The Edward Abbey Abbey's Web tribute web site-- Meet Edward Paul Abbey, twentieth-century polemicist and desert anarchist, a character of
elaborate contradictions and eccentricities whose words either infuriated or delighted his readers.
In a career spanning four decades, he wrote passionately in defense of the Southwest and its inhabitants, often
mocking the mindless bureaucratic forces hell-bent on destroying it. "Resist much, obey little," from Walt Withman,
was this warrior's motto.
While he was alive, attempts to label him in conventional terms nearly always fell short because he was neither
left-wing nor right-wing, nor was he an outlaw.Abbey was a genuine rebel who simply did not believe in the moderns industrial way of life. He wrote against the grain, always choosing the path of the greatest resistance. Beginning in the 1950s, he depicted the Southwest not as a virgin utopia peopled by rugged individualists, but as a region under siege because of government and corporate greed, its people at risk of being cut off from the primary wellspring of their spiritual strength - the wild places. He's been dead for a while now, but the legend keeps on growing. -- from Epitaph for a Desert Anarchist
Judi Bari Official Home Page--Here you'll find information about Judi Bari, radical environmental and social justice leader who fought for the preservation of ancient redwood forests and an end to the rapid liquidation of second-growth forests by giant timber corporations in the Northern California redwood region where she lived. Judi died March 2, 1997, of breast cancer.
She barely survived a murder attempt when a powerful motion-triggered pipe bomb hidden under the driver's seat of her car exploded in Oakland, California, on May 24, 1990. The bombers remain at large today because, as overwhelming evidence filed with the court now shows, the FBI and Oakland Police:
Judi Bari and fellow Earth First! organizer Darryl Cherney, who was with her when the bomb exploded, filed a federal civil rights suit against the FBI and Oakland Police for violating their constitutional rights by false arrest, unlawful search and seizure, and conspiracy, and by allowing the real assassins to go free.
Bari's estate and Cherney will go forward with the suit, which has withstood repeated defense attempts to dismiss it since it was filed in May, 1991. Judi founded the nonprofit Redwood Justice Fund and its Redwood Summer Justice Project in 1991 to support and help fund the lawsuit. The RSJP has set up this web site to provide information about Judi and the lawsuit.
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Last updated December 31, 1998