Pierre Vallières (February 22, 1938 – December 23, 1998), was a Québécois journalist, and writer. He was considered an intellectual leader of the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ). Vallières was born in the east end of Montreal, Québec, but grew up in Ville Jacques-Cartier (now part of Longueuil, on the south-shore of Montreal, an area considered one of the most disadvantaged of the metropolitan region.

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  • Pierre Vallières (February 22, 1938 – December 23, 1998), was a Québécois journalist, and writer. He was considered an intellectual leader of the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ). Vallières was born in the east end of Montreal, Québec, but grew up in Ville Jacques-Cartier (now part of Longueuil, on the south-shore of Montreal, an area considered one of the most disadvantaged of the metropolitan region. He became a left-wing political activist at a young age and conducted a hunger strike at the United Nations headquarters in New York City to protest what he considered to be Quebec's plight. While in New York, he was held in the Manhattan House of Detention for Men before being extradited to Canada, where he was arrested and convicted of manslaughter, but later acquitted in a second trial in 1970. During his four years' imprisonment in New York, he wrote a number of works, the most famous of which was Nègres blancs d'Amérique, translated into English as White Niggers of America. This book compared the situation of French-Canadians in Quebec to that of African-Americans at the height of the latter's civil rights struggles. He also called for armed struggle. In 1970, during the October Crisis, the FLQ kidnapped and murdered the Quebec Vice-Premier, Pierre Laporte. The following year, Vallières renounced violence as a means to achieve Quebec independence and on October 4, 1972, under a plea bargain agreement, he received a one-year suspended sentence on three charges of counselling kidnapping for political purposes. He then resumed his career as a journalist, writer, and publisher. Vallières was also gay and spent his last few years living in Montreal's gay district. He died of heart failure.
  • Pierre Vallières ist mit Charles Gagnon einer der geistigen Väter der nach der Stillen Revolution des Québec 1960 entstandenen Separatisten-Bewegung FLQ. Er erlangte als Journalist und Schriftsteller internationales Ansehen, unter anderem mit „Les Nègres Blancs d´Amérique“, einer historischen Dokumentation mit marxistischer Polemik, Solidarisierung mit den diskriminierten Afro-Amerikanern in den USA. Pierre Vallières demonstrierte mit seinem Hungerstreik vor der UNO 1966 gegen die Zustände im Québec. Dies brachte ihm als Mitglied der FLQ 4 Jahre Gefängnis. Vallières forderte den bewaffneten Kampf zum globalen Aufstand der Arbeiterklasse. Bald nach der Oktoberkrise kehrte er 1971 nach Montréal zurück, deklarierte seinen Verzicht auf den militanten Kampf und trat in die Parti Québécois ein. Bis heute genießt Pierre Vallières große Popularität, zumal er als Vorbild gelten kann sowohl für legitimen Widerstand als auch für terroristischen Kampf, je nach Neigung des Betrachters.
  • Pierre Vallières est né dans l'est de Montréal. Il fut journaliste et écrivain; il fut surtout l'auteur d'essais militants très polémiques et de livres traitant de l'indépendance du Québec.
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  • Pierre Vallières (February 22, 1938 – December 23, 1998), was a Québécois journalist, and writer. He was considered an intellectual leader of the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ). Vallières was born in the east end of Montreal, Québec, but grew up in Ville Jacques-Cartier (now part of Longueuil, on the south-shore of Montreal, an area considered one of the most disadvantaged of the metropolitan region.
  • Pierre Vallières ist mit Charles Gagnon einer der geistigen Väter der nach der Stillen Revolution des Québec 1960 entstandenen Separatisten-Bewegung FLQ. Er erlangte als Journalist und Schriftsteller internationales Ansehen, unter anderem mit „Les Nègres Blancs d´Amérique“, einer historischen Dokumentation mit marxistischer Polemik, Solidarisierung mit den diskriminierten Afro-Amerikanern in den USA.
  • Pierre Vallières est né dans l'est de Montréal. Il fut journaliste et écrivain; il fut surtout l'auteur d'essais militants très polémiques et de livres traitant de l'indépendance du Québec.
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