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Showing Original Post only (View all)'People's Convoy' plans to slowly loop around the beltway Sunday [View all]
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The Washington Post
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Mar 6, 2022
Organizers of the Peoples Convoy say they are planning to circle their armada of trucks, cars and SUVs around the Beltway on Sunday morning and into the workweek at the minimum speed limit to slow traffic and get their message to lawmakers.
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Peoples Convoy plans to slowly loop around the beltway Sunday
People's Convoy plans to slow roll the Beltway on Sunday and possibly into next week.
Jeff Tiedrich
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"end these nonexistent mandates" is not the winning message these grievance truckers imagine it to be
8:09 AM · Mar 6, 2022
The Washington Post
@washingtonpost
·
Mar 6, 2022
Organizers of the Peoples Convoy say they are planning to circle their armada of trucks, cars and SUVs around the Beltway on Sunday morning and into the workweek at the minimum speed limit to slow traffic and get their message to lawmakers.
washingtonpost.com
Peoples Convoy plans to slowly loop around the beltway Sunday
People's Convoy plans to slow roll the Beltway on Sunday and possibly into next week.
Jeff Tiedrich
@itsJeffTiedrich
"end these nonexistent mandates" is not the winning message these grievance truckers imagine it to be
8:09 AM · Mar 6, 2022
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/03/05/peoples-convoy-protest-beltway-dc-region/
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Organizers of the Peoples Convoy are en route to circle their armada of trucks, cars and SUVs around the Beltway on Sunday morning and into the workweek at the minimum speed limit to slow traffic and get their message to lawmakers.
They plan to drive around the Beltway twice before returning to the Hagerstown Speedway, where the protesters have spent the weekend so far. The convoy, which recently numbered about 1,000 vehicles, intends to repeat that ritual each day this week until the groups demands are met, said convoy organizer Brian Brase.
On Sunday morning, hundreds of protesters gathered to hear the details of the plan. After a pastor started things off by telling the group they were heroes, Brase instructed them to drive between 45 and 55 miles per hour and stay in one line to best show their size. The mostly White, mostly male protesters raised their coffees in salute.
Around 9:15 a.m., the caravan began rolling toward the Beltway, horns blaring.
The truckers goal is a show of just how big we are and just how serious we are, said Brase, a 37-year-old truck driver from northwest Ohio. But its very easy to get rid of us.
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These aren't people, they're fucking jokes.
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Good point! We sat in standstill traffic there so long someone started blowing...
FailureToCommunicate
Mar 2022
#7
I think it might be a law in North Carolina too. maybe on the books for a long time..
msfiddlestix
Mar 2022
#11