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Activists to discuss working together over ‘insidious’ violence faced by disabled people and migrants

By John Pring on 6th June 2024 Category: Activism and Campaigning

Activists to discuss working together over ‘insidious’ violence faced by disabled people and migrants
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Grassroots activists fighting for disability and migrant justice are to discuss how they can work together to combat the bureaucratic violence that both groups face at the hands of the state. The informal public meeting will take place next week at […]

‘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 […]

Book will expose how DWP’s decades of ‘violent bureaucracy’ led to countless deaths

By John Pring on 19th October 2023 Category: Benefits and Poverty

Book will expose how DWP’s decades of ‘violent bureaucracy’ led to countless deaths
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A new book will expose how decades of “violent” bureaucracy within the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) led eventually to the deaths of hundreds, if not thousands, of disabled people who were claiming benefits. The Department* reveals how the actions […]

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 […]

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