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Speaker 1: I knew it was a bomb the second that it exploded.

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Speaker 2: I felt it ripped through me with just a force

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Speaker 2: more powerful and terrible than anything that I could describe.

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Speaker 1: May twenty fourth, nineteen ninety a pipe bomb explodes in

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Speaker 1: the front seat of environmental activists Judy Barry's car.

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Speaker 3: The men and women who were heard had planned to

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Speaker 3: lead a summer of militant protest against logging practices in

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Speaker 3: northern California.

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Speaker 1: Within twenty four hours, Barry and her organizing partner were

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Speaker 1: not only the victims but also the prime suspects.

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Speaker 3: IMiD outrage and denials from the environmentalist group Earth First,

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Speaker 3: forty year old Judy Berry and thirty three year old

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Speaker 3: Darryl Churney have been charged with possessing and transporting and

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Speaker 3: explosive device.

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Speaker 1: In season two of Rip Current, we ask who tried

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Speaker 1: to kill Judy Barry.

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Speaker 4: The level of Fritz. They were becoming more specific and

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Speaker 4: seemingly targeting her especially.

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Speaker 1: She received death threats before the bombing, she received more

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Speaker 1: threats after the bombing.

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Speaker 2: She just drew that kind of animosity and why she

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Speaker 2: came from a family of communists and anarchists and she

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Speaker 2: was a leftist.

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Speaker 4: They were climbing trees, and they were sabotage logging equipment

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Speaker 4: in the woods.

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Speaker 1: Judy Berry was the most visible face of the movement

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Speaker 1: against the clear cutting of northern California's redwood forests. She

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Speaker 1: was a charismatic, high energy.

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Speaker 4: Speaker, but terribly bright, savvy, and I even since then

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Speaker 4: tough woman.

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Speaker 1: And the environmental movement was challenging the entire identity of

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Speaker 1: the North Coast, the timber industry. I mean it was

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Speaker 1: the number one industry in the area, but more than

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Speaker 1: it was the culture, it was the way of life.

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Speaker 1: Was Judy Berry so dangerous to corporate timber interests that they,

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Speaker 1: along with the FBI, conspired against her and Earth First?

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Speaker 4: Those First is the only act of green group around

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Speaker 4: The others are debating societies. I talked about how we

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Speaker 4: were going to face this.

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Speaker 3: I said, some of us were going to do hard time,

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Speaker 3: some of us were going to die.

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Speaker 1: This is the story of people who risk life and

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Speaker 1: limb to stop irreversible environmental damage.

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Speaker 3: It's time for a.

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Speaker 1: Warrior society to rise up out of the earth.

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Speaker 4: And hurt ourselves in front of the juggernaut of destruction.

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Speaker 3: The system does not respond to us when we politely

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Speaker 3: ask them, do they hear us when we take that

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Speaker 3: kind of action?

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Speaker 4: This is for us, Great Brook, This.

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Speaker 1: And how an attack on one woman turned into a

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Speaker 1: proxy war over the legacy of an entire movement.

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Speaker 3: I think this is a deliberate attempt to sabotage our movement.

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Speaker 1: Listen to season two of RIP Current November fifth, on

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Speaker 1: your favorite shows.