Podcast appearances and mentions of rachel moran

The DOJ says they're going to investigate the Hennepin County Attorney's Office over their race policy. Jason talks to University of St. Thomas law professor Rachel Moran to find out more.

In this episode of the Happy Women Podcast, hosts Jen and Katie discuss the current state of the Democrat Party, highlighting various scandals and the implications of these issues. They delve into the tragic story of Rachel Moran, a victim of violence, and the political responses surrounding her case. The conversation shifts to the movement of Angel Moms advocating for justice for families affected by illegal immigration. They also touch on the significance of an all-female space tourism crew and conclude with personal reflections on Easter celebrations. Visit Today's Sponsors: www.myphdweightloss.com www.mybrightcore.com/happywomen See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of the Happy Women Podcast, hosts Jen and Katie discuss the current state of the Democrat Party, highlighting various scandals and the implications of these issues. They delve into the tragic story of Rachel Moran, a victim of violence, and the political responses surrounding her case. The conversation shifts to the movement of Angel Moms advocating for justice for families affected by illegal immigration. They also touch on the significance of an all-female space tourism crew and conclude with personal reflections on Easter celebrations. Visit Today's Sponsors: www.myphdweightloss.com www.mybrightcore.com/happywomen See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join the conversation with C4 & Bryan Nehman.  MD senate passes budget bill.  Baltimore City DPW was hacked to the tune of $1.5 million dollars.  Attorney Jeremy Eldridge joined the show discussing how the media & the public will not be allowed inside the courtroom during the Rachel Moran murder trial.  The head of the Jemicy School Ben Shifrin joined C4 & Bryan in studio talking about all things' education.  Listeners also weighed in with their thoughts on the passing of the budget bill.  Listen to C4 & Bryan Nehman live weekdays from 5:30 to 10am on WBAL News Radio 1090, FM 101.5 & the WBAL Radio App.

December 10, 2024 - Rachel Moran of the Heart of Illinois Community Foundation and Shelith Hansbro joined Byers & Co to talk about the second year of That's What She Said. Listen to the podcast now!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

November 19, 2024 - Rachel Moran of the Community Foundation and Jess Younghouse joined Byers & Co to discuss a surprise grant of $50,000 to Dove, Inc. through the Moving Forward Campaign. The grant to Dove concludes the $1 Million Moving Forward partnership between HICF and DECU. Listen to the podcast now!   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

October 29, 2024 - Rachel Moran of the Heart of Illinois Community Foundation joined Byers & Co to talk about how their wish list allows organizations to be paired with donors in a meaningful and straightforward way. Listen to the podcast now!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

October 15, 2024 - Rachel Moran of the Heart of Illinois Community Foundation and Jes Younghouse of Decatur Earthmover Credit Union joined Byers & Co to announce $200,000 in community organization grants. Listen to the podcast now!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

September 24, 2024 - Rachel Moran of the Heart of Illinois Community Foundation joined Byers & Co to talk about their 3rd Lilly Family School of Philanthropy course for non-profit professionals. Listen to the podcast now! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

August 6, 2024 - Rachel Moran of the Heart of Illinois Community Foundation, Nicole DeLiberis of Millikin and Sophia Schwalbach of the Nick Project joined Byers & Co to talk about the Do Something Great Awards and the history of the Nick Project. Listen to the podcast now!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

July 30, 2024 - Rachel Moran of the Heart of Illinois Community Foundation, Danielle Diskey of the Decatur Family YMCA, and Dr. Christina Shields of Memory Keepers Chorus joined Byers & Co to talk about how the Do Something Great Awards spotlights organizations like the Memory Keepers Chorus and what makes them so special. Listen to the podcast now!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

July 24, 2024 - Judy Lourash and Dan Bolt of Hickory Point Bank and Rachel Moran of Decatur Rotary Club joined Byers & Co to talk about how HPB encourages and supports its employees to be involved in the community in organizations like Rotary and what makes Rotary continue to thrive. Listen to the podcast now!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

July 23, 2024 - Rachel Moran, Cristin Wright, and Adrianna Hammons of the Heart of Illinois Community Foundation joined Byers & Co to talk about the Community Wish List going live in Piatt County and to give away $4,000 in granted wishes. Listen to the podcast now!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

July 9, 2024 - Rachel Moran of the Heart of Illinois Community Foundation and Barry Schmidt of Decatur Earthmover Credit Union joined Byers & Co to talk about how they continue to partner through grants to help community organizations and efforts. Listen to the podcast now!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

June 11, 2024 - Rachel Moran of the Heart of Illinois Community Foundation and Jes Younghouse of Decatur Earthmover Credit Union joined Byers & Co to announce the recipients of the CommunityWorks Grant Program. Listen to the podcast now! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

June 4, 2024 - Rachel Moran of the Heart of Illinois Community Foundation and Jes Younghouse of Decatur Earthmover Credit Union joined Byers & Co to announce recipients of Moving Forward summer camp grants. Listen to the podcast now!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

May 7, 2024 - Rachel Moran of the Heart of Illinois Community Foundation joined Byers & Co to talk about the CommunityWorks grant portal closing and the 20th Annual Do Something Great Awards. Listen to the podcast now!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

April 30, 2024 - Rachel Moran and Kathy Carter of the Heart of Illinois Community Foundation joined Byers & Co to announce 26 recipients of adult scholarship funding to continue their education. Listen to the podcast now!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

April 9, 2024 - Rachel Moran of the Heart of Illinois Community Foundation and Jes Younghouse of Decatur Earthmover Credit Union joined Byers & Co to talk about their next round of grant funding and That's What She Said. Listen to the podcast now!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

According to a recent Pew Research Center report, nearly half of adults in the U.S. use Instagram. The social media platform is also popular with influencers who amass a large online following around a particular interest, like health and wellness. They can then leverage that popularity to profit from the sale of products and services they promote through their accounts.  But some influencers on Instagram are also profiting from the spread of misinformation, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Washington. The study looked at three Instagram influencers who spread vaccine misinformation with messaging that appealed to users with varying interests, from fashion to homeschooling. Those influencers posted content that linked to products such as essential oils they falsely claimed would cure colds, viruses and other ailments. Rachel Moran is the lead author of the study and a senior research scientist at the Center for an Informed Public at the University of Washington. She joins us to share her findings. 

Host, Jes, sits down with Rachel Moran of The Community Foundation, here in Macon County, IL.

February 6, 2024 - Natalie Beck and Rachel Moran of the Community Foundation and Earthmover Credit Union's Jes Younghouse joined Byers & Co to talk about their Moving Forward Community Grant Program. Listen to the podcast now!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

January 30, 2024  - Rachel Moran of the Community Foundation and Dominic Santomassimo of the Decatur Family YMCA joined Byers & Co to talk about how the Community Foundation is supporting the YMCA's Safety Around Water Program. Listen to the podcast now!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

31 grudnia 2002 roku 21-letnia Rachel Moran po spędzeniu sylwestra z przyjaciółmi miała nocować w domu swoich rodziców, podczas gdy jej chłopak Mark miał zająć się ich kotami w mieszkaniu. Niestety w ostatniej chwili Mark poinformował dziewczynę, że ma zamiar wrócić dopiero nad ranem. Zdenerwowana Rachel postanowiła udać się do mieszkania na piechotę i nigdy nie dotarła na miejsce...

Rachel Moran is back taking a deep dive into male entitlement to women's bodies - and its severe ramifications, including homicide.

For many, New Year's Eve is a chance to say goodbye to the previous year and ring in the upcoming one with those nearest and dearest; for 21-year-old Rachel Moran, this was no different. She set off back to her flat, which was less than a mile away, and told her mother she would call as soon as she got in. But as the hours ticked by, that call never came. Before long, it became the biggest search operation ever undertaken by Humberside Police as everyone was left wondering - what had happened to Rachel Moran? https://linktr.ee/trulycriminal1 Sources

November 14, 2023 - Rachel Moran of the Community Foundation and Darsonya Switzer of Dove Inc. joined Byers & Co to talk about how the foundation's Community Wish List helps organizations like Dove, their annual coat drive, distributing resources to people without housing, and the seasonal rise of domestic violence. Listen to the podcast now! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

October 31, 2023 - Natalie Beck and Rachel Moran of the Community Foundation joined Byers & Co (in Barbie costumes) to talk about their new women's giving circle "She Gave". Listen to the podcast now! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

October 17, 2023 - Rachel Moran and Dr. Dana Ray of the Community Foundation joined Byers & Co to announce the recipients of the Impact100 grants totaling $150,000. Listen to the podcast now! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On today's show, international speaker, feminist campaigner & bestselling author Rachel Moran details the harsh realities about sexual exploitation, warns about the dangers of decriminalizing prostitution, and debunks the myth about the alleged 'empowerment' of so-called "sex workers" GUEST OVERVIEW: Rachel Moran is the Director of International Policy and Advocacy at the National Center on Sexual Exploitation in Washington, DC. Rachel was prostituted for seven years in Dublin and across Ireland, beginning when she was 15 years old. She is the author of the bestselling book PAID FOR – MY JOURNEY THROUGH PROSTITUTION regarded by legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon as “the best work by anyone on prostitution ever.”

June 27, 2023 - Rachel Moran of the Community Foundation and Nick Lane of JT Net joined Byers & Co. to announce CFMC's new nonprofit board member database, which launches next week. Listen to the podcast now!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chillingly, in the early hours of new years day, when Rachel was leaving her mum and dad's house, Wanda had gone after her, asking her not to go alone. While out with her, she had noticed that man not too far in the distance, who would have been able to hear their conversation. The police later confirmed that the man Wanda had seen at the end of the street, was in fact the suspect.       Sources: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/oct/31/ukcrime.martinwainwright https://www.thehullstory.com/allarticles/paul-davison https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9781687312549/RACHEL-beautiful-young-woman-abducted-1687312540/plp https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9781843583608/Murder-Rachel-Stranger-Murdered-Daughter-1843583607/plp https://www.casemine.com/judgement/uk/5a8ff72460d03e7f57ea86b4

Minneapolis has a new community commission on police oversight. Fifteen people — one from each ward and two selected by Mayor Jacob Frey — will serve on a rotating basis to review allegations of police misconduct. The new appointees were approved last week. The commission replaces the city's long-criticized police civilian review process. So there are lots of eyes on this new board. Big expectations to live up to. And a good number of skeptics. So what makes this board different from any that came before it? MPR News host Cathy Wurzer talked with Rachel Moran, an associate professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Law. Use the audio player above to listen to the full conversation.  Subscribe to the Minnesota Now podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.    We attempt to make transcripts for Minnesota Now available the next business day after a broadcast. When ready they will appear here.

Shermer and Moran discuss: her dysfunctional family background • her boyfriend who pimped her • the women who sell sex and the men who buy it • why other prostitutes have attacked her • agency and volition in prostitution: women and men • why “prostituted” as something done to women (instead of choosing it)? • what she thought about when having prostituted sex • drugs, depression, and suicide as responses to prostitution • the myths of prostitution • feminism and prostitution • how she got out of prostitution • the harm in consenting adult women selling their bodies for sex • what should be done about prostitution, if anything? Rachel Moran is the Director of International Policy and Advocacy for the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE, a leading non-partisan organization exposing the links between all forms of sexual exploitation such as child sexual abuse, prostitution, sex trafficking and the public health harms of pornography). Her work has been endorsed by Jane Fonda, U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Gloria Steinem, Robin Morgan and many others. Her bestselling memoir, Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution, is regarded by legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon as “the best work by anyone on prostitution ever” and has been published in more than a dozen countries and numerous languages including German, Italian, Korean, French, and Spanish.

December 20, 2022 - Natalie Beck and Rachel Moran of the Community Foundation joined Byers & Co to talk about holiday events, working with local non-profits, and their year in review. Listen to the podcast now! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

December 13, 2022 - Rachel Moran and Missy Batman of the Community Foundation joined Byers & Co to talk about a special course they are offering from the Lilly School of Philanthropy on fundraising. Listen to the podcast now! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

December 6, 2022 - Rachel Moran and Kathy Carter of the Community Foundation joined Byers & Co to announce the 24 recipients of adult scholarships awarded to inspire workforce development in the community. Listen to the podcast now! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Host Cathy Wurzer talks with Rachel Moran about the city of Minneapolis' plan to replace the city's long-criticized police civilian review process with a new Community Commission on Police Oversight. Moran is a professor at St Thomas School of Law and expert on police accountability and oversight boards.

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October 18, 2022 - Rachel Moran of the Community Foundation and Judah Renfro of Decatur Earthmover Credit Union joined Byers & Co t0 talk about the foundation's wish list, how DECU supported multiple organizations on the list with $5000 worth of donations, and other ways they stay involved in the community. Listen to the podcast now! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

October 11, 2022- Rachel Moran of the Community Foundation and TyKyna Cole of Cole Counseling Services joined Byers & Co to talk about the Infinite Hello project. The project is  a collaboration that is based on the Phone in the Wind bench project. The idea is to allow grieving loved ones an opportunity to vocalize their feelings to those no longer with them. Listen to the podcast now.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

General Visit Louise's website: https://www.louisemperry.co.uk/ Buy Louise's book ‘The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century': https://www.amazon.com/Case-Against-Sexual-Revolution/dp/1509549994 Follow Louise on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Louise_m_perry References ‘Lady Windermere's Fan' by Oscar Wilde: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/790/790-h/790-h.htm Rachel Moran's ‘Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution': https://www.amazon.com/Paid-My-Journey-Through-Prostitution/dp/0393351971 ‘Aella - Sex Work in the Digital Age' Two for Tea episode: https://soundcloud.com/twoforteapodcast/82-aella-sex-work-in-the-digital-age Timestamps 0:00 Opening and introduction. 4:11 Iona reads a passage from Louise's book ‘The Case Against the Sexual Revolution'. 9:33 Iona argues against the view that conservative mores protect women from harassment and rape better than liberal ones; discussion ensues on this, the promiscuity double standard, the Madonna/Whore complex, and more. 17:22 Does the sacralisation of sex protect women? Does desacralisation improve things for women? Is sex special? Plus: why women are choosier and the perils of prostitution. 27:40 The trouble with universalising, Gen Z's (lack of?) sex lives, porn, and the rise of OnlyFans. How does this all tie into/effect Louise's thesis? 34:32 Does a more public sexual culture help or hinder women? Does sexually violent porn make for sexually violent men? 42:17 Are some desires wrong? Why would anyone agree to or seek out, for example, sexual relationships involving subservient BDSM? Is liberalism enough to understand and resolve such issues? 53:00 Last words and outro.

Do digital assistants having female voices – like Siri and Alexa – teach a new generation to view women as subservient? Dr Kate Devlin, Writer and Reader in AI and Society and Rachel Moran, Author and Feminist campaigner joined Andrea to discuss why smart devices have female voices...

September 27, 2022- Rachel Moran & Kathy Carter of the Community Foundation, joined Byers & Co to talk about college scholarship opportunities and board governance courses offered through the Community Foundation. Listen to the podcast now!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

September 6, 2022 - Rachel Moran of the Community Foundation and Nicki Bond of Life Strategist Consulting Group joined Byers & Co. to talk about the Foundation's next non-profit network course, which will cover building community within organizations. Listen to the podcast now!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

August 30, 2022 - Rachel Moran of the Community Foundation along with Andrew Jordan and Chuck Zweck of the Engineer in the Classroom program joined Byers & Co. to talk about how they are inspiring future engineers by helping them build Rube Goldberg machines in 5th-grade classrooms. Listen to the podcast now!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

August 23, 2022 - Cindy Bardeleben and Kim Mangan of Baby TALK joined Rachel Moran of the Community Foundation on Byers & Co. to talk about their services provided, local partnerships, and upcoming classes offered through their Nonprofit Network. Listen to the podcast now!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

July 19, 2022 - Natalie Beck and Rachel Moran of the Community Foundation talk about the Do Something Great Award winners and banquet plus their upcoming classes for non-profits. Listen to the podcast now on Byers & Co!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

July 12, 2022 - Natalie Beck and Rachel Moran from the Community Foundation joined Byers & Co to announce the winners of the 2022 Do Something Great Awards. This annual awards program honors amazing individuals and organizations who have made a significant positive impact on Macon County through giving of their time, talent and/or treasure. Listen to the podcast now! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

June 28, 2022 - Dr. Gail Fyke of Millikin and Rachel Moran of the Community Foundation joined Byers & Co to talk about how Fyke was inspired to start the Public Painted Pianos Project in Macon County. Listen to the podcast now!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

June 21, 2022 - Natalie Beck and Rachel Moran of the Community Foundation of Macon County joined Byers & Co to give an update on what the Foundation is doing for local non-profits and causes in the community.  Natalie also introduced Rachel Moran as their newest employee. Rachel is serving as the Communications Director for the Foundation.  Listen to the podcast now!  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Freelancing requires a lot of heavy lifting. In this episode, Christian-Ramón Marín-Sanchiz from the Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, in Spain, gives us an overview of how it feels to be a freelancer today, while Mushfique Wadud from University of Colorado Boulder discusses the risks of covering climate change in South Asia. Also, Xu Jhang from the University of Minnesota-Duluth talks about the role of freelancing “foreign news,” and Rachel Moran from the University of Washington helps us understand how platforms, such as Slack, not only help newsrooms open to publics, but to freelancers.Text Featured in this Episode:Marín-Sanchiz, C. R., Carvajal, M., & González-Esteban, J. L. (2021). Survival Strategies in Freelance Journalism: An Empowering Toolkit to Improve Professionals' Working Conditions. Journalism Practice, 1-24.Wadud, M. (2021). Precariously Employed Climate Journalists the Challenges of Freelance Climate Journalists in South Asia. Journalism Practice, 1-19.Moran, R. E. (2021). Subscribing to transparency: Trust-building within virtual newsrooms on slack. Journalism Practice, 15(10), 1580-1596.Zhang, X., & Jenkins, J. M. (2021). Journalism Idealists: Influences on Freelancers in the Foreign News-gathering Process. Journalism Practice, 1-18. Produced and hosted by Robert (Ted) Gutsche, Jr.Give feedback to the podcast on Twitter @JournPractice or email jwordpodcast@gmail.com

If last week left you interested in learning  more about your pelvic floor health, then this episode is for you! Today we talk with Rachel Moran, who has a doctorate in physical therapy and advanced certification in pelvic floor therapy. We discuss some of the most common issues women deal with (including pain with intercourse), how to know if pelvic floor therapy could benefit you, as well as what to expect in your first appointment! You can connect with Rachel through thriveptal.com or @thriveptalNOTE: May not be suitable for all audiences. Includes the words intercourse and penetration, and briefly mentions trauma. If you're interested in learning Creighton, the best way to get started is by attending an Introductory Session. To join this month's session, register at wovenfertility.com/join-us. We'd love to see you there! You can also read a transcript of this episode at wovenfertility.com/show-transcripts. If you found this helpful or informative, we hope you'll share it with a friend! You can do that by sharing through your podcast platform or this link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1901945/10076339

It’s been a minute and I wanted to come back with something light-hearted and fun. So, today, we’re going to talk about the Canadian conspiracist truck convoy, the impending U.S. version of this thing (that I hope I’m wrong about!), and how social media and influencers are helping drive it. So, just a refresher: the Canadian “Freedom Convoy” consists of truckers and various support agents using their big rigs and pickups to physically block off the Ottawa capitol and key border crossings with the U.S. And I mean, you know that anytime the word “freedom” is attached to an event or “movement,” white grievances are about to get AIRED THE F**K OUT.The “Freedom Convoy” is ostensibly protesting a new piece of Canadian legislation that requires unvaccinated Canadian truckers to isolate for 2 weeks upon returning from the U.S. Unvaccinated foreign truckers aren’t allowed in the country. There sure has been a lot of attention given to these anti-vax protesters while *checks notes* 90% of Canadian truck drivers are vaccinated.To nobody’s surprise, the movement’s leaders and organizers are some combination of the following list: racists, xenophobes, conspiricists, QAnon believers, and more. They’re anti-labor and boyyyyy do they not believe in science. Or the government, obviously. And look: there may be some convoy sympathizers who have a simple, narrow desire to protest vaccine mandates—a position I largely disagree with but one that people can certainly voice their opposition to! But it’s pretty very clear that this movement was built opportunistically by its leaders, laundering far-right ideology into public debate about mandates. This is the right on-ramping sympathizers and adjacents to a bigger platform.This truck blockade strategy is likely to be employed in the U.S. in the near future. At what scale or frequency remains to be seen. How DHS and other authorities preemptively plan for them will be interesting. But you know an American version has the potential to be even more stupid, more media-able and potentially dangerous than the Canadian variety. In practice, U.S convoys will look like a Trump 2024 x Let’s Go Brandon/Stop The Steal x QAnon x Conspirituality (see below) collaboration. The merch will absolutely suck. And while the venn diagram for those four groups isn’t a perfect concentric circle, there’s enough overlap and the possibility that these convoys make the circles tighter. Fun!Again, I hope I’m wrong. I hope none of this comes to fruition. Given my personal and professional interests, I’m looking at two things, specifically: how social media/platforms serve as key organizing spaces. And influencers. Not just far-right influencers who you’d obviously expect. I’m talking—takes deep breath, exhales—health and wellness influencers.Turns out, a lot of them are very vocally supporting the convoy on social media. From Rolling Stone:Influencers publicly supporting the convoy, which started in protest against trucker vaccine mandates and has left the country’s capitol city of Ottawa immobilized for the past 11 days, is the natural culmination of the wellness community’s increasing convergence with anti-vaccine or Covid-denying conspiracy theories, all in the name of supporting personal freedom and bodily autonomy. Since the start of the pandemic, there has been a gradual yet palpable shift in the wellness community toward conspirituality, a portmanteau of “conspiracy theories” and “spirituality” constituting a mélange of woo mysticism and distrust toward the mainstream medical establishment, with a healthy dose of libertarianism thrown in for good measure. This strain has infiltrated all corners of the wellness ecosystem, from natural childbirth influencers to yoga teachers on Instagram.Back to these protests being literal vehicles for far-right ideology. In the U.S., you get the sense that the right is looking for a January 6, 2.0, the next wave of “action” and participation for a grieved movement, whether people are more “yes, let’s do an insurrection” or more “well, you know, they do make some interesting points and also I’m against the government.” I hope to god a convoy—or whatever happens next—has less violence and vitriol, and that they don’t physically storm into federal or state buildings again, but that’s what these angry, privileged people love to do. With guns. Who knows if we’ll see one, big, massive convoy in LA or NYC or Dallas, or if this will be an aggregate thing with convoys all over.Organizers in Canada have been painstakingly trying to frame the convoys as non-partisan and about peaceful action and, of course, freedom. They’re working on better PR after January 6th. They’ve taken learnings and applied them. That seems to be working to some degree in Canada and you can expect U.S. organizers to try to frame their convoys similarly.It’s a “we the people versus the elites” kind of thing rather than a “we want to arrest members of the government” or “COVID was purposefully released from a Chinese lab reduce the population of white people” thing, even though that’s what several of the Canadian movement’s leaders are perpetuating.And this is why white health and wellness influencers are so important here. They have massive, built-in, wildly loyal audiences that are willing to trust their every word. From the aforementioned Rolling Stone article, here’s Rachel Moran, a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for an Informed Public, a research institute at the University of Washington that looks at mis- and disinformation:Those kinds of accounts are the most nefarious in a way. They’re really good at building trust with people, especially these glamorous white women who fit what we deem to be attractive. Maybe you trust their advice about what workout gear you’re gonna wear, and you build this parasocial relationship with them, and then they’re suddenly sharing this information about vaccine misinformation. And you’re more inclined to believe it because you have trust in them.So, as these stupid-but-very-real convoys potentially start to hit stateside, let’s see what kind of new (white) voices and new (also very white) audiences start yelling or tooting horns as they try to play prosecuted martyrs in a system literally designed and governed for them.For more on the topic, check out this piece about the wellness-to-white supremacy pipeline.Be back soon, maybe with something actually more light-hearted. But also maybe with thoughts about these dumb convoys. (I hope I’m wrong about it all.) Get full access to Greg's Newsletter at greg.substack.com/subscribe

"The whorearchy is the hierarchal system by which sex workers too often order themselves from “elite” to “inferior.” The woman who walks the streets is always at the bottom of this hierarchy. Who's on top, though, is contested. White, “high-class” escorts like myself often see ourselves at the apex of this hierarchy. But wait, it's the sugar babies, who have relationships with their sugar daddies and don't charge an hourly rate — they're at the top of the heap. Hold up — phone-sex operators don't even have to have sex to make money, so they're the “best.” But no, cam girls don't meet up with their clients either but earn even more money than phone-sex operators — so they're at the head of the pack. “The whorearchy is arranged according to intimacy of contact with clients and police,” writes Belle Knox, a porn star and sex-work advocate, in Jezebel. “The closer to both you are, the closer you are to the bottom.” This is why the streetwalker is always on the lower rungs of this hierarchy and sex workers like cam girls and phone-sex operators often see themselves as being at the top. (Phone sex and cam work are legal and don't require physical contact with the client.) However, I've met quite a few dominatrixes who believe they're at the pinnacle of this pyramid. Instead of pleasing men, they torture and humiliate them, and still earn a lot of money for the service. They're “top dog.” So you can see why this is a problem. The whorearchy is entirely arbitrary. Maggie McNeill, an escort, author, and sex-work advocate, jokes that while all sex workers agree that the whorearchy exists, “nobody agrees on anything about that system.” Besides, this hierarchical way of viewing sex work presumes that a sex worker's job is fixed. A stripper never does escort work and a streetwalker never works for an agency. his simply is not the case. Rachel Moran, the author of Paid For, a memoir about her time working as a prostitute in Dublin, Ireland, explains how she witnessed many women occupy multiple sectors of the sex industry simultaneously. Moran did this herself. She worked for an online escort agency while also doing street work and describes how the men who slept with her through the agency “were paying me several times more than I'd been paid for the same service the day before” (while streetwalking). In Moran's opinion, the “high-class” escort is nothing more than an image. She has seen brothel owners repackage their businesses as “high-class” agencies to cater to a wealthier clientele. But that's all it is: packaging. “Many like to assume that when they call an escort agency, a higher class of vagina will arrive at their door and, as an afterthought, that there'll be a higher class of woman attached to it.” But as Moran's experience shows, the difference between high-class escorts and streetwalkers is often a question of semantics." --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/antonio-myers4/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/antonio-myers4/support

Noor was initially sentenced to 12.5 years for the 2017 shooting of Justine Ruszczyk Damond, who he shot and killed while responding to her 911 call. His sentence was reduced to four years and nine months.+--+Feven Gerezgiher reports:On Thursday a judge re-sentenced former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor to four years and nine months in prison. Noor was initially sentenced to 12.5 years for the 2017 shooting of Justine Ruszczyk Damond, who he shot and killed while responding to her 911 call.In September, the Minnesota Supreme Court threw out Noor's murder conviction, prompting a need to re-sentence him for the lesser charge of second-degree manslaughter.University of Saint Thomas law professor Rachel Moran said Judge Kathryn Quaintance gave Noor the highest possible sentence for the charge.“I think she's legitimately concerned about what he did that night. He did take someone's life, even if not intentionally,” Moran said. While the Minnesota Supreme Court decision means Derek Chauvin will likely have his third degree murder charge dropped, Moran said his sentencing will not be impacted.“He was convicted of a more serious offense, which is second degree murder. And in Minnesota, you only get sentenced on the most serious offense,” Moran explained. “So he's serving 22 and a half years for second degree murder. The fact that he can get his third degree murder conviction vacated doesn't have any practical effect on that 22 and a half year sentence.”As a former public defender, however, Moran has a low view overall of the criminal system's ability to bring justice through prosecution.“I don't think it necessarily brings safety to the community. I'm not saying it's a bad thing to criminally prosecute officers at all, but the idea that that's what will now hold police accountable for all misconduct and protect communities that have been the targets of police misconduct… I don't think a couple of criminal prosecutions are going to do the trick,” she said.Based on time already served, Moran says Noor could be released on parole next summer.

What moderation tactics have you used or seen as a mechanism to curtail the spread of misinformation in communities and on social media platforms? Word detection, link blocking, and digital stickers promoting legitimate information sources may immediately come to mind. But what would happen if you ran your moderation tools against URLs shared in link-in-bio services used in your community? Or what if you learned that folks on your platform were using specific codewords to circumvent word detection? Or posting screenshots of misinformation rather than using plain-text? People are getting creative with how they share all types of information online, misinformation included. Are our moderation strategies keeping up? In this discussion, Patrick chats with Joseph Schafer, an undergraduate student of Computer Science and Ethics at the University of Washington and Rachel Moran, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public. They discuss their research and how anti-vaccine advocates are circumventing content moderation efforts on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and large social networks. Some of their findings might surprise you! For example, specific folk theories have emerged that define how some believe social platforms and algorithms work to moderate their content and conversations. And whether these theories are true or not, the strategies forming around them do seem to help people keep questionable content up long enough for researchers to come across it. So, where do we start? How can we detect misinformation if people are using codewords like pizza or Moana to get around our tools and teams? There may not be precise solutions here just yet, but Rachel and Joseph both offer ideas to help us down the right path, which starts with deciding that the engagement that brews around misinformation is not safe for the long-term health of your community. Among our topics: Why Linktree needs community guidelines and how link-in-bio sites have become a vector for misinformation The folk theories that are informing how we perceive and operate around social media algorithms Adapting your moderation strategies to better find misinformation Our Podcast is Made Possible By… If you enjoy our show, please know that it's only possible with the generous support of our sponsor: Vanilla, a one-stop shop for online community. Big Quotes Using lexical variation to circumvent moderation filters (2:45): “They found this big group of people who were using ‘dancing' or other kinds of verbs to mean getting the vaccine. Complete replacement of the word [vaccine]. You wouldn't know that that meant vaccination unless you were a member of that community and had the institutional knowledge that comes with being a member. We see [lexical variation] on a spectrum.” –@rachelemoran Emojis, code words, and symbols can form the insider language of a community (3:08): “We see ‘v@ccine' where the A is an @ sign or people using the vaccine emoji rather than using the word at all. They believe that if they put that instead of spelling out vaccine, … they'll avoid being caught up in the algorithmic moderation that happens on platforms.” –@rachelemoran Misinformation finds a hiding place in link-in-bios (5:05): “There's a variety of ways that you can … get around [link blocks]. One might be, for example, using a screenshot of an article or something that is vaccine misinformation, rather than putting in the text of the misinformation directly. … There's also various websites like URL shorteners or URL compilers, or even just a Word document … that is filled with links to sites that maybe these major platforms are moderating and blocking.” –@joey__schafer Using vaccination promotion tools to promote anti-vaccine content (10:56): “[On Instagram stories, you can use] that little sticker that says, ‘Let's get vaccinated.' Then Instagram collates those of your friends that have [used that] sticker … and it goes at the top of your [stories section]. … [We're seeing people] put a sticker over the top of that sticker or they are like, ‘Let's not get vaccinated.'” –@rachelemoran The engagement surrounding misinformation isn't good for the long-term health of your community or your business (32:06): “Part of the problem with misinformation is that it's really engaging. When you're making money off of engagement, there's only so far you're going to go to take down misinformation without going too far into your bottom line. … I feel like there is a tide-turning moment happening where the bigger platforms are realizing that misinformation is a vulnerability that degrades the product that can have economic disadvantages.” –@rachelemoran About Joseph Schafer and Rachel Moran Joseph Schafer is a fourth-year undergraduate student at the University of Washington, studying Computer Science and Ethics. He has also worked as a research assistant for the university's Center for an Informed Public since January of 2020, studying various forms of online misinformation and disinformation. Joseph hopes to pursue graduate school in information science, in order to understand how misinformation takes advantage of recently developed socio-technical systems, like social media, to influence our society. Rachel Moran is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public. Moran received her doctoral degree from the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. Her research explores the role of trust in digital information environments and is particularly concerned with how trust is implicated in the spread of mis- and dis-information. Her research has been published in academic journals and been covered by the New York Times, Vox, Vice, and others. She was also an affiliate fellow at George Washington University's Institute for Data, Democracy, and Politics and UNC Chapel Hills' Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life. Related Links Sponsor: Vanilla, a one-stop-shop for online community Joseph Schafer on Twitter Joseph Schafer's website Rachel Moran on Twitter University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public Content moderation avoidance strategies, via The Virality Project Anti-vaccine groups changing into ‘dance parties' on Facebook to avoid detection, via NBC News Linktree's community guidelines First I “like” it, then I hide it: Folk Theories of Social Feeds Dr. Jennifer Beckett on Community Signal A top spreader of coronavirus misinformation says he will delete his posts after 48 hours, via the New York Times Election Integrity Partnership, which Joseph and Rachel both worked on Jay Rosen on Community Signal Transcript View transcript on our website Your Thoughts If you have any thoughts on this episode that you'd like to share, please leave me a comment, send me an email or a tweet. 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Social media, message apps and other digital communications technologies restructure the ways in which information flows, and thus how humans interact with one another, how they make sense of the world and how they come to consensus on how to deal with problems. Now, more than a dozen researchers at multiple universities who study technology, behavior and complex systems believe questions about the impact of communications technology on collective behavior should be regarded as a “crisis discipline,” noting that “the vulnerability of these systems to misinformation and disinformation poses a dire threat to health, peace, global climate and more.” In a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they call on researchers and social media executives to take a Hippocratic oath and pledge first to do no harm to humanity. To hear more, we caught up with three of the authors- Joseph B. Bak-Coleman, a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public and the lead author the paper; Carl T. Bergstrom, a UW professor of biology and member of the Center for an Informed Public; and Rachel Moran, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public who studies disinformation and trust in information environments.

ENCORE PRESENTATION.... NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE!!! Tune in and listen to Lamont Banks and Co-Hosts of A Just Cause, a nonprofit, social justice organization discuss what happens when the wheels of justice trample unbridled over the rights of innocent Americans.   Our Special Guests on tonight's show are Howard Henderson, Director of Center for Justice Research at Texas Southern University and Rachel Moran, Associate Professor of Law at University of St. Thomas School of Law in Minnesota. Please tune-in and feel free to dial in and share your thoughts and comments on this very disturbing topic! A Just Cause continues to campaign for the exoneration of the remaining "FreeTheIRP5," who was wrongly imprisoned in Florence, CO for 8 years for a crime they didn't commit. Read their full story: www.freetheirp6.org.  For more information, about A Just Cause and to Donate, please visit www.a-justcause.com. Follow us on Twitter: @AJCRadio, @A_JustCause, @FreeTheeIRP6, @FreeeTheIRP6 and Like our Facebook Pages:  https://www.facebook.com/AJustCauseCO, and https://www.facebook.com/FreetheIRP6 Thank you for your support!

Tune in and listen to Lamont Banks and Co-Hosts of A Just Cause, a nonprofit, social justice organization discuss what happens when the wheels of justice trample unbridled over the rights of innocent Americans.   Our Special Guests on tonight's show are Howard Henderson, Director of Center for Justice Research at Texas Southern University and Rachel Moran, Associate Professor of Law at University of St. Thomas School of Law in Minnesota. Please tune-in and feel free to dial in and share your thoughts and comments on this very disturbing topic! A Just Cause continues to campaign for the exoneration of the remaining "FreeTheIRP5," who was wrongly imprisoned in Florence, CO for 8 years for a crime they didn't commit. Read their full story: www.freetheirp6.org.  For more information, about A Just Cause and to Donate, please visit www.a-justcause.com. Follow us on Twitter: @AJCRadio, @A_JustCause, @FreeTheeIRP6, @FreeeTheIRP6 and Like our Facebook Pages:  https://www.facebook.com/AJustCauseCO, and https://www.facebook.com/FreetheIRP6 Thank you for your support!

On Tuesday, Derek Chauvin became one of the few police officers to ever be convicted in the killing of an unarmed citizen. Since George Floyd's death last summer, New York has seen a range of efforts to reform policing. Advocates say one of the keys to accountability is access to internal police documents. Rachel Moran is an associate professor of law at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis. She recently authored a study on the release of police misconduct records.

Plan International UK suggests that 63% of women in Britain feel unsafe walking alone in the dark. It’s an innate fear, one that’s reinforced in childhood. Stranger danger dictates that all strangers are dangerous, and that you should never interact with strangers in the street, a child should never accept sweets off of a stranger and you should never walk off or get into a car with a stranger. The occurrence of the Moors Murders, murders committed by Levi Bellfield and the abduction and murder of Sarah Payne in 2000, has made the idea of stranger danger even more significant. While most of these warnings are aimed at children, adults should remain wary of strangers too, because while stranger abductions are extremely rare in the UK, they do happen. Follow us on Twitter and Tumblr (@murderandmore), Instagram (@murderandmorepod) and Facebook (Murder and More Podcast/@mandmpod). View the sources and pictures for this episode at www.murderandmorepodcast.wordpress.com. Become a patron of Murder and More by heading to www.patreon.com/murderandmore. This episode's promo is True Consequences. Music: Leave Without Me and Atmospheric Piano Backing, https://purple-planet.com.

Conspiracy theories about the election, coronavirus and social justice movements have flown across social media in the past few months. But when you see someone you love sharing information that is false, how can you approach them? Rachel Moran, Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Washington Center for an Informed Public, says you have to start from a place of care and respect. Moran joins us to debrief major conspiracy theories that impacted this election, and share tips for communicating with your loved ones who believe in them.

The ideal physique is often seen as a product of individual labor, and could be interpreted in some sense as counter-cultural to how most people look today. But did you know that in the 1930s, the US government was actively promoting and shaping the ideal masculine physique? It's hard to imagine any administration doing such a thing, but according to Dr Rachel Moran, in her book, Governing Bodies, presidents such as Franklin Roosevelt as well as John F Kennedy were spearheading state-wide initiatives to get American men looking lean and strong. I spoke to Dr Moran, who's an assistant professor of history at the University of North Texas about her book, and some of its key findings.

In the early hours of New Years Day 2003, Rachel Moran decided leave her parents house and make the 20 minute walk to her own flat. Her worried mother tried to stop her, but Rachel said she would be fine: she'd ring as soon as she got in. But the phone call never came.  And Rachel was never seen alive again. *********** Thanks to our sponsors for today’s episode: Try the casual mobile puzzle game Best Fiends today! Find it on the Apple App store (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/best-fiends-puzzle-adventure/id868013618) and Google Play (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Seriously.BestFiends&hl=en) !  *********** Find us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/mensreapod/) or Twitter (https://twitter.com/MensReaPod) ! With thanks to our supporters on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/MensReaPod) ! Donate today to get access to bonus and ad-free episodes! Check out the Mens Rea Merch Store (https://shop.spreadshirt.ie/MensReaPod/) !  *********** Theme Music: Quinn’s Song: The Dance Begins Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com (http://incompetech.com/) ) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Additional Music:   Allemande (Sting) by Wahneta Meixsell. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ *********** Sources: Wanda Moran, The Murder of Rachel  (London: John Blake, 2011) Purchase here (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Murder-Rachel-Stranger-Murdered-Daughter-ebook/dp/B0078XGWGI/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=the+murder+of+rachel&qid=1593903221&sr=8-2) “Man charged with Rachel Moran murder” in The Irish Times https://www.irishtimes.com/news/man-charged-with-rachel-moran-murder-1.459096 (30 January 2003)    “Man remanded over Rachel Moran murder” in The Irish Times https://www.irishtimes.com/news/man-remanded-over-rachel-moran-murder-1.459236 (31 January 2003) "'Evil' man gets life for murder of student” in The Irish Independent https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/evil-man-gets-life-for-murder-of-student-25928781.html (31 October 2003)    “'Evil' man jailed for killing student, 21” in The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/evil-man-jailed-for-killing-student-21-93942.html (31 October 2003)    “Parents of murder victim face more grief” in The Yorkshire Post  https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/parents-murder-victim-face-more-grief-1964918 (15 August 2010)    "Killer jailed for New Year murder” in The Journal http://www.thejournal.co.uk/news/north-east-news/killer-jailed-new-year-murder-4667447 (31 October 2003)    Martin Wainwright, “Body in cupboard killer jailed for life” in The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/oct/31/ukcrime.martinwainwright (31 October 2003)    Adam Price, “Hopes fading for missing Irish girl” in The Evening Herald (13 January 2003) p. 18    Bernard Purcell, “Irish cousins of woman missing in UK” in The Irish Independent (14 January 2003) p. 4.    “We've never partied so hard” in The Bray People (16 January 2003) p. 1 Michael Johns, “Huge search for Dublin girl” in The Evening Herald  (16 January 2003) p. 20    Michael Lavery, “Lonely birthday for missing Rachel” in The Evening Herald (17 January 2003) p. 23.    Michael Lavery, “More Rachel items found” in The Evening Herald (21 January 2003) p 20.  “Fears grow for Rachel” in The Bray People (23 January 2003) p. 8.    “Two quizzed as police in Rachel hunt find body” in The Irish Independent (29 January 2003) p. 8.    Laura Elston, “Rachel search: Police question two men after body discovered” in The Evening Herald (29 January 2003) p. 8.    Liz Kearney, “Hull police find Rachel's body” in The Bray People (30 January 2003) p. 3.  “No bail for Rachel murder accused” in The Irish Independent (1 February 2003) p. 8  “Hundreds mourn at funeral of murdered Irish dancer” in The Irish Independent (1 March 2003) p 14. “Murder accused confessed to the police, court told” in The Bray People (16 October 2003) p. 3.  Conor Feehan, “Dublin dancer's stab death” in The Evening Herald (17 October 2003) p. 23.    “Irish student murder jury still out” in The Evening Herald (29 October 2003) p. 18.    Alistair Keely, “Man is found guilty of Irish girl's murder” in The Evening Herald (30 October 2003) p. 25.   ­ “'Evil' man gets life for murder of student” in The Irish Independent (31 October 2003) p. 10.  Paul Johnson, “Rachel Moran's killer Michael Little told police 'I Must be Evil' but pleaded not guilty to murder” in The Dull Daily Mail https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/rachel-morans-killer-michael-little-87978 (1 January 2013)    Rick Lyon, “Murdered Rachel Moran's Hull parent tell of heartache 10 years after Michael Little murdered her” in The Hull Daily Mail https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/rachel-moran-hull-murder-little-88032 (1 January 2013) 

This week on “Bursting the Bubble” the topic is “Truth and Justice” as Mike an JL are joined by Rachel Moran and Nuk Kongkaw. Rachel Moran is Assistant Professor of Law at St. Thomas Law School (Minneapolis, MN) Nuk Kongkaw is a 2011 graduate of Houghton College and serves as the director of the Mosaic Center at Houghton College.

'Trigger Warning' if you or someone you know has been affected by sexual abuse please remember the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre 24 hour Helpline is open 1800 77 8888In today’s podcast (Episode 24) we will be talking with Rachel Moran, Author, Activist and Campaigner.Rachel grew up on the north side of Dublin. She had a difficult childhood. Both of her parents suffered mental health issues and her father committed suicide when she had just turned 14. She ended up in residential care, and during her time there at the age of 15 she met a man who quickly introduced her to prostitution where she stayed until the age of 22 when she courageously managed to break free and put that life behind her.At age 24 Rachel returned to education and gained a Degree in Journalism from Dublin City University (DCU) where she won the Hybrid Award for Excellence in Journalism. Over the years she has taken part in many newspaper, radio and television interviews both home and abroad. Her bestselling book ‘Paid For - My Journey through Prostitution’ was in the Top Ten Irish bestselling books for over twelve weeksRachel is passionate about creating change and has taken part in a TEDxDCU event in November 2013. Her talk was entitled Transforming Lives and Societies through Legislative Change.  She has appeared on the Late, Late show on a number of occasions and continues to fight injustice at every turn. We will talk about the many campaigns that Rachel has spearheaded and been involved in, and discuss her views on the latest campaign ‘We Don’t Buy It’ and why she is fervently against the deregulation of prostitution in Ireland.Take CareJoyce, June and Paula 

Episode 64 of The Michael Anthony Show sees the host sit down with renowned author Rachel Moran and English activist Fiona Broadfoot (real name). With over a combined fifteen years of having their bodies used in the name "prostitution", the duo are keen to let the world know that this apparent sex "industry" is not what is commonly thought.We delve into their dark and fascinating pasts whilst examining a variety of societal flaws and issues. Tense, fiery, raw and sombre, this open conversation does not lack honesty as these two brave women demand nothing but change.Available now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and all other platforms.Support the show (https://open.spotify.com/show/0sP68DtD7qCl4Rs2wGKJD4)

10 21 19 swopcast myths behind decrim.mp3 https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/former-sex-worker-ordered-by-judge-not-to-post-defamatory-statements-online-about-another-ex-sex-worker-958661.html We break down how the news media is using misogynistic and propagandized langauge when covering stories about sex worker's rights in order to silence criticism of the rescue industry. The most recent case- Rachel moran suing Gaye Dalton for defamation.

After the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union in 2016, large industries have struggled to handle the ramifications of the upcoming Brexit. One affected industry that does not get much coverage is prostitution.Laura Watson is the spokesperson for the English Collective of Prostitutes in London. She spoke with The World's Carol Hills about what Brexit has meant for the numerous foreign prostitutes residing in the UK and what her organization is doing to help foreign sex workers who are being unfairly threatened and deported from around the country. Laura Watson: We are a sex worker organization based here in the UK, but we have an international network, including a sister organization in San Francisco. We also campaign for alternatives to prostitution, so that nobody is forced into it if they don't want to be. We campaign for decriminalization and the removal of the prostitution laws, so that sex workers can work together for safety, which we currently cannot do. Police are going around very regularly threatening women with arrest for prostitution for just working together with a friend. Women are having to move around a lot more and are running from the police. Therefore, it's very hard to establish basic safety, such as CCTV. It's a pretty scary time to be working.Carol Hills: Is there a way to put simply what rights sex workers in Britain have, whether British or non-British?Sex workers have the rights that other people have. For example, you don't have to let the police in if they don't have a warrant and you don't have to give the police a statement. It's legal to work as a sex worker, but it's illegal to work with somebody else and it's illegal to loiter and solicit on the street. To be working legally, you can work from premises, but you have to be completely on your own. Women don't want to work in that way. It's a very scary way to work. You're completely isolated.Related: After seven years in the Dublin sex trade, Rachel Moran says prostitution is always abuse.Your group recently put out a brief very memorably called "Sex workers are getting screwed by Brexit." How?We had a lot of women coming to us from Europe, mostly from Eastern Europe. In fact, mostly Romanian women who were working in the UK consensually and independently and wanted to keep on working but were being harassed by the police constantly for arrest and deportation.So is your sense that police in the UK are using pro-Brexit sentiment and the feelings around those who support Brexit to crack down on non-British prostitutes, in this case Romanian, as just an extension of anti-foreigner feeling?It certainly feels like that way to us and we do have some evidence that suggests that. We saw a number of women coming to us with cases including threats of deportation and racist abuse from police and from immigration officers.Related: A Dutch brothel where women work for themselves.Have you been able to prevent any of the women you represent from getting deported?Yes, we have, and many women did appeal their deportation orders because they couldn't go home or didn't want to go home and this was their home. We did appeal many of those specifically on the grounds that women were exercising their treaty rights in other ways, like that they were students or working in another job and that's how women have won the right to stay here. We have had some success and we hope that this dossier gets the message out there and leads to more success in stopping deportations.This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. 

In this episode, Rachel Moran, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of St. Thomas School of Law, discusses her article "Police Privacy," which will be published in the UC Irvine Law Review. Moran observes that in many states, including California and New York, records of police misconduct are not subject to records requests, or access is very limited. Access to these records is essential to identifying problem officers and bringing civil rights actions, but police unions have successfully argues that access would violate the privacy rights of police officers. Moran asks whether and when records requests implicate legitimate privacy interests, and concludes that most records should be released. Moran is on Twitter at @rachelmoran82. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

2017-12-17 Remember and Recommit - Rachel Moran

With Julie Bindel, Rachel Moran, Katy Balls, Paul Goodman, Tibor Fischer and Jake Hurfurt. Presented by Lara Prendergast.

MEN WANTED: The Game needs you to explore the act of buying sex. On this week's podcast, Róisín Ingle talks to two of the women behind a radical piece of theatre, The Game. Grace Dyas and Lauren Larkin aim to portray the realities of prostitution through their stage piece, which was devised with the help of former prostitutes including Rachel Moran and Mia deFaoite, as well as some women who are still involved in sex work. They tell Róisín Ingle what the show is all about and why they felt it was important to tell this story. Five male volunteers are needed to take part each night and they've put the call out for willing participants for their upcoming Irish shows. If you're interested in taking part email WENEEDMEN2017@gmail,com

This time On the Road at the 2016 ABA Annual Meeting, host Joe Patrice talks with Rachel Moran, Dean Emerita and Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law, and Nicole Austin-Hillery, Director and Counsel of The Brennan Center’s Washington, D.C. office, about the current state of the Supreme Court. Rachel reviews the gap left by Justice Scalia’s passing and states that she’s not sure if there is a clear heir to his seat but there are several justices who are aligned with him philosophically and jurisprudentially. Nicole notes that there seems to be a “lightness” to the current court without Scalia and that the justices appear to now share more of the decision making and influence in terms of the cases. The persistence of this climate, Nicole continues, really depends on who fills the vacant seat since the justices’ personalities have a huge bearing on the Court’s tenor and operation. Both guests contemplate Chief Judge Merrick Garland’s presumptive confirmation to the Supreme Court and the potential larger implications of Justice Sotomayor’s written dissent in the Utah v. Strieff case. They close the interview with a discussion of Justice Kennedy’s recent, uncharacteristic vote on affirmative action and upcoming court cases that attorneys should be on the lookout for. Rachel F. Moran is Dean Emerita and Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law. She received her A.B. in psychology with honors and with distinction from Stanford University and her J.D. from Yale Law School. Following law school, she clerked for Chief Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and worked for the San Francisco firm of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe. Prior to her appointment at UCLA, Professor Moran was the Robert D. and Leslie-Kay Raven Professor of Law at UC Berkeley School of Law. Nicole Austin-Hillery is the first director and counsel of The Brennan Center’s Washington, D.C. office and serves as the organization’s chief liaison to Congress and the Administration. She practiced with the law firm of Mehri & Skalet, PLLC as part of the firm's civil rights employment class action practice and as the George N. Lindsay Civil Rights Law Fellow at the national office of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in Washington, D.C. Nicole is a graduate of the Howard University School of Law and Carnegie Mellon University.

Robin on the women behind Mandela's greatness. Guests: Katharine Morrison, founder of the first full-service women's health facility—a birthing center and abortion clinic; Lenora Lee's art about trafficked Chinese women; and Rachel Moran exposes the reality of prostitution.