Biography
             Known as the Redwood Warrior, Judi Bari played a significant role in the conservation of the Redwood Forest in Northern California."Three thousand people from all over the country came to Redwood Summer [in 1990] and chained themselves to logging equipment, hugged trees, blocked logging roads and marched through timber towns"(Breton Page 31). This was the everyday of Judi Bari from the moment she entered college till the moment that her life ended.
             Born in Baltimore Maryland in 1949, Judi Bari was a woman with passion for everything that she believed in. She started her activism at the University of Maryland where she was enrolled as a student who really did nothing with her studies but concentrated more on anti-Vietnam War rioting. With this she dropped out of the University and became a blue collar worker by being a commercial carpenter. While she was working, she also would organize unions and lead strikes and by doing this she learned many valuable things that proved to help her greatly in later life.
             After she made the move to Northern California, she began her career in activism by helping mill workers fight their employers to get better working conditions. She also taught many workers how to file complaints and form unions when previous ones had failed. As she was doing this, she discovered an activist group and became a member of Earth First! She found out that this was an environmentalist group who was working on a campaign to stop the logging of Redwoods in the Headwaters Forest. She decided to jump aboard and help organize some of the demonstrations against the logging company. Up till Judi stepped in, some of the activist would go to harmful extremes to stop the logging. Judi opposed any harmful or violent demonstrations. She once wrote a letter to the fellow members of Earth First! about the violent practices saying,
             "The reason that Eart...