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Are You Willing to Die for the Cause
Buch von Chris Oliveros
Sprache: Englisch

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A deep dive into a contentious and dramatic period in Canadian history-the rise of a militant separatist group whose effects still reverberate today.
It started in 1963, when a dozen mailboxes in a wealthy Montreal neighborhood were blown to bits by handmade bombs. By the following year, a guerrilla army camp was set up deep in the woods, with would-be soldiers training for armed revolt. Then, in 1966, two high-school students dropped off bombs at factories, causing fatalities. What was behind these concerted, often bungled acts of terrorism, and how did they last for nearly eight years?

In Are You Willing to Die for the Cause?, Quebec-born cartoonist Chris Oliveros sets out to dispel common misconceptions about the birth and early years of a movement that, while now defunct, still holds a tight grip on the hearts and minds of Quebec citizenry and Canadian politics. There are no initials more volatile in Quebec history than FLQ-the Front de libération du Québec (or, in English, the Quebec Liberation Front). The original goal of this socialist movement was to fight for workers' rights of the French majority who found their rights trampled on by English bosses. The goal became ridding the province of its English oppression by means of violent revolution.

Using dozens of obscure and long-forgotten sources, Oliveros skillfully weaves a comics oral history where the activists, employers, politicians, and secretaries piece together the sequence of events. At times humorous, other times dramatic, and always informative, Are You Willing to Die for the Cause? shines a light on just how little it takes to organize dissent and who people trust to overthrow the government.
A deep dive into a contentious and dramatic period in Canadian history-the rise of a militant separatist group whose effects still reverberate today.
It started in 1963, when a dozen mailboxes in a wealthy Montreal neighborhood were blown to bits by handmade bombs. By the following year, a guerrilla army camp was set up deep in the woods, with would-be soldiers training for armed revolt. Then, in 1966, two high-school students dropped off bombs at factories, causing fatalities. What was behind these concerted, often bungled acts of terrorism, and how did they last for nearly eight years?

In Are You Willing to Die for the Cause?, Quebec-born cartoonist Chris Oliveros sets out to dispel common misconceptions about the birth and early years of a movement that, while now defunct, still holds a tight grip on the hearts and minds of Quebec citizenry and Canadian politics. There are no initials more volatile in Quebec history than FLQ-the Front de libération du Québec (or, in English, the Quebec Liberation Front). The original goal of this socialist movement was to fight for workers' rights of the French majority who found their rights trampled on by English bosses. The goal became ridding the province of its English oppression by means of violent revolution.

Using dozens of obscure and long-forgotten sources, Oliveros skillfully weaves a comics oral history where the activists, employers, politicians, and secretaries piece together the sequence of events. At times humorous, other times dramatic, and always informative, Are You Willing to Die for the Cause? shines a light on just how little it takes to organize dissent and who people trust to overthrow the government.
Über den Autor
Chris Oliveros was born in 1966 in Montreal and grew up in the nearby suburb of Chomedey, Laval. He founded Drawn & Quarterly in 1989 and was the publisher for the following twenty-five years. Oliveros stepped down from D+Q in 2015 to work on Are You Willing to Die for the Cause?
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Produktart: Humor, Comics & Cartoons
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 168
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781770466616
ISBN-10: 1770466614
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Oliveros, Chris
Hersteller: Drawn and Quarterly
Maße: 227 x 160 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Chris Oliveros
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.10.2023
Gewicht: 0,39 kg
preigu-id: 124043416
Über den Autor
Chris Oliveros was born in 1966 in Montreal and grew up in the nearby suburb of Chomedey, Laval. He founded Drawn & Quarterly in 1989 and was the publisher for the following twenty-five years. Oliveros stepped down from D+Q in 2015 to work on Are You Willing to Die for the Cause?
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Produktart: Humor, Comics & Cartoons
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 168
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781770466616
ISBN-10: 1770466614
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Oliveros, Chris
Hersteller: Drawn and Quarterly
Maße: 227 x 160 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Chris Oliveros
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.10.2023
Gewicht: 0,39 kg
preigu-id: 124043416
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