Happy #vaisakhi everyone! For #Sikhs and #Punjab is the turning of the year: in 1699, our faith crystallized and the annual harvest festival rolled into one.

https://sikhiteaching.com/vaisakhi-festival-history/

"A senior #Labour #MP has warned that #Jews and #Sikhs are repeatedly missing from vital datasets that shape #publicservice decisions, as a government review into #ethnic classification remains ongoing.

Labour MP #PreetKaurGill, who represents #Edgbaston, made the warning during a #WestminsterHall debate, arguing the issue goes to the heart of how the #UK delivers #publicservices.

She has previously been backed in her campaign for public bodies to to record Sikhs and Jews as ethnic groups by the #BoardofDeputies.

“This is not a theological discussion,” she said. “The Office for National Statistics has told all public bodies that they can only use the current ethnicity data categories for service delivery — and that is really important.”

https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/mp-renews-her-call-for-jewish-and-sikh-ethnicity-to-be-recorded-by-public-bodies/

San Francisco Chronicle: A BART police officer made a bigoted AI deepfake about a Sikh colleague. What happens next?. “The results of the agency’s internal investigation are unknown. Three confidential sources within BART — who are familiar with the matter but said they were not authorized to discuss it — told the Chronicle that the officer depicted in the video remained on stress-related […]