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, by HIEBERT Ken
Ostensibly, the anti-vax movement is anti-tyranny and anti-fascist, and they sometimes portray the promoters of vaccine mandates as fascists. In reality there are far right and even fascist elements in the movement. But many of those participating are confused and do not have well formed (...)
, by HEER Jeet
The organizers and money are from wealthy right-wingers, but the “Freedom Convoy” touches broader popular discontent.
The “Freedom Convoy”—which for a week shut down trucking traffic at the Ambassador’s Bridge separating Detroit from Windsor, Canada, and led to a siege of Ottawa—has given a certain (...)
, by GORDON Todd
The “Freedom Convoy” is the biggest protest organized by the Canadian far right since the 1930s. It swarmed Ottawa with reactionary exuberance, waving Nazi, Confederate, Gadsden, Red Ensign, and Maple Leaf flags, issuing threats of violence against opponents, and dreaming of recuperating a (...)
, by PALMER Bryan D.
Canada has been rocked in recent weeks by the “Freedom Convoys” that have descended on the nation’s cities and blocked border crossings across the country. Bryan D. Palmer maps the political and social composition of this new alt-right uprising.
Everything happening in the United States comes to (...)
, by LEAH Tony
ANTI-VAXXERS HAVE parked rigs and trucks in Ottawa, Canada’s capital, for more than a week. Is this a demonstration workers should support? Tony Leah explains why the demonstrators in Ottawa and some other parts of Canada are NOT workers, for the most part, and are not fighting for workers’ (...)
, by LINDEMAN Tracey
What began as a protest against vaccine requirements for truck drivers has grown into a widening movement as Trudeau refuses to engage with demands
Diesel fumes and marijuana smoke filled the air outside the Canadian parliament as a “Freedom Convoy” protest against vaccine mandates headed into a (...)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Canadian “Freedom Convoy” opposes all mask and vaccination mandates and is rife with far right white supremacists. Photo from Business Insider.
[Feb. 9, 2020] Truckers in a so-called “Freedom Convoy” have led protests of hundreds and sometimes thousands in several Canadian cities against pandemic (...)
, by MADHAWI Arwa
How did this ‘grassroots’ rebellion paralyse the Canadian capital? With funding from the far right and a boost from Facebook misinformation
What the truck is going on in Canada? No offence to Ottawa, but it’s not the most exciting place in the world. Over the past couple of weeks, however, the (...)
, by Canada’s unions, LAPORTE François, Teamsters Canada
Teamsters Canada is proud to represent over 55,000 professional drivers from diverse industries across the country, approximately 15,000 of which are long haul truck drivers, 90% of whom are vaccinated.
The so-called “freedom convoy” and the despicable display of hate lead by the political Right (...)
, by LEEDHAM Emily
Workers in Canada’s trucking industry have suffered during the pandemic. The “Freedom Convoy,” a right-wing, pro-business social movement, purports itself to be the people’s champion of liberty — yet it couldn’t care less about the hardships and burdens of its fellow workers.
The so-called “Freedom (...)
, by JACKSON Emma
Defeating the growth of the far-right means acknowledging real grievances and countering their narrative with an inclusive left-wing populism
Three years ago, the last time a large group of truckers rolled into Ottawa, I found myself on Parliament Hill locked in a standoff.
I had traveled to (...)
, by MENZIES James
Truckers who participated in a cross-country convoy culminating in protest at Parliament Hill this weekend have been duped into believing the convoy was about them.
It never was. It wasn’t about your rights to continue crossing the border unvaccinated. And by the time the convoy rolled through (...)
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