Free Movie Event Thursday- Judi Bari v. The FBI

GGU National Lawyers Guild presents a film screening of:

"THE FOREST FOR THE TREES"-Judi Bari vs. The FBI

A film by Bernadine Mellis

With Special Guest Speaker Bari's Attorney and this year's NLGSF Testimonial
Dinner Honoree Dennis Cunningham

Thursday, March 15th
5-6:30 p.m.
Room 2203
Golden Gate University School of Law
536 Mission St., between 1st and 2nd Streets
FREE
Dinner will be Provided.

This film is an intimate look at an unlikely team of young activists and old
lefties who come together to battle the U.S. government following
environmental activist Judi Bari's arrest on terrorism charges in 1990.
Judi Bari was an Earth First! leader who was one of the first to place as
much importance on the legacy and future of the trees as she did on timber
workers' lives and families. But that strategic relationship was too much of
a threat. Her car was bombed in 1990, and three hours later, she was
arrested as a terrorist--charges that were later dropped. Convinced it was a
ploy by the FBI to discredit her and Earth First!, Judi decided to sue.

Cunningham took on Judi's case and after 12 years, Judi Bari v. the FBI
finally gets a court date. Knowing this is one of her father's most
important cases, Mellis is there at strategy meetings, at breakfast, driving
to and from the court, documenting her morally driven, very tired dad. Not
your typical “Take your daughter to work day,” THE FOREST FOR THE TREES
offers access to a piece of U.S. history that everyday grows increasingly
resonant.

Q&A and Reception with Dennis Cunningham to follow.

Co-Sponsored by the GGU Environmental Law Society.