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In Defiance
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 ...
Lettre d'un député inquiet à un premier ministre qui devrait l'être
Monsieur Legault, au printemps 2019, vous avez prévenu les journalistes : il ne faut pas s’attendre à ce que vous vous transformiez en « bonhomme vert » ! Je présume que c’était votre manière – on reconnaît la légèreté comique avec laquelle vous traitez de ces questions – de nous avertir que votre conversion à l’écologisme resterait sagement à l’intérieur des limites de votre conservatisme économique. Je trouve cette attitude franchement naïve. Vous espérez une lutte aux changements climatiques qui ne change rien à la société. Vous tenez le pari, sans cesse contrarié par les faits, qu’il serait possible de mener ce combat sans bousculer vos certitudes. Ce ...
Tenir tête
« Toute histoire a un commencement, et pour moi l’aventure du printemps 2012 débute le 12 juin 2009 lorsque j’ouvre le journal Le Devoir. » Dans ce livre, écrit avec le style qu’on lui connaît, on suit pas à pas Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois au fil des luttes, des rencontres décisives, des assemblées générales, des confrontations avec journalistes, ministres, juges et policiers, mais aussi dans son analyse de la grève de 2012. Chemin faisant, le lecteur prendra acte, non sans stupéfaction, de la misère morale et intellectuelle d’une certaine élite québécoise. Il renouera surtout avec la formidable vigueur des étudiants qui se sont opposés au mercantilisme de cette élite. Tenir tête doit être lu par ceux qui ont partagé la colère des étudiants, mais aussi par les autres, qui se surprendront peut-être à admettre que la cause des étudiants est également la leur.
Generation Rising
First there was the Arab Spring, then the Indignados, then Occupy Wall Street. And then there was the Printemps érable — the Maple Spring. In 2011, proclaiming the need for austerity, Québec’s governing Liberal Party announced a draconian increase in tuition fees. Enraged that the government would destroy a legacy of public education, so hard won during the 1960s Quiet Revolution — a legacy from which they themselves had reaped benefits — the youth of Québec took to the streets in a student strike under the banner of the carrés rouges. They fought not merely for education, but for the future: a future they watch being destroyed by the unrelenting march of capitalism, intent on th...
Ne renonçons à rien
Quelque part en 2015, chacun de notre côté, puis petit à petit, ensemble, nous, les signataires de cet ouvrage, avons commencé à sentir le besoin de convoquer quelque chose comme une tempête publique – pour défiger l’air du temps un peu. Nous souhaitions entendre tous ceux qui avaient envie de chercher avec nous comment se sortir de cette ankylose. Comment danser sur nos embâcles. Cela a donné la tournée «Faut qu’on se parle», lancée à l’automne 2016 et dont le succès a dépassé toutes nos attentes. Pas moins de 166 assemblées de cuisine, et 18 consultations publiques, qui ont réuni des milliers de Québécois. Qu’est-ce que vous nous avez donc tant raconté, pend...
Girl Trouble
The book examines the history of female delinquency in Canada from the intitial years of the Juvenile Delinquents Act, passed in 1908, to the first major, sustained critiques of the Act's usefulness in in the 1960s. Three themes are explored. What underlying material structures, social conditions and class norms shaped the very definition of delinquency under the Juvenile Delinquents Act and how was that definition gendered? What were the prescribed legal and social cures for girls' wrongdoing, and how successful were they? Last, how did girls and their families understand and react to their designation as delinquent, and to their experiences in court, probation and training school. To understand girls' conflicts with the law, their delinquency is described within the daily, lived economic, and social circumstances of their lives and contemporary understandings of 'normal' and 'deviant' behaviour, and illustrated by quotations and examples drawn from records and interviews. The experiences of Native and immigrant girls are also examined.
Gangland
A frightening look at Mexico's new power elite—the Mexican drug cartels The members of Mexico's drug cartels are among the criminal underworld's most ambitious and ruthless entrepreneurs. Supplanting the once dominant Colombian cartels, the Mexican drug cartels are now the major distributor of heroin and cocaine to the U.S. and Canada. Not only have their drugs crossed north of the border, so have the cartels (in 2009, 230 active Mexican drug cartels have been reported in U.S. cities). In Gangland, bestselling author Jerry Langton details their frightening stranglehold on the economy and daily life of Mexico today—and what it portends for the future of Mexico and its neighbours. Offering...
The Black Velvet Jacket
Philip was unhappy until he put on his Uncle's black velvet jacket and then something amazing happened. How can a dusty, rolled up, thirty-year-old jacket make a boy's birthday wish come true? "The Black Velvet Jacket" is a true story of a young man's coming of age. It inspires all those who believe that wishes really do come true.
The Age of Violence
"Only martyrs know neither pity nor fear. Believe me, the day when the martyrs are victorious will be the day of universal conflagration". Jacques Lacan made this gloomy prophesy back in 1959: but doesn't it also apply to our own time? Faced with a rise in attacks around the world, can we really just blame the 'radicalization of' Islam'? What hope is there for the alienated youth, as the wars that have ravaged the Middle East spill out across the globe? For Alain Bertho, the mounting chaos we see today is above all driven by the weakening of states' legitimacy under the pressure of globalization. Add to this the hypocrisy of the elites who beat the drum of 'security measures', even as they s...
