Judi Bari and the sister you mention, Gina Kolata, are both red diaper babies--daughters of the American Old Left... Anyay, it makes a lot of sense to me that Judi would "identify" as working class (with all the problematic issues that attach to all identity politics)
Aha. Thank you for filling that in; it makes total sense.
My reference point for Judi IDing as working class comes from a xeroxed packet of info about the bombing and interviews with Judi that I read at a friend's house in Kitchener, Ontario back in 1995, where she ID as such and talked about actually having respect for the loggers and being able to speak to them regularly, and just seemed to get a lot about activist classism and arrogance. But it makes sense that she's an old lefty. I mean, she could've been a working-class lefty, or she could've been a slumming it kid, but the other makes the pieces of her work come together the most, based on old red diaper kids I've known.
Have y'all read the letter Bruce says is written by Judi that's up on the AVA site, though? I'm willing to be open to alternative theories about what went down, but I have a harder time buying that the letter is for real. It just seems way too crank caller-ish.
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Date: 2004-01-25 09:31 pm (UTC)Aha. Thank you for filling that in; it makes total sense.
My reference point for Judi IDing as working class comes from a xeroxed packet of info about the bombing and interviews with Judi that I read at a friend's house in Kitchener, Ontario back in 1995, where she ID as such and talked about actually having respect for the loggers and being able to speak to them regularly, and just seemed to get a lot about activist classism and arrogance. But it makes sense that she's an old lefty. I mean, she could've been a working-class lefty, or she could've been a slumming it kid, but the other makes the pieces of her work come together the most, based on old red diaper kids I've known.
Have y'all read the letter Bruce says is written by Judi that's up on the AVA site, though? I'm willing to be open to alternative theories about what went down, but I have a harder time buying that the letter is for real. It just seems way too crank caller-ish.