It was over a year ago when I first made this post:
MPVR leadership was feet on the ground busting it to bring the film Vaxxed to Mississippi. The "Vaxxed Mississippi" Facebook group was formed and grew to over 1200 members in less than 24 hours...it was clear that the people of Mississippi wanted Vaxxed across the state, but we were met with dead ends and censorship as we worked to bring the film to theaters in state.
MaryJo, Melisha and I had, with great anticipation, met Del Bigtree (the special visitor in my shared post above) when we attended the World Health Summit in Atlanta a month earlier. Del listened as we shared of the restrictive, oppressive climate in MS. He sympathized and encouraged us that we would find a way to bring Vaxxed to our state.
It can be difficult for the people of Mississippi to remain positive in this effort...Del taking the time to pop into our group in May of 2016 with encouragement was quite the moral boost for our grassroots base.
MPVR ultimately succeeded in bringing the film to Mississippi. We sold out theaters in key cities across the state, and we didn't stop there.
Despite the Mississippi State Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics along with some paternalistic doctors lobbying our lawmakers and medical professionals NOT to see the film, we had critical and freethinkers in both categories attend screenings.
Since then, we've hosted the Vaxxed Nation Tour/ We Are Vaxxed Team + Bus throughout the state and at our state Capitol twice where stories of Vaccine injury and death were filmed one after another with not enough time for all of them to be told.
You can view many of the recorded stories collected from Mississippi here.
Polly & Del speak at the Capitol, September 2016
After several successful summer screenings, we hosted a sold out a Vaxxed screening with a Q&A panel following with both Del and Polly during their first visit in September of 2016.
In November, several of us traveled out to Austin, Texas to attend the Vaxxed Homecoming event and visit the The Autism Trust Austin where Jonathan and Polly welcomed us into their home.
We had the great privilege of hosting Del in Mississippi during session this year to lobby with us and speak to both the Conservative Coalition and the Black Caucus at our state Captiol. MaryJo, Del and I "sat" across from a pediatrician and the Chairman of the MS State Board of Health on SuperTalk Mississippi Radio with Paul Gallo.
While Del was here lobbying, we had a Vaxxed showing in Hattiesburg hosed by MPVR and MS Healthcare Professionals for Informed Consent where the audience was primarily made up of medical professionals. That was followed by a Q&A with MPVR, MS-HPIC leadership and Del.
After session, MPVR leadership and activists went to Washington D.C. to lobby at our Nation's Capitol. We met with each MS congressman and senator and/or his aids to discuss corruption in the CDC, hand deliver binders of Mississippi vaccine injury stories and by divine appointment, spoke with the Chairman of government reform and oversight committee, Congressman Jason Chaffetz for several minutes between our meetings.
Wrap up live video from the U.S. Capitol following a full day of lobbying
During the Vaxxed Buses more recent second visit to Mississippi, we were again on Supertalk Radio with the brilliant Dr. Suzanne Humphries on The JT Show.
The bus collected stories in both Hattiesburg and Jackson where parents gathered to recognize and observe those affected by vaccine injury and death and to participate in an organized prayer walk around our state's Capitol.
MPVR is grateful for the movement the film VaxXed and those behind it have generated across the nation and especially for the attention and support they have given us here in Mississippi. We are thankful for and appreciate our grassroots base for supporting and growing our effort to advocate truth and champion vaccine rights legislation here in Mississippi. Mostly, we are committed and faithful in fighting this spiritual battle.
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. -Galatians 6:9
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. -Ephesians 6:12
by Lindey Magee
for MPVR.org
