{"id":41663,"date":"2022-02-13T16:00:17","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T07:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/13\/freedom-convoys-legitimate-covid-protest-or-vehicle-for-darker-beliefs"},"modified":"2022-02-13T16:00:17","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T07:00:17","slug":"freedom-convoys-legitimate-covid-protest-or-vehicle-for-darker-beliefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41663","title":{"rendered":"Freedom convoys: legitimate Covid protest or vehicle for darker beliefs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The blockade of Ottawa has sparked copycat action around the globe, and such disparate demonstrations of grievance may prove hard to shut down<\/p>\n<p>It only took six dozen trucks, and a few hundred protesters to bring Canada\u2019s capital to a standstill and close a critical border crossing with the US, throttling the car industry that straddles the line between both countries and relies on a constant flow of trade.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Canadian authorities finally began taking action to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/12\/canada-ottawa-protest-police-us-border-bridge\">clear the Ambassador Bridge<\/a> into the US, the busiest land crossing in North America, which had been blockaded by just over a dozen trucks and smaller vehicles, and a crowd a few hundred strong.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/13\/freedom-convoys-legitimate-covid-protest-or-vehicle-for-darker-beliefs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blockade of Ottawa has sparked copycat action around the globe, and such disparate demonstrations of grievance may prove hard to shut downIt only took six dozen trucks, and a few hundred protesters to bring Canada\u2019s capital to a standstill and clos&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2908,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[246,41,244,1066,221,526,56,1482,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-canada","category-coronavirus","category-europe","category-france","category-new-zealand","category-paris","category-protest","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41664,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41663\/revisions\/41664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}