On this day, 7 November 1949, revolutionary carpenter, postal worker and environmental activist martyr Judi Bari was born. A member of both the radical Industrial Workers of the World union and eco-direct action group Earth First! she was key in building links between activists protecting ancient redwood trees and logging workers whose livelihoods were under threat from unsustainable logging. After receiving death threats and being rammed by a logging truck, she was blown up by a car bomb. The FBI then tried to claim she had bombed herself. The attack left her disabled and in constant pain until her early death from cancer a few years later, although she continued the struggle until her final days.
Learn more about women in the early IWW in episode 16 of our podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/12/02/e16-women-in-the-early-iww/https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/2129088903942915/?type=3
