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Courtney Fry

Oh Good, Convoys Of Anti-Vaxxers Are Converging On Canberra To Protest For “Freedom”

Canberra has been accosted with a wall of noise as multiple convoys of trucks, cars, caravans and other roadworthy vehicles met in the national capital on Monday to protest for “freedom” against COVID-19 vaccines and pandemic restrictions.

It appears to have been organised through Telegram and the public Facebook group ‘2022 Official Convoy to Canberra’. It seems to be inspired by the hordes of anti-vax Canadian truckers that swarmed Ottowa to protest similar restrictions on Sunday — with some protesters reportedly carrying flags and signs emblazoned with swastikas. The Australian version has seen people drive from nearly every capital city on the mainland to meet in Canberra.

No matter if you can’t see the cooker convoy adorned with all its upside-down flags and cursed energy, because good God you can probably hear them from your backyard.

Unsurprisingly, this cooker convoy has been goaded on by human cane toad Craig Kelly and protesters have woken up at the buttcrack of dawn to drive hours and descend on Parliament House on Monday morning, with some travelling over the weekend to arrive in the capital.

By the looks of things, a good 30-odd people had arrived by 11am — an hour after the designated meet-up time.

There’s no reported number on how many vehicles and people are anticipated to try and enter the area around Parliament House, and police have retreated after they were initially stopping and checking all cars trying to drive toward the site.

It seems there aren’t many trucks in this trucker-led cavalcade either, and there has been at least one car crash involving multiple cars in one of the various convoys descending on the country’s capital.

From what can be seen on social media outside of Telegram there’s no real plan for the Australian convoy protest beyond “drive to Canberra with flag and honk horn”, or if the group is planning to occupy space near Parliament House similar to the protests in Canada.

One map on Instagram shows a highlighted space at the foot of the stairs to Parliament where people are meeting to protest, but beyond that, the group’s plans seem a bit directionless. Some protesters have mounted the curbs and driven up the lawns directly to Parliament House.

Online fundraisers have banked considerable amounts of money from people wanting to financially support the convoy, with the main one sitting at $159k of its $300k target at the time of writing — apparently upped from an initial target of $100k.

The ‘Oz to Canberra Convoy Official’ fundraiser doesn’t specify where donations will be going, with people giving thousands of dollars to a fundraiser with no direction beyond a promise that money will be given to “people in need”. Seems legit.

The post Oh Good, Convoys Of Anti-Vaxxers Are Converging On Canberra To Protest For “Freedom” appeared first on Pedestrian TV.

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