Activism, Uncensored: The People's Convoy
Activism, Uncensored: The People's Convoy From California to the Beltway, a wire-to-wire portrait of the American trucker protests Matt Taibbi In a terrific piece of coast-to-coast video journalism, culminating in a story that’s still live — the “Freedom Convoy,” an American version of Canadian trucker protests, is still engaged in daily circling of the Beltway — TK partners News2Share chronicles the convoy’s journey from Adelanto, California to Washington, D.C. Ford Fischer and his crew also shoot a counterprotest in Washington, as well as a meeting held between the truckers and three oft-maligned Republican members of congress: Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, and Thomas Massie. This extended video captures enough of the atmosphere around the protests to make it accessible, without covering up any warts. You’ll see anti-China sentiment, an ugly fight on a D.C. overpass, and a trucker suggesting everyone in the White House needs “a short piece of rope and a tall tree.” Th