Convoys of truckers have popped up on continents other than North America protesting vaccine mandates in their home countries, including Israel, Australia, and Italy.
QUICK FACTS:
- Canadian truckers have inspired truckers worldwide to rally for freedom with other convoys popping up on other continents.
- According to The Liberty Beacon, in Australia, the “2022 Official Convoy to Canberra” has more than 44,000 members on Facebook and more than 10,000 followers on Telegram.
- The global Herald reported that the “European Freedom Convoy” protesters gathered near EU headquarters on Monday.
- European truckers are organizing to protest vaccine mandates as well and the European Convoy Telegram channel has more than 7,300 members. Truckers are organizing across Europe, including the Netherlands, France, Hungary and more, to converge on Brussels by Feb. 7.
- Israel’s Freedom Convoy is picking up steam as they reach Jerusalem, with LifeSite News estimating that tens of thousands have come to the nation’s capital.
MORE DETAILS ON THE CONVOYS:
- An Australian group is planning to meet in the capital by Jan. 31 to protest vaccine mandates, according to The Liberty Beacon.
- The European Freedom Convoy gathered outside of the European Union headquarters in Brussels on Monday, opposing the COVID-19 restrictions and vaccine mandates, modeling themselves after Canada and demanding their freedoms be given back, according to the Global Herald.
- In Israel, traffic was brought almost to a halt as the city saw an estimated 30,000 vehicles converge on Monday in their own chapter of the Freedom Convoy, according to LifeSite News.
BACKGROUND:
- Canadian truckers, frustrated at the vaccine and quarantine restrictions imposed on their ability to work began the convoy movement, converging on their nation’s capitol weeks ago.
- The Canadian government has since started cracking down on the protesters, freezing funding to the group, even enacting the Emergency Act to try to free the nation’s capital from protesters.
