Judi Bari was active at the University of Maryland during the early 1970’s.

She was also a union organizer and worked on the Washington Area Spark underground newspaper. After moving to Northern California, she became a leader of the Save the Redwoods movement. In 1990 she was seriously injured when someone planted a bomb under the driver’s seat of her car. She died in 1997 of breast cancer.You may read more about Judi at www.judibari.org

Original Comment

• Judi once told her eco-pals in California that at the University of Maryland she had “majored in anti-Vietnam War rioting.”
  
  Well, having run with Judi in the Molly McGuires Affinity Group during the UM demonstrations, I can’t argue with that. She was exactly the kind of person you wanted next to you in a tight spot.
  
  But I think what Judi really learned during her Maryland years was how to organize. She was a helluva a reproductive rights, labor and environmental organizer not only because she was smart and brave, but because her enthusiasm came from somewhere so deep inside her that nothing but death could extinguish it.
  
  After the bomb exploded under her car seat in 1990 someone pointed out that it had failed to silence her. She told them, “Well, they bombed the wrong end of me.”
  
  This is going to sound terribly cliched, but Judi really did have a smile that could “light up a room”. When that light went out, humanity lost one of its finest citizens. — Anonymous