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The forest for the trees / Bullfrog Films presents ; Chicken & Egg Pictures presents a Redbird Films production ; produced, directed & photographed by Bernadine Mellis.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bari, Judi.
- Cunningham, Dennis.
- Cunningham, Dennis, 1939-.
- Earth First! (Organization).
- Women environmentalists--California--Biography.
- Women environmentalists.
- Environmental justice--United States.
- Environmental justice.
- Forest conservation.
- Political participation.
- Green movement.
- Environmentalists.
- Environmentalism--Political aspects.
- Environmentalism.
- United States.
- Environmentalism--Political aspects--United States.
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States.
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
- Environmentalists--California--Biography.
- Green movement--California--Citizen participation.
- Forest conservation--California, Northern--Citizen participation.
- Northern California.
- California.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Environmental films.
- Biographies.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (57 min.) : digital, sound, color
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Oley, Pennsylvania] : [Distributed by] Bullfrog Films, [2015]
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- 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.
- Participant:
- Narrated by Bernadine Mellis ; featuring Judi Bari, Dennis Cunningham, and others.
- Credits:
- Editor, Susan Korda ; music, Jodi Berggren.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: Chicken & Egg Pictures/Working Films/Redbird Films, ©2006.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed December 9, 2015).
- Publisher Number:
- bf-fftt Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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