In solidarity with SOAS Liberated Zone today we supported building & installation of wheelchair ramp making the space more accessible for disabled activists there.
There’s no liberation worth the name without the liberation of disabled people. Or without the Palestinian people
⚠️Trigger⚠️
Reeves looks set to cut disability benefits
@scope
shows that it costs disabled households on ave £1,010 a month more. Extra cost of disability is the equivalent of 67% of household income after housing costs
We suffer enough already; why?
September 25th 2024
@UKLabour
It's up to you to make the changes we need, not up to us
So Labour
"Work sets you free"
Now where have we read that before?
#DisabledPeopleDemand
Should have gone to
@Specsavers
Another reason why Starmer shouldn’t have accepted the donation of a £2500 pair of allegedly dodgy reading glasses ?
🤓🤷♂️
#Sausages
Access denied to Portcullis House - agreement had been arranged prior
We had been told we could bring in all these 650 books for MPs. We're now being told we have to post them and we can't come in.
Talking to MP’s on the pavement image
#TheDepartment
#NoMoreBenefitDeaths
@UKLabour
We know and you know that what this really means is private providers bullying disabled people into low quality harmful insecure work, just as every initiative from Labour or Tory party always has. Don't take us for mugs. We won't stand for it
We demand an impact assessment be made & published prior to the Autumn Budget on all
#DWP
changes to Disabled People's Benefits
@UKLabour
@DWPgovuk
Not just an Equality Analysis, a full impact assessment
Please Share
#DisabledPeopleDemand
You Can Stick Your F*cking Duty Up Your Arse
Friday 24th November
6pm
Downing St
Tories - You failed in your duty, don’t dare to tell us what ours is.
Please RT & Share
#AutumnStatement
#NoMoreBenefitDeaths
Protest has ended peacefully despite a slight kettle, the protest given a broad section 14 & many disabled people threatened with arrest
Thank you to all disabled people & allies who participated
Everyone is safe & on way home
Photos
@paulapeters2
Do Not Attempt Resuscitation notices (DNARs) were placed on the medical files of many people with Down’s syndrome, autism and other learning disabilities who were otherwise healthy before contracting the virus.
#BetterOffDead
“Come on Disabled, long-term sick, out of your wheelchairs! remove those drips! out of bed & smile MH sufferers! You are needed to save the wealthy from paying taxes!
onwards!”
Via
@Danwhite1972
Left Right , Left Right , March, Keep up!
Starmer said people dealing with long-term sickness “need to be back in the workplace where they can”
Come on Disabled, long-term sick, out of your wheelchairs! remove those drips! out of bed & smile MH sufferers! You are needed to save the wealthy from paying taxes!
onwards!
Question
@RachelReevesMP
did you read this book ?
You need to realise the harm and the deaths within the disabled community in cutting benefits will cause.
It’s a responsibility to the disabled people of the UK for you to read this book. Learn from the past.
#Accountabity
Every MP will be sent a copy of this book ‘The Department‘ By John Pring
@johnpringdns
Please Ask your MP if they have received a copy & an ask then if they are going to read it ?
Please Share
#TheDepartment
#NoMoreBenefitDeaths
🖤
“IDS” Iain Duncan Smith should not be part of any Think Tank peddling any model for the
#DWP
@UKLabour
this will be catastrophic for disabled people
You must be aware of the history
Why are you continuing Tory destructive ways ?
#DisabledPeopleDemand
EXCLUSIVE: Iain Duncan Smith think tank is behind latest DWP reforms targeting disabled people 🤯
In the first of a three-part investigation,
@h_sharland
looks at Tory back-to-work reforms & find IDS has his & his think tank's paws all over it. Must-read:
Nobody feckin asked you
If we want the opinion of someone who knows nothing about disability or migration - you’d still be the last Gobsh*te we’d put 50p in.
Yesterday we tried 2 deliver 100s of ur letters & testimonies 2 Chancellor
@RishiSunak
.
We want him 2 know lack of £20 uplift 2 legacy benefits leaves dis ppl without heating, food, PPE, & medicines, unable to wash, do laundry & more
@hmtreasury
turned them away.
#20More4All
We have just learned about the tragic and sudden passing of a beloved friend & comrade Sean McGovern. Our condolences r with his family. His commitments 2 socialism, disability rights & trade unionism will be g8ly missed. Rest in Power.
Asad lives with
#LongCovid
due to being given unsuitable PPE when working as a respiratory consultant during the pandemic. He's now unable to work. Asad has to fight for justice and support. It's time to take Long Covid seriously.
#LongCovidAwarenessDay
#CRDP24
DPAC know how much fear this has caused amongst disabled benefit recipients. We want you to know we will fight back against this new atrocity with everything we have
Government’s new welfare reforms could cause ‘huge anxiety for disabled people’
Disabled People’s MH suffers due to the negative non inclusive biased rhetoric used by Labour. It’s a hostile environment to exist in when the government spew out cracking down on benefit fraud when
#PIP
statistics are zero
Stop the torture
#PunchingDown
Over 1,000 signatures in the first few hours - people must want McVey Sacked really badly - and DPAC does too - so please sign and share - Sack Esther McVey
#BBCQT
“A disabled woman says when the lift in her block breaks, she is often forced to sleep under the stairwell downstairs”
An apology isn’t good enough
@in_quadrant
How would you feel if you were in Joanne ‘s position?
⚠️ Trigger Warning ⚠️
Benefit claimants receiving Personal Independence Payment
#PIP
could face "immediate" reductions in their support
@UKLabour
is this true?
Where is the impact assessment?
#DisabledPeopleDemand
Many of us are feeling the same way. Broken, scared, outraged, anxious, a lot of mixed feelings
You are not alone
Voice your feelings and concerns here if it helps you
We stand together ✊
Disabled people punched down yet again
This information should have been made available before the vote on winter fuel cuts
Transparency ?
Country before Party ?
Would MP’s have voted in favour of the winter fuel cuts had they known this information prior to the vote ?
BREAKING: the DWP has JUST published the winter fuel payments cut ASSESSMENT
The DWP assessment shows DISABLED PEOPLE will be hit hard by the
#WinterFuelPayments
cut - while the DWP's move appears to be to intentionally undermine Keir Starmer. READ 👇
Campaigners blocking Tothill Street outside
@DWPgovuk
in opposition 2 plans 2 cut out of work disability benefits - they say we can all work from home so no need for out of work benefits now.
🙄 Eye Roll.
This Perfectly sums up the situation disabled people face on a daily basis.
The basics is accessibility for all
@DWPgovuk
#DisabledPeopleDemand
How about this from the DWP? They invite a disabled person to an event for disabled people organised by ‘disability advisers’ in a building that is not accessible…
Access denied to Portcullis House - agreement had been arranged prior
Been told we could bring in all 650 books for MPs. We're now being told we have to post them and we can't come in.
👉 Now the pre arranged meeting has been postponed
#TheDepartment
#NoMoreBenefitDeaths
A group of disabled People in the London sunshine at parliament square taking part in DPAC’s celebration of Disabled People’s creativity and our demands for the new government
Image by
@paulapeters2
#DisabledPeopleDemand
This week Deaf and Disabled people and our organisations were in Geneva for the government's response to the UN Disability Committee.
Here are some initial reflections from the delegation
#CRDP24
#DefendOurRights
2020
Disabilities should never be a reason for a DNR order
Learning disabilities or autism have the same rights as anyone else to be fully involved in decisions about their own lives, including in matters of life & death
#BetterOffDead
"If Long Covid isn't real, what have I had for so long?"
Sam Williams, a counselling worker with Long Covid, explains some of the difficulties of living with the condition
#LongCovidAwarenessDay
#CRDP24
Update
Van arrived books went into the van & they will stay in van until tomorrow where they will be taken to royal park & x rayed & scanned & taken somewhere else scanned again.
They should get to MPs by Wednesday Thursday
#TheDepartment
#NoMoreBenefitDeaths
2021
Fury at ‘do not resuscitate’ notices given to Covid patients with learning disabilities
Disabled people have encountered ‘shocking discrimination’ during pandemic,says Mencap charity
What has changed for disabled people 2024?
#DNR
#BetterOffDead
Almost half of disabled people claiming benefits attempted suicide.
Questions
- Why are Labour trying to hide this data ?
- Will the Tory-Led
#DWP
be held accountable?
Transparency
#DisabledPeopleDemand
Labour hiding data on how many people Tory-led DWP killed.
300,000 deaths since 2010.
Almost half of disabled people claiming benefits attempted suicide.
Can't build better society by concealing social murder.
Need humane govt policies.
#NoMoreBenefitDeaths
Thank you
@MrTopple
for the article and being there today to cover it
DPAC are BACK: mass protest causes chaos in Westminster as disabled people block roads
“I could not have done any more to highlight the dangers.”
Tribunal found the trust’s probe into her alleged misconduct to be “inadequate and unreasonable”. The Judge found in her favour, described her nursing record as “clean and unblemished”.
Solidarity!
Why is Iain Duncan Smith’s Think Tank involved with
@UKLabour
?
Via
@TheCanaryUK
Labour is picking up where the Tories left off ?
We are not to blame. The obsession with fixing the economy with zero regard to the lives of disabled people
#IDS
#DisabledPeopleDemand
Iain Duncan Smith think tank WILL be at the
#LabourPartyConference
🤯
In the third part of her series on the Centre for Social Justice
@h_sharland
reveals that this Iain Duncan Smith-founded think tank looks set to heavily influence Labour
#DWP
policy 👇
DPAC Sheffield's Jen highlighting the plight of legacy claimants -who never received £20 uplift during pandemic- and also the DPAC
#AudioRiot
demo in London on 28th September at Labour party conference.
Solidarity with all Disabled people everywhere
#20More4All
#CancelTheCut
#PIP
This is the consultation document for PIP reforms.
Your voice & that of your family needs to be heard
Deadline for consultation is 22nd July 2024
All versions to access in the link
Please share with networks
No Medical or clinical requirements for work coaches working for the DWP 🤦♂️
This is going to put pressure & add mental distress to the lives disabled people, yet again
#DisabledPeopleDemand
The government is currently advertising across the country for work coaches for the DWP.
These people have no medical or clinical requirements. Your right to benefit is in their hands.
#WarOnTheDisabled
#Worklessness
#WorkWell
#WarOnWelfare
This lack of inclusion in political decision making culture makes no sense
Why are disabled People not coproducing in Gov policy?
@leicesterliz
why ?
We are the experts on disability not you.
So many DPO’s are available to advise
#Equality
#Inclusion
#DisabledPeopleDemand
#Resistance
Join the emergency meeting on welfare reforms
Sunday 21st April 2024
3pm to 4.30pm
All details are here
Emergency Social Security Campaigns Meeting - THIS Sunday - DPAC
“I can’t believe I’m going to die and I’m still not sick enough for PIP.”
James (pictured below) is one of the voices included in
@johnpringdns
’ new book, The Department, a damning look at the DWP and disability benefits system. 📕
Read an extract. ⬇️
#CRDP24
Disabled people are being demonised in the main stream media. By the Government and the DWP by the services that are supposed to support but do not
⚠️Trigger Warning ⚠️
Tory-Led
#DWP
still withholding data on
#DWP
suicides
Labour- Led
#DWP
still withholding data on DWP suicides
@DWPgovuk
Why ?
Appalling ethics & total disrespect to those that took their own lives
Transparency
Accountability
#DisabledPeopleDemand
#CRDP23
#WheresTom
Trigger Warning:
the work capability assessment (wca) linked to 590 more suicides in England in just 3 years from 2010 to 2013
(Photo image credit: Paula Peters)
#DisabilityandResistance
@johnmcdonnellMP
addressing conference and paying tribute to Marcelo and Rose from Bolivia and the fantastic campaign they fought. A minute silence was held for 6 Bolivian Disabled People who died during their long struggle
Fighting the War against Disabled People - join
@Dis_PPL_Protest
on 15 June from 6.30 - 9pm 2 launch
@EllenClifford1
new book on capitalism, welfare & the making of a human catastrophe and 2 explore ideas 4 how activists resist at the current time. BSL & access break provided.
#NoMoreBenefitDeaths
A big shout out to activists across the country taking action today
Edinburgh at 2pm Leith Job Centre Edinburgh
Newcastle at 12 noon The Monument
Cardiff at 6pm government offices
Norwich 12 noon
And London 12 Noon DWP Torhill Street
Solidarity 👏
In Liverpool babies are dying and lives are being cut short because of a cruel government agenda
Shock report and horrifying new research lay bare the true impact of an ideological assault on the most vulnerable communities
Iain Duncan Smith
A long history that must never repeat itself
@UKLabour
19 March 2016
#IDS
11 ways Iain Duncan Smith made life harder for the most vulnerable people in Britain | The Independent | The Independent
Got a copy of the book ? ’The Department’ by John Pring
Take a picture
- Wear Black
- of yourself
- your pet
- your hand
Holding the book using the hashtags below
Add a black heart 🖤 in solidarity & post it up on X
Please Share
#TheDepartment
#NoMoreBenefitDeaths
🖤
Great to have support here 2day from
@johnmcdonnellMP
for
@DrFrancesRyan
brilliant new book: 'Crippled: austerity and the demonisation of disabled people.'
Joy Dove, mum of Jodey Whiting who took her own life after her benefits were cut in 2017 was there to deliver
#TheDepartment
by
@johnpringdns
to 650 MP’s.
Joy’s story is featured in the book
#NoMoreBenefitDeaths
🖤
Solidarity ✊ with anti-fascists in London today, standing up to the far-right 'Tommy Robinson'.
Tommy’s been beaten back before & will be beaten back again
@AntiRacismDay
@uaf
#Resistance
So yesterday
@RishiSunak
lays out yet more attacks on disabled people.
Our message to him.
We intend to fight this; on the street, online.
We need you to join us. However you can and what you’re comfortable in doing.
Unity is important. Stronger together
Being denied access to Portcullis House, even though it had been pre arranged didn’t deter the group of disabled people
We are used to being denied access
We will always let it be known that we have
Legal Rights
Human Rights
We will never give up ✊
#NoMoreBenefitDeaths
Got a copy of the book ? ’The Department’ by John Pring
Take a picture
- Wear Black
- of yourself
- your pet
- your hand
Holding the book using the hashtags below
Add a black heart 🖤 in solidarity & post it up on X
Please Share
#TheDepartment
#NoMoreBenefitDeaths
🖤
Government admits to squandering £2bn fighting benefits tribunals against claimants rightfully entitled to support
John - Black Triangle delegation
#CRDP23
One tweet is never going to cover it.
So buckle up.
Thanks to EVERYONE who made to such a joyful, chaotic, vibrant space & event.
Believe it when we say - this government will see. They know that when we hit, governments stay hit.
Atos, Save The ILF, The UN
Blows landed
John McDonnell challenges Labour
“They know that people won't just suffer—some will die...”
Labour are prepared to do this to pensioners; what’s next ?
Our
@paulapeters2
asking you to please support DPAC's national day of action online, on March 1st from 12pm onwards.
Extend the £20 uplift to all claimants!
Feel welcome to tag us in your tweets/bids/pics.
Please use the hashtag
#20More4All
#CRDP24
1 in 3 disabled people can’t afford social care and therefore living isolated at home
Over 166,00 disabled people in social care debt in England
Over 66,000 disabled people subject to debt collection for social care debt
This is what our President who is blind said about the bus stop design where you step off the bus onto a narrow bus boarder next to a cycle lane on Lea Bridge Road, Waltham Forest
‘Not fit for purpose. It really is totally inaccessible. These sorts of designs should be scrapped’
We invite you to a celebration of disabled people's creativity & our demands for the new Government
Today Thursday 18th July
12 Noon
Parliament Square
London
& Online
Please Share
#DisabledPeopleDemand
DPAC Press Release
Calling all disabled street activists: we need your ideas to help develop practical inclusive tools to help level the playing field on street protests. New stuff, hack existing material, it’s all good. YOU know what we need, so tell US and get involved. RT
September 25th 2024
@UKLabour
It's up to you to make the changes we need, not up to us
So Labour
"Work sets you free"
Now where have we read that before?
No
#PIP
= No Work
#DisabledPeopleDemand
It's unacceptable that disabled people and their families are still forced to fight for the basic care, education, and inclusion to which they are legally and morally entitled.
@Keir_Starmer
#DisabledPeopleDemand
Why do disabled people have to fight for socially care to which they are entitled? Why do parents of disabled children have to fight for the education which is their right?
@Keir_Starmer
please sort this. We are going backwards on inclusion.