New York Mandate Podcast

New York Mandate Podcast

Aimee@Firsthand Media

Episodes 60
Avg. Duration 1h 40m
Activity Sporadic
Since May 2022
Latest Episode Aug 2025

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Monthly
Format
Episodic
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About This Podcast

Conversations with New Yorkers who are bearing the costs and consequences of New York's COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

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Recent Episodes

New York Mandate Podcast, Ep. 59: Attorney Christina Martinez

Aug 31, 2025 1h 36m

“People are still suffering. People are still out of work. . . . and a lot of them are still fighting these long legal battles. And the city has not backed down. . . . It really is up to the people,…

New York Mandate Podcast, Ep. 58: Teacher and City Council Candidate Athena Clarke

May 14, 2025 2h 19m

“We’re going to continue to push and fight for the people like us, because we have to fight for ourselves. . . . when everything happened, I was like, ‘But we’re New Yorkers! This isn’t supposed to…

New York Mandate Podcast, Ep. 57: New York City Council Member Joann Ariola

May 09, 2025 39m

“I did have a phone call with the mayor himself to discuss why the municipal workers, when we have such a shortage in staffing, why they haven’t been brought back, especially since the mandate has…

New York Mandate Podcast, Ep. 56: Teacher and Medical Freedom Advocate Michael Kane

Jan 27, 2025 1h 52m

“Full congressional investigation and hearings into employee vaccine mandates in New York City, leading to reinstatement . . . a process that is friendly to bring you back, not getting doors slammed…

New York Mandate Podcast, Ep. 55: Special Education Educational Assistant Garrett

Nov 04, 2024 1h 45m

“It was closer to the edge and closer to being on the street than any situation I'd been in in my life. They made economic warfare on us, it's not an exaggeration to say—like, everything short of…

New York Mandate Podcast, Ep. 54: Attorney Scott Lloyd on the Garland v. FDNY SCOTUS Petition

Sep 06, 2024 1h 1m

“Any time a group of people stands up for their rights . . . it's always important, even when it doesn't feel like it's accomplishing anything. But then on top of that, we're actually seeing results…

New York Mandate Podcast, Ep. 53: Hospitality Industry Worker Hermione

Jul 23, 2024 1h 56m

“For anyone who thinks that oh, you know, I had a choice whether to be vaccinated or not and that would be just fine, that’s not true. You would definitely lose your job. And if you’re affiliated…

New York Mandate Podcast, Ep. 52: Attorney Austin Graff on Miraglia et al. v. New York City Department of Education et al.

Jul 04, 2024 36m

In this episode of the New York Mandate Podcast, I talk with attorney Austin Graff about Miraglia et al. v. New York City Department of Education et al. The lawsuit led by Graff is being brought by…

New York Mandate Podcast, Ep. 51: Post-Hearing Conversation on City Council Reinstatement Resolution 5 with Matt, Diane, Tim, and Jack

Jun 26, 2024 1h 9m

In this episode of the New York Mandate Podcast, I talk with social worker Diane Pagen and Bravest for Choice members Matt Connor, Tim Heaton, and Jack Wei Lin after a June 24, 2024 New York City…

VIDEO: New York Mandate Podcast, Ep. 8: Sanitation Worker Danny Hulkower

Apr 19, 2024 2h 23m

“I think we need a labor party. I think that the only thing that's going to break the Democrat-Republican nonsense and the Third Way politics that they've created is by creating a third party that…

New York Mandate Podcast, Ep. 50 Teacher and Restaurateur Moe Olivier

Apr 08, 2024 2h 33m

“We are creative beings, and we can figure out a way through. So this is my way through, and it’s a process. I’m not through, but I’m going through the process. . . . I’m hoping that this, what I’m…

New York Mandate Podcast, Ep. 49: FDNY Lieutenant Matt Connor

Mar 08, 2024 2h 26m

“One of the things that I’m wrestling with is . . . how committed should I be to this career that I love so much when we’ve been treated this way—and the lack of decency in our return to work and the…

New York Mandate Podcast, Ep. 48: Social Worker Diane Pagen

Feb 26, 2024 2h 32m

“I want to live in a place that has real participatory society that isn’t top down and isn’t run by gangsters. I feel like New York is run—it’s like Boss Tweed all over again. You don’t have any say.…

New York Mandate Podcast, Ep. 47: New York State Agency Mandate Dissident Addison Reeves

Dec 23, 2023 1h 51m

“As an unvaccinated person, they're saying to me that there's something possibly wrong with you, that you're sick, you're ill, you have to prove your innocence. You have to prove that you are worthy…

New York Mandate Podcast, Ep. 46: Attorney Austin Graff

Nov 17, 2023 55m

“I don't think we've seen the end of the vaccine litigation. I think it's just starting. . . . Courts go back and forth—it depends upon the judge, depends upon the court—but they're sticking to the…

New York Mandate Podcast, Ep. 45: Cosmetologist and Hairstylist in Film and Television, Shellie

Oct 02, 2023 1h 28m

“I always feel that I’m in the company of some really kickass, strong people that are very brave. Even though they’ve lost everything, they’re still fighting. It’s not just me and my little group of…

New York Mandate Podcast, Ep. 44: High School History Teacher Doug

Aug 25, 2023 1h 37m

“The type of groupthink, witchhunt mentality, the sort of uncritical views that many have taken during this time are reminiscent of the times of ascendancy for the Bolsheviks in the Soviet Union, or…

New York Mandate Podcast, Ep. 43: Hair & Makeup Artist and Intuitive Coach Hilary Shawn

Aug 07, 2023 1h 37m

“I'm waiting for people to take accountability and say, ‘Listen, I messed up,’ or ‘I'm so sorry that I judged,’ or any of that. I don't think that's really ever happened. . . . It's just like, poof,…

New York Mandate Podcast, Ep. 42: Restaurant Server Virginia Alleyne

Aug 03, 2023 1h 49m

“What people don't understand is that this plandemic has ruined lives, has made us destitute, has evicted some of us, made some of us homeless, has had a lot of us commit suicide. This is very real,…

New York Mandate Podcast, Ep. 41: Attorney Sujata Gibson

Jul 22, 2023 1h 18m

“This is still really impacting thousands of people's lives. And it's not something we can just brush under the carpet and pretend never happened. This ruined lives unjustly and we have to make it…

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