Tomorrow is the 35th anniversary of the bombing of Earth First!ers Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney.

To commemorate we're reposting our interview from last year with Earth First!'s Karen Pickett.

Here's the blurb from last year's episode:

On May 24, 1990, a car bomb ripped through environmental and labor organizer Judi Bari's car nearly killing her and her comrade Darryl Cherney. Bari and Cherney were part of Earth First's Headwaters campaign and had fought long and hard to stop clear-cutting redwood forests in Northern California by ravenous timber companies. They were organizing a campaign that summer called "Redwood Summer" that had planned to do mass action against logging. The F.B.I. and the Oakland police immediately arrested Bari and Cherney as the culprits in their own bombing. Judi Bari passed away from cancer in 1997. In 2002, Bari (posthumously) and Cherney won a $4.4 million lawsuit against the F.B.I. and the Oakland PD for violating their civil rights. May 24 is now an official holiday in the city of Oakland. In our latest episode, we talk with Earth First! organizer Karen Pickett (@KP4redwoods), a close friend and comrade of Bari and Cherney, about Earth First!, the Northern California timber wars, Judi Bari's role as environmental and labor organizer, the bombing and the subsequent lawsuit. Bio//Karen Pickett has been a grassroots activist for over 40 years. She is a founder and Director of the Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters, Biocentric Media Inc. and other organizations. She has been part of Earth First! for decades.

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Outro- "The FBI Stole My Fiddle" by Judi Bari and Darryl CherneyLinks//+The Judi Bari Website: http://www.judibari.org/+Zinn Education Project: Judi Bari’s Car Bombed (https://bit.ly/3yDJ2RS)Follow Green and Red//+G&R Linktree: ⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast⁠⁠⁠+Our rad website: ⁠⁠⁠https://greenandredpodcast.org/⁠⁠⁠+We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.laborradionetwork.org/⁠⁠+ Join our Discord community (https://discord.gg/yYsmTEkd)Support the Green and Red Podcast//+Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast +Or make a one time donation here: ⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/DonateGandR⁠⁠⁠This is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969).

The Stop Cop City campaign saw an evolution in protest and direct action. It brought together movements that spanned issues, political philosophies, strategic approaches and tactics. The state responded with unbridled violence (killing one forest defender) and harsh legal repression (charging 61 others with "domestic terrorism"). It saw coalitions of black led community groups, big environmental groups and anti-authoritarian direct action loosely join together to resist the state.

In our latest, which is a part one of two, Scott talks with Prof. Joseph Brown about the future of protest after the Stop Cop City moment.

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Joseph M. Brown (@josephmbrown.bsky.social) is an associate professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Author of “Stop Cop City!—Understanding the Strategic Choices of Protest Movements” in “Terrorism and Political Violence.” His work focuses on political conflict, including protest, state repression, and terrorism. His first book, “Force of Words: The Logic of Terrorist Threats” and his second book will be on environmental activism, particularly the use of direct action tactics.

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In our latest, Scott talks with Fable who's 70 feet above the earth in a tree blocking the logging of a legacy forest in the Elwha Watershed in western Washington. They discuss the campaign to pressure WA Public Lands Commissioner Dave Upthegrove to stop clearcutting this area.Bio// Fable is a tree-sitter in Cascadia. —————Outro- "Green and Red Blues" by MoodyLinks//+ Forest Defenders Blockade Against Clearcutting of Endangered Legacy Forest in the Elwha Watershed (https://bit.ly/43iOnKo)+ Activist climbs tree near Port Angeles to block cut of older WA forest (https://bit.ly/4miAnJ7)Follow Green and Red// +G&R Linktree: ⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast⁠⁠⁠ +Our rad website: ⁠⁠⁠https://greenandredpodcast.org/⁠⁠⁠ + Join our Discord community (https://discord.gg/3a6AX7Qy)+Follow us on Substack (https://greenandredpodcast.substack.com)+Follow us on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/podcastgreenred.bsky.social)Support the Green and Red Podcast// +Become a Patron at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast +Or make a one time donation here: ⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/DonateGandR⁠⁠⁠ Our Networks// +We're part of the Labor Podcast Network: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.laborradionetwork.org/⁠⁠ +We're part of the Anti-Capitalist Podcast Network: linktr.ee/anticapitalistpodcastnetwork +Listen to us on WAMF (90.3 FM) in New Orleans (https://wamf.org/) + Check us out! We made it into the top 100 Progressive Podcasts lists (#68) (https://bit.ly/432XNJT) This is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). Edited by Scott.