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Disabled activists say vital new polling shows that it is not safe to legalise assisted suicide when the government is preparing to cut billions of pounds a year from spending on disability benefits. The findings were released yesterday (Wednesday) on the […]
Disabled people have warned the Labour government that they will “not go quietly” and plan to keep fighting its plans to cut spending on their benefits by billions of pounds a year, as they staged a dramatic “die-in” outside a London […]
Disabled activists are considering taking legal action against the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) after it scrapped the only event due to take place in Wales as part of the consultation on its disability benefits green paper. They say MPs […]
A new book by a leading disabled academic-activist explores how people-powered movements – including the disability movement – can end the dominance of the “man-made disaster” that is neoliberalism. Professor Peter Beresford (pictured) has been at the heart of the movement […]
Disabled public figures behind a new campaign to persuade the government to back down on its “inhumane and catastrophic” plans to cut billions of pounds from disability benefits say they are overwhelmed by the response since its launch. Tuesday’s launch saw […]
Parliament has refused to criticise a security officer who confiscated a book about benefit deaths because it was “too political” as three disabled activists arrived to watch a debate on disability benefit cuts, and quizzed them about their medication. The three […]
Two terminally-ill disabled women are to lodge a complaint with the United Nations that the passage of a private members’ bill that aims to legalise assisted suicide breaches the UN disability convention. Nicki Myers and Nicola Waters believe key aspects of […]
Disabled campaigners say they are shocked, angry and “confounded” by a vote by the Scottish parliament in favour of legalising assisted suicide in Scotland, but they have vowed to keep fighting to defeat the proposals. Members of the Scottish parliament voted […]
Lawyers and a bereaved family behind a crowdfunding initiative hope it will highlight to coroners across the country the links between the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and countless deaths of benefit claimants. They set up the crowdfunder as a […]
Disabled activists gate-crashed one of the government’s “sham” consultation events on its disability benefits green paper, and persuaded civil servants to let them put questions that ministers had not wanted to be asked. The direct action, led by Manchester Disabled People […]