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They are so mad, they are threatening that in the future they will teach the truth.

A relative of my wife is one of the teachers that got fired. She's pregnant even.

"Et tu, School Board?"

"Why not the rubber room on full pay where we can plan adultery, eat donuts, watch porn on our computers, smoke, and drink coffee, like the good ole days?"

I was a little late to the party. Joined when they started crossing the Brooklyn Bridge. Police escort the whole way.




Then at City Hall, which is immediately in front of the Brooklyn Bridge.




Then walking north through Manhattan, we received heckles from obese men, trans black kids, and of course the crazed middle aged women. Some of the protesters have really short fuses and can't handle a little heckling. Some punk kids overturned a testing site tent and made us all look bad. Overall, we seemed to get equal support and hatred from bystanders. Most people were annoyed we were inconveniencing them by blocking the road. Wait till they see the next steps in vaccine mandate totalitarianism.



We made it to the "Australian Consulate" which is an office somewhere up in a building on 42nd street. Chants were "Free Australia!"




Sorry if I overdid the images @Patrick but I figure I'm the only person on the ground for NYC on patnet so I might as well share.

DhammaStep says

I'm the only person on the ground for NYC on patnet so I might as well share.

Thanks a lot for your participation. Really appreciated. Hope more people wake up sooner than later.

@DhammaStep Thank you!

You didn't overdo it at all. I think everyone here wants to see those images.

You're a real journalist now.

The general mood was pretty bitter. Understandably so, as they technically didn't even lose their teaching positions, they were just put on unpaid leave, so they can't get unemployment or sue for wrongful termination.

Here's some more from today. It's more difficult to get good photos of the signs during a march due to movement.

Vaccinated and unvaccinated unity.


Fuck Biden flag. Couldn't get the timing down due to incessant waving.



"The yellow star stays on until we get our rights back."



"There is no pandemic." White rose sticker some protesters were handing out.



Faith or fear and teachersforchoice.org



Grand Central Station.







Unfortunately I couldn't stay long for the "Let's scream the building the Australian Consulate is in" phase of the protest, but there were some signs specifically concerning them such as "I stand with the tradies."

I also think the turnout was less than it could have been because of the weather. Chance of rain makes everyone less motivated here for unknown reasons.

Here's a few photos from right when they were getting onto the bridge.








I might have been one of the few people to notice this drone hovering above us for a while. Can you spot it?

Keep up the good work.