New York Mandate Podcast

“This is still really impacting thousands of people's lives. And it's not something we can just brush under the carpet and pretend never happened. This ruined lives unjustly and we have to make it im…

“Hollywood told everyone, ‘You cannot work without this vaccine.’ And everyone fell right in line. Even if it was a fake card, you were complying under pressure just in kind of a surreptitious way. S…

“Don’t think that politics doesn’t work, or that it’s so compromised up at the top that you can’t chip away from the lower levels. Because we can make a difference, and we’re seeing it. We’re seeing …

“Lawyers have believed that Jacobson versus Massachusetts is still good law, and it's not. It has been overturned, or overruled, by the 1944 [Public Health Service] Act and by the OSHA Act, which set…

“God forbid we have another outbreak of something and a vaccine comes along, and all these people who fought for now years—we don't want this to happen again. . . . We still have liberty, we still ha…

“People, you can do it. You can get what you want and need, so go for it. . . . Because you are unique and there's no one like you, and you have special skills and life experiences that are needed an…

“It just doesn't make sense anymore. . . . Maybe early on there was an excuse for them to have these policies. But I feel that if someone is continuing to mandate these things, that they had a respon…

In this episode, I talk with two New York City students and their mother. One of the students goes to a public high school and the other to a City University of New York (CUNY) community college. Bot…

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In this episode of the New York Mandate Podcast, I talk with New York City public school teachers who recently went b…

“We’re still stuck in a place where we are still financially burdened, we’re emotionally stretched. . . . A lot of people have lost relationships and homes. . . . So this has to continue to be in the…

“There are people right now that are going to commit suicide in three weeks if they don't feel heard. . . . So there's something actively that needs to be done. . . . I think the way to help is to co…

“If the point of these activities is for family involvement and kids to interact with their parents and to see some of the things that have been going on in the classroom, I have been excluded from t…

“It’s just a cry for letting our parents to go back in the buildings. Let them volunteer. Let them be a part of their children's education, their daily activities in school. . . . DOE talks about par…

“I'm a 9/11 survivor, so I had a 9/11-related cancer. So I wasn't really prone to being like, ‘Oh yeah, they lied about the air being clean, so let me just run out and take this experimental shot bec…

“There doesn't seem to be an appropriate level of concern that dissenting views are just shut down with ad hominem attacks on you as a person. . . . What does that mean for our country if we don't ha…

“To allow this kind of governing to continue is very, very dangerous, and it will lead to a point where every single person’s rights and liberties will be taken away. . . . This is not the first time…

“I was left with no choice. People say, ‘Oh, you had a choice.’ Yeah. My other choice was not being able to support my daughter or myself, and what—being homeless or depending on social services to h…

“My parents came here from the Dominican Republic, and this country is supposed to be the last free nation standing. And that's why people from all over the world come here—because of the freedom, be…

“I don't feel like I need to take this injection. I've already recovered, as I said before. I'm not sure of the risks. . . . I have a history of high blood pressure in my family. My uncle recently pa…

“One person can make a change for a lot. And right now, myself and so many others are standing up, especially . . . I'm standing up more or less for my kids, because if they do this to us now, what a…