Hundreds of demonstrators gather in the city center of Calgary before the 7 Group Summit

They walked, worn out, swept the flags and signs, and distributed publications on the issues dear to their hearts, in the hope that the leaders of the Seven Group will notice.

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in the center of Calgary on Sunday, when leaders from all over the world began to reach a beginning G7 Summit At the Rocky Mountain Resort in Kanancis, Alta, about an hour west of the city.

With the closure of the summit site in front of the public, the organizers created three “dedicated demonstration areas” in Calgary and one in Banf, and they promised that the live video extracts of the protests be broadcast on large screens in Kananchisis for the leaders in the audience.

regardless of Some traffic disordersSunday protests were largely peaceful.

Carole and Mike Schmidt held a small Canadian flag while standing in front of the Calgary City Hall – one of the protest areas in Calgary – for the exercise Donald Trump’s desire to make Canada State 51.

“We have never become the state 51. We are proud of the Canadians and this is a very high message that we want to present,” said Carol Schmidt.

“We are very proud to live in a free democratic country, and we can come and use our voice today and can be heard like this.”

These comments were chanted by Leslie Boer, who described the protests as “once for life, to put myself and mark the right side of history.”

“All of the fascist ancestors fought and I am very annoyed with the comments of the 51st country,” said Bouer. “I am very afraid that he might try something, so this is my way to say, in a Canadian way, move away. We are not interested in being in your home and 51. Go away from Trump, we don’t want you here.”

The environment and the rights of the indigenous population were also the focus of many demonstrators.

“The water is life, and the water is very important. Without water, we will not be here,” said Josie Augar, from Begiston Cree Vers.

“Our planet consists of water, and our bodies consist of water- without water, and we stop existence as people- with the scarcity that occurs with water all over the world, drought and the climate change that we face, it makes us more deceived for us to think about the needs of our children, our grandchildren, our great grandchildren and our great grandchildren.”

“The climate change is largely absent from the agenda,” said Jarid Blushin, CEO of Calgary Climate Talk. “You know that it is in my name, but I don’t think the leaders will take meaningful measures on climate change.”

“We face more and more traces of climate change, the most severe storms, and the most severe domes in the temperature – our world changes and we need to take a collective position to ensure that we do not destroy our world for future peoples and us today.”

With global affairs such as wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, it is expected to appear prominently in the discussions of the Group of Seven leaders, there were also many biggest protest groups to add their voices to discussions.

They included a loud march in support of the Palestinian across the center of Calgary, which disrupted traffic, forcing the police, who were closely watching the demonstrators, to intervene so that the traffic flow could resume.

With Indian Prime Minister Narendra Mood, who was also invited to the summit by Prime Minister Mark Carne, a group of people calling for an independent Kashmir – who was the newly renewed axis of military conflict between India and Pakistan – also gathered in front of the Calgary City Hall.

Asif Nasser said: “We need the right to self -design, whether we go to India or Pakistan and remain independent.”

Some demonstrators, like members of the Revolutionary Communist Party, have no hope that the Group 7 summit will achieve anything important.

“We believe that these world leaders in the Group of Seven have led the world to a crisis. We have a cost of a living crisis, and we have environmental deterioration, increased tariff wars, and rising wars around the world, and they have no solution because their system has no solution.”

“Capitalism is on a dead end. What we need is the working class to control the economy and operate it democratically through our ranks and allocate resources for need instead of winning a few billionaires. We are trying to build a revolutionary party necessary to lead this conflict.”

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