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Article: Bombed and framed: FBI pays millions in damages to eco-activists. (Currents: United States).(Brief Article)
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- New Internationalist
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- August 1, 2002
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ON 11 June a US federal jury returned an historic verdict in favour of two environmental activists in their civil-rights lawsuit against the FBI and the Oakland police in a case that dated all the way hack to 1990.
After 17 days of deliberation, the jury awarded the two Earth First! activists, Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney, $4.4 million for violation of their constitutional rights. It concluded that the FBI and the Police had framed the two activists in an effort to stifle Earth First! and stop participation in 'Redwood Summer', a planned campaign of non-violent direct action against the destruction of old-growth forest.
It took 12 years for the case to ...