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A powerful faction of Canada’s ruling elite, Donald Trump, many of his co-conspirators in the Jan. 6, 2020 coup attempt and Fox News have sought to cast a movement initiated and led by notorious right-wing extremists and outright fascists as a grassroots mobilization of truckers.
At the same time as the far Right Freedom Convoy was organizing and then carrying out its occupations across Canada, other mobilizations of rank-and-file truckers were also taking place which targeted specific companies and making and winning demands that directly benefited truckers. These trucker mobilizations were organized by South Asian truckers (predominantly Punjabi) and they pose compelling models for rank-and-file organizing, and community solidarity, and real working class answers to the questions raised by the Freedom Convoy.
Donates $50 to so-called Freedom Convoy, applauds opposition fo vaccine mandates
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked Canada’s Emergencies Act to respond to the “Freedom Convoy” protests — including by making it harder for them to receive monetary support..
Well, here we are, three weeks into Freedom Convoy 2022 and for anyone willing to take a little deeper dive into what’s happening behind the flag waving and…