By Angela Hill
Oakland Tribune
Posted: 05/24/2010 03:00:08 PM PDT
OAKLAND — Though 20 years have passed since Earth First activists Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were injured in a car bombing as they drove through Oakland, Cherney and fellow activists remain determined to find out who did it.
"Today is a testimonial that we're still here, still asking the question, 'Who bombed Judi Bari?'" Cherney told a group of about 50 people who gathered Monday morning on the sidewalk along Park Boulevard outside Oakland High School, near where a pipe bomb went off under Bari's driver's seat on May 24, 1990.
"It's been 20 years, but as recently as January, we're still following new leads, a DNA trail," Cherney, 54, said through a bullhorn, standing in front of "Earth First" and "Justice for Judi Bari" banners. "We're still trying to figure out who did it. When we find out that answer, there will be a whole new set of questions."
The annual event is also a memorial to Bari, who died of cancer at age 47 in 1997. Cherney, now living in Humboldt County, continues his activism in addition to sitting on the board of a hospital.
On the day of the explosion, Bari and Cherney were on their way to an organizing event on the UC Santa Cruz campus for Redwood Summer, a mass mobilization of students and others from across the country to protest the deforestation of the redwood region in Northern California.
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