One Big Union (The Book)

One Big Union: Judi Bari's Vision of Green-Worker Alliances in Redwood Country details Judi Bari’s attempts to forge alliances between timber workers and environmentalists in Redwood Country of Northwestern California, and how her efforts coincided with an alliance between Earth First! and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).

Volume 1, From Roots to Earth First!-IWW Local #1 (1985-89) covers the early years of these struggles, including the herbicide spraying of loggers by the timber companies, the fights against Louisiana-Pacific's union busting, MAXXAM's takeover of Pacific Lumber, the eary actions of Earth First! in Humboldt and Mendocino Counties, How the IWW and Earth First! "met", Darryl Cherney's run for Congress, How Judi Bari brought the IWW back to timber country, the PCB spill in the Georgia-Pacific Mill in Fort Bragg, and much more!

Judi Bari (Activist and Organizer)

Judi Bari was an activist and organizer her entire adult life, beginning as a student activist at the University of Maryland in the early 1970s, later becoming a labor activist in the mid-to-late 1970s, and finally (after moving to northwestern California in the 1980s) becoming an environmental activist, where she joined in many campaigns to save old growth wilderness areas as well as fight for justice for timber workers.

There Bari worked to forge alliances between timber workers and environmentalists in opposition to corporate timber dominance, despite death threats and a bombing attempt on her life in 1990. The bombing case remains unsolved, but Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney successfully sued the FBI (and won their case in 2002). Bari continued her work until early 1997 when cancer claimed her life. The legacy of her efforts lives on today.

Steve Ongerth (Author and Editor)

Steve Ongerth has been a member of the IWW since 1995. He became involved with the IWW after reading Timber Wars and meeting Judi Bari who inspired him to join the storied One Big Union.

He has been a union activist since that time, having helped maintain the IWW website for over a decade and participating in numerous union organizing campaigns.

He also joined in the campaign to save Headwaters Forest from 1995-99. Since 1998 he has also worked as a deckhand (he just received his captain’s license) on the San Francisco Bay. This is his first book.

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