Chapter 29 : Swimmin’ Cross the Rio Grande
By Steve Ongerth - From the book, Redwood Uprising: Book 1Download a free PDF version of this chapter.Corporate Timber’s strategy for defeating popular resistance on the North Coast, whether union...
View ArticleChapter 30 : She Called for Redwood Summer
By Steve Ongerth - From the book, Redwood Uprising: Book 1Download a free PDF version of this chapter.Now Judi Bari is a feminist organizer,Ain’t no man gonna keep that woman down,She defended the...
View ArticleChapter 31 : Spike a Tree for Jesus
By Steve Ongerth - From the book, Redwood Uprising: Book 1Download a free PDF version of this chapter.In spite of all of the Corporate Media’s claims that both Redwood Summer and Forests Forever could...
View ArticleChapter 32 : Now They Have These Public Hearings…
By Steve Ongerth - From the book, Redwood Uprising: Book 1Download a free PDF version of this chapter.Now back in Sacramento town sits the Board of Forestry, And they log their land, they work their...
View ArticleChapter 33 : The Ghosts of Mississippi Will be Watchin’
By Steve Ongerth - From the book, Redwood Uprising: Book 1Download a free PDF version of this chapter.Now when the timber barons heard the news they geared up for the fight, And we laughed away the...
View ArticleChapter 34 : We’ll Have an Earth Night Action
By Steve Ongerth - From the book, Redwood Uprising: Book 1Download a free PDF version of this chapter.Now Earth Day 1990 was Dennis Hayes’ vision, But instead of bringing us together it only caused...
View ArticleChapter 35 : “You Brought it On Yourself, Judi”
By Steve Ongerth - From the book, Redwood Uprising: Book 1Download a free PDF version of this chapter.“A lot of social movements get called terrorism. It dehumanizes (them). People have tried working...
View ArticleChapter 36 : A Pipe Bomb Went Rippin’ Through Her Womb
By Steve Ongerth - From the book, Redwood Uprising: Book 1Download a free PDF version of this chapter.“I knew it was a bomb the second it exploded. I felt it rip through me with a force more powerful...
View ArticleChapter 37 : Who Bombed Judi Bari?
By Steve Ongerth - From the book, Redwood Uprising: Book 1Download a free PDF version of this chapter.Now Judi Bari is the mother of two children, A pipe bomb went ripping through her womb, She cries...
View ArticleChapter 38 : Conclusion
In spite of the bombing, Bari had lived, which was a huge miracle by itself, and it is clear that whomever planted the bomb in her vehicle had not intended for her to have done so. The bomber had also...
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