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Who Bombed Judi Bari? (2012)
Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were falsely arrested for car-bombing themselves on May 24, 1990 while on an Earth First! musical organizing tour for Redwood Summer. They sued the FBI for violations of the First Amendment, claiming the FBI knew they were innocent but arrested them to try to silence them. Having survived the bomb but now stricken by cancer, Judi Bari, a leader of the movement to save California's old growth redwoods, gives her on-camera, deathbed testimony about the attempt on her life and her colorful organizing history with the radical environmental movement Earth First.
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Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were falsely arrested for car-bombing themselves on May 24, 1990 while on an Earth First! musical organizing tour for Redwood Summer. They sued the FBI for violations of the First Amendment, claiming the FBI knew they were innocent but arrested them to try to silence them. Having survived the bomb but now stricken by cancer, Judi Bari, a leader of the movement to save California's old growth redwoods, gives her on-camera, deathbed testimony about the attempt on her life and her colorful organizing history with the radical environmental movement Earth First.
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Genre:Documentary, Crime
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In Theaters:3/2/2012
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Runtime:95 minutes
Studio:Hokey Pokey Productions
Cast
Mary Liz Thomson
Director
Judi Bari
Self (archive footage)
Darryl Cherney
Self (archive footage)
J. Edgar Hoover
Self (archive footage)
Leonard Peltier
Self (archive footage)
Geronimo Pratt
Self (archive footage)
David Brower
Self - Founder, Earth Island Institute (archive footage)
Tom Hayden
Self - CA State Senate (archive footage)
Woody Harrelson
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bonnie Raitt
Self (archive footage)
Edward Abbey
Self - Author, The Monkey Wrench Diaries (archive footage)
Mike Roselle
Self - Co-Founder of Earth First! (archive footage)
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