Everybody hates tyranny. But some define tyranny as anything to help others and curtail privilege, and want to be the tyrants themselves. The Canadian antivaxxer truck convoys are just such. Dozens of copycat convoys around the world are funded by the wealthiest scions of privilege, just as you would expect. The Canadian blockade of the Ambassador Bridge has been cleared away, but there are still demonstrators in the area, and in Ottawa and other Canadian cities. There was a proposal to start a convoy in Los Angeles to interfere with the Super Bowl, but nothing came of it.
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Examining US Support & Funding for the Canadian Trucker Convoy
11th February 2021
By Ciaran O’Connor
The trucker convoys taking place across multiple provinces of Canada have received substantial support from a wide variety of primarily right-wing actors. In this dispatch we examine the international sources of funding and support for the movement, as well as exploring other potential convoys in North America and Europe.
And Brazil, too, as in the list above.