This forum has been set up to allow vaccine issue activists in New York primarily to communicate and coordinate their activities during the 2009 "flu season" with special emphasis on the recent State mandated flu shots for healthcare workers with patent contact.

In 2007 a group of health freedom advocates met and said the following about forced vaccination:

The Tiburon Statement

Convening for Health Freedom of Choice, Protecting our Children from Forced Vaccination

Health and Freedom leaders and advocates, meeting in an emergency strategic session at Tiburon, California and electronically, declare -

- We collectively call upon Congress and State Legislatures to take immediate steps to restore and guarantee freedom of choice in vaccination and health care and to protect our children and us against forced treatments.

- The moral imperative embodied in the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki forbids involuntary medical treatment or experimentation in the absence of fully informed, voluntary consent.

- We have a right to legal protection against mandatory inoculations of our children, such as those which occurred on November 17, 2007 in Prince George's County Court House, enforced by police.

- Taxpayers have paid nearly $2 billion to compensate families for the death or disability of their children due to vaccination.

We, the undersigned, call upon the Congress of the United States and legislators of each State to adopt the strongest possible legal protections to ensure health care freedom of choice, including the universal right to vaccination exemptions.

Issued Thanksgiving Weekend, November 25, 2007