| Takes the reader inside the often bizarre world of the Earth First! Movement and the back to nature counterculture of California's North Coast.
Kate Coleman traces Judi Bari's rise from college activist to would-be Mother Jones of the Redwoods. Drawing on extensive interviews with Bari's friends and comrades as well as critics, Coleman describes her struggle for selfhood against her husband, against those in her movement who felt that she was not radical enough, and ultimately against the FBI and the State of California. Judi Bari's wars continued until her death from cancer seven years after the explosion that changed her life permanently. THE SECRET WARS OF JUDI BARI takes us inside the often bizarre world of the Earth First! movement and the back-to-nature counterculture of California's North Coast. The result is an irresistible combination of biography and social history.
About the Author
Kate Coleman is a veteran investigative reporter who has covered the Black Panther Party, the counterculture and California politics for "Newsweek," the "Los Angeles Times," "Salon," "Mother Jones" and other publications. She is a longtime resident of Berkeley, California. |
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