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Exhibition chronicles six years of fighting back on austerity and discrimination

By John Pring on 8th November 2018 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Exhibition chronicles six years of fighting back on austerity and discrimination
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A new exhibition is charting how artists have fought back against attacks on disabled people’s rights and financial support over the last six years. Shape Arts’ retrospective, Cumulative Effect: Disability and the Welfare State, looks at how that work has reacted […]

Labour conference: Fringes hear call for ideas on how to resist years of oppression

By John Pring on 27th September 2018 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Labour conference: Fringes hear call for ideas on how to resist years of oppression
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Disabled Labour supporters have described some of the ways in which left-wing activists could push back against years of government austerity, oppression and attacks on inclusion. They were speaking at two events taking place on the fringes of this week’s Labour […]

UK wants to promote its disability policies to rest of the world, says Mordaunt

By John Pring on 19th October 2017 Category: Human Rights

UK wants to promote its disability policies to rest of the world, says Mordaunt
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The minister for disabled people has dismissed a damning UN report on her government’s disability rights record, arguing that the rest of the world should instead be learning from the UK’s policies. Penny Mordaunt was speaking weeks after the UN’s committee […]

New disabled MP accuses government of ‘eugenics’

By John Pring on 6th July 2017 Category: Politics

New disabled MP accuses government of ‘eugenics’
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A newly-elected disabled MP has accused the Conservative government of introducing policies inspired by “eugenics” in the hope that disabled people will “suffer and die”. Labour’s Jared O’Mara spoke out just weeks after beating former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg to […]

Crossbench disabled peer calls for an end to austerity, and the misery it has caused

By John Pring on 29th June 2017 Category: Politics

Crossbench disabled peer calls for an end to austerity, and the misery it has caused
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A crossbench disabled peer has called for an end to government-led austerity and the “personal misery” it has caused. Lord [Colin] Low, speaking in the Lords debate on last week’s Queen’s speech, said he believed the result of the general election […]

Disabled people ‘forced into dangerous workfare that breaches health and safety laws’

By John Pring on 18th May 2017 Category: Crime

Disabled people ‘forced into dangerous workfare that breaches health and safety laws’
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Disabled people are being subjected to dangerous violations of health and safety laws after being forced to take part in government workfare programmes, according to new research published this week. The analysis of first-hand accounts of benefit claimants forced into unpaid […]

Thousands hear call to free disabled people ‘imprisoned in their homes by austerity’

By John Pring on 6th October 2016 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Thousands hear call to free disabled people ‘imprisoned in their homes by austerity’
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Disabled people have explained why they joined thousands of other activists on a march through the streets of Birmingham to protest about the failure of Tory austerity policies. The march took place as the Conservatives held their annual conference in the […]

ELECTION 2015: Artist will broadcast her 650 austerity stories on eve of election

By John Pring on 6th May 2015 Category: Activism and Campaigning

ELECTION 2015: Artist will broadcast her 650 austerity stories on eve of election
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In the last hours before election day, a disabled artist-activist will highlight the impact of government cuts, with a six-hour performance in which the stories of 650 people at austerity’s “sharp end” will be broadcast over the internet. The performance will […]

Crow’s mud figures will make visible the human cost of austerity

By John Pring on 27th March 2015 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Crow’s mud figures will make visible the human cost of austerity
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A disabled artist-activist is about to begin sculpting 650 figures out of river mud, in a bid to “make visible the human cost of austerity” in the run-up to the general election. Liz Crow’s We Are Figures project will see her […]

Recession and austerity ‘have provided a deadly mixture’

By John Pring on 19th December 2014 Category: Benefits and Poverty, News Archive

Recession and austerity ‘have provided a deadly mixture’
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The combination of the recession and the coalition’s austerity programme is likely to have been responsible for hundreds of suicides in England, a researcher at Oxford University has suggested. Dr Aaron Reeves, a sociologist at Oxford University and part of a […]

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