04 | 'All we had was our bodies': The blockade begins

In this episode of Saving the Franklin, thousands of protesters fly into the sleepy town of Strahan to prepare for the biggest moment in the campaign: the blockade. An army of national media descend, and the first bulldozer is taken upriver, for a shockin

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Dig — Saving The Franklin

Revisit the biggest environmental movement Australia has ever seen: the 1982 Franklin River Blockade. This story is nuts. Missing people, death threats, savage political moves, young people flooding into Tasmania to put their bodies in front of bulldoz...

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In this episode of Saving the Franklin, thousands of protesters
fly into the sleepy town of Strahan to prepare for the biggest
moment in the campaign: the blockade.

An army of national media descend, and the first bulldozer is
taken upriver, for a shocking confrontation on the water.