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“"You were wrongfully convicted. You were innocent," Manitoba Court of King's Bench Chief Justice Glenn Joyal told Woodhouse, now 72, as he acquitted the man who the court heard spent 12 years behind bars for a murder he didn't commit before being granted parole.
"All I can say from the position that I'm now in is I'm sorry."
#Justice #Racism #Indigenous #Canada #CanPoli #Winnipeg
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/clarence-woodhouse-acquittal-winnipeg-murder-1.7341322
'An extreme right-wing group with links to a violent white supremacist collective has been recruiting young men to support its efforts to "revive" what it called England's "warrior culture" by masquerading as a sports club, a BBC investigation has found.'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ydnqdq38wo
'However, it is connected to the Rise Above Movement (RAM), which played a key role in the Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017'
“…when speed cameras are doing the ticketing, the proportion of tickets issued to Black and white drivers aligns closely with their respective share of roadway users. With human enforcement, in contrast, police officers stop Black drivers at a rate that far outstrips their presence on the road.”
White people who think racism is mostly a thing of the past, or that if people of color have trouble getting jobs it must be because they're lazy or unqualified, you need to take a look at this: https://tech.lgbt/@kitsunecafe/113199844429725786
Racists are everywhere, including in "liberal" or "enlightened" fields like tech, and they'll just deadass scuttle people's chances of getting hired for bogus reasons.
#racism #WorkplaceRacism #SystematicRacism #racist #meritocracy
Don't be black in the US
Marcellus Williams, 55, was killed by lethal injection, ending a legal battle that has sparked widespread outrage as the office that originally tried the case suggested he was wrongfully convicted.
"[The murderer] murderer left behind considerable physical evidence. None of that physical evidence[could] be tied to Mr Williams"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/24/missouri-executes-marcellus-williams
#MarcellusWilliams #DeathPenalty #Racism #StaeSactionedKilling #MiscarriageOfJustice
We had a zoom meeting wich an #AI taking notes to summarize. It was also about how to create a safe space from #racism. The AI was leaving out all essentials on that topic.
Please note that #AI is not a solution to the social challenges we face and has to reproduce systemic opression as it lacks a moral compass.
Censoring output on difficult topics is not a solution for #transformation and #healing.
You'll likely be depressingly unsurprised by the indication that decisions by the DWP on benefits sanctions looked to be shaped by institutional racism.
Once again, while we may claim (often rightly) to be a multicultural society, our governing institutions seem unable to address issues without some from of ethnic bias...
I wonder why that is?
Could it be, a history of racism that goes back centuries is well embedded & needs more work to root out!?
#racism #benefits
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/sep/16/benefit-sanctions-more-likely-for-minority-ethnic-claimants-uk-data-shows
So many people out in Glasgow for the Stand Up To Racism demonstration against racism and the far right. Also some really great speakers, a tonne of cool union banners, and fantastic drums from SheBoom - Europe's largest women's drumming circle. I only took terrible photos 🫣
Press coverage and some better photos: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/sep/07/thousands-protesters-anti-racism-rally-glasgow-scotland
#Glasgow #Scotland #StandUpToRacism #SUTR #AntiRacism #AntiFascism #Racism #Fascism #StopTheFarRight #RefugeesWelcome #NoPasarán #NaePasarán
🆕 blog! “Yet another AI Racism example”
Here's a good pub-quiz trivia question - which Oscar-winning Actors have appeared in Doctor Who? It's the sort of thing that you can either wrack your brains for, or construct a SPARQL Query for WikiData0. I was bored and asked ChatGPT. The new Omni model claims to be faster and more accurate. But, in my […]
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/09/yet-another-ai-racism-example/
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#DoctorWho #racism
Mass demonstration against the far right in Glasgow tomorrow - Saturday 7 September.
The demonstration will oppose a far right rally also taking place in Glasgow tomorrow.
The counter-demonstration is organised by Glasgow Stand Up To Racism, and is supported by the Scottish TUC, trade unions, community, faith and refugee rights organisations, artists, comedians and musicians.
#Glasgow #Scotland #AntiRacism #AntiFascism #SUTR #Racism #Fascism #StopTheFarRight
Dozens of figures including Elia Suleiman and Farah Nabulsi are responding to attempts to remove Bisan Owda’s documentary from the Emmys
Dozens of Palestinian film-makers have signed an open letter protesting against Hollywood’s “inhumanity and racism” toward Palestinians and calling on “international colleagues in the film industry” to speak out.
Love Music Hate Racism (LMHR) relaunching to counter the renewed threat posed by organised fascists and the populist right.
LMHR - the successor organisation to the Rock Against Racism (RAR) movement which helped combat the National Front in the 1970s - put on gigs to undermine the influence of the British National Party in the early 2000s.
LMHR will be helping local activists to throw gigs in their home towns.
The Hidden Racism of Book Cover Design
The publishing industry’s troubling reliance on visual stereotypes
#News #Books #Racism #Art #Publishing #Writing
https://thewalrus.ca/the-hidden-racism-of-book-cover-design/
It’s not #Twitter any more: your brand needs to #eXit #Musk’s #Hatemongering #binfire.
#ElonMusk reinstated high-profile accounts like #TommyRobinson’s that had been #banned for some of the most #hideous, #racist #content in the #publicdomain.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Business #Brands #SocialMedia #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #AntiSemitism #Homophobia #Misogyny #Racism #Transphobia #WhiteSupremacy #Xenophobia
