NY State judge blocks mandatory vaccinations!

Posted on October 16, 2009 by iwilder

(excerpt from) The Albany Times Union State judge blocks mandatory vaccinations October 16, 2009 at 2:08 pm by Casey Seiler The temporary restraining order was issued in State Supreme Court in Albany by Judge Thomas McNamara, one of the few people to emerge from the coup crisis looking like a responsible grownup. From the AP:

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In LI: Health care workers protest mandatory vaccinations

Posted on October 11, 2009 by kwilder

(excerpt from) Newsday Health care workers protest flu-vaccination order October 11, 2009 Health care providers from throughout Long Island gathered on the lawn of Suffolk County’s Health Department Saturday in a second day of protests against the state’s mandatory flu-vaccination order. Carrying picket signs in Hauppauge, the group numbering about 60 quietly talked among themselves […]

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Mandatory vaccines: Lawsuit News & Activist Research

Posted on October 10, 2009 by kwilder

(excerpt from) Newsday Rockland attorney sues to halt mandated flu shots …On behalf of Suzanne Field, a registered nurse in Dutchess County, and 60,000 health care workers in the state, [attorney Patricia] Finn filed for a temporary restraining order Tuesday in State Supreme Court in Manhattan against Health Commissioner Dr. Richard Daines and Jeffrey Kraut… […]

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For the workers and the inmates: hope the NYC gov’t does what is right

Posted on May 17, 2009 by kwilder

Swine Flu at Rikers Island Prison I do not know exactly what is the right thing to do. But, I feel it is important to have concern for both the workers and the inmates in that prison. What a government does in times like these often effects elections, and the way cultures get remembered in […]

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New name for swine flu?

Posted on May 2, 2009 by kwilder

Scientists at the World Health Organization are trying to get the public to refer to swine flu by a different, more scientific name: A (H1N1). Story at the NY Times is: here. Are people supposed to say A (H1N1) every time? I think no one will have time to tell their children to wash their […]

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