Rip Current Podcast
1) Episode 1: It Didn’t Go Off
By the early 70s, most of America rejects the values promoted by the youth of what we call “the 60s.” Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, a follower of Charles Manson, aims a gun at Gerald Ford and pulls the tr...Show More
2) S2 E5: Spotted Owl Week
A federal agency comes to the Pacific Northwest to hold hearings that could severely limit logging of redwoods. With the Ecotopia in the center of media attention, both Earth First! and the timber cor...Show More
3) S2 E4: Monkeywrench
Earth First! was founded in the 1981 by four men who were willing to take an "by any means necessary" approach to saving the planet. By the time Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney joined the movement in Eco...Show More
4) S2 E3: Scotia
By the 1980s, about 95% of the redwood forest in California is gone, the result of 150 years of timber cutting. In 1985, a Texas businessman named Charles Hurwitz buys Pacific Lumber Co, plunging the ...Show More
5) S2 E2: Arrival
With a history of activism and labor organizing under her belt, Judi Bari moves to the Redwood Empire region of California in 1988. She arrives at a time of transition for the region as timber begins ...Show More
6) S2 E1: Ecotopia
On May 24, 1990, a pipe bomb detonated in the white Subaru driven by radical environmental activist Judi Bari. The bomb malfunctioned and Bari, though critically injured, survived. She was the most vi...Show More
7) Rip Current Returns - Season 2 Trailer
An all new season, an all new case. Rip Current returns. This time, examining the peculiar assassination attempt on environmental activist Judi Bari. The first episode drops on November 5th.See omnyst...Show More
8) Bonus: The Symbionese Liberation Army
A further examination of the brief, violent existence of the SLA.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
9) Bonus: Prison Radicalism - Part 2 with Brittany Friedman
We chat with Author and Sociologist Brittany Friedman about prison activism movements from the 50s through the 70s.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
10) Bonus: Prison Radicalism - Part 1 with Dan Berger
We talk with Historian Dan Berger about activism in California prisons in the 1960s and 70s.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.