#AI is Infringing on Your #CivilRights. Here’s How We Can Stop That

Searching for an apartment online, applying for a loan, going through airport #security, or looking up a question on a search engine – you might not think anything of these exchanges other than that they are mundane things you do, but, in many of these instances, you’re actually interacting with #ArtificialIntelligence (AI).

Avoiding AI in our quotidian activities feels impossible nowadays
#privacy

https://www.aclu.org/news/racial-justice/ai-is-infringing-on-your-civil-rights-heres-how-we-can-stop-that

Seventy years ago today on December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white bus rider on a Montgomery, Alabama bus.

https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/dec/1

#RosaParks #CivilRights

#AI is Infringing on Your #CivilRights. Here’s How We Can Stop That

Searching for an apartment online, applying for a loan, going through airport #security, or looking up a question on a search engine – you might not think anything of these exchanges other than that they are mundane things you do, but, in many of these instances, you’re actually interacting with #ArtificialIntelligence (AI).

Avoiding AI in our quotidian activities feels impossible nowadays
#privacy

https://www.aclu.org/news/racial-justice/ai-is-infringing-on-your-civil-rights-heres-how-we-can-stop-that

On this day in 1955, the civil rights activist Rosa Parks rejected a bus driver's order to vacate a seat for a white female passenger after the "white" section of the bus was filled.

Parks helped inspire the Black community to boycott the city buses, resulting in a landmark Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public transportation was unconstitutional, a *whole year later*.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_bus_boycott
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browder_v._Gayle

#OTD #OnThisDay #history #CivilRights #RosaParks #BlackHistory #BlackWomen

Trump’s Immigration Forces Deploy “Less Lethal” Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming Protesters
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Civil rights and weapons experts cite the consequences of federal agents’ use of crowd control weapons: religious leaders shot with pepper balls and noxious chemicals. A nurse nearly blinded by tear gas. Protestors trapped, struggling to breathe.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-border-patrol-less-lethal-weapons?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Trump #ICE #Immigration #CivilRights #Violence #Protest #Chicago #LosAngeles #Oakland #Portland

Seventy years ago today on December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white bus rider on a Montgomery, Alabama bus.

https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/dec/1

#RosaParks #CivilRights

On this day in 1955, the civil rights activist Rosa Parks rejected a bus driver's order to vacate a seat for a white female passenger after the "white" section of the bus was filled.

Parks helped inspire the Black community to boycott the city buses, resulting in a landmark Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public transportation was unconstitutional, a *whole year later*.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_bus_boycott
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browder_v._Gayle

#OTD #OnThisDay #history #CivilRights #RosaParks #BlackHistory #BlackWomen

Trump’s Immigration Forces Deploy “Less Lethal” Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming Protesters
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Civil rights and weapons experts cite the consequences of federal agents’ use of crowd control weapons: religious leaders shot with pepper balls and noxious chemicals. A nurse nearly blinded by tear gas. Protestors trapped, struggling to breathe.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-border-patrol-less-lethal-weapons?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Trump #ICE #Immigration #CivilRights #Violence #Protest #Chicago #LosAngeles #Oakland #Portland

EFF’s Dave Maass: “Flock technology is a threat to our core democratic values.”

#surveillance #privacy #civilrights #firstamendment #policetech #alpr #flock #protestrights #immigrantrights #accountability

🇺🇸True patriots choose democracy over dictatorship and country over party.

📣 Silence is complicity. When we remain silent, we allow hate and division to thrive.

🇺🇸To those who stand against authoritarianism and hate, who fight for equality, and who champion peaceful protest and civil discourse: You are the true patriots. You inspire us all.

#democracy #unity #peace #freedom #nonviolence #quote #MLK #Diversity #History #America #Civilrights #Courage

Offices that could be moved out of the agency include the Office for #CivilRights, which investigates allegations of #discrimination on the basis of #race, #sex & #disability; the Office of #SpecialEducation & #RehabilitativeServices, which administers the $15 billion Individuals with Disabilities Act program; & the #Indian #Education program; the Office of #Elementary & #Secondary Education, which administers #K12 #grant programs; & the Office of #Postsecondary Education.

#Trump #law #Congress

Dena Robinson, a lawyer in the #CivilRights Division:

“The idea of the investigation was that #PerkinsCoie supposedly engaged in illegal #discrimination against #WhiteMen. But Perkins Coie is an extremely white firm — only 3% of the partners are #Black. When my colleague pointed that out, the leadership didn’t care. They’d already reached their conclusion. They continued instructing my colleague to just find the evidence for it.”

#law #DOJ #felon47 #RapistInChief

Ejaz Baluch, fmr lawyer in DOJ’s #CivilRights Division: “Our job was to find the facts that would fit the narrative that the administration already had.”

“…the #DOJ demand letter to #UCLA asked for $1 billion in damages. We thought, $1 billion? They are making that up out of thin air. There is no way the damages we found added up to anything like that amount.”

#law #felon47 #RapistInChief

This is #Chicago

Chicagoans buy out street vendors amid #Trump #immigration crackdown

The cyclists arrive at sunrise, rolling through Chicago’s Latino neighborhoods & stopping at tamale carts, elote stands & candy stalls. They buy out every last item — every tamale, every corn cob, every bundle of sweets. Then they load up the food & deliver it to #shelters & #families in need.

#law #DueProcess #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #HumanRights #fascism #ICE #CBP
https://apnews.com/article/chicago-illinois-immigration-ice-c24537965e31860fb07ba83e79de4f4b

But as fear spread, so did something else — neighbors stepping up for one another & finding creative ways to show up for vendors & restaurant owners. This includes a grassroots effort to organize so-called “buy out” events meant to allow vendors who fear being detained by #immigration agents to go home early.

#Trump #law #DueProcess #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #fascism #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy

Since the start of a federal #immigration crackdown that has led to >3,200 arrests in the #Chicago metropolitan area, streets & storefronts in the city’s Latino neighborhoods have emptied out. Street vendors, fearing arrest, have been afraid to leave their homes to #work. Local restaurants have struggled as customers stay home.

#Trump #law #DueProcess #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #fascism #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #WhiteSupremacy

This is #Chicago

Chicagoans buy out street vendors amid #Trump #immigration crackdown

The cyclists arrive at sunrise, rolling through Chicago’s Latino neighborhoods & stopping at tamale carts, elote stands & candy stalls. They buy out every last item — every tamale, every corn cob, every bundle of sweets. Then they load up the food & deliver it to #shelters & #families in need.

#law #DueProcess #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #HumanRights #fascism #ICE #CBP
https://apnews.com/article/chicago-illinois-immigration-ice-c24537965e31860fb07ba83e79de4f4b

As MJ & other outlets have reported extensively, most of the men had NO serious criminal history in the #US or elsewhere in the world. What they often had instead were #tattoos that bore NO relation to the gang.

The new report offers even more evidence of the #inhumane treatment the #Venezuelan #immigrants endured in #ElSalvador.

#Trump #law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #Rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #InternationalLaw #CrimesAgainstHumanity