The Forest for the Trees: Judi Bari vs. the FBI

Tonight we present two very different portraits of activism that detail visionary citizens' efforts to preserve the natural world. The Forest for the Trees documents Earth First! organizer Judi Bari's case against the FBI and Oakland police. Following her passionate and effective efforts to create alliances between environmental activists and loggers and mill workers, in 1990, the car she was driving in Oakland was bombed, and within hours she was accused of transporting the explosives and labeled a terrorist. The filmmaker's father was one of Bari's lawyers, giving inside access to the intricacies of the legal battle, which continued to be waged in Oakland courtrooms after Bari's death from cancer in 1997.

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