Pierre Vallières

Pierre Vallières (February 22, 1938 – December 23, 1998), was a founding member and intellectual leader of the terrorist group, the Front de libération du Québec and a journalist and writer of militantly polemical essays and books in support of the Quebec sovereignty movement. February 22 is the 53rd day of every year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... December 23 is the 357th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (358th in leap years). ... Terrorism refers to the use of violence for the purpose of achieving a political, religious, or ideological goal. ... A journalist is a person who practices journalism. ... Though anyone who creates a written work may be called a writer, the term is usually reserved for those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... Quebec The Quebec sovereignty movement is a movement calling for the attainment of sovereignty for Quebec, a province of the country of Canada. ...

Born in 1938 in the east end of Montreal, he became a left-wing political activist at a young age and conducted a hunger strike at the UN headquarters in New York City to protest what he considered to be Quebec's plight. While there, 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 (or perhaps notorious) of which was Nègres blancs d'Amérique, translated to 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. 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... This article needs cleanup. ... In politics, left-wing, political left, leftism, or simply the left, are terms which refer (with no particular precision) to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of socialism, social democracy, or liberalism (especially in the American sense of the word), or with opposition... The United Nations, or UN, is an international organization made up of 191 states established in 1945. ... Murder is both a legal and a moral term, that are not always coincident. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... African Americans, also known as Afro-Americans or black Americans, are an ethnic group in the United States of America whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Sub-Saharan and West Africa. ... Civil rights or positive rights are those legal rights retained by citizens and protected by the government. ...

During the October Crisis Vallières' terroist group kidnapped and murdered the Quebec Vice-Premier, Pierre Laporte. Arrested, he then 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. The October Crisis was a series of dramatic events triggered by two terrorist kidnappings that occurred in Quebec, Canada, during the month of October, 1970. ... In criminal law, kidnapping is the taking away of a person against the persons will, usually to hold the person in false imprisonment (confinement without legal authority) for ransom or in furtherance of another crime. ... Murder is both a legal and a moral term, that are not always coincident. ... Pierre Laporte (February 25, 1921 - October 1970), was a Canadian politician who was assassinated by members of the FLQ. Pierre Laporte Pierre Laporte was born in Montreal, Quebec. ... A plea bargain is an agreement in a criminal case in which a prosecutor and a defendant arrange to settle the case against the defendant. ...

While Vallières denounced Canada at every opportunity, the fifth estate, a CBC television investigative report, uncovered that he had been receiving in excess of $100,000 a year from the Government of Canada through its "Book Publishing Industry Development Program." In an interview with the CBC, Vallières indicated that he believed it was acceptable to use money from Canadian taxpayers to publish works that advocated the breakup of the country. The Fifth Estate the fifth estate is a Canadian television newsmagazine, which airs on the English television network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. ... CBC redirects here, as this is the most common use of the abbreviation. ... System of government Canada is a constitutional monarchy as a Commonwealth Realm (see Monarchy in Canada) with a federal system of parliamentary government, and strong democratic traditions. ...

Pierre Vallières was also gay and spent his last few years living in Montreal's gay district. For people whose family name is Gay see the list of people by name. ...

He died of heart failure. Congestive heart failure (CHF) (also called heart failure) is the inability of the heart to pump blood effectively to the body, or requiring elevated filling pressures in order to pump effectively. ...