When Quebec's FLQ kidnapped British trade commissionner James Cross in 1970, one of its demands was the public reading over Canadian airwaves of a Manifesto, summarizing social inequity in Quebec. It happened and was a turning point in what did or didn't ever get voiced in the mainstream media.
Now the Quebec government has pulled the plug on funding this 24-hour historical reconstitution of Quebec's history, and organizer Brigitte Haentjens, one of the most respected people in Quebec theatre is protesting.
Trying to write key events out of history lives on.