Likely to become a classic, Greg King’s first solo book The Ghost Forest is aptly titled — a must-read that deftly chronicles how 96 percent of California’s old growth redwood forests fell to the saw. The award-winning journalist begins his complex, multi-generational narrative with his own entry into environmental activism. In 1986, while researching logging […]
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Who Bombed Judi Bari? 25 Years Later, We May Find an Answer
Twenty-five years after a bomb exploded on an Oakland freeway, shocking the environmental community, the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office is mulling launching a criminal investigation. Capt. Gregory Van Patten said police have received some “new information” related to the May 24, 1990 bombing of Earth First activists Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney, and are reviewing […]
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Shunka Moves On
Jason Wilson — aka Shunka Wakan — is hanging up his monkey wrench and hammer. Or, his website, anyway. Said the long-time, heart-on-his-sleeve, softspoken Earth First! activist in his e-mailed newsletter this week: This will be the final e-mail from North Coast Earth First! Media. After 13 years of activism, under the banner of “North […]