{"id":77116,"date":"2022-02-08T23:27:26","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T05:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=77116"},"modified":"2022-02-08T23:30:59","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T05:30:59","slug":"77116","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=77116","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Alaska Freedom Convoy Rolls on in Support of Canadian Truckers<\/a><\/p>\n

Truckers traveled from Anchorage to Eagle River, Alaska, over the weekend in support of a massive truck convoy in Ottawa, Canada, to protest coronavirus vaccine mandates in order to conduct cross-border business.<\/p>\n

More than 100 truck drivers took part in the Alaskan convoy,\u00a0the Anchorage Daily News reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cTruck drivers and other service providers since Jan. 15 can only enter Canada if they are fully vaccinated,\u201d the Associated Press\u00a0reported<\/a>. \u201cA week later, the U.S. required vaccinations from essential non-resident travelers.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to have the shot stamps on our medical cards in order to go out of state, and we don\u2019t want them,\u201d Jeremy Speldrich, a truck driver with GMG General, Inc. of Anchorage,\u201d said in the AP report. \u201cMandates should be our choice, whether you want the shots or not.\u201d<\/p>\n

AP reported that a second convoy of truckers drove from Eagle River north to the Wasilla area in a show of support of their northern brothers. And similar events were reported in Fairbanks and late last month in Juneau.<\/p>\n

Fox News also\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0on the \u201cAlaska Freedom Convoy\u201d in support of the Canadian \u201cFreedom Convoy,\u201d which is entering its second week.<\/p>\n

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Anchorage Assembly member Jamie Allard organized the U.S. protest, according to Fox News.\u00a0\u201cWe want to support our truckers,\u201d Allard told KTUU. \u201cWithout them, we\u2019re not getting our supply. We need to get our supplies here. People need to be recognized for everything we\u2019re doing here in our city.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are taking part in the Freedom Convoy standing in solidarity with truckers in Canada and really across North America. We stand for their freedom to choose,\u201d Kelly Tshibaka said in a video posted Sunday from the cab of a truck. Tshibaka, who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, is challenging Alaska Republican Lisa Murkowski in the 2022 midterms for the incumbent\u2019s Senate seat.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe also stand with them as they fight for their jobs, their families, and their abilities to take care of their communities. This is really about freedom,\u201d she continued. \u201cFreedom from people who want to be tyrants and dictate what we put into our bodies. We are against mandates from our political leaders. Political leaders shouldn\u2019t push their way into the patient-provider relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s how much we support freedom in Alaska,\u201d Tshibaka said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alaska Freedom Convoy Rolls on in Support of Canadian Truckers Truckers traveled from Anchorage to Eagle River, Alaska, over the weekend in support of a massive truck convoy in Ottawa, Canada, to protest coronavirus vaccine mandates in order to conduct cross-border business. More than 100 truck drivers took part in the Alaskan convoy,\u00a0the Anchorage Daily … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goobermint","category-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77117,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77116\/revisions\/77117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}