2027 will mark the thirtieth anniversary of the passing of radical ecologist and labor organizer Judi Bari. Best known for her leadership in the 1990 Redwood Summer campaign in Northern California, Bari sought to overcome the entrenched division between environmentalists and timber workers by identifying corporate capital as the common force exploiting both labor and forests. Her politics extended beyond direct action and formal organizing to include music, storytelling as agitation, and public spectacle, all mobilized to cultivate ecological consciousness within a framework of working-class solidarity. In this sense, Bari understood that revolutionary ecology required not only resistance at the point of production and extraction, but also a struggle over culture, perception, and collective imagination.

Although her legacy has often been overshadowed by the 1990 car bombing that nearly took her life, Bari’s performative militancy demands renewed attention. She demonstrated how ecological struggle could be militant without abandoning care, confrontational without reproducing authoritarianism, and rooted in class politics without sacrificing environmental commitments. Revisiting Bari today is especially urgent in a moment defined by ecological catastrophe, imperialist war, and normalized genocide. Her praxis offers a model for thinking ecology not as a single-issue politics, but as a revolutionary horizon in which labor, anti-militarism, feminism, and environmental defense converge.

This collection brings together a range of essays reflecting on the legacy of Judi Bari’s struggle for ecological democracy and revolutionary solidarity. Contributions that engage Bari’s thought, organizing, and cultural practice, as well as essays that extend her insights into contemporary struggles over labor, ecology, anti-fascism, feminism, and decolonization are welcomed. Submissions will be used to develop a proposal for a special issue on Judi Bari’s legacy for Resistance: A Journal of Radical Environmental Humanities.

Submission details: 

Send 300-word abstracts & short bio to John Maerhofer by 8/15/2026. Send as attachment to jmaerhofer@gmail.com.

5000-8000-word articles will be requested by the end of 2026.