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City’s co-produced climate action plan ‘is a world first’

By John Pring on 14th July 2022 Category: Activism and Campaigning

City’s co-produced climate action plan ‘is a world first’
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Disabled people have called for action to open up their access to green jobs, public transport, affordable food and clean energy across their city, as part of a pioneering, user-led climate action plan. The plan also calls for blue badge holders […]

Mural brings disabled people and asylum-seekers together

By John Pring on 16th December 2021 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Mural brings disabled people and asylum-seekers together
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Disabled people and asylum-seekers have worked together on a mural that illustrates some of the barriers they face in society, and which acts as a tribute to a disabled asylum-seeker who was murdered in 2016. The mural, on the side of […]

Activists ‘horrified’ by Bristol’s third damning report into multi-agency failings in four years

By John Pring on 17th June 2021 Category: Human Rights

Activists ‘horrified’ by Bristol’s third damning report into multi-agency failings in four years
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Council, police and other agencies across Bristol have again been found to have repeatedly failed disabled people, in the third such damning report to hit the city in just four years. This week’s report by Sir Stephen Bubb examined multi-agency failings […]

Councils face calls to re-think COVID streetscape changes

By TJM on 1st October 2020 Category: Transport

Councils face calls to re-think COVID streetscape changes
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By TJM Local authorities in England and Wales are facing calls to re-think the “streetscape” changes being made in response to COVID-19, amid concerns that the new street infrastructure is making parts of towns and cities inaccessible to many disabled people. […]

Lottery funding will help young disabled people dig into city’s activist past

By John Pring on 28th November 2019 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Lottery funding will help young disabled people dig into city’s activist past
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A new lottery award is set to help young disabled people research and record the history of the disabled people’s movement in one of England’s biggest cities. The Forging Our Future project will see younger disabled people – aged between 16 […]

New group aims to ‘reclaim the true meaning of independent living’

By John Pring on 19th September 2019 Category: Independent Living

New group aims to ‘reclaim the true meaning of independent living’
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A new group of disabled people and allies in Bristol has been set up to “reclaim the true meaning of independent living”. Bristol Reclaiming Independent Living (BRIL), which launched this week, is determined to remind the government and others in positions […]

Kamil Ahmad: Campaigners demand ‘fundamental change’ to systems that led to murders

By John Pring on 5th July 2018 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Kamil Ahmad: Campaigners demand ‘fundamental change’ to systems that led to murders
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Disabled asylum-seekers and activists have come together to seek fundamental changes to the systems and agencies that have been blamed for the brutal murders of two disabled refugees in the same city. Disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) and groups working with asylum-seekers […]

Memorial and procession will highlight need for reform after brutal murder

By John Pring on 7th June 2018 Category: Human Rights

Memorial and procession will highlight need for reform after brutal murder
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Campaigners will take part in a procession later this month to mark the murder of a disabled asylum-seeker and highlight the need for sweeping changes to the system that failed him. Disabled asylum-seekers and activists, grassroots groups, academics and policy-makers will […]

Kamil Ahmad: Discrimination led to murder of disabled refugee, say friends

By John Pring on 19th October 2017 Category: Crime

Kamil Ahmad: Discrimination led to murder of disabled refugee, say friends
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Friends of a disabled Kurdish asylum-seeker have spoken of the institutionalised discrimination that they believe led to his murder at the hands of a racist neighbour. Kamil Ahmad wanted nothing more than a safe place that he could call home, after […]

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