In 1978 the Tas government announced plans to create a hydro-electric dam on the Gordon River in South West Tasmania. This book is a personal account of what followed – the greatest environmental protest ever seen in Australia – richly illustrated with original, never-before published photographs, by someone who spent two weeks at the blockade immediately prior to the Federal election in 1983 that ultimately resulted in the dam being stopped. Includes a foreword by Bob Brown.A key element of the protest was non-violent-action to disrupt work at the dam site on the Gordon River, that resulted in hundreds of protesters being arrested. A protest base was established by the Tasmanian Wilderness Society near Strahan on a property affectionately named ‘Greenie Acres’.The stunning photographs have an immediacy that enable the reader to share in the intense experience of being part of the blockade on the Gordon. Includes a foreword by Bob Brown.
