Canadian Truckers Protest
The cluster discusses the 2022 Ottawa truckers' convoy protest against COVID mandates, debating participant demographics like Sikh truckers, government actions such as account freezing, media portrayal, and cultural references like 'Trucktober'.
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You forgot the really important ones, I think. Trucktober and tailgating. It does raise the interesting question of why Dropbox does not celebrate Trarch.
I haven't followed very closely so perhaps I missed it, but is there a source on that?Only thing I can find is the reporting on Jagmeet Singh comments who is opposed to the truckers.
Uggh, pickup trucks.(eyes COP26 climate change summit)
It sounds like you're still upset about the truckers protest in Ottawa in February 2022.
This article and the other one a month or two ago about Sikh truckers in the LA Times have both been fantastic reads.
White guy here, and I have never heard of "Trucktober"..I'm also going to my local Juneteenth events (in Oakland).. that said, I did have to look it up a few years ago.EDIT: Yeah, downvote me, I replied to the wrong sub-thread post. Made more sense w/r/t resistance to Juneteenth naming.
I didn't pay much attention to what happened with the truckers. How were they suppressed?
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> The large number of immigrants who drive trucks in Canada were also not represented.There are famous videos of Sikh truck drivers on other drivers shoulders, as the crowd dances to Indian music - near the bouncy castle.But would it be illegitimate if it appealed to one demographic more than another?> Rank-and-file truckers don't have the time nor resources to go on multi-week vacations across the country.They were out of a job so they had time.> The icing on the ca
What bullshit. Implies that "truckers" as a category had their accounts frozen.How about: "Some people organizing a riot had their accounts frozen, some few of which might have been truckers, but probably not"Since, y'know, truckers actually have to earn a living trucking, not parking in downtown Ottawa for weeks leaning on their horns and blathering about overthrowing the government.