The People's Convoy, a miles-long string of trucks and other vehicles that left California last week and is expecting to arrive in Washington, D.C., Saturday – meeting up with other truckers from other parts of the country – wants Joe Biden to end those COVID mandates and his self-proclaimed national "emergency."
Truckers were traveling on Thursday through Ohio and their convoy was described as more than eight miles long.
Kris Young, who runs a Facebook page about the campaign, said, "The rally in Monrovia was a huge success! The layover allowed for others from across the country to join us! We are bigger now than when we arrived."
The estimate for attendance at the rally in Indiana, called the Shifting Gears Rally, was estimated in the thousands.
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Brian Brase, an organizer of the events, said, "It's time for truckers around the world to stand up for your rights now!"
The activism has been modeled after the Freedom Convoy in Canada that started on its West Coast and traveled to Ottawa, where truckers closed down streets in civil disobedience that prompted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to declare martial law and use violence against the peaceful protesters who were arrested by the hundreds.
The government also confiscated trucks when it chose.
The Daily Mail reported on the American movement: "The People's Convoy - which has raised more than $1.5million in donations made through its own website - embarked from California last week on an 11-day trek to Washington D.C. The group plans to hold a peaceful protest near the capital city on Saturday and has sworn not to disrupt roads or bridges like their Canadian counterparts did. Organizers have promised a '100% safe, lawful and peaceful journey' that will 'terminate in the vicinity of the D.C. area, but will NOT be going into D.C. proper.'"