In Defiance

Name: In Defiance
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Author: Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois
ISBN: 9781771131834

Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois

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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 is translated from the 2014 Governor General's Literary Award winner for non-fiction, Tenir tête (Lux Éditeur) We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the National Translation Program for Book Publishing, an initiative of the Roadmap for Canada's Official Languages 2013-2018: Education, Immigration, Communities, for our translation activities.

Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois

Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, né le **31 mai 1990** à Montréal, est une figure majeure du militantisme étudiant et politique québécois. Il s’est fait connaître comme co-porte-parole de la **CLASSE** (Coalition large de l’Association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiante) lors de la grève étudiante de **2012**, connue sous le nom de *Printemps érable*. Titulaire d’une maîtrise en sociologie, il est aussi auteur de plusieurs essais remarqués, dont *Tenir tête*, qui a remporté le **Prix littéraire du Gouverneur général** en 2014. Depuis 2017, il est député de Gouin et co-porte-parole de **Québec solidaire**, où il continue de défendre les causes sociales et écologiques.

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