A fast-forming convoy of truckers from all six New England states will soon be making its way down the region's coastline to join other truckers in Washington in a protest against COVID-19-related mandates and a myriad of other federal government directives

Lich was first arrested in Ottawa on Feb. 17 for her role in organizing the truckers' Freedom Convoy protest that called on the federal government to end the COVID-19 vaccine mandate and other pandemic-related restrictions.

Protesters march across Victoria Bridge during a rally against a mandatory Covid-19 vaccine in Brisbane, Australia, on Oct. 1, 2021.

“Please join your Southwest Cohearts, vaccinated or not, in exercising your first amendment right to a peaceful protest of the recent COVID-19 vaccination mandate.” COVID-19 is the illness caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.

and other financial institutions to stop doing business with people associated with the anti-vaccine mandate convoy occupying the nation’s capital.

People show blank papers as a way to protest, gather on a street in Shanghai on Nov. 27, 2022, where protests against China's zero-COVID policy took place the night before following a deadly fire in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang region.

Another Victoria-based university, Monash, with over 95,000 staff and students, has also moved to mandate vaccination on campus.

David Lametti Liberal MP David Lametti was the justice minister and attorney general when hundreds of truckers protesting the vaccine mandate descended on Ottawa in late January 2022.

Anthony also noted that "governments have a historical pattern of misusing these tools," citing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's move to freeze the bank accounts of anti-COVID-19 vaccine mandate protesters earlier this year.

In Denmark, the government had to abandon a new law that would mandate a COVID-19 vaccination after citizens took to the streets, banging pots and pans in protest.

In many U.S. cities, these protests brewed a wave of vandalism and violence and occurred before there was ever a vaccine.

“We have had our bodily autonomy violated by mask mandates, and plans to mandate coronavirus vaccinations are being rolled out internationally. These are unacceptable constraints on our freedom,” its website states.

CEO Alexis von Hoensbroech, who took the helm of WestJet in February, publicly criticized the transportation mask mandate in April, and the vaccine mandate in late May.

In January 2022, Montagnier delivered a speech at a protest against vaccine certificates in Milan, Italy. Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

The alleged FBI investigations targeted parents who were “upset about mask mandates and state elected officials who publicly voiced opposition to vaccine mandates,” the GOP lawmakers said at the time, noting that it was the EDUOFFICIALS tag that was used

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School board meetings nationwide have served as flashpoints for protests about vaccine and mask mandates, school closures, curriculum, and culture.

—A coalition of groups including medical professionals, first responders, parents, and students gathered in Santa Monica on Aug. 21 to protest an impending COVID-19 vaccine mandate in Los Angeles, saying it will segregate the city, breed more hate, and

Frydenberg said vaccine mandates were an issue for the states.

Protesters have been blocking the highway since Jan. 29 in solidarity with the ongoing protest in Ottawa against COVID-19 mandates and restrictions.

Ochoa said she was excluded from certain school activities because of the mask and vaccine mandates.

This led to the lockdowns, dividing people against one another, governments strong-arming their mandates, and public health officials having far too much control. We also had the Donald Trump factor.

Protests against government-mandated COVID-19-related health restrictions and the impending Pandemic Management Bill in Melbourne, Australia, on Nov. 20, 2021.

This, coupled with the country’s tough stance on vaccine mandates and COVID-19 restrictions, created the perfect political storm for Djokovic—who is unvaccinated.

“As a federal contractor, I was forced to take it against my will. I am the breadwinner in my family, so I couldn’t just quit," she said. In 2020, President Trump indicated that he wouldn't mandate the vaccines.

Most of the protesters who have been disrupting Trudeau's events are anti-vaccination activists who oppose vaccination mandates. Again, try to put yourself in their shoes.

She also cites the example of the Liberal government invoking the Emergencies Act in February in response to the truckers-inspired convoy protests over COVID-19 mandates.

From coast to coast, ordinary citizens have sought various ways to protest selective business shutdowns, disproportionate suffering, unnecessary vaccine mandates, and government overreach.

This claim is vehemently denied by Freedom Convoy organizers, who say their three-week protest against COVID-19 mandates in the nation’s capital was peaceful.

The administration hasn't asked illegal entrants to be tested for or vaccinated against COVID-19. Yet all U.S. citizens in the military and employed by the federal government are threatened with dismissal if they fail to become vaccinated.