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The ReAwaken America Tour began in the spring of 2021 as Health and Freedom rallies to protest COVID-19 restrictions. The events would later be renamed and sponsored by Charismatic Christian magazine Charisma News and expand to include themes of COVID-19 misinformation, QAnon, election denialism, and spiritual warfare.
The Freedom Convoy (French: Convoi de la liberté) was a series of protests and blockades across Canada in early 2022, initially organized to oppose COVID-19 vaccine mandates for cross-border truck drivers. The movement quickly expanded to protest all COVID-19 restrictions and mandates.
Protests against responses to the COVID-19 pandemic Part of the COVID-19 pandemic and COVID-19 misinformation and COVID-19 misinformation by governments An anti- lockdown protest at Queen's Park in Toronto, Canada, on 25 April 2020 Date 15 March 2020 – 5 December 2022 (2 years, 8 months, 2 weeks and 6 days) Location Worldwide Caused by Local struggles or opposition to government responses to ...
Charles Person, the youngest member of the original Freedom Riders who faced racial violence to challenge segregation in interstate travel, died Jan. 8 in Fayetteville, Georgia. He was 82.
The Freedom Riders' tactics for their journey were to have at least one interracial pair sitting in adjoining seats, and at least one black rider sitting up front, where seats under segregation had been reserved for white customers by local custom throughout the South.
Legendary civil rights leader Bayard Rustin and three other men who were sentenced to work on a chain gang in The post 75 years after sentencing Freedom Riders to the chain gang, N.C. tosses out ...
Patrick James King [2] (born August 2, 1977) is a Canadian far-right activist, [3] [4] known for protesting COVID-19 mandates. He has led the Wexit movement advocating for secession from Canada of Alberta and other western provinces, led the United We Roll movement, and acted as a regional organizer for the Canada convoy protest.
On April 9, 1947, a group of eight white men and eight Black men began the first “freedom ride” to challenge laws that mandated segregation on buses in defiance of the 1946 U.S. Supreme Court ...