Oppose NYS Mandate of Swine Flu Vaccine-Tues 9/29/09-Albany-Rally

[Guest guest]

Dear Coalition Members,

 

Healthcare workers have been notified about this rally. But given the

amount of interest this rally has generated in the media, it would be most

beneficial to parents if there's a high turnout. Because the argument that

medical professionals urge everyone to get vaccinated will be dispelled on

Tuesday, in Albany, where legislators are assembled right now.

 

(note: organizers are still looking for nurses, doctors and other

healthcare workers to speak at the rally.)

 

And once they succeed in mandating vaccines for healthcare workers, you

will be next, if you work in restaurants, or other service jobs that come

into contact with the public.

 

 

 

Therefore, if you can come to the rally in Albany here is the information

you will need:

 

DATE: Tuesday, Sept. 29th (tomorrow)

TIME: 10AM to 1PM

PLACE: State Capitol Building (neat east steps)

 

PARKING:

STREET: Metered street parking on Central Ave, Washington Ave, and

State Street.

GARAGE: 111 Washington Ave, or

80 State Street (518-463-6920), or

54 Wellington Street (518-434-1660)

CONTACT:

vaccinechoice

and if your questions are not answered in the message:

call Lisa Rudley 917-414-9190

 

Note: if you are a healthcare worker in addition to a CFIC member, and you

have not yet been contacted by CFIC coordinators Heather Walker or Lisa

Rudley, then email them and let them know, at <lisarudley and

<heathwalker36

 

 

 

WHETHER YOU CAN OR CANNOT COME TO THE RALLY, PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING:

 

From Lisa:

 

We are joining forces with the health care worker of NY State to *STOP*

the unprecedented move by NY state's Health Commissioner Richard Daines to *

mandate* all Health Care workers get vaccinated with the seasonal and H1N1

(swine) flu vaccines or they get *FIRED*!

 

Vaccine exemptions are not being accepted and there are very limited

medical conditions that would exempt health care workers from this mandate.

The

FDA has *approved *the H1N1 (swine) flu vaccine.

 

*Speakers, Gary Null, Dr. Mayer Eisenstein, John Gilmore, lawyers,

doctors, nurses, health care workers, and parents will address the rally. (more

speakers to be announced) *

 

We need everyone’s support to call your legislators starting today (see

below for details) and show your opposition to these new initiatives. We

need as many people as possible to attend the rally in Albany on Tuesday,

September 29th at 10AM (see attached for more details).

 

This outcry for vaccine choice has gone mainstream!

 

Thank you, Lisa

 

(I am driving up to Albany for the rally and leaving at 7:30AM let me know

if anyone needs a ride from Briarcliff Manor, NY)

 

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From the Autism Action Network:

 

*Take Action!*

 

*Today it's Healthcare Workers, Tomorrow it will be Everybody *

 

In an unprecedented power grab, Richard Daines, the Commissioner of the

New York State Department of Health has issued an order requiring all

healthcare workers to get the seasonal flu shot by November 30 or face

termination. Daines justifies this seizure of rights by making the bogus claim

that

there is a seasonal flu emergency in New York. In another unprecedented move,

unlike all other vaccine mandates under New York law, no exemptions will

be allowed for religious reasons.

 

Please join the Autism Action Network in fighting this outrageous

trampling of workers basic rights. Please click on the Take Action link to send

email messages to your State Senator, your Assembly member, Richard Daines and

his boss, Governor David Paterson, and demand that this illegal action

stop immediately.

 

Please start calling *TODAY* Governor Paterson and Commissioner Daines and

demand that they cancel this illegal trampling of rights. *Today it is the

healthcare workers; tomorrow it could be you and your children.*

 

*Governor David Paterson, (518) 474-8390*

 

*Commissioner Richard Daines, (518) 474-2011*

 

A coalition of groups and individuals are organizing a rally for vaccine

rights in Albany, September 29, 10 am, in the East Capitol Park. More

details will follow as they develop.

 

Daines has no authority to declare a non-existent public health

emergency--according to the NYSDOH's own data there was only 68 confirmed cases

of

flu in the week ending on September 12 in a state of 19,500,000 people. And

none of the laws cited by Daines in a document explaining his actions gives

him the authority to override existing law by decree according to an

analysis performed by attorneys working with the Autism Action Network. The

Autism

Action Network is reviewing options for legal action.

 

Healthcare workers have always had the right to make their own vaccination

choices, and according to the CDC 60% or more of all physicians and nurses

choose not to get the seasonal flu shot. If this unsubstantiated pretext

can be used for the seasonal flu then a similar claim could be made for any

other diseases such as H1N1 flu and any other vaccine.

 

New York is very familiar with Daines' contempt for our basic rights. He

was the author of Assembly Bill 10942, " The Worst Vaccine Bill Ever " from

two years ago that would have made it a crime for New York residents not to

strictly follow the federal " recommended " vaccine schedule, and the law

applied to babies, children and adults. We stopped him then. We can stop him

now, but we need your support. Call Daines. Call the Governor. Send email you

to your State Senator and Assembly member. And send this information to

everyone you know who cares about health choice and vaccine rights.

 

--------------- END OF FLU VACCINE RALLY INFO ------------------

 

 

 

---------------- CFIC Political Action Resource Section - Keep this

handy ----------------

 

PLEASE NOTE: If any members are able schedule a meeting with their own

representatives, please let Gary Krasner know at least a few days in

advance. If I cannot attend the meeting with you, we have other members in

your

area who can, or at least write letters in support of your views. Your

legislator will be more attentive to your appeal if he/she realizes that there

are other constituents supporting you. ALSO, make sure you read " CFIC's

POLITICAL AGENDA " section below.

 

 

CFIC's main legislative agenda is at the state level.

The 2009 Legislative Session:

 

 

Philosophical Exemption Bill is A.4886

Religious Exemption Bill is A.883

Medical Exemption Bill is A.880

 

 

Philosophical Exemption Bill:

http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A04886

 

Religious Exemption Bill:

http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A00883

 

Medical Exemption Bill:

http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A00880

 

CFIC's Memorandum in Support for the Religious Exemption Bill:

www.cfic.us/legislation/religious/CFIC-ReligiousMemo.pdf

 

CFIC's Memorandum in Support for the Medical Exemption Bill:

www.cfic.us/legislation/medical/CFIC-MedicalMemo.pdf

 

 

 

PRIME SPONSORS OF OUR LEGISLATION:

 

Bill Status Search Page (NYS legislation):

http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/menugetf.cgi

 

Assembly:

 

Religious & Medical Exemption Bill:

Assembly Health Committee Chairman Richard Gottfried (D)

gottfrr

 

Philosophical Exemption Bill:

Marc S. Alessi (D)

AlessiM@ assembly.state.ny.us

 

Senate:

 

All Three of Our Bills:

Frank Padavan ®, Assistant Minority Leader for Conference Operations

padavan

 

Note------We are currently seeking a senator from the majority party

(Democrats) to be prime sponsor.

Please contact Gary Krasner if your Senator would want to become prime

sponsor.

 

 

 

STATE LEGISLATORS:

 

NOTE: You have one Assemblyman and one Senator.

Each legislator lists all their office locations & fax numbers on their

websites:

 

Find out who your state or federal legislator is here:

http://nymap.elections.state.ny.us/nysboe/

 

Comprehensive government & commercial Info about your NYS County:

http://www.nysegov.com/map-NY.cfm

 

ASSEMBLY:

 

NYS Assembly Website: Listing of Members & their Webpages:

http://www.assembly.state.ny.us/mem/

 

Email Listing of All Assemblymembers:

http://www.assembly.state.ny.us/mem/?sh=email

 

Assembly Committees, Commissions and Task Forces:

http://www.assembly.state.ny.us/comm/

 

SENATE:

 

NYS Senate Website: Listing of Members & their Webpages:

http://www.senate.state.ny.us/senatehomepage.nsf/senators?OpenForm

 

Email Listing of All State Senators:

http://www.senate.state.ny.us/Senatorbio.nsf/MemberEmail_Website?openform

 

State Senate Leadership List (the most senior & influential):

http://www.senate.state.ny.us/Senatorbio.nsf/Public_LeadershipList?OpenForm

 

2009 - 2010 Senate Committees:

http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/statdoc/scomlist.html

http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/STATDOC/COMSALL.HTML

 

Biographies of Each State Senator:

http://www.senate.state.ny.us/Senatorbio.nsf/Public_BioPage?OpenForm

 

 

 

STATE LEGISLATIVE LEADERS:

(When you write to your local representative, cc these people as well)

 

Speaker of the Assembly Sheldon Silver

silvers

 

Assembly Majority Leader Ron Canestrari (D)

canestr

 

Assembly Minority Leader James Tedisco ®

tediscj

 

Senate Majority Leader Malcolm A. Smith (D)

masmith

 

Senate Minority Leader Dean G. Skelos ®

skelos

 

 

 

CHAIRPERSONS OF KEY COMMITTEES FOR OUR BILLS:

(When you write to your local representative, cc these people as well)

 

Assembly Committees (currently all Democrats):

 

Health

Richard Gottfried (already our sponsor for religious & medical)

gottfrr

 

Rules

Sheldon Silver (Speaker of the House)

Speaker

 

Ways and Means

Herman D. Farrell, Jr. (Harlem)

FarrelH

 

Children and Families

William Scarborough (Jamaica Queens)

ScarboW

 

Education

Catherine Nolan (Ridgewood / Sunnyside Queens)

NolanC

 

Autism Retention (subcommittee)

Mark J. F. Schroeder (Buffalo)

SchroeM

 

Senate Committees (currently all Democrats):

 

Health

Thomas K. Duane (Manhattan - west side)

duane

 

Rules

Malcolm A. Smith (Jamaica Queens)

masmith

 

Education

Suzi Oppenheimer (Port Chester, 914 area code)

oppenhei

 

Children and Families

Velmanette Montgomery (Brooklyn)

montgome

 

 

 

FEDERAL LEGISLATORS:

(You have one Congressman and two Senators)

 

Congressional Email Directory:

http://www.webslingerz.com/jhoffman/congress-email.html

 

Contacting Congress:

http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/

 

Useful Third Party Legislative Tools & Political Action Resource Websites:

(example: Search for any government official or legislator - federal,

state or local)

 

http://takeaction.lwv.org/lwv/dbq/officials/

http://www.hslda.org/toolbox

 

 

 

CFIC's POLITICAL AGENDA:

 

CFIC has always had one sole agenda: " informed consent " , in the form of a

philosophical exemption provision from school vaccine mandates. Each year,

more and more parents are joining autism support groups, and most of these

groups have joined the loose assemblage of vaccination awareness groups

around the nation. In addition to informed consent, more of this influx of

parents concerned about vaccination also espouse an additional goal: To have

safer vaccines, or to as the slogan goes, to have " greener " vaccines.

 

But there's no commonly held agreement on what will make vaccines

sufficiently safer. Proponents of " safer vaccines " haven't even proffered a

meaningful safe threshold that would satisfy their " safety " demands. All we

know

is that they want fewer vaccines mandated for school; fewer doses in the

vaccination recommended schedule, and few if any given to very young infants.

They want dangerous chemicals removed from vaccines. They want quality

safety studies performed on vaccines, presumably ones which measure the

synergistic effects of vaccines administered at the same time. They want

health authorities to recognize more types of illnesses and reactions as

vaccine-induced, and that includes long-term reactions that exceed the

arbitrary

36-hour window restriction. That is what comprises the vaccine " safety

regime. "

 

HOW TO SELL THE PHILOSOPHICAL WAIVER TO YOUR LEGISLATOR:

 

Some politicians are more altruistic than others. But they all must

operate with a degree of self-interest to remain incumbants. Thus, they must

perform a personal risk assessment on the consequences from supporting or

opposing an issue. Thus, in addition to advocating against the efficacy of

vaccination, please say the following to your state legislator:

 

1. You are currently being placed on the hot seat. Every year drug

companies and doctors pressure you to mandate more vaccines. They assure you

that epidemics will occur without them, despite the absence of epidemics in

Europe, Australia, and Canada where there are no government mandates. You

cave into these dire predictions because you don't possess the medical

expertise to rebut their slanted views. Then parents---who are forced to

subject their children to the greater risks from more vaccine doses---accuse

you

of selling out to the vested interests (drug companies) and those with

conflicts of interest (doctors getting paid by drug companies).

 

2. You are about to reap a tsunami of political backlash from voters.

It may not arrive until the CDC revises the autism stats to an incidence

level of 1 in 100 kids. Or 1 in 50. But it will come sooner than you think.

And when it does, it will take with it all legislators who rubber stamped

vaccine mandates year after year.

 

3. Most parents in NYS prefer a philosophical waiver. It appeals to

parents who don't wish to subject themselves to intrussive and degrading

religious tribunals by school administrators. It appeals to parents who reject

the one-size-fits-all, broad-based, recommended vaccination schedule, in

favor of the clinical judgment of their pediatricians, whose function is to

represent the health interests of the individual child. By contrast, the

rationale for vaccination schedules and state mandates are supposedly to

maintain the health of the public at large. In other words, the philosophical

waiver removes the unpopular, controversial issues of, " who is religious

enough to qualify for exemption " , and " what contraindications are sufficient

to designate a child as susceptible to vaccine injury. " The philosophical

waiver is the only exemption provision that sidesteps the fiscal costs of a

regime to screen exemption applications, because it's the only type of

waiver that's self-executing upon submission.

 

THEREFORE, Mr. legislator, in order to get out from under the current

squeeze between drug companies and parents forced to vaccinate, you must

relieve the pressure. There are only two ways to do that. Either rescind PHL

2164/5 to end vaccine mandates, or else provide parents in NYS what parents

in 18 other states have----a self-executing, unrestricted right to withhold

consent----a philosophical waiver. Co-sponsoring this bill will also

immunize you from the coming tsunami of voter dissatisfaction over the epidemic

of neurological, immunological, and chronic illnesses that are being linked

to vaccination. You'll be able to claim that you had provided parents

with the right to refuse vaccination. Champions of freedom of choice will

escape the wrath of the voters and remain in office.

 

Two Questions That Must Always Be Asked of Your Legislator:

 

1. If 'informed consent' does not mean the right to withhold consent,

then what does it mean?

2. Should parents have the right to decide which vaccines are given to

their own children?

 

Whenever you're able to attend a protest rally in Albany, it's always a

good idea to make an appointment with legislators to meet with them while

you're there. Even if you can only meet with their staff. And do not arrive

at the Capitol with placards and signs mounted on sticks. Do not use

sticks for your signs, because you won't get past security with them.

 

 

Gary Krasner, Director

Coalition For Informed Choice

188-34 87th Drive, suite 4B

Holliswood, NY 11423

718-479-2939

CFIC

www.CFIC.us

 

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