Boston College COVID-19 Booster Mandate

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JOIN OUR VIRTUAL SIT-IN!

2022-01-31 03:34:52

We’ve surpassed 1,000 signatures on our petition so now t’s time to CALL IT OFF!

 



We are organizing a sit-in - virtual style - to raise our concerns to the Boston College Administration.

 



Please join us in calling BC all week, starting tomorrow morning, to express our concern about these mandates.

 



Please see the linked sign up sheet below. You can pick a time slot (or slots) to call BC. We want them to hear from us around the clock until they call off these mandates and before another student, faculty member, or staff is harmed.

 



If you're not sure what to say, please see some suggested language below.

 



We hope you will take a slot to call as we only have days to stop this mandate.

You can sign up for more than one slot (i.e choose the same time each day to call).

 



To take a slot in this CALL IN, please go to:



https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0e4daea923a4f8c43-call and choose the times you will commit to calling the President’s office, asking Boston College to CALL IT OFF!

 



(Your name and email are not shown or shared and you can use another name - Sophomore Mom - for choosing your slot).

 



Please comment below if you are joining us and why!

 



Thank you

 

 



Suggested Call Script:

 



I am a Boston College (parent/student/alumni, class of XX) and I’d like to get a message to Fr. Leahy…

 



These mandates are medically unnecessary and they will harm more kids like the student who suffered a stroke last week.

 



Until you drop these mandates, we will continue to apply public pressure to expose the risk you are putting these students at, as well as withhold any planned financial support we had intended to give to the school.


BC Parents, Students, Faculty, and Alumni

BC MANDATE

2022-01-28 21:42:55

BC continues to ignore our calls and emails.

Please pray for a sophomore at BC who had a stroke yesterday and is in the hospital.

The doctor has told them that he believes the stroke was caused by the J&J vaccine. Please pray that he has quick and full recovery.

If you are a doctor and can help us by sharing your opinion or facts about what you've observed in your practices, please do. We need your help today.

If you are a student or parent of a student who has suffered an adverse reaction following the covid vaccines, please email us well.

We are working to get press on this story. SHARE this with anyone who will cover it and share the petition with anyone who will sign it. The parents will talk to the press.

Thank you,

The Moms of BC who Organized this Petition

 


BC Parents, Students, Faculty, and Alumni

BC Headline Says it All

2022-01-20 02:52:58

This headline says it all.

Please help us break 1,000 signatures and invite others to sign.

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BC Parents, Students, Faculty, and Alumni

Exemptions

2022-01-16 02:50:05

If anyone has had an exemption denied - medical or religious - would you please message us through the petition link?

Thank you


BC Parents, Students, Faculty, and Alumni

800! Keep emailing...

2022-01-15 13:05:08

We've passed 800 signatures - now on to 1,000! Please keep sharing and asking others you know to sign. This fight is too important and failure could mean devastating consequences for some.

Our kids need to see that we won't back down from fighting for their rights and protecting their health. 

The BC administration appears to be taking notice of our petition and emails. According to several employees, BC's HR Dept is anxious to get any stragler employees to comply, holding meetings (another one scheduled for Monday) with employees and unions on what it will take for them to roll up their sleeves. They don't want the public outcry when they fire people for not getting the booster, yet they will be forced to do so. Why is that? What's the urgency?

These are all employees - much like our students - who already complied with the mandate of last August. Many took shots they did not want, simply to keep their jobs. Some have suffered life-altering side effects. Yet BC just wants compliance.

Please email BC this morning and show support for these employees and our kids.

To the BC Administration,

We stand unified in our opposition to the current booster mandate and respectfully request an equitable modification that recommends, rather than requires, the booster shot. And we hope you will respect the rights and wishes of BC employees who do not want these shots.

William.leahy@bc.edu
David.trainor@bc.edu
nora.field@bc.edu
provostoffice@bc.edu
comeaudo@bc.edu
Michael.lochhead@bc.edu
Joseph.Herlihy@bc.edu
John.Butler@bc.edu
Coopergs@bc.edu
 
School communities across the country are fighting back, holding the line. 
 
Thank you for your support and we hope you will email BC in support of these employees.
 
One article we think is worth reading:
 
 

BC Parents, Students, Faculty, and Alumni

Urgent Request for Support

2022-01-14 14:03:58

Per our email last night, we ask that you send a quick email to the BC Administration this morning in solidarity with any employees at the school who want to have a voice in the decisions about their health.

Students have already begun returning, so the timing is urgent. Emails and suggested text are below.

Also, please read and share this open letter to BC Faculty and Staff from Dr. Hooman Noorchashm. It is beautifully written and expresses many of the concerns so many of us have.

Feel free to include this in your email.

 

https://noorchashm.medium.com/an-urgent-s-o-s-752e4418b769

 

To the BC Administration,

We stand unified in our opposition to the current booster mandate and respectfully request an equitable modification that recommends, rather than requires, the booster shot.

William.leahy@bc.edu
David.trainor@bc.edu
nora.field@bc.edu
provostoffice@bc.edu
Michael.lochhead@bc.edu
Joseph.Herlihy@bc.edu
John.Butler@bc.edu

 

 

 


BC Parents, Students, Faculty, and Alumni

BC Administration Takes Notice

2022-01-14 03:27:19

We have received reports that the Boston College administration has taken notice of our petition.

 



Several Boston College employees have informed us that the unions have been offered monetary incentives to comply with the booster mandate - and NOT support the petition.

 



If these reports are true, the school is ignoring the medical concerns of employees for the sake of compliance and to shutdown any dialogue on the matter.



Please email the administration directly, at the emails below. Time is critical as they reference a few thousand "hold outs" who have not complied.



 



To the BC Administration,

 



We stand unified in our petition and respectfully request an equitable modification that recommends, rather than requires, the booster shot.



 













 

Please support our community, which includes the voices of BC employees and faculty.

 

We hope you will consider sending an email.

 

Thank you


BC Parents, Students, Faculty, and Alumni

Press Release - College Coalition

2022-01-11 17:09:57

BC parents, students, faculty, and staff have formed a coalition with parents from other colleges, who are also seeking to address booster mandates at their schools.

Please see the attached press release. If you would, please download or screen shot the press release and share with any contacts in the press that you know or can find (just google or go to a media web site or Twitter page for how you can contact them). 

Thank you!

 

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BC Parents, Students, Faculty, and Alumni

LINKS to SCHOOL PETITIONS

2022-01-11 16:30:57

BOSTON COLLEGE

https://www.petitions.net/boston_college_booster?u=7886691

 

CORNELL

https://cornelliansagainstboostermandate.wordpress.com/2022/01/08/open-letter-to-cornell-university-board-of-trustees-and-president-martha-pollack/

 

UNIVERSITY of DELAWARE

https://www.petitions.net/university_of_delaware_covid-19_booster_mandate

 

GEORGETOWN

https://www.petitions.net/georgetown_university_covid-19_booster_mandate?u=7886691

 

NORTHEASTERN

https://www.petitions.net/northeastern_university_covid-1_booster_mandates

 

SANTA CLARA

https://www.petitions.net/santa_clara_university_covid-19_booster_mandate

 

St. JOE’S

https://www.petitions.net/petition_to_saint_josephs_university_administration_regarding_vaccine_boosters

 

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SYSTEM

https://www.petitions.net/urgent_communication_regarding_booster_vaccination_in_the_university_of_californi_system?u=7886691

 

UMASS

https://www.petitions.net/umass_statewide_covid-19_booster_mandate

 

UVA

https://www.petitions.net/urgent_communication_regarding_booster_vaccination_in_the_university_of_virginia

 

VILLANOVA

https://www.petitions.net/villanova_university_covid-19_booster_mandate

 

WILLIAM & MARY

https://www.petitions.net/william__mary_vaccine_booster_mandate

 


No B.S. (Booster Shot) College Coalition Against Booster Mandates without Exceptions

BC Update

2022-01-10 14:39:11

Good Morning!

Thanks to your support, we have more than 600 signatures of our petition.

Please keep sharing and encouraging others in the BC community to join our fight. Students are getting booster shots this week to comply with BC's one-size-fits-all mandate so we need the support now.

Please see Dr. Noorchashm's open letter to Father Leahy here: https://noorchashm.medium.com/a-message-to-the-honorable-fr-662f0b143d6b Please forward to others.

This clip from an interview of CDC Director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, undermines the argument that the booster mandate will cut down on transmission: https://twitter.com/drscott_atlanta/status/1480295777213857799?fbclid=IwAR1k-aFaSn21IRpjeCp6TmXh0FdUUHJpRqAmXKUp46FFLzodzlf6_W2TAes

Consider sharing this clip with BC administrators (Fr. Leahy, Health Services, Dr. Comeau) and demand a reply on why they are mandating a booster without providing for any exceptions? 

provostoffice@bc.edu
comeaudo@bc.edu
william.leahy@bc.edu

And finally, we have formed a coalition with parents, students, and faculty from other colleges and universities also seeking to get "off ramps" to their own school's booster mandate. Please follow us on Twitter @NoBSCoalition and share the links to these school's petitions (below) with anyone you know connected to them.

The coalition includes BC, Cornell, Villanova, St. Joe's, Northeastern, UVA, Santa Clara, William & Mary, the UC school system, UMASS, and Georgetown.

Thank you for your support!

 

PETITION LINKS

BOSTON COLLEGE

https://www.petitions.net/boston_college_booster?u=7886691

 

VILLANOVA

https://www.petitions.net/villanova_university_covid-19_booster_mandate

 

St. JOE’S

https://www.petitions.net/petition_to_saint_josephs_university_administration_regarding_vaccine_boosters

 

NORTHEASTERN

https://www.petitions.net/northeastern_university_covid-1_booster_mandates

 

UVA

https://www.petitions.net/urgent_communication_regarding_booster_vaccination_in_the_university_of_virginia

 

SANTA CLARA

https://www.petitions.net/santa_clara_university_covid-19_booster_mandate

 

WILLIAM & MARY

https://www.petitions.net/william__mary_vaccine_booster_mandate

 

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SYSTEM

https://www.petitions.net/urgent_communication_regarding_booster_vaccination_in_the_university_of_californi_system?u=7886691

 

CORNELL

https://www.petitions.net/cornell_university_covid-19_booster_mandate

 

GEORGETOWN

https://www.petitions.net/georgetown_university_covid-19_booster_mandate?u=7886691


BC Parents, Students, Faculty, and Alumni



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