On Thursday, supporters of Without Papers Pizza, a pizzeria that refused to comply with the vaccine passport system, protested in Calgary in -30°C winds to oppose the government’s apartheid state.
Earlier this year, the popular pizzeria began its campaign against the vaccine passport system by offering free pizza to passersby, regardless of their vaccination status.
“We accept all, may they be vaccinated or unvaccinated, as being equal in their humanity and afforded the same dignity and equity as such. We respect that the individual has decided in accordance to their situation and allow that individual the right to freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression. We will not be in compliance [with] The City of Calgary Bylaw 65M202,” WPP wrote on Facebook.
Unfortunately, they were forced to close on October 9 after refusing to comply with the municipal bylaw that required businesses to discriminate against their clientele, but this didn’t stop them.
Rather than throwing in the towel, WPP took to the streets and was quickly joined by supporters who marched nearly every day.
Many believed that such protests would flicker out by the time Winter came around, but, instead, they have evolved.
As Rebel News’s Sydney Fizzard reports, “And, as you can see behind me, protesters have continued.”
“But they’re not protesters anymore — that’s what they used to be — now this is more of a support group or a gathering place for those that have been feeling a little bit marginalized by all these vaccine mandates that have come into play.”
I tried to have lunch yesterday at @southcentremall . I ate my meal standing in front of the fence that divides the unwashed from the washed. 4 security guards informed me that I had to leave, threatened arrest, then forcibly removed me. #NoVaccinePassportsAnywhere pic.twitter.com/uxCEdh9WF8
— Without Papers Pizza (@wopizza) December 20, 2021
Indeed, while many of WPP’s supporters come out to wave signs of non-compliance, others show up to support Jesse, the owner of WPP, personally.
“[There are] thousands of people [with] the mindset of wanting to go back to the way things were. We’re not going to go back to how it was before, but there’s no going forward with the way that we are right now,” one supporter explained in an interview with Fizzard.
“The way were are right now — locked down, segregated, discriminating [against] our own fellow human — is not a future that we can all exist in.”
