But that’s not how Earth First! organizer Judi Bari saw it. She saw herself and her comrades as being on the side of workers—workers who might want to go fishing or camping on occasion—as opposed to the clear-cutting, job-automating timber bosses. She told an interviewer at the time, “There are very few people who think the right of a few people to make $7.00 an hour for a few more years is worth the extinction of a 10,000 year-old eco-system. I’m one of the strongest advocates for the loggers and the millworkers. I’m certainly a stronger advocate for them than their own unions are, and I’m certainly a stronger advocate for them than their employers are.”77 As she pointed out, logging jobs were few and dangerous, and they involved chopping down so many trees in the name of Value that soon there wouldn’t be any trees or logging jobs left.viii Most timber workers aligned against EF! regardless, tying yellow ribbons around their front-yard trees to signal their allegiance to the bosses. Some workers went a lot further than that, and Bari’s writings are thick with scenes of loggers punching Earth Firsters in the face in defense of their jobs. (They weren’t the only ones getting hit—Bari recounts a sign from a timber-wife counterdemonstrator: “If you take my husband’s job, he takes it out on me.”)78 Bari and EF! were right, of course, that no real analysis of workers’ interests could conclude in favor of clearcutting old-growth forest, and no conceivable public-power regime would allow it—even the American federal government ultimately didn’t—but the loggers followed their bosses’ plans. By placing jobs first, these workers ended up affirming capital.