Hundreds of protesters rally in downtown Calgary ahead of G7 summit

The G7 leaders walked, chanting, shaking flags and signs, and distributed brochures on beloved issues.

Hundreds of protesters, leaders from around the world, Kananaskis, about an hour west of the city, Alta.

With the closing place of the summit, the organizers established three “designated show zones ve in Calgary, and promised that the protests live video broadcasts will be published on the major screens in Kanaskis.

Aside Some traffic cutsSunday’s protests were largely peaceful.

Carol and Mike Schmidt stood in front of the Calgary Town Hall, one of the protest zones in Calgary.

Carol Schmidt, “Never 51. We are not a state. We are proud of the Canadians and this is a very high message we want to give,” he said.

“We are proud to live in a democratic country that is free of charge and where we can come and use our voice today and can be heard in this way.”

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These interpretations echoed by Lesley Boyer, who described the protests as “once putting myself at a lifetime of opportunity and marking myself to the right side of history”.

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Boyer, “Both grandfather fought the fascist and 51. I was very uncomfortable with state comments,” he said. “Actually, I’m very afraid that he can try something, so this is just a wing in a way, get away. 51. We’re not interested in being your state.

Environment and domestic rights were also a focal point for many protesters.

“Water life, water is very important. We wouldn’t be here without water, Big said Josie Augr from Bigstone Cree First Nation.

“Our planet is made up of water, our body is made up of water, without water, we will stop existence as people- the famine and the drought and climate change we have experienced with water around the world, the needs of our children, our grandchildren, the great grandmothers and the needs of our great grandmothers make us more insecure.

“Climate change is not largely on the agenda,” Calgary Climate Talk said, “Climate change is not largely on the agenda.” “You know that this is nominal, but I don’t think leaders will take a meaningful action on climate change.”

“Climate change, more severe storms, more severe heat domes – our world is changing and we need to take a collective attitude for future peoples and today we do not destroy our world, B said Blustein added.

While global affairs, such as wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, were expected to stand out in the discussions of G7 leaders, there were several major protest groups to add their voices to the discussions.

Downtown Calgary, a high -pro -Palestinian march in Calgary, forcing the police close to the protesters to intervene in order to continue the traffic flow, included a high pro -Palestinian march.

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Mod gathered by Prime Minister Mark Carney, a group of people who called an independent Kashmir, an independent Kashmir, the focus of the recent military conflict between India and Pakistan.

Asif Nazir said, “Even though we go to India or Pakistan, we need the right to identify itself,” he said.

Some protesters, such as members of the Revolutionary Communist Party, hope that the G7 Summit will achieve something important.

“We think these G7 leaders lead the world to a crisis. There is a cost of life, our environmental deterioration, rising tariff wars, rising wars in the world, and there are no solutions because there are no solutions.

“Capitalism is in a dead end. What we need is the working class to seize the control of the economy and democratically carry out the need for a profit from a few billionaires.

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