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Gabriel Nadeau-DuBois

    Dieser Autor ist bekannt für seinen politischen Aktivismus, der sich mit seiner literarischen Arbeit verknüpft. Seine Schriften konzentrieren sich häufig auf Themen der sozialen Gerechtigkeit und der Studentenrechte. In seinen Essays untersucht er die Macht kollektiven Handelns und die Notwendigkeit gesellschaftlicher Veränderung. Seine Werke regen zur Reflexion über Machtstrukturen und die Stellung des Individuums darin an.

    In Defiance
    • 2016

      In Defiance

      • 192 Seiten
      • 7 Lesestunden
      3,8(4)Abgeben

      On February 7, 2012, as students in Quebec prepared to vote to go on strike, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois gave a rousing speech: “What you do today will be remembered. The decision you make will tell future generations who we were. And you already know what is being said today about our generation. That we are the generation of comfort and indifference, the generation of cash and iPods; that we are individualists, egotists; that we don’t care about anything, except our navels and our gadgets. Aren’t you tired of hearing this? Well, I am. Luckily, today we have a chance to prove that it’s not true, that it has never been true.”The “Maple Spring” saw more than 300,000 students across Quebec protest a tuition fee hike by striking from their classes. Nadeau-Dubois takes readers step-by-step through the strike, recounting the confrontations with journalists, ministers, judges, and police. Along the way he exposes the moral and intellectual poverty of the Quebec elite and celebrates the remarkable energy of the students who opposed the mercenary attitude of the austerity agenda.

      In Defiance