TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lerner,Betsy
TI  - The Forest for the Trees
SN  - 157322152X
U1  - 805.02 22
PY  - 2000///
CY  - New York
PB  - Riverhead Books
KW  - Green movement
KW  - History
KW  - Environmental justice
KW  - Environmental policy
KW  - Environmentalism
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Discrimination in criminal justice administration
KW  - Environmentalists
KW  - Forest conservation
KW  - Citizen participation
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Director, Bernadine Mellis ; Executive producers, Judith Helfand and Julia Parker Benello ; Editor, Susan Korda ; Music, Jodi Berggren; Narrated by Bernadine Mellis; Grades 10-12, College, Adult
N2  - "On May 29, 1990, Earth First! organizer Judi Bari's car was bombed in Oakland, California.  Within three hours of the bombing, Bari was accused of transporting the explosives that had nearly killed her.  Still in the hospital, she was arrested, and soon labeled a terrorist in the national media.  The charges were later dropped.  For the next twelve years, Bari and civil rights lawyer Dennis Cunningham would pursue a federal civil rights suit against the FBI and the Oakland police department.  The Forest for the Trees, directed by Cunningham's daughter, is an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at Bari's fight, an important instance of the false and damaging association of dissent with crime and terrorism.  At the heart of the film is Bari, a folk hero with an electrifying onscreen presence, and the legal battle that few believed she could win" -- From cover
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