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This comes to us from FreeLaneCounty – If you’d like to get involved in how our city is run, consider applying for one of these positions.
Boards and Commissions
Eugene’s boards and commissions are resident advisory groups that provide an invaluable service to our city by advising City Council and/or City staff on a wide variety of subjects.
2022 Application Period Now Open!
Apply here through April 15, 2022 to serve on any of the following groups:
City Council Advisory Bodies* (see below for further information):
- Budget Committee (2 openings)
- Civilian Review Board (3 openings)
- Human Rights Commission (4 openings)
- Planning Commission (2 openings)
- Historic Review Board (2 openings)
- Toxics Board (2 openings)
Other Groups:
- Whilamut Citizen Planning Committee (4 openings)
- Library Advisory Board (3 openings)
- Expenditure Review Panel – Downtown Urban Renewal (1 opening)
*Please note: City of Eugene employees are ineligible to serve on City Council advisory bodies.
Budget Committee
The Budget Committee is a standing committee that reviews the proposed operating and capital budget each fiscal year and makes a recommendation on the budget to the City Council for final enactment. See City Code 2.013 and ORS 294.414 for more information.
Staff Contact: Email Vicki Silvers, Assistant Finance Director
Civilian Review Board
The seven-member Civilian Review Board provides valuable input about the fairness and diligence of the police investigation process, with the goal of making the system of police accountability more transparent and increasing public confidence in the manner that police conduct their work. See City Code 2.240 for more information.
Member Characteristics
- Age 18 years or older
- Able to pass a background investigation consistent with investigations conducted for other city volunteers who have similar access to police records and/or facilities
- Members shall not be an immediate family member of a current City police employee
- A demonstrated ability to be fair, impartial and unbiased
- An absence of any real or perceived bias, prejudice or conflict of interest
- A record of community involvement
- An ability to build working relationships and communicate effectively with diverse groups
- A demonstrated commitment to the committee’s purpose
Staff Contact: Email Leia Pitcher, Deputy Police Auditor
Human Rights Commission
The Human Rights Commission shall affirm, encourage and initiate programs and services within the community and advise and support City of Eugene services designed to place priority upon protecting, respecting, and fulfilling the full range of universal human rights as enumerated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The commission shall help the City of Eugene and the community work toward the elimination of systemic barriers to equitable treatment and toward inclusion and accommodation of differences among people. The commission will promote justice and equal opportunity for all. In these efforts, the commission may enlist the support of community groups and public agencies. See City Code 2.260 for more information.
Member Characteristics
- Members should possess demonstrated knowledge and interest in the civil and human rights concerns of the community.
- Members shall be appointed in a way that strives to have balance on the commission that reflects the community and has protected class representation.
- Members shall be persons who have actively demonstrated an interest and expertise in efforts to promote diversity, equality, equity and understanding of human rights, and to dismantle injustice, discrimination, bigotry, hatred and harassment within the city.
Staff Contact: Email Fabio Andrade, Human Rights and Neighborhood Involvement Manager
Planning Commission
Members of the planning commission advise the City Council and City staff on a variety of subjects by making recommendations on important policy matters affecting the livability of Eugene. See City Code 2.330 for more information.
Member Characteristics
- No more than two members of the commission shall be engaged principally in buying, selling or developing of real estate for a profit as individuals or be members of any partnership, or officers or employees of any corporation, that is engaged principally in buying, selling, or developing of real estate for a profit.
- No more than two members shall be engaged in the same kind of business, trade or profession.
Staff Contact: Email Rebecca Gershow, Senior Planner
Historic Review Board
As a subcommittee of the Eugene Planning Commission, the Historic Review Board oversees Eugene’s Historic Preservation program, the Cultural Resource Survey Program, historic education and outreach, preservation programs, and makes determinations on historic landmarks. See City Code 2.355 for more information.
Member Characteristics
- Seeking membership from, to the extent they are available within the community:
- Architects with preservation expertise and a historian with knowledge of local history.
- Professionals with demonstrable interest, competence, or knowledge of historic preservation in the disciplines of landscape architecture, real estate, construction, community development, urban planning, archeology, law, finance, cultural geography, cultural anthropology, or related disciplines.
Staff Contact: Email Althea Sullivan, Assistant Planner
Toxics Board
The Toxics Board makes policy governing the Eugene Toxics Right-to-Know Program, which is a public information program on the use and disposition of federally listed hazardous substances by certain manufacturers within Eugene city limits. See City Code 2.013 for more information.
Member Characteristics
- Seeking one ‘advocate’ member, who is not employed by or an agent of persons required to report on hazardous substances, and who have a demonstrable record of advocating for the public’s right-to-know.
- Seeking one ‘neutral’ position, who shall be nominated by a two-thirds majority of Toxics Board members.
Staff Contact: Email Mark Dahl, Assistant Fire Marshall
Library Advisory Board
The Library Advisory Board (Department Advisory Committee) serves to provide citizen input and to advise the library on policy, services, and library development. The Board members build community support and act as advocates for the library’s services.
Member Characteristics
- Seeking one at-large board member
- Seeking one Bethel branch representative, who must live in the Bethel neighborhood
- Seeking one youth position, who must be age 25 years and under
Staff Contact: Email Will O’Hearn, Library Services Director
Expenditure Review Panel – Downtown Urban Renewal
The Expenditure Review Panel for the Downtown Urban Renewal Plan convenes at least once a year to prepare a report on the Urban Renewal Agency’s use of Downtown Urban Renewal Plan funds and whether the expenditure of tax increment dollars was limited to the projects and the associated administrative costs authorized by the Plan.
Member Characteristics
- Members are to have or to develop a basic understanding of the projects, expenditures, terms, and requirements authorized in the Downtown Urban Renewal Plan.
- Members terms of service will be for a two or three-year period, with opportunity for renewal.
Staff Contact: Email Angelin Singh, Senior Program Coordinator
Quick note to let you know about a movie being shown tonight in Eugene. Terrain the film, produced by Marcelina Cravat and Andrew Kaufman M.D.
Sally Fallon Morell, Dr Thomas Cowan Andrew Kaufman M.D. and others share their perspectives on The Most Important Question You Never Thought to Ask…
Date:
Monday, March 28, 2022
6;00 PM
Tonight! We’ll be showing ‘ Terrain‘ starring Dr. Andrew Kaufman, upstairs above InJoy Wellness at 775 Monroe. Enter through the wooden side gate and up the stairs. We look forward to seeing you!
WISE CONVERSATIONS FOR MEMBERS ONLY
Our next meeting will be on Wednesday, March 16 3:00-4:15 PM ET.
Join Beverly Rubik, PhD, as she discusses the connection between 5G and Covid-19. She describes symptoms—hypercoagulation, hypoxia, headaches, fatigue, memory problems, oxidative stress, immune system disruption, heart arrhythmia, and more—that indicate Covid-19 and/or radiation poisoning.
REGISTER:
If you are a member, you may register in advance for this meeting. You will get an email confirmation with information on how to join on March 16:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwuceirrD8iEtarOE0y58Mtfj1aT9gatyFl
To prepare for the meeting, you can learn from Beverly from our podcast interview with her:
https://www.westonaprice.org/podcast/the-5g-and-covid-19-connection/
SEND QUESTIONS:
Members can submit questions about this topic by March 14, 2022. wiseconversations@westonaprice.org
RECORDINGS OF PAST MEETINGS
Two ways to view past Wise Conversations:
Logging in to our website:
https://secure.westonaprice.org/cvweb_weston/cgi-bin/utilities.dll/openpage?wrp=mainlogin.htm
Members-only MeWe group:
https://mewe.com/join/westonapricefoundationmembersgroup
P.S. Mark your calendars to attend our Wise Traditions Conference October 21-23, 2022 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Details to follow: https://www.wisetraditions.org/
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This comes to us from the Weston A. Price Foundation:
ACTION ALERT
2-28-22
SUPPORT A GOOD VACCINE BILL IN OREGON!
Here is the link – https://www.westonaprice.org/support-a-good-vaccine-bill-in-oregon/
Oregon’s legislators have introduced a good bill that would prohibit all public bodies and private entities from requiring a person to receive COVID-19 vaccines, possess “vaccine passports, or prove immunity to SARS-CoV-2.”
S.B. 1516 prevents discrimination and also protects minors by requiring that all parents or official guardians give consent before vaccination.
This terrific bill is especially important given the pressure that is mounting to deny access to people who refuse COVID-19 injections. Requiring vaccines and passports for Oregonians to live their lives day-to-day is both an intrusion into people’s private medical information and coercive pressure to be injected with this experimental, high-risk shot.
The introduction of this bill is good news – now we need YOUR voice to help it pass!
Urge your legislators to support S.B. 1516 to help protect minors and people’s freedom to choose what medical procedures they should undergo.
TAKE ACTION
Contact your State Senator and urge him or her SUPPORT S.B. 1516 today!
You can look up who represents you at: https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/senate/pages/senatorsall.aspx (look for the “find your legislator” option in the menu block to the right)
Sample script for email or calls is below. Personalize it by adding your own sentences and changing the wording – personal letters are far more effective than form letters!
“My name is ____ and I live in (town). I am calling to ask Senator ____ to support S.B. 1516, which would prohibit discrimination on the basis of COVID-19 vaccination status by both public entities and businesses in Oregon.
This bill protects individuals’ rights to choose whether or not to be injected with an experimental, fast-tracked COVID-19 vaccine.
There have been no long-term studies on the safety of these shots. No person should be forced to be injected with an experimental substance that could cause serious side effects. To date, there have been 760,102 domestic injuries and 10,909 deaths reported in connection with the COVID shots to the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) — and it is estimated that only 10 percent of adverse reactions are ever reported.
As recognized by the World Health Organization, vaccine passports create two separate classes of citizens, something that is abhorrent to the principle of equal rights in this country.
People should not be forced to take injections that carry a risk of injury in order to go about their daily lives.
I urge Senator _____to SUPPORT S.B. 1516, which would protect every person’s right to bodily autonomy.
Talking Points:
Keep your call or email short! Pick the 2 or 3 of these talking points – or none of them — that are most important to you and be sure to explain why this issue matters to you personally.
1) Share why this is personal to you. Do you or a family member have a history of vaccine reactions? Are you at risk for autoimmune conditions or other potential side effects of the COVID-19 shot?
2) One of the most basic human rights is that of bodily autonomy, as recognized by the Nuremburg Code. Ethical medicine requires prior, completely voluntary and fully informed consent.
3) No one knows in advance whom a vaccine will harm. Each of us may respond differently as we have different medical histories, genes, epigenetics, and microbiomes.
4) Vaccines are medical procedures that carry risk of serious injury. The U.S. Supreme Court recognizes vaccines to be “unavoidably unsafe” and to cause injury and death in some recipients. The U.S. Government has paid out $4.4 billion to the victims of vaccine injury. Hundreds of thousands have reported an adverse reaction to vaccination to VAERS. http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/ensuringsafety/monitoring/vaers/
5) COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers and providers are shielded from liability through the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act, or PREP Act. The only option for compensating people injured by COVID-19 vaccines is the Countermeasures Injury Compensation program (CICP). Only eight percent of all petitioners since 2010 have been awarded compensation through the CICP. No legal or medial expert fees are covered, no pain and suffering is awarded, lost wages are capped at $50,000, and there is no judicial appeal. In other words, the victims will be severely undercompensated while the pharmaceutical companies get rich.
6) As of February 11, there have already been 760,102 COVID-19 Vaccine adverse events and 10,909 COVID-19 Vaccine deaths reported in the U.S. to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System. https://vaers.hhs.gov/data.html
MORE INFORMATION
Read the bill at: https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2022R1/Measures/Overview/SB1516
Children’s Health Defense Oregon wrote:
Unite for Freedom
A Non-Partisan, Family-Friendly Event – On Friday, February 25th, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Oregonians of all genders, ethnicities, orientations, socioeconomic backgrounds, political affiliations, and vaccine status will join together at Portland’s Tom McCall Waterfront Park peacefully for a common cause…Freedom!
Public opinion has shifted dramatically over the last 6 months and many citizens from all walks of life are questioning both the lack of transparency and the multiple incompetent, one-size-fits-all, authoritarian governmental approaches to the COVID crisis. The time has arrived for us to hold elected officials accountable to their oaths of office and to We The People from whom their power originates. Continued abuses of this power are NOT acceptable.Health Freedom is not a radical movement; it has a very long Oregon tradition, and that specific freedom is currently CRITICAL. The public health policies enacted through the COVID-19 crisis destroy all our collective Constitutional rights and threaten to undo the progress made for equality by visionary leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King.
Trust has been injured and divides have widened since this began in 2020, but we can change this for the better starting on February 25th.
The Oregon way has always been to support parents’ rights, openly and respectfully, while debating polarizing topics and working together to solve problems. Mandates are not synonymous with the principles of Freedom we all hold so dear, but instead invite inequality and segregation back into our communities.The future of Oregon must be based upon equality, inclusiveness, and respect for everyone to see the world differently while still coexisting peacefully, despite making different choices at times from other Oregonians.Elected officials are the servants of the people, not tyrants who fail to respect the diversity of people and opinions that make our state truly great. When they fail to recognize their proper role, societal divisions and breakdowns always occur. All people have equal, inalienable rights, given by our Creator. These rights are not allowed to us in bits and pieces by politicians or bureaucrats wielding excessive and abusive powers!In the immortal words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, “The time is always right to do the right thing.”
Speakers to include Del Bigtree, Kevin Jenkins, Amy Bohn, Dr. Henry Ealy, Atty Thomas Renz, Dr. Paul Thomas, with performances by Five Times August and Rhymewave. Steve Kirsch had to pull out due to a scheduling conflict.Join us February 25th from 11am to 3pm at Portland’s Tom McCall Waterfront Park, Salmon Street Spring Fountain area for a peaceful but powerful show of unity. Music, Info booths.
We must expand our reach to the people of Portland who have not been able to hear our message. We need to reach beyond our echo chambers! Sponsored by: Energetic Health Institute, Children’s Health Defense Oregon Chapter, HFFH (Health Freedom for Humanity),Oregonians for Medical Freedom, and Free OregonFor more information please visit our website: https://uniteoregonnow.com
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https://www.westonaprice.org/demand-fauci-be-held-accountable/
DEMAND FAUCI BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE!
As Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Dr. Anthony Fauci has spent decades wielding his corrupt influence over hospitals, universities, medical journals, and influential doctors and scientists. Fauci launched his career during the early AIDS epidemic by partnering with pharmaceutical companies to sabotage safe and effective off-patent therapeutic treatments for the disease.
More recently, he has used his power to flood the public with fearful propaganda about COVID-19. To reveal the truth about “America’s Doctor,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has written a #1 bestselling book titled: The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health.
We here at the Weston A, Price Foundation highly recommend you read this book, and share it with others, in order to understand Fauci’s disastrous 50-year history with public health in our country.
It is imperative that Fauci be properly investigated. If we can expose Fauci’s lies, perhaps we can put an end to vaccine mandates, passports, and other draconian COVID measures.
Please help expose ‘The Real Anthony Fauci’ today!
TAKE ACTION
Call or email your Federal Legislators and ask them to demand Fauci be investigated.
You can find who represents you at: https://www.congress.gov/contact-us
Here is a sample script (personalize it by adding your own sentences and changing the wording – personal letters are far more effective than form letters!)
“My name is ____ and I live in (town). I am calling to ask Representative (or Senator) ____ to call for an investigation into Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Fauci lied to Congress about funding “Gain-of-function” research in Wuhan, China and has colluded with the pharmaceutical industry solely in the interest of profits.
Fauci has also repeatedly lied to the American public about the virulence and pathogenesis of SARS-CoV-2.
His most recent fraud involves his push to vaccinate children, which has nothing to do with their health and everything to do with adding billions of dollars to the bank accounts of corrupt pharma companies. Recently he referred to children as “vehicles of spread” for COVID, even though scientists and physicians around the world have proven this is not true.
American people, and all people, deserve answers and justice.
I urge _______ to call for an investigation of Fauci.”
Talking Points:
Keep your call or email short! Pick the 2 or 3 of these talking points – or none of them — that are most important to you, and be sure to explain why this issue matters to you personally.
- New documents released viaFOIA litigation confirms what Senator Rand Paul has been asserting for months. Dr. Anthony Fauci lied to Congress about funding “Gain-of Function” research in Wuhan, China when he insisted that the U.S. “has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
- More than 900 pages offederal documents reveal details of U.S.-funded research on various coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China, including two previously unpublished grant proposals that were funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which is headed by Dr. Fauci.
- Documents show that NIAID provided more than $3.1 million for bat coronavirus research to the EcoHealth Alliance, a New York-based nonprofit headed by Peter Dazak, including $599,000 to enable the Wuhan Institute of Virology to help identify and modify bat coronaviruses to infect humans.
- Fauci’s history in public health shows that he never should have been afforded so much power over the response to COVID. In the 1980s, Fauci orchestrated fraudulent studies, and then pressured U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulators into approving a deadly chemotherapy treatment he had good reason to know was worthless against the disease AIDS. He also repeatedly violated federal laws to allow his pharmaceutical partners to use impoverished children as laboratory experiments in deadly experiments with toxic AIDS and cancer chemotherapies.
URGENT ACTION ALERT
12-8-21
PROTECT AMERICAN CITIZENS’ RIGHTS TO MEDICAL PRIVACY!
https://www.westonaprice.org/protect-american-citizens-rights-to-medical-privacy/
Help us stop H.R. 550, which would expand state and local health department vaccine-tracking systems and provide for sharing the information they collect with the federal government, to monitor the vaccination status of unwilling Americans.
Vaccine tracking systems and other public health databases are already being used to harass those who have chosen to delay or decline vaccines. They are also used for interventions including home visits and reminder/recall systems.
Indeed, the author of H.R. 550 has bragged that her bill will help the government remind patients when they are due for a recommended vaccine and identify areas with low compliance.
This bill, called the “Immunization Infrastructure Modernization Act of 2021,” would also be costly to taxpayers. It appropriates $400 million dollars to expand vaccine tracking. Part of this money would be spent on grants and cooperative agreements to state or local governmental entities that agree to adopt the new data collection guidelines set by the CDC.
H.R. 550 passed by the House on November 30th with a bipartisan vote, so it is going to be difficult to stop. We must work to educate our Senators on why this seemingly innocuous bill should not pass.
Say no to the tracking of individual’s private and personal vaccination information by making two short calls today!
TAKE ACTION
Contact both of your U.S. Senators and ask them to OPPOSE H.R. 550. You can look up who represents you at: https://www.senate.gov/
Calls are more effective than emails, and only take a few minutes.
Sample script:
“Hi, my name is ____ and I am a constituent. I am calling to ask Senator ____ to OPPOSE H.R. 550, which would unnecessarily appropriate hundreds of millions of dollars to expand vaccine tracking systems.
This bill violates the normal principles of consent for sharing an individual’s medical information. It’s bad enough that many state and local departments share our health data without our consent, but now they would be sharing our data with the federal government also.
Adults are fully capable of keeping their own vaccine records and should be given the choice whether they wish their vaccination history to be tracked by the government.
I urge Senator _____ to oppose H.R. 550.”
Talking Points:
Keep your call or email short! Pick the 2 or 3 talking points that are most important to you, and be sure to explain why this issue matters to you personally.
- Immunization information systems and vaccine tracking systems are being used for a range ofinterventions, including home visits, reminder and recall systems, which can be harassing for people who do not want these contacts. This should be an opt-in system, but several states have already adopted opt out systems and this bill will create incentives for more states to move to opt out systems, so that they have more data to share with the federal government to justify their requests for funding.
- Opt out systems do not properly protect people’s privacy because they do not remove private information. The only way to protect privacy in a vaccine registry/information system/tracking system is to require prior consent so those who do want to participate can prevent their personal information from being put into the database. Once information is put into the registry, because of permissions for unconsented disclosure for public health purposes authorized by HIPAA, this information could be used to identify and target individuals who have chosen not to be fully vaccinated for interventions and harassment. This information could also be used to discriminate against these families down the road.
- Supporters of vaccine tracking systems claim they are a way to protect patients by guaranteeing patients don’t receive multiple doses of the same vaccinations by different providers. According to CDC’s own statements, though, it’s clear that a key purpose of these registries is to create pressure on people who are unvaccinated or partially vaccinated. CDC openly stated that vaccine registries are a tool to identify areas of “undervaccination” so they can be “addressed” and brought into “compliance.” https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6133a2.htm
- Using Immunization Information Systems costs states millions of dollars. If H.R. 550 passes, an additional $400 million would be allocated to tracking taxpayers. The money spent on vaccine tracking systems would be better spent to measures that actually address public health.
Read the bill here: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/550?r=156&s=1
Read this article for more detailed information: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/12/01/exclusive-tool-to-enforce-orwellian-rules-80-house-republicans-help-pass-bill-to-fund-federal-vaccination-database/
Dear WAPF Members:
Here is a message from the National Coalition for Health Integrity:
We need your help. Will you join us in a Save-the-Kids Educational Outreach Event the weekend of December 18th in your own community?
The goal of the Save-the-Kids Event is to help parents gain access to information about the potential risks of COVID-19 vaccinations. Electronic information is being controlled, so we are short-circuiting the censors by getting printed materials directly into the hands of the people.
This is a multi-state outreach event being organized by the National Coalition for Health Integrity. Thus far, we have events occurring in 14 cities and 6 states, but we are aiming for wide participation across the country.
- What: Save-the-Kids Educational Outreach Event
- When: Weekend of December 18th, 2021
- Where: Your own city or town
We invite you ALL to participate in this event. You can participate in this outreach event with even just one person or with a larger group.
How it Works
- Step 1: Download the flyers, cards, and instructions here: https://www.askhealthyquestions.com/dec18
- Step 2: Print some flyers and/or cards on your home printer or at a print shop.
- Step 3: Ask friends and family to join you.
- Step 4: Serve your community by giving out information on the weekend of December 18th.
The flyers and cards direct people to this page for comprehensive information about children and COVID-19 vaccines: https://www.askhealthyquestions.com/parents
There is a lot of flexibility in how you could participate, and it doesn’t even have to be on Dec 18 exactly. Some different ways that groups will be participating, include:
- Host an Outreach Event, where you meet up as a group to hand out stacks of the flyers and cards, and then spread out around the city to distribute the materials widely
- Host a parents meeting where you can hand out materials
- Give the educational materials to school boards, parent groups, etc
- Distribute materials in your own neighborhood, local businesses, etc
Please let us know if you will be participating by filling out the form at the bottom of the page here: https://www.askhealthyquestions.com/dec18
Standing in solidarity for children’s health,
Sarah, Karen, and Melanie from the National Coalition for Health Integrity
P.S. Hear inspiring speakers at this event (attend live or virtually) on Saturday, December 11: https://events.thefuturegen.com/hof3live-1211
This comes to us from the Weston A. Price Foundation:
ACTION ALERT
11-12-21
HELP FIGHT THE FEDERAL “HUNDRED-EMPLOYEE” VACCINE MANDATE
Link to share: Help Fight The Federal “Hundred-Employee” Vaccine Mandate
Tell the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) that it should not be coercing people into getting vaccinated!
OSHA has issued an interim final rule, effective November 5, which requires all U.S. companies with 100 or more employees to require their employees to either be vaccinated for COVID or be tested weekly and wear masks. Businesses that don’t comply face federal fines of up to $14,000 per violation.
This interim final rule is already in effect, but OSHA is requesting public comments as to whether it should become permanent. The agency is also seeking comments on whether to expand the standard to cover smaller businesses as well!
The rule has been challenged in court and temporarily suspended while the court considers the merits of the case. But we don’t know what the outcome of the case will be, and we need to speak up now!
Vaccines are a medical decision that should be left up to the individual, not mandated or coerced. In addition to submitting your comments to OSHA, please urge your members of Congress to sign on to a bill to block OSHA fines on employers who don’t force their employees to get the COVID-19 shot!
TAKE ACTION
Deadline: December 6, 2021
Your comment can be very short. State clearly that you oppose making the interim rule a final rule or expanding it in any way, and add a few sentences with your reasons.
- Contact your U.S. Senators and Representative and encourage them to sign on to H.R. 5464/ S. 2843.
You can find who represents you at: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/map
Below is a sample script for U.S. Senators and Representatives. Please use your own words. Calls are more effective than emails, and only take a few minutes.
“Hi, my name is ____ and I am a constituent. I am calling to ask Senator (or Representative) ______ to restore people’s right to choose whether to get the high-risk COVID vaccines in order to keep working, and also protect businesses from having to choose between mandating vaccinations or being fined.
While the OSHA rule technically doesn’t mandate vaccinations, it clearly creates significant coercive pressure on employers and employees. There have been thousands of breakthrough cases in fully vaccinated people, and a recent study showed that they are just as likely to infect those near them as people who are not vaccinated. So requiring weekly testing and masking of unvaccinated individuals is not based on sound science, but rather is a blatant effort to impose so much expense, discomfort, and inconvenience on people that they will agree to be vaccinated even if they don’t want to, in order to keep their jobs.
COVID vaccines are causing numerous serious side effects, and it is unethical to require anyone to get a vaccine that may injure or kill them in order to keep their job. To date, over 634,000 adverse reactions and over 8,200 deaths have been reported in connection with the COVID vaccines. These vaccines have reportedly caused more injury and death than all other vaccines combined.
Vaccines are a medical decision that should be left up to the individual, not mandated or coerced. Vaccine mandates are contrary to the concept of informed consent for medical procedures.
I urge _______ to support H.R. 5464/ S. 2843 to allow people to continue making a living without sacrificing their right to choose what medical procedures to undergo.”
Be sure to explain why this issue is important to you. You may wish to use a couple of the talking points below. Don’t copy all of them – just use them as ideas to help structure your own message.
TALKING POINTS for calls and emails:
- Personal healthcare decisions should NOT be dictated by employment requirements.
- Share why this is personal to you. Are you an employee or an employer that would be adversely affected by the vaccine mandate? Are you worried about the side effects of COVID injections? Are you simply against government mandates that affect your bodily autonomy?
- One of the most basic human rights is that of bodily autonomy, as recognized by the Nuremburg Code. Ethical medicine requires prior, completely voluntary and fully informed consent.
- Vaccine package inserts warn of the risk of brain damage, life-threatening allergy, and death and no one knows in advance whom a vaccine will harm. Each of us may respond differently as we have different medical histories, genes, epigenetics, and microbiomes.
- COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers and providers are shielded from liability through the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act, or PREP Act. The only option for compensating people injured by COVID-19 vaccines is the Countermeasures Injury Compensation program (CICP). Only eight percent of all petitioners since 2010 have been awarded compensation through the CICP. No legal or medial expert fees are covered, no pain and suffering is awarded, lost wages are capped at $50,000, and there is no judicial appeal. In other words, the victims will be severely undercompensated while the pharmaceutical companies get rich.
- COVID-19 vaccines carry the risk of injury and death for some so there has to be informed consent and the right to refuse the vaccine without penalty. As of November 5th, there had already been 634,609 COVID-19 vaccine adverse events and 8,284 COVID-19 vaccine deaths in the U.S. reported to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System. https://wonder.cdc.gov/vaers.html
MORE INFORMATION
Read the entire Federal Register document here: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/11/05/2021-23643/covid-19-vaccination-and-testing-emergency-temporary-standard#open-comment?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=dbd335f7-c92b-421c-95d3-c5c23f650cc4
(The proposed rule is at the end of this lengthy document.)
If your employer or school requires you to get a COVID shot, we recommend using the legal notifications provided by the Children’s Health Defense legal team. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/legal/legal-resources/
Read the text, status and history of H.R. 5464 here: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/5464/committees?r=12&s=1
This was forwarded to me by an alert Eugene Chapter volunteer. We include it here as a service to our community:
Hello,
My name is Kristina and I am an organizer for the Stand Up to Factory Farms coalition. We would like to thank you for your previous support for our work against mega-dairies in Oregon. While our moratorium bill was not successful this legislative session, we are continuing our fight against mega-dairies and, once again, we need your support.
Our coalition has serious concerns about the proposed Easterday mega-dairy facility located in Morrow County. This operation would bring up to 30,000 cows and millions of gallons of manure to an area that is already home to the largest mega-dairy in the state. The applicant, Easterday Farms, currently embroiled in federal fraud charges and filing for bankruptcy, seeks to open a mega-dairy on the bones of the former Lost Valley mega-dairy, which was shuttered after hundreds of environmental violations.
While review of the permit for the Easterday operation has encountered a bureaucratic hurdle, we need your help to ensure this mega-dairy never gains approval.
We have written a sign-on letter asking Governor Brown to deny the permit for the proposed Easterday facility, and our deadline for organizations to sign on is August 2nd.
Click here to read the sign-on letter and fill out the form if your organization decides to sign on.
If you, your board, or your members have any questions about the proposed Easterday mega-dairy or our sign on letter, please reach out to me and I would gladly connect with you.
Thank you for your time, and I look forward to corresponding with you in the future!
Warmly,
Kristina Beggen
Kbeggen@fwwatch.org
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Kristina Beggen
Oregon Organizer
Food & Water Watch and Food & Water Action
C (704) 989-9971
O (541) 200-6360
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