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A longtime resident of Berkeley, Coleman is a seasoned investigative reporter who has written about the Black Panther Party, the counterculture and California politics for a number of publications, including Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, Salon, and Mother Jones. She turns her focus to Judi Bari (1949-1997), a 1960s Vietnam protester who went on to become an active militant feminist, environmentalist and leader of the radical eco-organization, Earth First! until her death in 1997 from cancer. Based on interviews with Bari's friends, comrades, and critics, Coleman traces Bari's evolution "from college activist to would-be Mother Jones of the Redwoods," providing an inside look at both Bari and the back-to-nature counterculture of Northern California.
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For Larry Lee, whose memory still inspires me.
CONTENTS Chapter One
1
Chapter Two
15
Chapter Three
27
Chapter Four
33
Chapter Five
47
Chapter Six
59
Chapter Seven
77
Chapter Eight
95
Chapter Nine
113
Chapter Ten
127
Chapter Eleven
133
Chapter Twelve
143
Chapter Thirteen
151
Chapter Fourteen
161
Chapter Fifteen
177
Chapter Sixteen
187
Chapter Seventeen
205
Epilogue
219
Notes
233
Index
249
ONE TOWARD THE END OF 1989, an idea began percolating in the brain of one of those bushy-chinned visionaries who populate the North Coast of California: to raise a People’s Army to save the noble redwoods from the lumber companies’ rapacious logging. This visionary’s name—like most names of those in his tribe who had escaped the urban jungles for the redwood forests—