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Bari v FBI - Environmental Leaders Stand Behind Legal Challenge to FBI Civil Rights Violat
The speakers will voice support for the plaintiffs in the current lawsuit and discuss the larger implications for civil rights in America....
Posted: Wed, May 1, 2002 5:17pm PDT
Bari v FBI - Tony Serra to Question FBI Terror Squad Chief Reikes Wednesday
OAKLAND, CA – On Wednesday, May 1, noted San Francisco attorney Tony Serra will examine Special Agent John Reikes, the head of the FBI terrorist division in 1990, known as Squad 13....
Posted: Tue, Apr 30, 2002 7:52pm PDT
Save The Brisbane Acres!
Mountain Watch's mission is to preserve and protect San Bruno Mountain's native American village sites and endangered habitats from further destruction by invasive non-native plants and urban sprawl. We educate the public, including groups of school children, and we watchdog government agencies....
Posted: Tue, Apr 30, 2002 1:22pm PDT
Bari v. FBI - Most Memorable Quotes (thus far) 4/29/02
OAKLAND, CA-In the ongoing civil rights trial of Earth First! organizers Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney against the FBI and Oakland Police Dept., several great one-liners have emerged during testimony that deserve to be shared widely....
Posted: Mon, Apr 29, 2002 5:42pm PDT
4-24-02 - North Coast Earth First! Refutes “Eco-terrorist” Label
Eureka, California – In light of recent statements made by Pacific Lumber management to the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors, North Coast Earth First! activists are expressing outrage at being labeled “eco-terrorists”. Activists feel that such accusations are being raised as an attempt to obscure the actual harm that MAXXAM/Pacific Lumber is causing to the forests, watersheds and communities of California’s North Coast....
Posted: Fri, Apr 26, 2002 1:51pm PDT
Bari v. FBI - Cherney Returns to the Scene of the Car-Bombing to Speak to Oakland
OAKLAND, CA—Earth First! organizer Darryl Cherney plans to address students
in several classes at Oakland High School (Park and MacArthur) Friday
morning, April 26, about civil rights and the car-bomb attack on him and
fellow activist Judi Bari....
Posted: Fri, Apr 26, 2002 1:44pm PDT
Bari v FBI - April 25, 2002
Thursday Media Conference on Week’s Highlights:
* FBI Bomb School and “The Final Exam”
* Doyle Admits: “No Evidence of Damage” on Car’s Back Seat
* Sena “Not All That Interested” in Investigating Tips...
Posted: Thu, Apr 25, 2002 9:21am PDT
FBI on Trial: Opening Arguments (from April 9)
A ragtag yet highly-experienced veteran legal team has come together to represent the Earth First! side of the Bari v. FBI trial, including DENNIS CUNNINGHAM (lead counsel), a San Francisco civil rights and criminal defense attorney on the case since January 1992, TONY SERRA, a San Francisco criminal defense attorney who has conducted thousands of jury trials in Bay Area courts, and ROBERT BLOOM, a Berkeley criminal defense attorney who joined the case in 1993. Peruse Dennis Cunningham's ope...
Posted: Thu, Apr 25, 2002 1:56am PDT
Bari v. FBI: Judi's Daughter Lisa & Folk Singer Utah Phillips to Testify in Court Today
Bari's Daughter Lisa & Famed Folk Singer Utah Phillips to Testify in Court Today; Oakland Police Defense Turns on FBI....
Posted: Wed, Apr 24, 2002 12:37pm PDT
PalCo Calls Homeland Security in Humboldt
Pacific Lumber Company announced in a press conference today that it had requested assistance from the Office of Homeland Security in regards to forest defenders...more soon....
Posted: Tue, Apr 23, 2002 11:44pm PDT
A18 Release - FBI on the stand
Oakland, CA -- Today FBI bomb experts and Special Agents Frank Doyle (lead defendant) and David Williams took the witness stand in the historic lawsuit "Bari vs. FBI," which accuses six FBI agents and three Oakland police of trying to frame two Earth First! activists....
Posted: Sat, Apr 20, 2002 1:53am PDT
Summer Skill-Share in Humboldt
Announcing a Skill-Share in Southern Humboldt County oriented towards; non-violent civil disobedience and direct action both in the backwoods and elsewhere....
Posted: Thu, Apr 18, 2002 4:10pm PDT
Judi Bari's bombed car to be shown
Judi Bari’s station wagon with a blast hole under the driver’s seat is scheduled to be displayed to the jury tomorrow, Wednesday April 17, and to members of the media after court, at 2:00 pm. Also on display, for comparison, will be an intact model of the 1981 Subaru four-wheel drive GL station wagon. The cars will be displayed in the Ampco parking lot at 15th and Jefferson....
Posted: Tue, Apr 16, 2002 8:54am PDT
Defendant Sitterud Testifies No Evidence for Arrests Except Hearsay
Oakland, CA - On the stand today, defendant, Oakland Police Department Sgt. Michael Sitterud's testimony was riddled with contradictions, improbable surprises, and lapses of memory regarding critical facts....
Posted: Mon, Apr 15, 2002 5:27pm PDT
Tragedy at Eagle Creek
Beth O'Brien, forest defender at Eagle Creek, near Portland, Oregon, has died after falling from a rope ladder between treesitting platforms. She was not wearing her saftety harness. She was 22....
Posted: Sat, Apr 13, 2002 5:21pm PDT
Bari Vs. FBI week 1 wrap-up
First Week's Testimony Establishes Immediate Arrest and Sweep of "Suspects"; FBI Blames Bumbling Bari Bomb Investigation on Saddam Hussein!...
Posted: Fri, Apr 12, 2002 10:49am PDT