Breakthrough UK

Black and white picture of Lorraine Gradwell on the phone

March 8, 2018 0

New campaign to fight barriers to elected office is tribute to Lorraine Gradwell

A new campaigning organisation – named after one of Manchester’s “finest civil rights campaigners” – will fight to remove the barriers to elected office faced by disabled people in the city. The Trust Lorraine Foundation (TLF) was launched in Manchester on Saturday by Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People (GMCDP) and Breakthrough UK. It

Activism and Campaigning

Jackie Driver speaking into a microphone, with some of her words in a box in the corner of the screen

December 7, 2017 0

Charities ‘must do more’ to support direct action anti-austerity activists, says DPO chair

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Disability charities must do more to support the disabled activists who are fighting austerity through direct action protests, according to a leading figure in the disabled people’s movement. Jackie Driver, who has chaired the Manchester-based disabled people’s organisation Breakthrough UK for the last 13 years, said that grassroots organisations like Disabled People Against Cuts

Activism and Campaigning

September 7, 2017 0

Movement mourns Lorraine Gradwell: Role model, confidante and leader

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Fellow activists, family and friends are mourning the death of Lorraine Gradwell, who had an “immeasurable” impact on the rights and lives of other disabled people over more than 30 years of campaigning. Disabled activists paid tribute this week to her tenacity, vision, kindness, and passionate commitment to disability rights and the social model

Employment

May 4, 2017

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Boycott call after DWP wrongly claims DPOs helped devise punitive work scheme

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Disabled activists have called on disability charities to boycott any further co-operation with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), after it wrongly claimed that disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) had helped draw up its punitive new work scheme. DWP claimed that DPOs “co-designed” plans to force new claimants of out-of-work disability benefits to take

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December 5, 2014 0

Rights take centre stage in UK on UN’s international day

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The launch of a bid to produce a new disabled people’s manifesto for Wales was among events held this week to celebrate the UN’s International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD). The launch was held on 3 December by Disability Wales (DW), which wants to develop a manifesto that will influence political parties in

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New campaign to fight barriers to elected office is tribute to Lorraine Gradwell

Charities ‘must do more’ to support direct action anti-austerity activists, says DPO chair

Movement mourns Lorraine Gradwell: Role model, confidante and leader

Boycott call after DWP wrongly claims DPOs helped devise punitive work scheme

Rights take centre stage in UK on UN’s international day