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Bonus: Interviewing Darryl Cherney
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About this podcast
On the morning of May 24th, 1990, a pipe bomb exploded in the car driven by Judi Bari, a leader in the radical environmental group, Earth First!. She was critically injured, but she survived. The case of who placed the bomb has never been solved. In fact, law enforcement barely investigated.
The bombing happened in the midst of a battle over the fate of the last remnants of the original Redwood forest in northernmost California. As timber companies looked to cut the remaining trees, Earth First! activists used whatever non-violent means they could to stop them. In a region reliant on timber for well over a century, threats and violence followed.
This season on Rip Current, the story of a woman who led a group of people willing to put their lives on the line to stop irreversible environmental damage, and the price that she paid.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 36 episodes
- Bonus: Interviewing Darryl Cherney · 32 min · Season 2Toby interviews Earth First! activist Darryl Cherney. Darryl was Judi Bari’s partner in activism and music and one-time boyfriend. He was in the passenger seat and sustained…
- Bonus: Judi's Trial with Josh Morsell · 37 min · Season 2Private investigator Josh Morsell worked as a paralegal during the civil trial in which Judi Bari’s estate and Darryl Cherney sued the FBI and Oakland Police Department for civil…
- Bonus: Examining the Redwoods with Lucy Kerhoulas · 32 min · Season 2Toby talks with Lucy Kerhoulas, a professor of Forest Ecophysiology at Humboldt Polytechnic Institute, about the redwood trees, their biology, the inspiration and wonder they…
- Bonus: 'City of Wood' with James Michael Buckley · 37 min · Season 2Toby talks with architectural historian James Michael Buckley about his book City of Wood: San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry which looks at how…
- S2 E11: Headwaters · 38 min · Season 2 Episode 11In the final episode of the season, Judi Bari’s story continues after her death from breast cancer in 1997. Her civil suit against the FBI and the Oakland Police Department is…
- S2 E10: The Usual Suspect · 37 min · Season 2 Episode 10**WARNING: This episode contains discussions about domestic violence and sexual assault. Listener discretion advised. While Judi Bari, Darryl Cherney and their supporters…
- S2 E9: COINTELPRO · 38 min · Season 2 Episode 9After the bombing of her car, Judi Bari came to believe that the attack had been carried out by a conspiracy between the FBI and elements of the timber industry. There are, in…
- S2 E8: The Lord's Avenger · 32 min · Season 2 Episode 8With Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney no longer considered suspects, the question becomes, "if not them, who?" With the FBI and the police losing interest in the case, two…
- S2 E7: It's Hard to Say Who the Victim Is · 31 min · Season 2 Episode 7On May 24th, 1990, Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney are driving through Oakland when a pipe bomb detonates in their car. Judi is nearly killed. From the very beginning of the…
- S2 E6: Threats · 28 min · Season 2 Episode 6When Earth First! and Judi Bari plan a huge, months-long protest call "Redwood Summer," the reaction from the timber industry is fierce. Judi and other organizers are subjected…
- S2 E5: Spotted Owl Week · 32 min · Season 2 Episode 5A federal agency comes to the Pacific Northwest to hold hearings that could severely limit logging of redwoods. With the Ecotopia in the center of media attention, both Earth…
- S2 E4: Monkeywrench · 36 min · Season 2 Episode 4Earth First! was founded in the 1981 by four men who were willing to take an "by any means necessary" approach to saving the planet. By the time Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney…
- S2 E3: Scotia · 31 min · Season 2 Episode 3By the 1980s, about 95% of the redwood forest in California is gone, the result of 150 years of timber cutting. In 1985, a Texas businessman named Charles Hurwitz buys Pacific…
- S2 E2: Arrival · 27 min · Season 2 Episode 2With a history of activism and labor organizing under her belt, Judi Bari moves to the Redwood Empire region of California in 1988. She arrives at a time of transition for the…
- S2 E1: Ecotopia · 30 min · Season 2 Episode 1On May 24, 1990, a pipe bomb detonated in the white Subaru driven by radical environmental activist Judi Bari. The bomb malfunctioned and Bari, though critically injured…
- Rip Current Returns - Season 2 Trailer · 3 min · Season 2An all new season, an all new case. Rip Current returns. This time, examining the peculiar assassination attempt on environmental activist Judi Bari. The first episode drops on…
- Bonus: The Symbionese Liberation Army · 27 min · Season 1A further examination of the brief, violent existence of the SLA. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- Bonus: Prison Radicalism - Part 2 with Brittany Friedman · 42 min · Season 1We chat with Author and Sociologist Brittany Friedman about prison activism movements from the 50s through the 70s. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- Bonus: Prison Radicalism - Part 1 with Dan Berger · 33 min · Season 1We talk with Historian Dan Berger about activism in California prisons in the 1960s and 70s. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- Bonus: Life in Charles Manson's Cult · 40 min · Season 1An interview with Dianne Lake and Deborah Herman about Dianne's life in the Manson Family, which she joined at age 14. Deborah and Dianne co-wrote the book, Member of the Family…
