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Redwood Uprising: From One Big Union to Earth First! and the Bombing of Judi Bari

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  • Redwood Uprising: From One Big Union to Earth First! and the Bombing of Judi Bari
By thatgreenunionguy | 11:49 PM UTC, Wed September 24, 2025

Although it remains an important question, instead of asking "Who bombed Judi Bari?", one would be better off asking, "Why (were) Judi Bari (and Darryl Cherney) bombed in an assassination attempt?" Once we start to tackle that second, deeper question, the "who" becomes evident.

The bombing was an attempt by capitalist extractivist aligned forces to prevent what was quickly becoming a revolt on California's north coast from becoming a full fledged green syndicalist revolution, in which radical environmentalists, led by Earth First! made common cause with exploited timber industry workers (many of them dues paying IWW members).

This book details all of the historical, economic, and political forces that flowed into this event and how it established a model for green syndicalist, class struggle ecology organizing in rural extractivist communities, in spite of the capitalists' every effort to quash it.

Introduction
Chapter 1 : An Injury to One is an Injury to All!
Chapter 2 : Pollution, Love it or Leave it!
Chapter 3 : He Could Clearcut Forests Like No Other
Chapter 4 : Maxxam’s on the Horizon
Chapter 5 : No Compromise in Defense of Mother Earth!
Chapter 6 : If Somebody Kills Themselves, Just Blame it on Earth First!
Chapter 7 : Way Up High in The Redwood Giants
Chapter 8 : Running for Our Lives
Chapter 9 : And they Spewed Out their Hatred
Chapter 10 : Fellow Workers, Meet Earth First!
Chapter 11 : I Knew Nothin’ Till I Met Judi
Chapter 12 : The Day of the Living Dead Hurwitzes
Chapter 13 : They’re Closing Down the Mill in Potter Valley
Chapter 14 : Mother Jones at the Georgia Pacific Mill
Chapter 15 : Hang Down Your Head John Campbell
Chapter 16 : I Like Spotted Owls…Fried
Chapter 17 : Logging to Infinity
Chapter 18 : The Arizona Power Lines
Chapter 19 : Aristocracy Forever
Chapter 20 : Timberlyin’
Chapter 21 : You Fucking Commie Hippies!
Chapter 22 : I am the Lorax; I speak for the Trees
Chapter 23 : Forests Forever
Chapter 24 : El Pio
Chapter 25 : Sabo Tabby vs. Killa Godzilla
Chapter 26 : They Weren’t Gonna Have No Wobbly Runnin’ Their Logging Show
Chapter 27 : Murdered by Capitalism
Chapter 28 : Letting the Cat Out of the Bag
Chapter 29 : Swimmin’ Cross the Rio Grande
Chapter 30 : She Called for Redwood Summer
Chapter 31 : Spike a Tree for Jesus
Chapter 32 : Now They Have These Public Hearings…
Chapter 33 : The Ghosts of Mississippi Will be Watchin’
Chapter 34 : We’ll Have an Earth Night Action
Chapter 35 : “You Brought it On Yourself, Judi”
Chapter 36 : A Pipe Bomb Went Rippin’ Through Her Womb
Chapter 37 : Who Bombed Judi Bari?
Chapter 38 : Conclusion

  • Redwood Uprising: Introduction
  • Chapter 1 : An Injury to One is an Injury to All!
  • Chapter 2 : Pollution, Love it or Leave it!
  • Chapter 3 : He Could Clearcut Forests Like No Other
  • Chapter 4 : Maxxam’s on the Horizon
  • Chapter 5 : No Compromise in Defense of Mother Earth!
  • Chapter 6 : If Somebody Kills Themselves, Just Blame it on Earth First!
  • Chapter 7 : Way Up High in The Redwood Giants
  • Chapter 8 : Running for Our Lives
  • Chapter 9 : And they Spewed Out their Hatred
  • Chapter 10 : Fellow Workers, Meet Earth First!
  • Chapter 11 : I Knew Nothin’ Till I Met Judi
  • Chapter 12 : The Day of the Living Dead Hurwitzes
  • Chapter 13 : They’re Closing Down the Mill in Potter Valley
  • Chapter 14 : Mother Jones at the Georgia Pacific Mill
  • Chapter 15 : Hang Down Your Head John Campbell
  • Chapter 16 : I Like Spotted Owls…Fried.
  • Chapter 17 : Logging to Infinity
  • Chapter 18 : The Arizona Power Lines
  • Chapter 19 : Aristocracy Forever
  • Chapter 20 : Timberlyin’
  • Chapter 21 : You Fucking Commie Hippies!
  • Chapter 22 : I am the Lorax; I speak for the Trees
  • Chapter 23 : Forests Forever
  • Chapter 24 : El Pio
  • Chapter 25 : Sabo Tabby vs. Killa Godzilla
  • Chapter 26 : They Weren’t Gonna Have No Wobbly Runnin’ Their Logging Show
  • Chapter 27 : Murdered by Capitalism
  • Chapter 28 : Letting the Cat Out of the Bag
  • Chapter 29 : Swimmin’ Cross the Rio Grande
  • Chapter 30 : She Called for Redwood Summer
  • Chapter 31 : Spike a Tree for Jesus
  • Chapter 32 : Now They Have These Public Hearings…
  • Chapter 33 : The Ghosts of Mississippi Will be Watchin’
  • Chapter 34 : We’ll Have an Earth Night Action
  • Chapter 35 : “You Brought it On Yourself, Judi”
  • Chapter 36 : A Pipe Bomb Went Rippin’ Through Her Womb
  • Chapter 37 : Who Bombed Judi Bari?
  • Chapter 38 : Conclusion

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