In l990, a car bomb in Oakland almost killed radical Earth First leader, Judi Bari, and injured her passenger, a co-leader and one time lover, Darryl Cherney. The FBI accused the pair of transporting the explosive device knowingly as part of a violent campaign of 'ecotage'. A legendary figure among Northern California activists, Judi Bari was a veteran of the Vietnam protests of the 1960s who moved to militant feminism and environmentalism after the war ended. By the mid-1980s, she was involved in the radical eco-organisation Earth First and leading the fight against the timber companies on...