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This is a documentary about Judi Bari vs. the FBI, her advocacy for both ancient redwoods and timber workders, her death-bed deposition, and the successful court ruling for justice and vindication. Who Bombed Judi Bari? profiles the late, legendary labor and forest organizer and her struggle with the FBI's attempted frame-up after she and Darryl Cherney were car-bombed in Oakland, California in 1990 while on a college tour to save the redwood forest...
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In 1925, the fledgling American Civil Liberties Union wanted to challenge the constitutionality of the Butler Law, a ruling forbidding the teaching of evolutionary theory in public schools. For its test case, it selected the trial of John Scopes, who'd briefly taught Darwinism as a substitute biology teacher. But when celebrated lawyers William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow arrived to argue the case, the quiet procedural matter exploded into...