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**The People's Convoy** was an American protest event that took place in the spring of 2022. | **The People's Convoy** was an American protest event that took place in the spring of 2022. It was one of several convoy movements formed after the [[Freedom Convoy 2022]] protest in [[Canada]]. |
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===== History ===== | ===== History ===== |
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The convoy departed from [[united_states:California]] on February 23, 2022 and arrived in [[united_states:Maryland]] on March 4, 2022.((Graf, H. (2022, March 3). //“People’s Convoy” plans to be in DMV this weekend: What we know.// WJLA. https://web.archive.org/web/20230307063328/https://wjla.com/news/local/peoples-convoy-truck-trucker-protest-on-track-arrival-hagerstown-maryland-march-4-dc-virginia-dmv-march-5)) | The convoy departed from [[united_states:California]] on February 23, 2022 and arrived in [[united_states:Maryland]] on March 4, 2022.((Graf, H. (2022, March 3). //“People’s Convoy” plans to be in DMV this weekend: What we know.// WJLA. https://web.archive.org/web/20230307063328/https://wjla.com/news/local/peoples-convoy-truck-trucker-protest-on-track-arrival-hagerstown-maryland-march-4-dc-virginia-dmv-march-5)) |
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| ==== Chaos ==== |
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| On March 2, 2022, [[Freedom Fighter Nation]] founder [[Leigh Dundas]] authored a statement explaining the organization's departure from the People's Convoy, citing comments made by [[Bob Bolus]] about planning to enter [[United_states:Washington, D.C.]]((//Freedom Convoy.// Freedom Fighter Nation. Retrieved December 30, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20221230130345/https://freedomfighternation.org/freedom-convoy/)) |
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| In a January 2023 interview with [[Kristin Elizabeth]], organizer [[Brian Brase]] recounted multiple and frequent attempts to hijack and/or create chaos throughout the planning and execution of the convoy. He specifically names [[James Heckman]], [[Leigh Dundas]] and [[Carolina Bonita]] and describes their various alarming activities.((Elizabeth, K. (2023, February 16). //Interview with Brian Brase.// Substack. https://web.archive.org/web/20230307063726/https://beyondthemaze.substack.com/p/interview-with-brian-brase)) |
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| ===== Organization ===== |
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| ==== Personnel ==== |
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| ^ Name ^ Position ^ Notes ^ |
| | [[Brian Brase]] | Organizer | - | |
| | [[Mike Landis]] | Organizer | - | |
| | [[Marcus Sommers]] | Organizer | - | |
| | [[Jerry Stetts]] | Organizer | - | |
| | [[Leigh Dundas]] | Resources Support | Departed March 2, 2022 | |
| | [[Kristin Elizabeth]] | Volunteer | - | |