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Who Bombed Judi Bari? chronicles a great, unsolved mystery: the attempted assassination, on May 24, 1990, of the most prominent environmental organizers of her day, Judi Bari. Bari and her eco-cohort, Darryl Cherney, were car-bombed in Oakland while on a musical organizing tour for three months of demonstrations called Redwood Summer. The feisty Bari was galvanizing thousands to camp out and protest the clearcutting of the giant trees. Despite receiving dozens of death threats, Bari and Cherney were arrested by the FBI and Oakland Police- for bombing themselves. The pair went on to sue the authorities for civil rights violations, winning $4 million, though not before Bari died of cancer seven years after surviving the crippling bombing.

Who Bombed Judi Bari? is narrated by Bari herself, on camera, as she told her life story through her deathbed testimony. Cherney produced the film, and Mary Liz Thompson directed. Who Bombed Judi Bari? opens November 16 at the Quad Cinema in New York City, and December 7 at the NoHo7 in Los Angeles.