{"id":1258095,"date":"2022-01-31T11:08:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T16:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1258095"},"modified":"2022-01-31T11:08:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T16:08:50","slug":"convoy-to-dc-facebook-group-amasses-90k-followers-calls-on-american-truckers-to-form-nationwide-protest-against-vax-mandates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/convoy-to-dc-facebook-group-amasses-90k-followers-calls-on-american-truckers-to-form-nationwide-protest-against-vax-mandates\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Convoy To DC\u2019 Facebook Group Amasses 90k Followers, Calls On American Truckers To Form Nationwide Protest Against Vax Mandates"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fconvoy-to-dc-facebook-group-amasses-90k-followers-calls-on-american-truckers-to-form-nationwide-protest-against-vax-mandates%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1258095&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Drawing on inspiration from their northern colleagues, a Facebook group named \u201cConvoy to DC\u201d is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kark.com\/news\/national-news\/thousands-of-u-s-truckers-to-protest-vaccine-mandate\/\">calling upon all truckers<\/a> in the United States to form a nationwide chain of semi-trucks and other vehicles in protest of COVID-19 vaccine mandates. The call comes as the reportedly 50,000 Canadian truckers formed this past weekend heading into Canada\u2019s capital of Ottowa. The group has not set a date yet for when this convoy would start, but organizers and members have suggested that the protest begin in California and end in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are part of many large groups who believe in our founding fathers,\u201d Convoy to DC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/428429165022269\">stated<\/a> in its \u201cAbout\u201d section on its Facebook page. \u201cWe believe everyone has a voice. We support our freedom. Help us spread the word about this group and together we all can make it a better place. God Bless America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Facebook group calling for the U.S. convoy has amassed more than 90,000 members and followers, up from 67,000 on Sunday, based on media reports. While the group is asking for truck drivers and long haulers specifically to join the caravan, the page is filled with posts from non-truck drivers in support of the movement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are plenty of retired Americans with Airstreams and RVs that can join the Trucker Convoys,\u201d one user wrote. \u201cThey would be a great support team by cooking, providing supplies and nice washrooms for the truckers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExcellent idea!! Everyone helps out,\u201d another user responded. \u201cThis will have to be the BIGGEST convoy if it\u2019s going to be effective!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group of Canadian truckers is officially known as \u201cThe Freedom Convoy.\u201d It was initially formed to protest against a vaccine mandate that began on January 15 and demanded that truckers receive a COVID-19 vaccine in order to cross the Canadian-U.S. border. Additionally, unvaccinated drivers who crossed the U.S. border would have to quarantine, thereby missing work, upon returning home.<\/p>\n<p>That protest has been extended to protesting all Canadian COVID-19 vaccine mandates and has gained international support.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/elon-musk-mocks-trudeau-after-massive-trucker-rally-fringe-minority-is-actually-the-government\">reported<\/a> that in Canada, the convoy of truckers arrived in Ottawa for a protest attended by tens of thousands of people. Videos online of the protest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/video-of-massive-freedom-convoy-protest-the-place-is-packed\">showed<\/a> thousands of people marching through Ottawa in support of the movement.<\/p>\n<p>In response, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reportedly went into hiding. The mainstream media has called the Freedom Convoy racists, fascists, and more denigrating characterizations. On Sunday, The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-it-is-cold-today-almost-as-cold-as-justin-trudeaus-heart-trudeau-foe-ezra-levant-bashes-p-m-at-massive-trucker-convoy-rally\">reported<\/a> that Rebel News publisher Ezra Levant, an outspoken opponent of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, slammed the media for their inaccurate coverage at the rally on Saturday:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI want to tell you what excites me the most about this crowd,\u201d he continued, \u201cI see a lot of cameras, a lot of independent journalists. Because when people say what do we do about the media, I say, you become the media, that\u2019s what you do. \u2026 The news media is a party: the media party. It\u2019s a subsidiary of the Liberal party. So you\u2019ve got to tell the story yourselves. Everyone who is here, everyone who is around the road, has to bear witness and testify to what they saw, because there are two different competing narratives.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019ve never seen a more diverse group of Canadians,\u201d Levant declared. \u201cThey\u2019re far from violence; people want to not be violated any more. Justin Trudeau says you\u2019re extreme, but he\u2019s the one who has violated our civil rights. He thinks we\u2019re a \u2018fringe,\u2019 but that\u2019s a pretty bloody big fringe.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trudeau-govt-plans-to-hit-truckers-again-implement-interprovincial-vaccine-mandates-report\">Trudeau Gov\u2019t Plans To Hit Truckers Again, Implement Interprovincial Vaccine Mandates: Report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drawing on inspiration from their northern colleagues, a Facebook group named \u201cConvoy to DC\u201d is calling upon all truckers in the United States to form a nationwide chain of semi-trucks and other vehicles in protest of COVID-19 vaccine mandates. The call comes as the reportedly 50,000 Canadian truckers formed this past weekend heading into Canada\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1258095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1258095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1258095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1258095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}