Information on the upcoming anti-G-7 mobilizations in Quebec City.
- June 7th, 2018, 6 P.M. at Parc des Braves (750 ch. Sainte-Foy, Qc City)
- Mass demonstration against the G7 and to open the borders!
- Down with capitalist exploitation, colonialism, and racist and sexist politics!
The heads of state of the seven most powerful imperialist and colonialist countries will gather on June 8th and 9th as part of the G7 Summit that will take place at the Manoir Richelieu in La Malbaie. It’s a special occasion for the global elite to celebrate their dominance of the capitalist economy in style. While they claim to be discussing economic growth, job creation, gender equality, and climate change, in reality G7 meetings are key to the process of organizing the global economy in favour of banks and the oil, agricultural, pharmaceutical, tech, and weapons industries.
The West exploits the labour and wealth of Southern countries, causing poverty, environmental destruction, wars, and forced displacement, yet the countries of the G7 feign surprise at the “migrant crisis” taking place. These countries, which have completely destroyed people’s ways of life in order to enrich a tiny minority, are closing their borders, creating a Western “fortress.” In order to gain the public’s support for these policies, they drum up a fear of the Other, supported by the media, through a discourse that strengthens racism and the far-right. At the same time, the governments of the G7 implement austerity measures that worsen working conditions and force the unemployed to sell their labour to respond to the “needs of the market.”
Let’s show them we’ll do whatever it takes to fight this unjust system! The colonialist and patriarchal Canadian state is building fences on unceded indigenous land to allow the G7 leaders to meet in La Malbaie, just as it has imposed borders on indigenous communities and divided up their territory for more than 500 years. Don’t let this happen! Let’s respond to fear and their system with struggle, dignity, and solidarity between people!
On June 7th, join us for a festive mass demonstration against the G7, capitalism, patriarchy, colonialism, racism, and borders! Let’s speak out against the environmental destruction caused by the relentless exploitation of natural resources! Because our world can and must be better for everyone who lives in it and for generations to come!
Groups that want to endorse the call must write to: [email protected]
Organized by:
- Comité populaire Saint-Jean-Baptiste http://compop.net/
- Eau Secours ! https://eausecours.org/
- Ni Québec, ni Canada: projet anticolonial http://niquebecnicanada.anarkhia.org/
- Regroupement d’éducation populaire en action communautaire des régions de Québec et Chaudière-Appalaches (RÉPAC) http://repac.org/
- Réseau de résistance anti-G7 (RRAG7) https://antig7.org/
- Table unitaire contre le G7 (TUG7)
Facebook page for the event: https://fr-ca.facebook.com/events/372541903233181/
Route of the June 7th protest:
Groups endorsing the protest:
- AmiEs de la Terre de Québec
- Association étudiante des cycles supérieurs de science politique de l’UQAM (AECSSP)
- Association of McGill University Support Employees (AMUSE) / Syndicat des employé-e-s occasionnel-le-s de l’Université McGill
- Association pour la défense des droits sociaux Québec métropolitain (ADDS QM)
- Centre d’entraide Émotions
- Centre-Femme aux Plurielles
- Centre-Femmes La Jardilec
- Centre femmes d’aujourd’hui
- CKUT Radio-McGill
- Collectif anarchiste Emma Goldman
- Collectif opposé à la brutalité policière (COBP)
- Collectif d’éducation et de diffusion anarcho-syndicaliste // Anarcho-syndicalist collective for education and diffusion
- Comité des citoyens et des citoyennes du quartier Saint-Sauveur
- Comité B.A.I.L.S de Hochelaga-Maisonneuve
- Comité logement du Plateau Mont-Royal
- Comité populaire Saint-Jean-Baptiste
- Comité pour les droits humains en Amérique latine (CDHAL)
- Convergence des luttes anticapitalistes (CLAC-Montréal)
- Corporation pour la défense des droits sociaux (CDDS) de Lotbinière
- Droit de parole
- Eau Secours
- Front d’action populaire en réaménagement urbain (FRAPRU)
- Hoodstock
- IWW/SITT Québec
- L’R des centres de femmes du Québec
- Les Alter Citoyens
- Les AmiEs de la Terre de Québe
- Ligue internationale de la lutte des peuples
- Maison des Femmes de Québec
- Mandragore
- Midnight Kitchen Collective
- Montreal-antifasciste
- Montréal-Nord Républik (M-NR)
- Mouvement d’éducation populaire autonome de Lanaudière (MÉPAL)
- Mouvement d’éducation populaire et d’action communautaire du Québec (MÉPACQ)
- Ni Québec, ni Canada: projet anticolonial
- POPIR-Comité logement
- Projet Accompagnement et Solidarité Colombie (PASC)
- Regroupement d’éducation populaire de l’Abitibi-Témiscamingue (RÉPAT)
- Regroupement d’éducation populaire en action communautaire des régions de Québec et Chaudière-Appalaches (RÉPAC 03-12)
- Regroupement des femmes sans emploi du nord de Québec (ROSE du Nord)
- Regroupement des groupes de femmes de la région de la Capitale-Nationale (Québec-Portneuf-Charlevoix)
- Regroupement des organismes communautaires de la région de Québec (ROC 03)
- Regroupement intersectoriel des organismes communautaires de Montréal
- Réseau de résistance anti-G7 (RRAG7)
- Réseau du Forum Social Québec-Chaudière-Appalaches
- Regroupement des organismes d’éducation populaire autonome de la Mauricie (ROÉPAM)
- Solidarité Sans Frontières
- Table régionale des organismes volontaires d’éducation populaire (TROVEP) de Montréal
- Table ronde des organismes volontaires d’éducation populaire autonome de l’Estrie (TROVEP)
- Tadamon
- Union des Africains du Québec et amis solidaires de l’Afrique
For the beginning of the G7 Summit, the elites of the world will gather in La Malbaie, isolated in their ivory tower protected by more than half a billion in security costs. They might as well stay there! Everyone in the world will be better off without them and that is why we intend to cut ties with the people creating our misery. Come join us!
Meet us at 7:30AM SHARP in the parking lot of the Normandin on the corner of the François-De Laval and Sainte-Anne boulevards, in the Beauport borough, 5km northeast of downtown Quebec City.