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Rowland Mosbergen

Melissa Sigodo en X

The double standard shown towards Sudanese Brits, most of them doctors, who were not granted a special visa scheme for their families fleeing conflict in Sudan, versus those who fled war in Ukraine. / X #SideBySide

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Found via nottheonlyone.org as one of 10,400+ #DEI #Diversity, #Equity and #Inclusion items.

X (formerly Twitter)Melissa Sigodo (@melissasigodo) on XThe double standard shown towards Sudanese Brits, most of them doctors, who were not granted a special visa scheme for their families fleeing conflict in Sudan, versus those who fled war in Ukraine.
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Rowland Mosbergen

Understanding Racial Profiling in Australia

These findings start to reveal the institutionalised mechanisms that police use to target racial groups in Australia. As the first study of this kind in Australia, this thesis makes a major contribution to understanding racial profiling in Australia and how it may be evidenced.

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unsworks.unsw.edu.auUnderstanding Racial Profiling in AustraliaThis thesis investigates the meaning of racial profiling and its application in Australia. Drawing on the conceptualisation developed by Epp, Maynard-Moody and Haider-Markel that racial profiling is the disproportionate use of unjustified police power against racial and ethnic minorities, this thesis asks: does racial profiling exist in Australia? I develop three methodologies to answer this question. In the first, I apply four concepts developed by Canadian courts to existing Australian cases to determine whether they enable the disclosure of racial profiling. For the second strategy, I conduct a survey of 981 people from Victoria, Australia who the police have subjected to a vehicle, pedestrian or cyclist stop. Drawing again on Epp, Maynard-Moody and Haider-Markel, I classify their experiences into variables that, through regression analysis, I can use examine whether police engage in racial profiling. My third strategy, using the same survey data, tests whether police more frequently use particular tactics on specific racial groups. If so, these tactics could be said to correspond to racial profiling under a test devised by Canadian judge Morden JA. in R v Brown [2003] OJ 1251. The result of each strategy discloses the existence of racial profiling in Australia. Firstly, I find that racial profiling is likely to have impacted 12 Australian cases I examine through the lens of the Canadian common law framework. Consequently, to make racial profiling more visible, this framework provides a useful guide for the development of police powers law in Australia. Secondly, I find strong evidence (p<0.05) that police in Victoria subject people of Aboriginal, African, Pasifika and Middle-Eastern/Muslim appearance to unjustified police stops and unjustified post-stop conduct more frequently than white people. This finding demonstrates that pro-active policing methodologies in Victoria are racially discriminatory. My third finding is that there is strong exploratory evidence (p<0.05) that police use 12 tactics against specific racial groups more frequently than white people. These findings start to reveal the institutionalised mechanisms that police use to target racial groups in Australia. As the first study of this kind in Australia, this thesis makes a major contribution to understanding racial profiling in Australia and how it may be evidenced.
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Rowland Mosbergen

Evelyn Mensah - Friends call me Evie en X

I’ve observed for a while that there’s an exclusive group, which many of us aren't privy to, where individuals in some Executive roles within the #NHS, despite performing poorly, end up advancing to more authoritative positions within other #NHS organisations. What is that⁉️🤷🏽‍♀️ / X

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GuyC59

On this Day in Social Security History:

#SocialSecurityat90 
#StrongerTogether

4/5/1935 The US House of Representatives began debate on The Social Security Act of 1935.
More: ssa.gov/history/senate35.html

4/5/1944 The United States District Court, Eastern District of Michigan, held that money paid to a widow, after the death of her wage-earner husband pursuant to a back-pay award by the National Labor Relations Board entered after the wage earner's death, did not constitute wages as defined in the original Social Security Act because it was not remuneration for employment.
More on, Social Security and Vulnerable Groups—Policy Options to Aid Widows: congress.gov/crs-product/R4618

4/5/1948, President Truman vetoed H.R. 5052, a bill to exclude vendors of newspapers and magazines from social security coverage.
More: ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v11n7/
 
More Social Security history: ssa.gov/history & #SSAHistGWC 

#SocialSecurity #socialinsurance #History #Disability #Retirement #Medicare #Unemployment #insurance #healthcare #NewDeal #OTD #SSDI #OASDI #equity #justice Social Security Administration

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Nonilex

🤬 #SCOTUS allows #Trump officials to freeze #teacher training grants over *#DEI*

A divided #SupremeCourt on Fri cleared the way for the admin to at least temporarily freeze up to $65M in #educational grants designed to address #TeacherShortages, which the govt says fund programs that promote #diversity, #equity & #inclusion [as they should, though the Trump admin’s definition of DEI is humanity].

#law #ActivistCourt #PartisanCourt #indoctrination #education #idiocracy
washingtonpost.com/politics/20

The Washington Post · Supreme Court allows Trump officials to freeze teacher training grants over DEIBy Ann E. Marimow
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Nonilex

More of this please:

The #NY State #Education Dept issued a defiant response to #Trump’s threats to pull federal #funding from #PublicSchools over #diversity, #equity & #inclusion programs, a remarkable departure from recent conciliatory approaches of other institutions. A day earlier, the federal govt issued a memo to education ofcls across the nation, telling them to confirm the elimination of all programs it argues *unfairly* promote #DEI.

#law #democracy #FreeSpeech
nytimes.com/2025/04/04/us/poli

A 12th grade Black studies classroom in Harlem, last month.
The New York Times · New York Warns Trump It Will Not Comply With Public School D.E.I. OrderBy Troy Closson
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Vermont Citizen Scientist

The kind of "woke" research that is all but banned in the US of A. Data confirm that these drivers do not commit more infractions than whites. They just get more tickets, proving that "Driving under the influence of melanin" is a factor in traffic stops. arstechnica.com/science/2025/0 #racism #racialprofiling #lawenforcement #equity #race

Ars Technica · Study of Lyft rideshare data confirms minorities get more ticketsBy John Timmer
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MediaFaro News Digest

A US attempt to stop diversity initiatives in Europe faces backlash.

Efforts by the US government to eliminate diversity initiatives have not been well-received in Europe, after companies in France received a letter saying Trump's rollback of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives could also apply outside the US.

France, Belgium and Spain are pushing back against the letter.

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Euronews · A US attempt to stop diversity initiatives in Europe faces backlash.By Sertac Aktan
#Europe#France#Belgium
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Nanette Rissler-Pipka

Hidden in a questionnaire #Trump #US government asks research projects abroad if they are compliant to the #discrimination american policy: eliminate DEI = #Diversity #Equity #Inclusion. The whole questionnaire was shared via the @ZEITONLINE research newsletter: newsletterversand.zeit.de/go/6. - in the same document projects are asked if they "protect children and women" - while the questionnaire itselfs is a plain threat

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Washington Privacy Organizers

More from ACLU of Washington on why they oppose ESHB 1423 (3/4)

"The devices are ineffective as a solution for street racing. These cameras will likely struggle with accurately identifying the source of a noise when multiple cars are around."

The technology raises equity issues. Automated camera technology has a disproportionate impact on communities of color, because they are more likely to be installed in neighborhoods with more people of color and immigrants."

#waleg#equity
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