Disability Politics – Page 10 – Black Triangle Campaign

By Alexandra Topping https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/16/woman-who-confronted-theresa-may-disability-cuts-ordeal-kathy-mohan Kathy Mohan, who became an overnight champion of disabled people, says Tories’ PIP scheme has

Continue reading‘I’m suffering’: woman who confronted May tells of disability cuts ordeal

Black Triangle News, CH5, Conservatives, Damien Green, DWP, Frances Ryan, Learning Disability England, Penny Mourdant, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

In confronting Theresa May, Kathy has spoken up for all Britain’s disabled people

May 16, 2017May 16, 2017 JJ

Play Current Time0:13 / Duration Time1:12 Loaded: 0% Progress: 0% Fullscreen Mute Voter confronts Theresa May over disability benefit cuts

Continue readingIn confronting Theresa May, Kathy has spoken up for all Britain’s disabled people

Baroness Burt, CAFCASS, Disability Discrimination, DPPU

Disabled mother-of-five launches lobby group after 20 years of family court injustice

May 12, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service May 11th 2017 A disabled mother-of-five has described how having to fight the courts

Continue readingDisabled mother-of-five launches lobby group after 20 years of family court injustice

Conservatives, CRPD, Disability Discrimination, Human Rights, UKCRPD, UN, United Nations

Disabled people ‘denied access to justice by failure of judges on reasonable adjustments’

May 12, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service May 11th 2017 Disabled people are being denied access to justice because of judges’

Continue readingDisabled people ‘denied access to justice by failure of judges on reasonable adjustments’

Anne McGuire, Baroness Jane Campbell, EHRC, HOL, Labour Party, Lord Shinkwin, Sir Bert Massie

Scrapping EHRC disability commissioner role ‘risks sidelining disability’

May 12, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service May 11th 2017 The “rash” decision to scrap the role of disability commissioner

Continue readingScrapping EHRC disability commissioner role ‘risks sidelining disability’

Black Mental Health UK, Conservatives, DRUK, DWP, MHRN, Recovery in the Bin, UKCRPD

General Election 2017: Tory mental health plans greeted with accusations of ‘hypocrisy’

May 12, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service May 11th 2017 Two user-led groups have accused the Conservative party of

Continue readingGeneral Election 2017: Tory mental health plans greeted with accusations of ‘hypocrisy’

Business Disability Forum, Civil Service, Conservatives, Damien Green, David Gillon, Disability Confident, DWP, UKCRPD, United Nations

DWP declared a ‘leading’ Disability Confident employer, despite UN rights violations

May 12, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News service May11th 2017 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been declared a gold-standard

Continue readingDWP declared a ‘leading’ Disability Confident employer, despite UN rights violations

Alice Kirby, Center of Disability Studies, Conservatives, CRIP The Vote UK, CRPD, Disability Law Hub, DWP, EHRC, Recovery in the Bin

Benefit claimants take to social media to describe DWP ‘hell’ and ‘abuse’

May 4, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 4th May 2017 Disabled people have described how the “terrifying” and “abusive” benefit

Continue readingBenefit claimants take to social media to describe DWP ‘hell’ and ‘abuse’

Choice Support, CQC, ICO Information Commissioners Office, Maximus

Remploy refused to give disabled experts support workers for care inspections

May 4, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 4th May 2017 Disabled people helping to deliver a vital part of the

Continue readingRemploy refused to give disabled experts support workers for care inspections

Conservatives, Damien Green, DRUK, Inclusion London, PIP

Election forces MPs to abandon PIP inquiry, but evidence backs up dishonesty claims

May 4, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 4th May 2017 Statements submitted to MPs have provided further evidence of widespread

Continue readingElection forces MPs to abandon PIP inquiry, but evidence backs up dishonesty claims

Conservative Disability Group, Conservatives, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, Ellen Clifford, Here2Support, Linda Burnip

DPAC issues tactical voting plea to save country from five more years of Tory rule

May 4, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 4th May 2017 Anti-cuts activists have called for disabled people to vote

Continue readingDPAC issues tactical voting plea to save country from five more years of Tory rule

Black Triangle Campaign, Breakthrough UK, Damien Green, DRUK, DWP, Evenbreak, Gail Ward, Green Paper, Rick Burgess, Work & Health programme, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

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

May 4, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 4th May 2017 Disabled activists have called on disability charities to boycott any

Continue readingBoycott call after DWP wrongly claims DPOs helped devise punitive work scheme

Alex Haagaard, Conservatives, CRIP The Vote UK, General Election, Labour Party, Rick Burgess

Online campaign ‘could enable disabled people to affect election outcome’

April 28, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service April 27th 2017 Activists hope a new non-partisan online campaign – based

Continue readingOnline campaign ‘could enable disabled people to affect election outcome’

Conservatives, Disability Benefits Consortium, DRUK, EHRC, Inclusion London, Sir Bert Massie, UN

Concern as minister appoints Tory peer as equality watchdog’s disability lead

April 28, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service April 27th 2017 The government’s decision to appoint a second consecutive Tory

Continue readingConcern as minister appoints Tory peer as equality watchdog’s disability lead

Atos, Damien Green, DWP, ICO Information Commissioners Office, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Government admits failing to record actions after benefit suicide inquiries

April 28, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service April 27th 2017 The government failed for more than three years to

Continue readingGovernment admits failing to record actions after benefit suicide inquiries

Black Triangle News, Blog, Conservatives, Fiona Robertson, Human Rights, SNP, UKCRPD, WCA Deaths, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Voting Tory in #GE17 is a vote to kill people like me, and you need to know why

April 21, 2017 JJ

By Blogger a Disabled Activist Fiona Robertson April 21st 2017 IT IS to their credit, and to our collective doom,

Continue readingVoting Tory in #GE17 is a vote to kill people like me, and you need to know why

Black Triangle News, Blog, Capita, Independant, James Moore

There are 13 million disabled people in Britain. If we don’t vote together, the DWP will tighten the screws on us

April 21, 2017 JJ

Reblogged from Independant Journalist James Moore April 21st 2017 Scope, the charity for disabled people, tweeted an interesting number

Continue readingThere are 13 million disabled people in Britain. If we don’t vote together, the DWP will tighten the screws on us

Recommended Web Sites

'Down With All That' In-depth background reading on the shambles of the (rapidly disappearing) welfare state

Aktion T4 The T4 Program was responsible for the murder of over 100,000 German citizens…babies, children, adults, and elderly…who had physical and mental disabilities. Developed in 1938 and carried out at six different sites throughout Germany and Austria, the T4 P

AtoS Healthcare User Group (Closed Group – Request to Join) “How do you feel about the Government’s move in scrapping Income Support and Disability Living Allowance and the organisation calling itself AtoS ‘HEALTHCARE’ ?”

Atos Miracles Find out where your nearest Atos Miracle Cure Center is on this fantastic web site.

Atos Miracles A place for the sick and disabled to share stories of how ATOS have cured them. Many sites on this subject have been threatened with legal action by the company and this is a place of satire – which we are hoping is not yet outlawed in the UK.

ATOS VICTIMS GROUP “Telling it How it IS” – Staunch alllies and fighters against the UK’s genocidal so-called welfare ‘reform’ programme

Benefits Claimants Fight Back

Boycott Workfare Workfare – compulsory work for benefits – is being rolled-out across the country. We call on public sector bodies, voluntary organisations and businesses being offered these placements as well as union branches to join others in signing a pledge to boycot

Crippen Cartoons The website of David Luton-Crippen, renown disabled cartoonist and a member of The Black Triangle

Crippen Cartoons Blog David Luton-Crippen’s blog

Diary of a Benefits Scrounger Sue Marshes excellent blog that shares information on Welfare cuts, illness, disability and general, current, political thought.

Disability Arts Online A ‘must read’! Not to be missed.

Disability History Month Scotland The official website of Disability History Month Scotland – 22nd November to 22nd December 2011

Disability History Month Scotland Held annually in the Autumn to celebrate our history of struggle and to build for a better future

Disabled People Against Cuts DPAC is about disabled people and their allies. DPAC is UK based but we know that disabled people in other countries are suffering from austerity cuts and a lack of fundamental rights. We welcome all to join us in fighting for justice and human rights for

Double Karma Ania Waterman’s blog on everything to do with disabled people’s activism

Down With All That Bigleyma’s excellent blog that chronicles the farce that the WCA assessments are and the major players involved in it’s execution.

DWP Examinations Forum A friendly online community for those undergoing an Atos Medical Assessment or appeal full of loads of information and valuable advice.

Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty Practical advice and solidarity for all those facing benefit difficulties and hardship. Excellent campaigning organisation

Good Advice Matters Guides that haven been produced in an effort to simplify the various processes involved when trying to claim benefits.

Inspired By Atos Origin A Facebook Group for people to post their artwork that is inspired by Atos Origin.

Ouch Too A disability support forum founded from the ashes of the BBC’s Ouch Board after they closed it.

Paralympics 2012 Boycott Website Dedicated to exposing AtoS’s hypocrisy as disability deniers and sponsors of the Paralympic Games! Paralympians: SPEAK OUT AND PROTEST!!!

Rolling with the Punches Blog “33 year old with lupus since 17 and a variety of other weird awkward symptoms!” Campaigner who co-authored the Spartacus Report

soiniciulacht – 'Taking the fight to this Morally Disabled Government' Cuts right to the heart of all that’s wrong with the neoliberal tyranny we endure today …

Solidarity Federation Advice on what to do if you ‘fail’ your DWP/ATOS Work Capability Assessment

The Broken of Britain Non-partisan UK-based Disability campaign. Advocacy for people with invisible illness and/or physical & mental health conditions. Also Carers, their Families and Friends. Our individual voices are too quiet to be heard, but collectively we can shout

The Dawn Willis Blog Dawn Willis sharing the news & views of the “Mentally Wealthy”

The New Republic The daily tabloid of the “Age of Austerity”

The Void Narking off the state since 2005

Unum Insurance Blog An excellent website that exposes advisor to the UK Government on welfare reform, Unum, for what they are.

Using the Law to Fight Cuts to Disabled People’s Services A practical guide for campaigners – disabled people and their families; carers and local groups (Updated July 2012)

Victims of Atos Corrupton They tried to silence Atos Register of Shame and it back as Victims of Atos Corruption.

Where's the Benefit A blog on all things that affect sick and/or disabled people under the ConDem jackboot

Why Wait Forever – DWP ATOS Veterans An amazing website containing interesting detailed research carried out by Mo Stewart into Atos & Unum Insurance

YOUR CALL – National Freephone Telephone Counselling Service for Disabled People in Scotland This is the first service of its kind in the UK. The service takes calls to its appointment line from 11am until 3 pm Mondays to Thursdays. Calls are free from a home telephone, and from most mobile networks(including T-Mobile, Vodaphone, O2, 3, Orange a

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