"A Book of Visions: A Directory of Alternative Society Projects" (1973) peoplesgdarchive.org/item/5080/a-bo…

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Maybe you shouldn’t care about disabled people because you’re going to become disabled one day, maybe you should care about them because they’re human beings who deserve love and support.

Are you a cafe worker? Take a read of our inquiry on cafe work and organizing at Notes from Below and we invite you to share your reflections too: bit.ly/cafeinquiry Thank you. Your friends at Blue Bottle Independent Union and Workers Inquiry Dot Work!

Yesterday, I presented at the American Sociological Association ASA Sociology Annual Conference, on the Disability, Work & Economies of Difference panel. Many thanks to Richard Scotch for chairing and to Pyung Kim, Junzhe Gu, Jennifer Brooks & Matthew Saleh for great presentations!

‘Don't you know how busy and important I am? I got soooo much to do Don't you know how busy and important I am? I got soooooo much to do Oh, I'm too busy to finish this so—‘ youtu.be/iG9h3KUtaIc?si… #PoliticsOfRest

"In Their Own Time" - a project funded by EDICa, features comics from Maria Stoian based on research by Drs Wanggren & Menard. Susie's a neuroscientist working on and off on casualised contracts for 12 years, balancing family life. Read more: in-their-own-time.ed.ac.uk .

Our next seminar is on 2 October 13:00-14:00 BST, featuring Prof Almuth McDowell talking about "co-production in a neurodiversity context". Find out more and register here: edicaucus.ac.uk/research-metho… #DEI #EDI #Diversity #Research #Seminar #Neurodiversity #AcademicTwitter

escalating fascism around migration - w/ huge anti immigration protests from toronto to australia to UK borders create false binaries of workers vs migrants; provides convenient scapegoat for austerity, and reinforces racism anti fascist & anti capitalist is to be pro-migrant!

‘DWP were pushing, pushing, pushing my wife to kill herself, but nothing has been done’ #BenefitDeaths #DeathsByWelfare #DWP disabilitynewsservice.com/dwp-were-pushi…

🙅 We refuse to stand by while Bham City Council turns its back on its workforce! 🫶 The entire trade union movement is united in support of our brave bin workers and their families. Join us tomorrow in Birmingham: 📅 9:30am, Sat, 20 Sept 📍 Unite, 30 Jennens Road, B7 4EH.

"It's not fair to cut people's wages the way they have. That's why we're all here", Ronnie, Birmingham bin driver. She said those on strike wanted to go back to work, but not for a "drop-down wage". "Strikes will continue with Unite's full support until a fair deal is reached for

Grieving widow accuses disability minister of trying to erase the role that DWP played in his wife’s suicide, despite the Ombudsman ruling that DWP failures were a “significant contributing factor” in her death. disabilitynewsservice.com/dwp-were-pushi…

Fewer than 3% of long-term sick and disabled people make it back into work each year – and when they do, most end up in short-lived, low-paid physical roles that don’t last. timewise.co.uk/article/why-he…

#LabourConference2025 Sun 28.09.25 at 6pm at the arena room Labour have a fringe called assisted dying a catalyst for patient power at end of life What about patient power to assist us to live and live in dignity when cutting our support? Ramping up poverty! The Labour Party

Leisure, in its truest sense, is a time free from the compulsion to achieve, where one can simply be It is Sunday. Let us act accordingly

Semi-regular update on how many jobs there actually are for disabled people in the UK, according to DWP Find a Job All Jobs: 110,774 Fully Remote: 673 Of which are disability confident: 92 Of which are part time: 5 BUT 3 of them are in care homes, TWO WHOLE JOBS

Shame on Sheffield MIND