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SUMMARY:QVRC Club Meeting June 5th with Curtis Sliwa for NYC Mayor!
DESCRIPTION:Next General Club Meeting:\nThurs. June 5\, 2025 at 7:30 pm\nat Marbella Restaurant\n220-33 Northern Blvd. Bayside\, NY 11361\nMeeting is held in the Banquet Hall\n_________________________________________________________ \n$5 ENTRANCE FEE FOR NON-MEMBERS\n_________________________________________________________ \nEducating and Informing all New Yorkers since 1875\n_________________________________________________________ \n\nSPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER:\nCurtis Sliwa\n \nRepublican Candidate for NYC Mayor\nFounder and President of the Guardian Angels\n___________________________________________________________ \nALSO THE FOLLOWING GUEST SPEAKERS: \nSara Carpenter\n \nJ6 Political Prisoner tells her story\nMy January 6 Story: Still Seeking Answers\n_______________________________________________________________ \nOdette Wilkens\, Esq\n\nFounder\, President and General Counsel\, Wired Broadband\nSay NO to 5G cell towers!\nRally against a Link5G tower outside PS144 in Forest Hills. Odette speaks at 10:45 minutes.\n__________________________________________________________ \nCoffee and refreshments will be served\n   Please visit QVGOP.org for more info   
URL:https://qvgop.org/event/qvrc-club-meeting-june-5th-with-curtis-sliwa-for-nyc-mayor/
LOCATION:Marbella Restaurant\, 220-33 Northern Blvd.\, Bayside\, NY\, 11361
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SUMMARY:The Freedom Fighters Reunion June 7th City Hall Park
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URL:https://qvgop.org/event/the-freedom-fighters-reunion-june-7th-city-hall-park/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Borough Hall\, 209 Joralemon St.\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
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SUMMARY:NY: Emergency Albany Lobbying Day today 6/9 to stop Medical Suicide bill
DESCRIPTION:NY: Emergency Albany Lobbying Day today 6/9 \nStop Medical Suicide Bill\nSenate Leader Says \nThey have the Votes to Pass Medical Suicide Bill\nHuge Threat to Disabled\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMedia reports\, together with other information obtained by the New York Alliance Against Assisted Suicide (NYAAAS)\, indicate that the State Senate may hold a vote on the assisted suicide bill on Monday\, June 9. \nAccordingly\, the NYAAAS Capitol demonstration originally scheduled for Wednesday\, June 11 is cancelled. Instead\, the NYAAAS is inviting all New Yorkers who share our opposition to this dangerous bill to a Capitol demonstration on Monday\, June 9. (Attention Allies: If you have posted or distributed information about our June 11 Capitol\, please inform your respective networks that it is cancelled.) \nDemonstrators will gather at noon at the Prime at the Plaza Café in the Empire State Plaza Concourse. We will then deploy to various locations within the Capitol complex. We know this is short notice\, but the need is great. A strong Albany presence could help pressure senators to vote “no.” \nMore information here:  \nhttps://nosuicideny.org/2025/06/06/how-do-you-look-in-purple/ \n  \nNew York Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins announced yesterday that she believes there are enough votes to pass  Senate Bill S138 (Brad Hoylman-D)\, which would allow physicians to “assist” suicides by people who have received a prognosis that they have a “terminal condition” with less than six months to live. The companion bill in the Assembly A136 (Amy Paulin-D) passed several weeks ago.  \nThe Autism Action Network believes that the trends around the world in countries and states that allow physician-assisted suicide makes A136/S138 a great threat to disabled people\, especially people impacted by severe developmental disabilities. The threat to disabled people would increase with age as they become less healthy\, supporting them becomes more expensive\, and family members with a vested interest in their loved ones’ survival age and die. “Autism” is already allowed as a pretext for physician-assisted suicide ion Canada and other countries. \nThe bill’s sponsors are both personally very wealthy and represent very wealthy districts. Paulin represents Scarsdale and Hoylman represents the Westside of Manhattan. They can afford first-rate healthcare. They have the means to protect themselves from abuse. But what about non-speaking people with autism on Medicaid? Especially those with no relatives actively involved in their lives? \nThis law would be the first\, and most important step\, to allow institutions to kill inconvenient people.  \n  \nTAKE ACTION \n  \nCLICK HERE to send messages to your State Senator stating your opposition to S138. \n  \nPlease call your State Senator TODAY and ask him or her to oppose S138. His or her contact information should appear below: \nSenator Toby Stavisky (D-NY-011)\n(518) 455-3461 (Capitol) \n  \nYou can look up their contact information at the links below: \nhttps://www.nysenate.gov/find-my-senator \n  \nCall the offices of Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart Cousins and let her know that you do not want S138 to pass. \n  \nAlbany Offices  \n188 State Street\,  Room 907\, Legislative Office Building  \nAlbany\, NY 12247  \nPhone: (518) 455-2585  \nFax: (518) 426-6811  \n  \n172 State Street\, Capitol Building\, Room 330 \nAlbany\,  NY 12247 \nPhone: (518) 455-2715 \nFax: (518) 426-6844 \n  \nDistrict Office \n28 Wells Avenue\, Building #35th Floor \nYonkers\,  NY 10701 \nPhone: (914) 423-4031 \nFax: (914) 423-0979 \n  \nNew York City Office \n250 Broadway\, Room 1930 \nNew York\,  NY 10007 \nPhone: (212) 298-5585 \nFax: (212) 298-5623 \nhttps://www.facebook.com/andrea.stewartcousins \nX/Twitter: @AndreaSCousins \n  \nAlso Call the #2 in the Senate\, Deputy Majority Leader Senator Michael Gianaris and let him know you do not want S138 to pass. \n  \nCapitol Building\, Room 427 \nAlbany\,  NY 12247 \nPhone: (518) 455-3486 \nFax: (518) 426-6929 \n  \nDistrict Office \n22-07 45th Street\, Suite 1008 \nAstoria\,  NY 11105 \nPhone: (718) 728-0960 \nFax: (718) 728-0963 \n  \nTALKING POINTS  \n  \nDo we really want to permit doctors to assist in killing patients?  \nDo we as a society want to dispense with the Hippocratic oath requirement that doctors\, “First\, do no harm?” Do we want to remove the barrier preventing physicians from deliberately assisting or causing the death of patients?  \nThis has happened before\, and it did not end well. The Nazis’ first extermination campaign began with doctors and nurses “mercy killing” developmentally disabled children in a program called Aktion T4. Aktion T4 was expanded to include adults with developmental disabilities\, and adults and children with physical disabilities. Eventually\, 300\,000 were killed. This doctor-led program worked out the techniques of mass murder later used at the death camps like Auschwitz\, Treblinka and Sobibor. \nFor once\, we actually agree with the American Medical Association who oppose A136/S138\, stating in their Code of Medical Ethics\, “Physician-assisted suicide is fundamentally incompatible with the physician’s role as healer\, would be difficult or impossible to control\, and would pose serious societal risks. Instead of engaging in assisted suicide\, physicians must aggressively respond to the needs of patients at the end of life.”  \n  \nThis is the beginning of a slide down a slippery slope \nPaulin and Hoylman are “progressives.” Progressives wisely understand that you get further over time with multiple little steps to change law and policy rather than trying to make one huge leap. We have seen this strategy used in many policy areas.  Progressives are masters at continually moving the goal posts until they end up where they want to be.  \n  \n“Autism” is sufficient for assisted suicide in Canada\, Belgium and the Netherlands \nOther countries that allow physician-assisted suicide\, such as Canada\, Belgium and the Netherlands\, have continually lowered the ages of those who can be killed\, and broadened the range of disorders that can trigger assisted suicide. \n\nThe Netherlands allows suicides for non-fatal conditions\, including autism and psychiatric disorders.\nCanada is scheduled to begin allowing physician-assisted suicide for psychiatric disorders and non-lethal disorders in 2027.\nCanadian Veterans were offered assisted suicide in lieu of services.\n\n  \nChildren are allowed to be killed in Belgium and the Netherlands \nBoth the Netherlands and Belgium\, early adopters of legalized medical killing of patients have gradually broadened their laws so that now children are allowed to be killed.  In Belgium\, minors of any age are allowed to request physician-assisted suicide. Initially\, only minors older than 14 were allowed to be killed\, but the age limit was lifted in 2014. Similarly\, in the Netherlands\, initially only minors 12 and older were allowed to be killed\, but the age limit was repealed in 2023 to include children of all ages. \n  \nThere is no right for employees to refuse to participate \nThe bill does not provide clear\, unambiguous language that healthcare employees have the right to refuse to participate in a suicide and retain their jobs and be shielded from retaliation. The bill says employees may not be required by “contract” to participate in assisted killings but that is not the same thing as having an explicit right not to participate.  \n  \nProtection for Religious Healthcare Providers is flimsy and conditional \nThe bill does not provide clear\, unambiguous language that healthcare organizations have religious or moral values that preclude killing patients will be able to the right to refuse to participate. The bill says that organizations with “formally adopted policy of the facility that is expressly based on sincerely held religious beliefs or moral convictions central to the facility’s operating principles\,” may refuse to participate in killing patients. But who determines if the beliefs or convictions are “sincerely held\,” or “moral” or “central\,” and what criteria are used to make that determination?  Hundreds of thousands of people in New York have been denied various rights because government institutions have either declared that their religious beliefs were not “sincere” or simply disregarded those rights based on religious exemptions. New York has a long history of completely disregarding the religious rights of both people and institutions. There is no reason to believe that will not apply to implementing this policy.  \n  \nHow accurate are physicians’ predictions of expected life? \nPeople with “terminal” diseases often live far longer than originally estimated. People unexpectedly recover. Physicians do not have crystal balls.  \n  \nLegalizing assisted suicide sends the message that suicide is acceptable. \nNew York State rightly spends millions of dollars each year on preventing suicide. It makes no sense to recognize suicide as a statewide public health concern while simultaneously promoting it as “Death with Dignity” for certain populations. \n  \nAssisted suicide creates financial incentives to limit care  \nAssisted suicide is far less expensive than palliative and supportive care at the end of life. In Oregon\, some patients noted that lethal doses of drugs were covered by their insurers while cancer treatments were not. While advocates call assisted suicide a matter of free choice\, what kind of choice is it when life is expensive\, but death is free? \n  \nAssisted suicide discriminates against people with disabilities.  \nPersons with serious chronic or terminal illnesses often become disabled as their diseases progress. Health professionals and others may incorrectly perceive that those patients have a lower “quality of life” than healthier people do. While the rest of society receives suicide prevention education and services from the state\, this bill would direct suicide assistance towards certain disabled individuals. This double standard is a form of discrimination against people with disabilities. \n  \nSignificant pain is not required in A136/S138 \nSome states and countries that allow physician-assisted killing also require that a prospective suicide candidate must also suffer from significant pain that cannot be relieved with palliative care\, but physical pain is not a requirement under A136/S138. \n  \nSuicide as a choice is a coercive form of pressure \nAssisted suicide poses a threat to those living with disabilities or who are in vulnerable circumstances. When assisted suicide becomes an option\, pressure can be placed on these individuals to take that option. People can feel obligated to choose suicide to avoid being a “burden” which will disproportionately fall on those with fewer resources. \nAssisted suicide requires lying on death certificates \nThe proposal would require doctors to lie on patients’ death certificates by falsely stating that a patient’s death was caused by his or her terminal illness\, not by the ingestion of lethal drugs. Therefore\, no accurate reporting to state officials would be possible.  \n  \nPlease share the following link with friends and family\, and please share on social media. \nhttps://www.votervoice.net/AUTISMACTION/Campaigns/127669/Respond \n  \nIf you support the work of the Autism Action Network please consider making a DONATION HERE \nJoin the Autism Action Network email list HERE \nFollow the Autism Action Network on X/Twitter @AutismActionNet  \nAnd Facebook  \n 
URL:https://qvgop.org/event/ny-emergency-albany-lobbying-day-today-6-9-to-stop-medical-suicide-bill/
LOCATION:NY
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SUMMARY:Invitation to Reception for Maud Maron at Oasis Cafe
DESCRIPTION:  \nDONATION LINK FOR RECEPTION
URL:https://qvgop.org/event/invitation-to-reception-for-maud-maron-at-oasis-cafe/
LOCATION:Oasis Cafe\, 196-30 Northern Blvd.\, Bayside\, NY\, 11358
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250614T190000
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CREATED:20250319T155021Z
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SUMMARY:America's Golden Age of Freedom Concert at The America First Warehouse
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URL:https://qvgop.org/event/americas-golden-age-of-freedom-concert/
LOCATION:America First Warehouse\, 90 13th Avenue\, Ronkonkoma\, NY\, 11779
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CREATED:20250602T030428Z
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SUMMARY:NYMetroACT Special Panel with Jesse Petrilla & Tom Trento
DESCRIPTION:  \nRSVP
URL:https://qvgop.org/event/nymetroact-special-panel-with-jesse-petrilla-tom-trento/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250628
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250630
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SUMMARY:Justice in America Presents Face the Nation
DESCRIPTION:  \nLink to purchase tickets: https://parteaevents.com/event/60
URL:https://qvgop.org/event/justice-in-america-presents-face-the-nation/
LOCATION:Faith Hall\, 41-54 Murray St.\, Flushing\, NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250630T190000
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SUMMARY:You're Invited: Curtis Sliwa for Mayor
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URL:https://qvgop.org/event/youre-invited-curtis-sliwa-for-mayor/
LOCATION:NY
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