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Listen: The Story of the Strike at Fraser Paper

Wednesday, September 7 at 2:00 pm

Madawaskan Rebellion Documentary

This documentary tells the story with first-hand accounts of a dramatic strike at Fraser Paper Company in Madawaska, Maine in 1971. The peak of the tale is a violent confrontation between state police and men, women, and children who blocked paper from being moved by rail outside the mill.