JoNova » Truckers settle in, building kitchen near Parliament. Gofundme tries to steal funds, but is thwarted

The latest:

GoFundMe has taken control of $9m in Trucker donations. But people started demanding a chargeback from their bank to punish GoFundMe with full refunds plus fees. Donors can donate to GiveSendGo instead.
The Truckers are not going anywhere. The legacy media claimed they stole food from the homeless at a soup kitchen in Ottawa, so the Truckers built a soup-kitchen, called “the Shack”, as a community kitchen, and are feeding the homeless. When told that was illegal, and they could not build a fixed structure, they announced they were adding wheels.
The city of Ottawa is restricting food sales to starve out the protesters, but instead the FreedomConvoy are feeding themselves. (Did the city not realize the Truckers might be good at the logistics of food deliveries?)
After threats to bring in the military to remove the truckers, the Military has told Ottawa to find someone else to evict the truckers.
Truckers are being called terrorist extremists but in the streets they are playing ice hockey, sweeping off the snow, congo dancing and doing the Macarena. Live music and fireworks happen at night. Look out, it’s an insurrection: Bouncing castles for children have arrived.
In chilling news, a white van appears to have deliberately struck a group of protesters. Four are in hospital. The driver has been apprehended.
UPDATE: Panicked, GoFundMe has now promised an automatic refund to everyone. But it’s too late now. If the aim was crush the resistance, it only made it stronger. But nobody wins. The money hasn’t gotten to the Truckers YET, but GoFundMe may have sabotaged itself.

Fightback against GoFundMe’s theft*

..the weak corporate cowards at GoFundMe have succumbed to the pressure from “powerful forces”. Ezra Levant claims it was a request from Trudeau. They now say they will donate it to charities of their choosing. So people who donated may end up unwittingly supporting BlackLivesMatter or Greenpeace. So GoFundMe become GoFundYourEnemies. That, obviously, is outrageous, (and how is it even legal?). But there are ways to fight back.

This was the second largest donation cause for GoFundMe in Canada, and would probably have become the largest had they not halted it. GoFundMe now claims the Trucker convoy is not a peaceful protest but “an occupation” with “unlawful activity”. Though GoFundMe was happy to fund the “Occupation” of Capital Hill in Seattle in 2020. Some occupations are more equal than others.

If you have donated via GoFundMe, please contact your bank and dispute the charge to your credit card or bank account. That will mean GoFundMe will need to return the money and pay a fee of $15USD.

The word is that donors should not use the gofundme.com refund form.

*UPDATE: In a panic GoFundMe now says it will offer refunds to donors “automatically”. Perhaps the thought of 120,000 donors demanding chargebacks with fees was a bit frightening, or it might be all the people reporting the group to Attorney Generals and asking for investigations into what is surely illegal?

Once the money is returned, people can donate via the Christian charity GiveSendGo.com/FreedomConvoy2022. The site asks donors to be patient, as their servers are overwhelmed, and it may take several tries to get past the 505 Gateway error.

In their hysteria the collectivists destroy all they touch. Will GoFundMe recover when half the political spectrum refuses to use it? Long Live the alternatives.

Elon Musk accused GoFundMe of hypocrisy. … Twitter Link

A night with the untouchables

Reports from inner Ottawa from someone living there make for great reading. A local citizen wonders what makes the protesters tick, and nervously finds out that they are honorable hard workers from every corner of Canada, keeping the streets clean, honking by day but stopping at night. They love Canada and want to keep it free of tyranny for their children.

Farmers for Freedom

The Tractors have joined the Truckers.

Farmers for Freedom have arrived.

Truckers are going nowhere

They stop honking at 6pm.

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This is the audio landscape in a residential area of downtown Ottawa this morning. pic.twitter.com/Ol2Gk5XOry

— Glen McGregor (@glen_mcgregor) February 2, 2022

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The honking will continue until freedom improves.

The Truckers are building infrastructure. One instant community kitchen….

….https://twitter.com/JonathanWilling/status/1489641127313653767

News sites to follow the Convoy

The real news is anywhere-but-the-legacy-media. Thanks again to SmallDeadAnimals in Canada for the list below. I am but a cog sharing info. These blogs find such live and archived coverage of this historical event in Ottawa.

RebelNews Convoy Reports

And here some video aggregators helping spread the true facts on the ground:

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