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Judi Bari Bombing Case Updates Archive
(revised 6/13/05)
This is an archive of case update letters mailed out by Redwood Summer
Justice Project over the
years leading up to the trial in Bari vs. FBI. If you are unfamiliar with the case
and want a detailed view of the development of it, you might want to start
at the bottom of this index with with the earliest updates (written by Judi
herself) and work your way up.
Well...THIS IS IT!!!
At 8:30 am on April 8, 2002, about 50 people
summoned from all over Northern California will file into the Oakland federal
courtroom. A handful of them will become the jury that will hear and decide
the case of Judi Bari vs. the FBI, almost twelve years after Earth First!
organizers Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were car bombed in Oakland and then
falsely arrested by the FBI and Oakland Police. ...
Click here to see the whole letter
BariNews email list inaugurated
Historic
Trial Starts October 1 (postponed to April 8, 2002) - Read BariNews No. 1 (8/23/01)
July 2001 EF! Bombing Update Mailing
Earth First! letter to
supporters
As lead attorney Dennis Cunningham declared at the Oakland rally commemorating the 11th
anniversary of the bombing of Earth First! organizers Judi Bari and Darryl
Cherney, “It’s a good time to go to trial against the FBI!” Read
more ...
Bombing Case Update, Summer
2001
The trial in Earth
First!ers Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney’s civil rights lawsuit against the FBI
and Oakland Police (OPD) begins October 1, 2001. Here is an update of what
we’ve been doing on the legal front to get ready.
Why
Did the FBI Hold Back Evidence in Church Bombing Murders?
— NY Times OP-ED by former Alabama Attorney General Bill Baxley
"... For more than two decades, Mr. Blanton and
Mr. Cherry evaded indictment and prosecution because the FBI held back these
recordings. This was evidence we desperately needed in 1977 — evidence
whose existence FBI officials had denied. Had it been provided in 1977, we
could have convicted all three of these Klansmen."
Read more ...
May
2001 Letter
We’re going to trial with the FBI! October 1, 2001
is the date. And we’re working our buns off to get ready. The stress is
phenomenal. The deadlines are piling on top of us. The workload is
unbelievable — but we’re doing it. Expert witness statements, last rounds
of depositions, interrogatories and requests for admissions, even searching
for a new office space close to the Oakland courthouse — that’s the work
at hand. We’re also preparing a final "Motion for Justice" to
bring Special Agent-In-Charge Richard Held back into this case ... (continue)
December 2000 Mailing
Just ten short months from now, Bari vs. USA
will put the FBI on trial in federal court! This historic civil rights
case and our campaign for justice for Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney have just
shifted into overdrive, so your help and your support are now more
crucial than ever. Click on a link below to read the complete letter:
August 2000 Update
October 1, 2001 Trial Date Set,
report on Targets of Cointelpro event, lawsuit update
April
2000 letter
May 24th will mark the 10th anniversary of the car bomb assassination
attempt on Earth First! organizers Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney.
Many of you will remember the horror of that day when you first learned
that nonviolent activists -- people like yourselves -- had been bombed
while they organized protests against the cut-and-run logging of the last
of the redwood forest. Click here
to read the complete letter, including latest on status of lawsuit against
FBI. (posted 4/29/2000)
November
1999 letter
Great news for all of you who have supported
our eight-year fight for justice in the 1990 car bombing of Judi Bari and
Darryl Cherney! Court victories in the federal civil rights case,
upcoming hearing dates, our newly formed team of trial attorneys -- you
name it, we’ve got it! So please take a few minutes to read this
over now. This landmark case is about to take off like a rocket,
and we need you with us today more than ever. Click
here to read the complete letter. (posted
12/6/99)
August 1999 update mailing
August
1999 Letter
Since our last mailing to you, we learned of a spate of violent attacks
and attempted frame-ups of environmental activists around the country.
As we talked with the targeted activists, we couldn’t escape the feeling
that it was exactly this atmosphere of stepped-up violence, threats of
violence and law enforcement complicity that had led up to the carbomb
attack on Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney in 1990....
Click here for the complete letter as
a normal web page.
Click here for the complete letter as
an Adobe Acrobat PDF file for online viewing or printing out in original
format.
April 1998 update mailing
Letter
from RSJP - Apr. 1998 (posted 4/13/98)
Bombing Case Update,
Apr. 1998 (posted 4/13/98)
America's Secret Police - FBI COINTELPRO in the 1990s
(posted 4/13/98)
November 1997 update mailing
Letter from
RSJP, Nov. 1997 (posted November
24, 1997
Overview
of the Earth First! Bombing Case (posted
November 1997)
Bombing Case Update,
Nov 1997 (posted November 1997)
A Victory (of sorts) in the Courts, Exposing
the FBI, Pepper Spray Backlash -- The Disruption Continues (posted
November 1997)
Bombing Case Update, May
1997(posted 5/20/97)
Federal Suit Update, Judi's Deposition, FBI Lab Scandal, Berkeley
Tribute to Judi Bari
Bombing Case Update, Nov.
1996 by Judi Bari (last one written
by Judi before her death on March 2, 1997) (posted
3/14/99)
FBI Prior Knowledge, Arizona EF! File, Local Surveillance,
Missing Documents, Lingering Questions
Who Bombed Judi
Bari? RSJP's
November 1996 illustrated brochure by Judi Bari giving a brief overview of the case against the FBI
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