Our Deputy Managing Editor Kira Davis broke the story of a mother whose seven-year-old daughter was punished and humiliated for drawing a Black Lives Matter picture for her multi-racial friends that also included the sentiment that “any lives” matter. This was done without the mother’s knowledge, and the school administrators never informed her of their action. The mother was forced to investigate. One year laterWhen another parent suggested it, she agreed.
The mother decided that she would file a suit against Viejo Elementary School, which her daughter attends despite the cruelty. The mother discovered The Gavel Project through research. Ryan Heath, founder and CEO of The Gavel Project, connected her with representation at the LexRex Institute. This helped her hold the school administration responsible.
Gavel Project is an organization that provides pro bono services and funds all California-based cases involving student and parent rights.
RedState and I both highlighted the fact that California is rife with corruption at every level, including through all-powerful labor organizations and their incestuous relationships with the California governor, state and local legislative bodies.
Parents in Los Angeles and San Diego are fighting the unification of school districts not to mask their children. Barbara Ferrer (unelected Los Angeles Department of Public Health Director) has been conspiring with unions for the return of the mask mandate. Ferrer also has a conflict of interests with her daughter who wrote the guidelines and data Ferrer used in justifying reinstituting indoor masking.
Parents are angry and overwhelmed, but also at a pivotal juncture to be able to unify in a manner never before seen for the cause of their children’s protection and education. This is where Ryan Heath’s The Gavel Project is coming alongside as an ally in this fight. This is not just about the mask fights. It also covers any policy or government action that could be detrimental to our safety, life, and liberty.
Heath’s impetus to start The Gavel Project was Hair Gel himself, Governor Gavin Newsom:
The Gavel Project began as a response to Gavin Newsom declaring back in October 2021 that he would make vaccination contingent precedents to attending school in California.
When I saw that happen, I decided that I wasn’t going to stand by anymore and let these types of backwards policies continue on without having some sort of pushback, and so I’d spoke with my wife and we worked together with another individual [to make it happen].
Their website says: The Gavel Project (501(c),(3)) is a legal non-profit organization. It exists to combat unethical employer and government mandates, and protect freedoms for Americans, particularly children..Heath gave a more detailed description of The Gavel Project’s mission:
The idea was to take on all sorts of issues that have societal impact—detrimentalSociety impact. So, we weren’t limited to the COVID-19 masking issues, which is our primary work right now. We have a number of lawsuits that we’re actually funding across the state of California for that issue, but we’re also interested in taking on things like CRT in schools, which I believe is detrimental to the development of children because it teaches them things that just frankly are not true about the world. It teaches them to view themselves in a false light, and it limits their capacity to succeed in many ways, and so that’s an issue we’re passionate about.
Heath’s latest focus, which has sparked a partnership with Tracy Henderson of the California Parents Union, is California’s embedding of the so-called gender affirmation care into elementary and high school education. From kindergarteners being coerced to experiment with LGBTQ+ identities and choose their own pronouns (kindergarteners don’t even know what a pronoun is!) To providing drugs that block puberty.
Gender affirmation Care [is] another issue that we’re also passionate about. We offer pro bono service to our clients and have a case committee which meets regularly to evaluate applications. We operate solely on crowdsource funding.
Advocates who are able to explain our Constitution rights and law and help parents and their families legally and properly demand that they be protected in this age of corrupt bureaucrats and unelected representatives, is in short supply.
So, Heath and The Gavel Project’s vision has been a godsend to this state.
Heath is not a Californian, so California’s progressive politics and policies are not directly affecting him or his family. He’s an Arizonan and is not involved in this battle. Heath could happily go about his life and respond as a good majority of Republicans and conservatives do to California’s plight: Not my circus, not my monkeys — My favorite is #sarcasm You deserve it—you get what you vote for!
Heath and his spouse have decided to be there for California. They use their company to encourage, motivate and provide resources and tools to help them maximize the impact of that action. Heath is standing with those who believe California’s promise will be restored.
I’ve been traveling out here to do this since January. And you’re right: the state is It’s worth the savings. It’s one of the most beautiful places in the entire world, and I can say that without hesitation the value of the people here is amazing.
It’s second to none. California has some the most brilliant people on the planet, and also some of its greatest talents. For the future generation I see this when I travel around, speak with the youth here and meet people. These are the leaders of America—the future leaders of America are being raised right here in California, and that’s because they’re growing up in such an oppressive state, and they’re seeing how important it is to establish the ideals of liberty and to fight for those.
Heath, his wife and their children have sacrificed for us as well.
This project has been funded by my wife since inception. To fund it, we liquidated a vehicle. We’ve emptied our savings accounts and checking accounts, but we did so because we believe that it was necessary and there wasn’t enough being done to push back against what I see is a deliberate attack on the American dream.
The Gavel Project was founded in October of 2021, months after the formation of the California Parent’s Union (CPU) in July of the same year. As their website shows, CPU also has similar goals.
California Parents United is building California Parent’s Union (CPU) which will be a special interest group bigger than the other special interest groups actively working against our children’s best interest. The membership includes grandparents, parents and youth guardians. Our focus is to give parents a true seat at the table and their voice back in all things parent’s rights.
On Twitter, Heath teased a partnership with CPU that would provide necessary resources on how parents can legally and actively resist the COVID-19 mandates, and the gender-affirming agenda being pushed in the state’s school districts.
@thegavelprojectAre you working with @CalParentsUnionHere are some tips for parents who want to help their kids avoid the sexual health center @PPLosAngeles @nlmusdWe are currently considering John Glenn High School. We’re also drafting peaceful noncompliance instructions 1/
— Ryan (@Ryan_L_Heath) July 18, 2022
Tracy Henderson, California Parents Union, is the one I’m working with. The purpose of this project is to create educational materials that parents can use to help students and their children return to school to learn about peaceful non-compliance with the COVID-19 mandates. We’re also putting together materials for teachers and for state employees to do the same. You have the constitutional right to reject a force orthodoxy regarding opinions of deep importance for an individual. They are well-established in constitutional case law.
We want to help people understand their rights, and then prepare them to go the extra mile. [Teachers and students can] say, “Look, I invite you to call the police if you disagree with me. [Let the police]They can make me an arrest if they think it is real and can let me go. But if not, I intend to return to class.”
This tactic was successful in school districts’ battles for COVID-19 mandates, and the mistreatment and forced masking of students that followed them. Heath then addresses the partnership’s plan for gender-affirming care.
Tracy and myself are creating a notice that parents should present to Planned Parenthoods within schools. It basically says they don’t have any right to speak with their children. The notice allows parents who fail to comply to the request to present a written statement to the Planned Parenthoods in these schools. This will allow them to file a lawsuit against their child’s rights.
These resources may be downloaded for free from the CPU website. Additional resources, including those that are more in-depth, will only be accessible to CPU members who pay a fee.
[A] cease and desist or what’s called an “ultimatum” for the state employees, students and parents to be able to demand access to education, and demand access to their jobs without being discriminated against for COVID-19 mandates. We’re going to put more specific instructions behind a paywall on the California Parents Union website.
When asked about those who may applaud The Gavel Project’s efforts, but say it is a losing battle, Heath said,
My complete disagreement. They are challenged to look at the USDA last term in court. Also, think about the Supreme Court’s stance on individual rights.
They’re returning power For the people. They’re returning power The statesTo decide for themselves.
This is just the beginning [SCOTUS] has a very strong, let’s call it a “conservative majority” right now that is primed to make a number of constitutional decisions. I believe the primary issue that they’re going to have to decide in the coming years is whether the government can force you as a citizen to play pretend, even though your eyes recognize that what they’re trying to get you to accept are a bunch of lies, and that’s the issue when it comes to gender affirmation here in schools.
We’re waging a peaceful war against those who wish to oppress others in the name of the greater good.
Bryce Eddy from Liberty Station in California interviewed Tracy Henderson. Henderson explains why she worked to form the California Parent’s Union and how she intends to bring power back to the parents and the teachers at about six minutes in, and worth the listen.
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