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Truck Convoy DC: Protesters Against COVID-19 Mandates Face Opposition and Controversy
Truck Convoy DC: HAGERSTOWN, Maryland (Reuters), April 2 (Editor’s note: Offensive language in 7th paragraph).
Melanie Disporto said she was fired from a Tennessee psychiatric facility for refusing to wear a mask or take the COVID-19 vaccine.
One week later, in early March, she and her husband were inspired by YouTube videos of truck drivers heading to Washington to protest COVID-19 mandates and decided to join them by camping out for several weeks in a tent at Hagerstown Speedway in western Maryland.
On Friday morning, as most of the “People’s Convoy” had dispersed and some headed to California in protest, it is unclear what exactly their coalition of drivers had achieved in Washington State beyond creating intermittent traffic jams on its notorious Capitol Beltway interstate highway.
The group failed to achieve its stated objective: overturning the federal emergency declaration for COVID pandemic, first issued by former President Donald Trump in March 2020 and extended twice by President Joe Biden. Furthermore, no mask mandates were changed as a direct result of protest, which coincided with an ease in COVID measures around the country as virus spread slowed.
Experts on right-wing movements believe the convoy of pickups, SUVs and tractor trailers gave birth to an expansive universe of alternative conservative media – led by live-streamers and podcasters eager to raise money and expand their audiences. Some used it as a platform to spread false information on vaccinations from government conspiracy theories and false information channels.
On March 4, when protesting truckers arrived in Hagerstown, about an hour and a half drive from Washington, the crowd at Hagerstown Racetrack began reflecting a much broader range of right-wing grievances and causes than vaccine mandates and wearing surgical masks.
Disporto, 40 and others protesting the mandates mingled with members of white nationalist groups like the Proud Boys as well as hardcore Trump supporters who boasted about their role in the Jan. 6 Capitol uprising. Some flew the Confederate flag or signs reading “Fuck Biden.” Supporters of QAnon conspiracy theories which cast Trump as a savior figure and elite Democrats as Satanist pedophils and cannibals camped alongside people calling for citizen’s arrests of Biden and top U.S infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Many expressed support for the theory that COVID mandates and efforts to curb disinformation are the first steps in a plan by “globalists” to impose an oppressive government.
Disporto and her husband Paul said they felt united with a group of believers in opposing mandates that they believe are taking away their freedom –and jobs.
Disporto said with a smile as she pulled her jacket close against a cold wind at their campsite. “This is America – I should be able to pursue what I love.”
When the convoy left for California, they joined it.
“IT IS DIFFICULT TO KNOW WHO TO BELIEVE,” as the saying goes, ‘…but you just never know”.
An offshoot of a truckers’ protest in Canada, this convoy set up camp at the racetrack after traveling cross-county. Leaders addressed the crowd from a trailer bed and organized daily rides into Washington state – 70 miles south.
Over time, however, the number of participants diminished – but the convoy is far from being abandoned, its organizers declared. About 100 vehicles are now heading back to California for an April 10 protest in Los Angeles against various proposals designed to contain the pandemic. On Friday afternoon, they caravanned from North Carolina to Greenbrier Racetrack campground site in Tennessee for another stop along their journey.
Mike Landis, co-organizer of the protest in DC, declared on Friday: “Nobody ever said we’d given up on our mission here,” he continued. “We are still committed.” He continued: “We won’t stop until we achieve success.”
This protest serves to highlight the rise of an alternative media system dominated by live streamers and right-wing commentators.
Traditional media largely painted the convoy as angry protests with no clear agenda, while right-wing outlets framed it as a rallying point for Americans who believe media and government are lying to them about COVID-19, vaccines and the 2020 election results – and who are frustrated that tech companies ignore such opinions as disinformation.
Kecia Pettey of Annapolis, Maryland, said her 30-year career as a flight attendant came to an end due to her refusal to wear a mask.
She donned a pink “Trump 2024” hat and displayed a sign outside her Jeep depicting Fauci with a Hitler mustache. Believing Trump had won the 2020 election, she gets her news from right-wing streamers like Newsmax and One America News — networks known for providing platforms to vaccine skeptics and false theories that Trump won the election.
“It can be hard to know who to trust when it comes to mainstream sources,” she lamented.
Caroline Orr Bueno, a researcher at the University of Maryland who studies right-wing movements, noted that while the convoy’s lack of progress on policy objectives hasn’t dampened its supporters’ enthusiasm online who have long since stopped paying attention to mainstream news coverage.
“They feel their voices are being silenced and the media ignores them,” she said. “That feeds into that sense of grievance which fuels much of what they’re doing.”
Since its start, the convoy has also created its own media system: nearly two dozen live streamers embedded with it documenting morning meetings, speeches and the everyday life at the campground while asking their supporters for donations. At least a dozen are still with us on our journey to California – one trucker named Stan Sasnak boasts 127,000 YouTube subscribers!
Chuck Jones of Indianapolis said as his wife Jennifer grilled hot dogs over a wood fire in Hagerstown that he has been following the protest since it began in Canada. “You show me live footage, then I’m convinced,” Jones said. “That way I know you’re not telling me a story.”
Brian Brase, another co-organizer of the convoy, noted the significance of live streaming in their movement today. “Live streamers are showing us the real story,” he said in an interview. “People will only pay attention to these individuals moving forward.”
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On Tuesday evening, an earthquake hit a mountainous region in Afghanistan’s northeast near the border with Pakistan.
From Jurm Valley in China, earthquakes could be felt as far away as India.
“It was an absolutely terrifying tremor,” Kabul resident Khatera told AFP news agency after fleeing her fifth-floor apartment.
Nine of the confirmed deaths occurred in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
According to Afghanistan’s health ministry spokesman, three more people were tragically lost in Laghman province near Pakistan’s border. One child was among them, AFP reported.
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Islamabad, Pakistan saw the evacuation of a multi-story residential block after huge cracks appeared in its structure.
Phone lines have been disrupted, and in Pakistan, the highway in the Swat area has been blocked due to landslides.
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has instructed disaster agencies to take immediate measures for people’s relief.
According to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre, earthquakes were felt across a 1,000 km area that includes India, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, and Turkmenistan.
Earthquakes are more likely to occur here due to their location at the intersection of the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates.
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