Charest government tries to suppress public reading of FLQ Manifesto

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martin dufresne
Charest government tries to suppress public reading of FLQ Manifesto

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.

 

 

martin dufresne

English version of the FLQ Manifesto.

 

Rabelais

Cause nothing says family fun like a public reading of a scribe written by a bunch of kidnapping, murdering twits.