Mask Bans Are Everyone’s Fight (08/22/24)

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🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Beatrice, Artie and Jules discuss the mask ban passed in Nassau County last week, the latest in a dramatic rise in legislation criminalizing face masks and targeting the Palestine solidarity movement. We look at what happened in the overtly hostile public hearing over the ban, the history of the New York statute that ban proponents want back, and how the threat of mask bans goes far beyond public health: mask bans embolden racist policing; they’re anti-trans; and they target the whole of the left. Transcript: www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/mask-bans-are-everyones-fight Watch the full Nassau County mask ban hearing here: https://vimeo.com/994184432 Read the statement on the hearing by Jews for Mask Rights here: https://www.jewsformaskrights.com/resources/anti-mask-harassment-nassau-countys-mask-ban-hearing Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

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1:03.6	us at Death Panel underscore. I'm Beatrice Saldor Bolton, and today I'm here with my co-hosts,
1:09.5	Ardivir Kant. Hello. And Jules Gil Peterson. Hello. And the three of us are going to be talking about the dramatic rise of mask bans and also why it's so important for all of us on the left to work together to do everything that we can to stop them. Last week, New York's Nassau County signed into law its Mask Transparency Act, which is just
1:29.4	the latest in a wave of laws and amendments, criminalizing masking in public that have been
1:33.8	proposed by both Democrats and Republicans of the United States this year, including the
1:38.5	mask ban in North Carolina passed in late June. And it's also important to note that on Monday,
1:43.7	the University of California system,
1:46.0	the entire UC system, announced a zero tolerance policy for both Palestine Solidarity encampments
1:52.6	and for masking to, quote, conceal identity. The NASA mask ban in particular is a real piece of work.
1:59.6	It was proposed by someone who is a former IDF member.
2:03.5	It was signed into law on August 14th, and it makes it possible for police in Nassau County to stop you
2:09.3	just for wearing a mask. And it sets a penalty of a $1,000 fine, one year in prison, or both for
2:16.8	wearing a mask. And the circumstances it was
2:19.4	passed under are also a big part of the story here. On August 5th, Nassau County held a hearing on
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