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‘This is why we fight for justice after losing loved ones to state violence’

By John Pring on 9th November 2023 Category: Activism and Campaigning

‘This is why we fight for justice after losing loved ones to state violence’
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Three women who have lost loved ones to state violence have described how they were able to spend years fighting for justice, while coping with the grief caused by the flawed and dangerous police, mental health and social security systems. Anna […]

Artists show how creativity helps to resist DWP’s violence… and remember its victims

By John Pring on 1st December 2022 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Artists show how creativity helps to resist DWP’s violence… and remember its victims
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Disabled artists have described how they have used creativity to resist the violence of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), and to remember its victims. The online Creative Resistance to Welfare State Violence event this week was part of Healing […]

DNS is ‘vexatious’ for seeking secret DWP death reviews, information commissioner rules

By John Pring on 17th November 2022 Category: Benefits and Poverty

DNS is ‘vexatious’ for seeking secret DWP death reviews, information commissioner rules
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A regulator has sided with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) by ruling that an attempt by Disability News Service (DNS) to obtain more than 90 secret reviews into deaths linked to DWP’s actions was “vexatious”. Information commissioner John Edwards […]

Disabled activists are prepared for prison after clampdown on right to protest

By John Pring on 22nd December 2021 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Disabled activists are prepared for prison after clampdown on right to protest
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Disabled activists have said they are prepared to break the law, and even go to prison, if the government succeeds in bringing in new legislation that will crack down on the right to protest. Dolly Sen and Ellen Clifford were speaking […]

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