Cherney has produced five albums of his own political satire, and founded Environmentally Sound Promotions and Churn It Up Records.

Together with Greg King, in 1986 he co-founded the movement to save what eventually became the federally protected Headwaters Forest Reserve near Eureka, California.

Later they remained good friends and colleagues in their work to protect the redwood forests and organize timber workers.

Bari and Cherney subsequently filed a civil rights suit in 1991 against the FBI and Oakland Police Department for violations of the United States Constitution during their investigation of the incident.

They said that law enforcement, in suggesting that they were carrying a bomb they had made, was trying to destroy their reputations and damage the environmental movement working to protect redwood forests in Northern California.

In the documentary he explored their contention that the bombing was the work of corporate lumber interests or the FBI trying to suppress the environmental movement in the region.

Bari also told Talbot in 1991 that she had suspected Sweeney of a 1980 arson and bombing incident at the Santa Rosa Airport.

Afterward area activists worked to prevent the airport from being converted into a larger commercial enterprise.

"[citation needed] That same year, Cherney produced his own documentary film, directed by Mary Liz Thomson, Who Bombed Judi Bari?

Cherney sought to have DNA and other forensic evidence assessed with current techniques that might help identify the bombmaker in these cases.