JUDI BARI

This website is dedicated to Judi Bari. Judi was a renowned environmental, labor and social justice leader. She organized nonviolent protests against destructive corporate logging of the redwood forests. She died of breast cancer on March 2, 1997... Judi Bari, a charismatic environmental and social justice leader from California's redwood region, survived a 1990 car-bomb attack, but the FBI tried to demonize Earth First! by framing her for it, a federal jury found in 2002; she died of breast cancer 3/2/97... The first grant will be awarded in May, 2007. We are currently soliciting nominations from environmental groups and organizations throughout the North Coast. Nominees should be individuals who embody the qualities we so admired in Judi, and will be evaluated based on the presence of those qualities, as well as financial need.

Primary location: Santa Rosa United States