00:00:01
Speaker 1: I knew it was a bomb the second that it exploded.
00:00:04
Speaker 2: I felt it ripped through me with just a force more powerful and terrible than anything that I could describe.
00:00:12
Speaker 1: May twenty fourth, nineteen ninety a pipe bomb explodes in the front seat of environmental activists Judy Barry's car.
00:00:22
Speaker 3: The men and women who were heard had planned to lead a summer of militant protest against logging practices in northern California.
00:00:29
Speaker 1: Within twenty four hours, Barry and her organizing partner were not only the victims but also the prime suspects.
00:00:37
Speaker 3: IMiD outrage and denials from the environmentalist group Earth First, forty year old Judy Berry and thirty three year old Darryl Churney have been charged with possessing and transporting and explosive device.
00:00:49
Speaker 1: In season two of Rip Current, we ask who tried to kill Judy Barry.
00:00:55
Speaker 4: The level of Fritz. They were becoming more specific and seemingly targeting her especially.
00:01:03
Speaker 1: She received death threats before the bombing, she received more threats after the bombing.
00:01:08
Speaker 2: She just drew that kind of animosity and why she came from a family of communists and anarchists and she was a leftist.
00:01:18
Speaker 4: They were climbing trees, and they were sabotage logging equipment in the woods.
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Speaker 1: Judy Berry was the most visible face of the movement against the clear cutting of northern California's redwood forests. She was a charismatic, high energy.
00:01:32
Speaker 4: Speaker, but terribly bright, savvy, and I even since then tough woman.
00:01:38
Speaker 1: And the environmental movement was challenging the entire identity of the North Coast, the timber industry. I mean it was the number one industry in the area, but more than it was the culture, it was the way of life. Was Judy Berry so dangerous to corporate timber interests that they, along with the FBI, conspired against her and Earth First?
00:01:58
Speaker 4: Those First is the only act of green group around The others are debating societies. I talked about how we were going to face this. I said, some of us were going to do hard time, some of us were going to die.
00:02:11
Speaker 1: This is the story of people who risk life and limb to stop irreversible environmental damage.
00:02:19
Speaker 3: It's time for a.
00:02:20
Speaker 1: Warrior society to rise up out of the earth and hurt ourselves in front of the juggernaut of destruction.
00:02:28
Speaker 3: The system does not respond to us when we politely ask them, do they hear us when we take that kind of action?
00:02:34
Speaker 1: This is for us, Great Brook and how an attack on one woman turned into a proxy war over the legacy of an entire movement.
00:02:43
Speaker 2: I think this is a deliberate attempt to sabotage our movement.
00:02:47
Speaker 1: Listen to season two of RIP Current November fifth, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.
Speaker 1: I knew it was a bomb the second that it exploded.
00:00:04
Speaker 2: I felt it ripped through me with just a force more powerful and terrible than anything that I could describe.
00:00:12
Speaker 1: May twenty fourth, nineteen ninety a pipe bomb explodes in the front seat of environmental activists Judy Barry's car.
00:00:22
Speaker 3: The men and women who were heard had planned to lead a summer of militant protest against logging practices in northern California.
00:00:29
Speaker 1: Within twenty four hours, Barry and her organizing partner were not only the victims but also the prime suspects.
00:00:37
Speaker 3: IMiD outrage and denials from the environmentalist group Earth First, forty year old Judy Berry and thirty three year old Darryl Churney have been charged with possessing and transporting and explosive device.
00:00:49
Speaker 1: In season two of Rip Current, we ask who tried to kill Judy Barry.
00:00:55
Speaker 4: The level of Fritz. They were becoming more specific and seemingly targeting her especially.
00:01:03
Speaker 1: She received death threats before the bombing, she received more threats after the bombing.
00:01:08
Speaker 2: She just drew that kind of animosity and why she came from a family of communists and anarchists and she was a leftist.
00:01:18
Speaker 4: They were climbing trees, and they were sabotage logging equipment in the woods.
00:01:23
Speaker 1: Judy Berry was the most visible face of the movement against the clear cutting of northern California's redwood forests. She was a charismatic, high energy.
00:01:32
Speaker 4: Speaker, but terribly bright, savvy, and I even since then tough woman.
00:01:38
Speaker 1: And the environmental movement was challenging the entire identity of the North Coast, the timber industry. I mean it was the number one industry in the area, but more than it was the culture, it was the way of life. Was Judy Berry so dangerous to corporate timber interests that they, along with the FBI, conspired against her and Earth First?
00:01:58
Speaker 4: Those First is the only act of green group around The others are debating societies. I talked about how we were going to face this. I said, some of us were going to do hard time, some of us were going to die.
00:02:11
Speaker 1: This is the story of people who risk life and limb to stop irreversible environmental damage.
00:02:19
Speaker 3: It's time for a.
00:02:20
Speaker 1: Warrior society to rise up out of the earth and hurt ourselves in front of the juggernaut of destruction.
00:02:28
Speaker 3: The system does not respond to us when we politely ask them, do they hear us when we take that kind of action?
00:02:34
Speaker 1: This is for us, Great Brook and how an attack on one woman turned into a proxy war over the legacy of an entire movement.
00:02:43
Speaker 2: I think this is a deliberate attempt to sabotage our movement.
00:02:47
Speaker 1: Listen to season two of RIP Current November fifth, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.
