Andy Caffrey's Redwood Summer Road Show, UC Berkeley 6/90

This was in the second week of June, about three weeks after Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were car-bombed on May 24, 1990 and a week before the first Redwood Summer action.

As I remember, Darryl called me up at the last minute and asked me to sub for Judi at a Redwood Summer engagement previously set up.

Dawn & Ophidia played music and I showed video of Judi's first interview after the bombing and the last video I shot of her and Darryl before the bombing which was at the E-Law conference on March 3, 1990 in Eugene Oregon. Also shown (and explained by me) is the notorious intro to the 60 Minutes segment in which Darryl said he would strap dynamite around himself and blow up the Glen Canyon Damn if he had a fatal disease.

So this turned out to be the first show or pre-show of my 10,000-mile official Redwood Summer Road Show and 35 more shows on into October. Actually, it was my first Earth First! road show presentation of any kind.

I cover a lot of historic Earth First! turf and I don't make too many mis-statements. I talk about much that I have long since forgotten, so it has a lot of historical value. Sadly, I was wrong about the longterm impact of the bombing on Judi, who died seven years later from breast cancer metastasizing into her liver.

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[SherryGlaserLove]

nice to see the faces. thanks so much Andy