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The #FluTruxKlan + Voices from Ottawa
Episode 99 Uploaded February 20: Coco Das interviews Steven Mesaros on the fascist trucker convoys
that have been harassing and terrorizing residents of Ottawa for several
weeks. Mesaros is a Canadian political science Ph.D student studying
emerging far-right authoritarian movements. Then, Coco talks to Andrea Harden, Sam Hersh and David Chernushenko, some of the activists who mobilized in Ottawa
against the convoys after the authorities refused to act to stop them,
successfully shutting them down and even persuading some of them to go
home.
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Steven Mesaros: We have our own homegrown right-wing far-right authoritarian movements here. What's going on with this trucker convoy? There's the individual level where what the truckers seem to want, and then there's what the organizers behind the scenes and what they want. Everyone just underestimating the funding that's going to these people. Because of digital media and social media, there is instant access to all sorts of radicalized groups who can mobilize people in an instant.
Coco Das: The people of Ottawa showed how it can be done, so that the people on the side of justice maintain their discipline and are not provoked. Ultimately, fascism has to be stopped by the people, and this cannot be done from the sidelines or the so-called comfort of our safe spaces. No place is safe from fascism, which is one possible resolution to deep crises that every nation in the world faces under the system we live under, a worldwide system of capitalism imperialism. We will continue to bring out the various dimensions of this in future episodes.
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