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Activism and Campaigning

UKDPC ‘fends off insolvency’

By John Pring on 28th February 2014 Category: Activism and Campaigning, News Archive

UKDPC ‘fends off insolvency’
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One of the UK’s two major disabled people’s representative organisations appears to have staved off the threat of insolvency. UK Disabled People’s Council (UKDPC) lost its last paid member of staff last summer, when its chief executive Jaspal Dhani was made […]

Tight lips among Atos staff as protesters tell them ‘enough is enough’

By John Pring on 21st February 2014 Category: Activism and Campaigning, Benefits and Poverty, News Archive

Tight lips among Atos staff as protesters tell them ‘enough is enough’
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Staff working for the outsourcing giant Atos refused to comment this week as disabled activists protested outside their head office about the company’s involvement with the government’s “fitness for work” test. The protest near Euston station in London was one of […]

Whistles, ripples… and a giant inflatable rat, as Atos faces day of action

By John Pring on 21st February 2014 Category: Activism and Campaigning, Benefits and Poverty, News Archive

Whistles, ripples… and a giant inflatable rat, as Atos faces day of action
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Activists have staged demonstrations at scores of locations across the country to highlight how a government contractor has “humiliated” disabled benefits claimants, and to call for the abolition of the “fitness for work” test. The national day of action saw an […]

Council keeps passengers waiting… and waiting… for an accessible taxi

By John Pring on 14th February 2014 Category: Activism and Campaigning, News Archive, Transport

Council keeps passengers waiting… and waiting… for an accessible taxi
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Disabled campaigners are calling on a city council to give them a wider choice of public transport, after a five-year delay in deciding whether to license a more accessible type of black cab. Coventry city council has been accused of breaching […]

Disabled people’s manifesto calls for ‘drastic change of EU policy’

By John Pring on 14th February 2014 Category: Activism and Campaigning, Human Rights, News Archive

Disabled people’s manifesto calls for ‘drastic change of EU policy’
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Millions of disabled people have been thrown into poverty and social exclusion by the European Union’s attempts to recover from the economic crisis, according to Europe’s leading disabled people’s organisation. The European Disability Forum (EDF) spoke out as it launched its […]

Self-advocacy group seeks answers from People First England project

By John Pring on 7th February 2014 Category: Activism and Campaigning, News Archive

Self-advocacy group seeks answers from People First England project
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Plans to set up a new user-led organisation for people with learning difficulties in England have been described by an existing national group as “divisive” and “damaging” to the self-advocacy movement. Disabled activists Gary Bourlet and Kaliya Franklin told last month […]

High-heels, swallowing the lies, and a bedroom protest

By John Pring on 7th February 2014 Category: Activism and Campaigning, Arts, Culture and Sport, News Archive

High-heels, swallowing the lies, and a bedroom protest
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High-heels, institutional abuse, independent living, a bedroom tax protest, and a blunt challenge to the idea of pity… The subjects of the 800 images created by disabled people for the Postcards from the Edge project range across themes of communication, discrimination, […]

Disabled peer battles on over care home human rights protection

By John Pring on 24th January 2014 Category: Activism and Campaigning, Housing, Human Rights, News Archive

Disabled peer battles on over care home human rights protection
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A disabled peer is refusing to concede defeat despite the coalition narrowly overturning his amendment to the care bill, which would have provided human rights protection for residents of private sector and charity-run homes. Lord [Colin] Low secured the amendment after […]

Thousands raised for People First England project

By John Pring on 10th January 2014 Category: Activism and Campaigning, News Archive

Thousands raised for People First England project
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Two leading disabled campaigners have joined forces to set up England’s first national user-led organisation for people with learning difficulties. Gary Bourlet, who founded Britain’s first People First organisation in London in 1984, has linked up with Kaliya Franklin, best known […]

New year honours: Recognition for independent living campaigner

By John Pring on 3rd January 2014 Category: Activism and Campaigning, News Archive

New year honours: Recognition for independent living campaigner
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A leading campaigner for independent living – and the importance of choice and control for disabled people – has spoken of her “embarrassment” at being recognised with a CBE in the new year honours. Sue Bott, director of policy and development […]

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