00:00Welcome back. Clashes broke out Sunday between protesters and police near the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland a day
00:07before the G7 summit opens in the resort town of Ybby and Le Bon, France.
00:12Protesters threw block bottles, stoned pieces of cement and firecrackers at the police who responded with tear gas and water
00:20cannons.
00:21Environmentalists and feminists joined anti-imperialism activities, defenders of independent media, supporters of Palestinian rights and others.
00:30in a lakeside park in Geneva for a march across the Swiss city.
00:34Retailers in the Swiss capital had boarded up their store windows early Sunday in anticipation of the demonstrations where about
00:414,000 soldiers were deployed to support the police.
00:45The summit will be attended by leaders from industrialized nations, including U.S. President Donald Trump.
01:00Today, there are 60 groups forming a coalition, associations, organizations like trade unions as well.
01:07Everything that makes up the radical Geneva left, the real left, is out on the streets today to demand things
01:14that are actually quite simple.
01:16The basic principle today is that the seven leaders of the G7 will be meeting in Evian from tomorrow onwards.
01:23And these seven people are in the process of carving up the world.
01:28They are in the process of dismantling all the social gains that have been achieved at a global level.
01:39Yes, it was important for the feminist strike to be there and to lead the march because the feminist strike
01:44falls on June 14th every year, so I think it's important to keep that in mind even with the G7
01:49taking place opposite.
01:50And feminism and the struggle against imperialism are connected, so it's important that everything is present, but that feminism leads
01:57the march.
01:58Thank you very much.
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