25th anniversary of the April 11, 1990 Tree Spiking renunciation).
• Earth First! in Northern California – Interview with Judi Bari - By Douglas Bevington, Summer 1993; reprinted in The Struggle for Ecological Democracy.
• [Video] Biocentrism & Revolutionary Ecology: Live Discussion - University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, October 1993.
• [Audio] Judi on Ed Kowas Radio Show on the Bombing Case - Judi Bari interviewed by Ed Kowas on KMFB FM in Fort Bragg, October 6, 1993.

1994

• The Earth First! Car Bombing - Earth First! Journal, Brigid (February 1), 1994; reprinted in Timber Wars.
• Monkeywrenching - Earth First! Journal, Brigid (February 1), 1994; reprinted in Timber Wars.
• FBI Bomb School, and Other Atrocities - Anderson Valley Advertiser, October 19, 1994.

1995

• Revolutionary Ecology, Biocentrism, and Deep Ecology - a pamphlet based on a lecture given by Judi Bari in 1995.
• Who Bombed Judi Bari? - Interview with Beth Bosk, New Settler, January 1995.
• [Audio] Judi Bari interviewed on Radio Curious - Judi Bari interviewed by Barry Vogel, March 27, 1995.
• [Audio] Headwaters Forest Rally: March 28, 1995 - Excerpt of a speech by Judi Bari at the PALCO log deck, Carlotta, California, March 28, 1995.
• [Audio] How to Organize Timber Workers - Excerpt of a speech by Judi Bari at the Laughing Horse Books, Portland, Oregon, April 8, 1995.
• [Audio] Bomb School - First excerpt of a speech by Judi Bari at Fellowship Hall, Berkeley California, April 10, 1995.
• [Audio] Garlon - Second excerpt of a speech by Judi Bari at Fellowship Hall, Berkeley California, April 10, 1995.
• Press Blackout - Mendocino Environmental Center Newsletter #19, July 1995.
• Who Bombed Judi Bari?: FBI Repression of Activists in the '90s - from a brochure produced by the Redwood Summer Justice Project, November 1995.

1996

• [Audio] Mississippi Summer In The Redwoods - First excerpt of a speech by Judi Bari at Humboldt State University, April 18, 1996.
• [Audio] Death Threats - Second excerpt of a speech by Judi Bari at Humboldt State University, April 18, 1996.
• [Audio] Too Clever to Catch - Second excerpt of a speech by Judi Bari at Humboldt State University, April 18, 1996.
• [Audio] Judi Bari on the Bombing Case and COINTELPRO - from a talk given in Berkeley on May 18, 1996
• But What About Jobs? - from a leaflet produced in September 1996.
• [Audio] Headwaters Forest Rally: September 15, 1996 - Excerpt of a speech by Judi Bari at the PALCO log deck, Carlotta, California, September 15, 1996.
• [Audio] Punch & Judi Show - Judi Bari on the "Headwaters Deal" on KZYX FM, in Boonville, California, October 4, 1996.
• [Audio] Punch & Judi Show - Judi Bari on All Species Grove Headwaters Action and More on KZYX FM, in Boonville, California, October 11, 1996.
• Bombing Case Update - from a Redwood Summer Justice Project circular, issued November 1996.
• [Audio] Dances With FBI Agents - First excerpt of a speech by Judi Bari at Beginnings School, Briceland, California, November 1996.
• [Audio] Lawsuit - Second excerpt of a speech by Judi Bari at Beginnings School, Briceland, California, November 1996.
• [Audio] Punch & Judi Show - Judi Bari announces she has cancer, and gives forest updates on KZYX FM in Boonville, California, November 8, 1996.
• [Audio] A Public Affair from the Archives: earth activist Judi Bari - December 3, 1996.
• [Audio] Punch & Judi Show - Judi Bari interviews Timothy Pratt on KZYX FM in Boonville, California, December 6, 1996.
• [Audio] Punch & Judi Show - Judi Bari and Alicia Littletree feature Leslie Hemstreet and Gene Lawhorn (from KBOO FM) on KZYX FM, December 20, 1996.
• [Audio] Punch & Judi Show - Judi Bari interviews Utah Phillips on KZYX FM, in Boonville, California, December 27, 1996.

1997

• [Audio] Punch & Judi Show - Judi Bari's last live show on KZYX FM, in Boonville, California, January 24, 1997.
• Judi Bari passes at her home near Willits, CA - March 2, 1997.
• [Audio] Letters to the Editor - Excerpt of a speech by Judi Bari at Ashkenaz, Berkeley California, (date listed as September 18, 1997, but obviously incorrect since it occurred after Bari passed away).

2000

• [Audio] Revolutionary Ecology: The Legacy of Judi Bari - Narrated by Ruby Dee and Produced by Noelle Hanrahan, Alternative Radio, December 2000.

2001

• [Audio] Truth to Power - Alicia Littletree Tribute to Judi Bari on KZYX FM, in Boonville, California, March 9, 2001.

2004

• [Audio] Don't Mourn, Organize: The Judi Bari Story - BBC Radio, December 2004.

2017

• [Video] Who Bombed Judi Bari? Feature Documentary - By Darryl Cherney and Mary Liz Thomson - YouTube, Feb 9, 2017.  For more information about the documentary, please visit whobombedjudibari.com.

2024

• [Audio] Memory Against Forgetting: The Story of Judi Bari w/ Earth First!er Karen Pickett - By Karen Pickett, Scott Parkin, and Bob Buzzanco, Green and Red, May 22, 2024.
• [Audio] Steve Ongerth on the Bombing of Judi Bari and Redwood Summer - By Cone Cat and Steve Ongerth, It's Going Down, July 24, 2024.

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For additional material related to Judi Bari, please visit Nicholas Wilson's Judi Bari archives at judibari.org. 

This site also includes an expanded archive of Earth First! - IWW Local #1 material, which provides additional context and background for the material archived here.

Disclaimer: a note about the Anderson Valley Advertiser: in 1994, Judi Bari severed ties with (coincidentally named) editor and publisher, Bruce Anderson citing the latter's misogynistic tendencies (Anderson remembers things differently, as one might surmise). Whomever is most accurate in their version of what occurred, Anderson has since engaged in character assassination of Bari and has consistently spread untruths about her. Most of these falsehoods are easily debunked (I have alluded to some of them in my own book, Redwood Uprising). Therefore, I do not recommend it as a source (and I only repost articles--which are not copyrighted, except where published in Timber Wars--here from it relevant to Judi Bari's and Earth First! - IWW Local #1's history). 

Last Updated - November 20, 2025.