Judi Bari Archives

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

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:
 

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.

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.
• Timberlyin' Issue #2 (PDF file) - Compiled by Judi Bari, Kelly Bettiga, Kyle Bettiga, Darryl Cherney, Pete Kayes, John Maurer, and Lester Reynolds, 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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^th 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.
• 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

• The Feminization of Earth First! - Ms Magazine, May 1992; Reprinted in Timber Wars.
• [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.

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.
• 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] 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] Punch & Judi Show -  Judi Bari on the "Headwaters Deal" on KZYX October 4, 1996.
• Bombing Case Update - from a Redwood Summer Justice Project circular issued November 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 - December 27, 1996.

2017

• 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.

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

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).