Judi Bari, Nicolas Lampert
The two-color offset printed poster, 11" x 17" (unsigned, unlimited edition) is available from the website of Justseeds/Visual Resistance Artists’ Cooperative, a decentralized community of artists who believe in the power of personal expression in concert with collective action to transform society. www.justseeds.org

Environmental and Labor
Activist Judi Bari

Judi Bari was a groundbreaking environmental and labor activist who brought together loggers and tree protectors. Her activities were threatening to logging and paper companies, and on May 24, 1990, she was seriously injured by a pipe bomb that exploded under her car seat.

According to Wikipedia, “Bari had received numerous death threats from timber industry supporters in the weeks before the bombing. She had reported them to local police, and after the bombing Bari’s attorney turned written threats over to the FBI for investigation. A year later, Bari and Cherney filed a federal civil rights suit claiming that the FBI and police officers attempted to frame them and to falsely paint them as violent terrorists.

In 2002, a jury in their federal civil lawsuit exonerated Bari and Cherney by ordering four FBI agents and three Oakland Police officers to pay a total of $4.4 million to Cherney and to Bari’s estate for violation of their First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and for false arrest and unlawful search and seizure.”

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