Call To Action

Attn: President Biden & Governor Murphy

For immediate release:

NEW JERSEY- 130 parent advocacy groups across the state of New Jersey have rejected local and national calls for new lockdowns and enforced masking of their children in an open letter to President Joe Biden and Governor Phil Murphy.

The full text of the letter is below: 

• President Joe Biden

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW

Washington, DC 20500

Governor Phil Murphy

Office of Governor

PO Box 001

Trenton, NJ 08625

Dear President Biden and Governor Murphy,

We represent over 41,579 New Jersey families across 130 parent-teacher advocacy groups, and we are here to inform you that your uninvited reign of destruction over the children of New Jersey is finished.

We have watched the last few weeks unfold in abject horror - observing our government institutions and leaders failing our children at every turn, again. Your renewed calls for lockdowns, enforced mask mandates, and masking in schools is not rooted in science and is objectively cruel to the most vulnerable in our society, our children. We believe that you are in fact aware of this and continue to play political games with our children, despite our efforts to work with you over the last twelve months.

We are here to inform you that this ends today. Governor Murphy, we call upon you to immediately rescind EO 251 and 253, and return the decision-making process regarding masking to the rightful deciders-our local Boards of Education. You have disregarded the doctrine of Home Rule in NJ, rendering unnecessary all local Boards of Education, Superintendents, and other supervisory roles, should you continue to rule by centralized mandate. You endanger the population of special interests you have intended to please-public teacher and employee unions. 

Instead of encouraging compliance, you have forced us into dissent and withdrawal from the system of cruel and unconstitutional impositions placed upon our children and unbearable burdens tasked upon our public servants. We are leaving the system to protect our children, resulting in long-term budgetary gaps and reduced demand for public education. The ESSR funds and associated mandates will eventually expire, but do not expect us to return to the system.

We anticipate that educators will be joining us in objecting to these mandates being imposed upon them as a condition of further employment, and we will ally with their cause. 

From this point forward, we consider any mandatory mask mandate to be an impermissible medical intervention. The community has not been presented with any long-term safety trial or clinical studies for daily mask use by children. However, there is plenty of evidence establishing the negative side effects of the physical, immunological and psychological impact of forcing children and adolescents to endure extended masking, far outweighing the remote chance of any benefit in transmission reduction.

Choices regarding health are a civil right, grounded in bodily autonomy, dignity, and the privacy of the individual. The profound lack of dignity, privacy, autonomy and treatment of children is appalling and discriminatory.

As concerned parents, effective immediately we will not:

1. Mask our children in schools

2. Allow you to use your private sector counterparts to enforce invasive mask mandates on our children in various stores or at community activities

3. Subject our children to any further local, regional, or national lockdowns or movement restriction

Simply put, these are not your children. They are ours and they too, are Americans with rights. They are our responsibility and our most beloved. They are not yours.

We applaud and support the school boards, businesses, and localities that have respected our parental choice. We anticipate and appreciate their continued support of our right to choose what is best for our children and individual families.

If you are a parent reading this, hear us clearly: you are not alone. We urge you to connect with other parents and make your voice heard.

We are strong. We are united, nationwide. We are in control. We have never and will never co-parent with the government.

You have this moment to take a step back from the brink. We urge you to restore our confidence in the appropriate balancing of rights of parents while still supporting our shared goal of the health and safety of all stakeholders. We thank you for your careful consideration of our concerns.

Signed, 

• Child Advocate Coalition, LLC

• Freedom Speaking LLC

• Shielding Liberty LLC

• NJ Fresh Faced Schools

• Unmask NJ Students

• NJStandsUP

• Unmask NJ Catholic Schools

• NJ Fresh Faced Public Employees

• NJ Parent-Teacher Unity in Schools

• No Mask Flash Mob NJ-II

• Freedom Loving Teachers of NJ

• Team PYC-Protect Your Children-NJ Open Team 

• WE The Parents (Old Bridge) 

• D.A.M.M. Dads Against Mask Mandates 

• Unmask our Kids in Berkeley Township

• Unmask Toms River Schools 

• Unmask Hammonton School District

• U N M A S K our kids (Lacey Township) 

• NJ Parents for Barefaced Schools 

• NJ Parents Alliance. Enough is Enough.

• NJ Parents Against Indoctrination in our Schools 

• Bernards NJ-Mask Optional/Unmask our children 

• Wayne NJ Schools UNMASK our kids!

• Wanaque Parents for Mask-Free School

• Unmask Our West Milford Kids

• Unmask Springfield NJ School

• Wall says No masks in September!! 

• Reopen All NJ Schools and Fight for Our Children 

• Unmask Montville Township

• NO MASKS for Students in Runnemede 

• Medical Exemption Accepted 

• South Jersey Freedom Fighters for Kids 

• North & Voorhees-Make Masks Optional 

• Unmask Clark Students 

• Pittsgrove Parents Against Masks 

• HVRSD Parents’ Voice for Mask Choice 

• Millstone Twp for BAREFACED Schools 

• Byram Parents for Liberty

• Free the Smiles in Garfield Public Schools 

• Sparta Township Parents/Residents/Tax Payers for Mask Choice 

• Unmask Wood Ridge Students 

• MASKS OFF-OCEAN TWP 

• Open Schools in Westwood/Twp 

• Liberate Lenape Region School Districts 

• Unmask Rutherford Students for September (Voices of Rutherford Parents) 

• Unmask Central Kids Now 

• Unmask our Children Glen Rock 

• No Masks for Students in GTPS 

• Howell Wants Their Kids Back to School Full Time UNMASKED 

• Unmask Our Children Northfield/Linwood School Districts

• For the Mantua Kids 

• Lincoln Park-Make Masks Optional 

• Moorestown Barefaced Schools 

• Unmask Hammonton School District

• UNMASK OUR KIDS IN STAFFORD AND SOUTHERN

• Unmask Brick Schools

• The Real Parents of Stafford Twp NJ

• Concerned Parents and Citizens of the DVRHS Sending District

• NJ Fresh Faced Schools’ affiliates below by county:

• Atlantic/Cape May County Fresh Faced Schools 

• Bergen County Fresh Faced Schools 

• Burlington County Fresh Faced Schools 

• Camden County Fresh Faced Schools 

• Cumberland County Fresh Faced schools 

• Essex County Fresh Faced Schools 

• Gloucester County Fresh Faced Schools 

• Hudson County Fresh Faced Schools 

• Hunterdon County Fresh Faced Schools 

• Mercer County Fresh Faced Schools 

• Middlesex County NJ Fresh Faced Schools 

• Monmouth County Fresh Faced Schools 

• Morris County Fresh Faced Schools 

• Ocean County Fresh Faced Schools 

• Passaic County Fresh Faced Schools 

• Salem County Fresh Faced Schools 

• Somerset County Fresh Faced Schools 

• Sussex County Fresh Faced Schools 

• Union County Fresh Faced Schools 

• Warren County Fresh Faced Schools

• NJ Fresh Faced Schools’ affiliates below by town:

• Audubon/Haddon Heights Fresh Faced Schools 

• Bellmawr/Barrington/Runnemede Fresh Faced Schools

• Belmar Fresh Faced Schools 

• Branchburg Fresh Faced Schools 

• Bridgewater Raritan Fresh Faced Schools 

• Burlington Fresh Faced Schools 

• Camden Fresh Faced Schools 

• Cherry Hill Fresh Faced Schools 

• Cinnaminson/Palmyra Fresh Faced Schools 

• Clinton Fresh Faced Schools 

• Collingswood/Oaklyn Fresh Faced Schools 

• Colts Neck Fresh Faced Schools 

• Columbus/Mansfield/Springfield Township Fresh Faced Schools 

• Delran/Riverside Fresh Faced Schools 

• Evesham Fresh Faced Schools 

• Franklin Township Fresh Faced Schools 

• Gloucester City/Brooklawn Fresh Faced 

• Gloucester Township Fresh Faced Schools 

• Flemington Fresh Faced Schools 

• Haddonfield Fresh Faced Schools 

• Hamilton Fresh Faced Schools 

• Jackson Township Fresh Faced Schools

• Jersey City Fresh Faced Schools 

• Lawrence Fresh Faced Schools 

• Little Egg Harbor Fresh Faced Schools 

• Maple Shade Fresh Faced Schools Marlboro Fresh Faced Schools - Concerned Parents Seeking Positive Change 

• Medford/Medford Lakes Fresh Faced Schools 

• Millburn/Short Hills Fresh Faced Schools 

• Moorestown Fresh Faced Schools Mount Laurel Fresh Faced Schools 

• NP Parents Against Mandatory Masks in School (New Providence) 

• Parsippany-Troy Hills Fresh Faced Schools 

• Paterson Fresh Faced Schools 

• Pennsauken/Merchantville Fresh Faced Schools 

• Pitman Fresh Faced Schools

• Point Pleasant Fresh Faced Schools 

• Princeton Fresh Faced Schools 

• Randolph Fresh Faced Schools 

• Readington Township Fresh Faced Schools 

• Rochelle Park Fresh Faced Schools 

• Tewksbury Fresh Faced Schools 

• Toms River/Barrier Island Fresh Faced Schools 

• Trenton/Ewing Fresh Faced Schools 

• Unmask Ridgefield Park/Little Ferry Schools 

• Verona Fresh Faced Schools 

• Vineland Fresh Faced Schools 

• Voorhees Fresh Faced Schools 

• Wall Township Fresh Faced Schools 

• West Deptford Fresh Faced Schools 

• Westampton Fresh Faced Schools 

• Willingboro Fresh Faced Schools 

• FRSD PARENTS FOR CHOICE (Flemington-Raritan)

Freedom Speaking LLC and Shielding Liberty LLC have partnered with the Child Advocate Coalition LLC to unite with all mask-optional advocacy groups in New Jersey. Views expressed by the individual members or groups may or may not represent the views of the individual members or entities referenced above, however the entities are proud to share a platform for medical freedom.

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