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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Judith Beatrice Bari (1949–1997) was an American environmentalist, feminist, and labor leader. She was the principal organizer of Earth First! campaigns against logging in the ancient redwood forests of Northern California in the 1980s and 1990s. She also organized efforts through Earth First! – Industrial Workers of the World Local 1 to bring timber workers and environmentalists together in common cause.

American - Environmentalist | November 7, 1949 - March 2, 1997

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For it is the working people who have their hands on the machinery. And only by stopping the machinery of destruction can we ever hope to stop this madness.

Judi Bari

Starting from the very reasonable, but unfortunately revolutionary concept that social practices which threaten the continuation of life on Earth must be changed, we need a theory of revolutionary ecology that will encompass social and biological issues, class struggle, and a recognition of the role of global corporate capitalism in the oppression of peoples and the destruction of nature.

Judi Bari

I think if we don't overthrow capitalism, we don't have a chance of saving the world ecologically. I think it is possible to have an ecologically sound society under socialism. I don't think it is possible under capitalism.

Judi Bari

You cannot seriously address the destruction of wilderness without addressing the society that is destroying it.

Judi Bari

If we don't overthrow capitalism, we don't have a chance of saving the world ecologically.

Judi Bari