Dwp being taken to court about the WCA consultation. Proud to know you Ellen Clifford (story by Chaminda Jayanetti) bigissue.com/news/social-ju…

UN Committee slams government failure to address disability rights violations.

Statement from UK Deaf and Disabled People’s Organisations’ Coalition:

dpac.uk.net/2024/04/un-com…

Via DPAC

A militarized, black-hooded police officer dragging away the Chair of this university's Philosophy Department is like a scene from a dystopian movie about fascism. But it is real.

Do listen to the audio. The calm and the fear in her voice...

We're having wonderful discussions on the first day of our Imagining technologies for disability futures conference. Here, Jamie Preece, Emma Sullivan, Fin Tams-Gray and Graham Pullin present their research on making and owning voices in augmentative and alternative communication.
#MedicalHumanities #Disability

New to me on the list is Aber axing its PGCE programme, which sounds catastrophic for Wales. qmucu.org/qmul-transform…

Breaking:
United Nations find UK Government have failed Disabled people:

- Failed to address 'grave and systematic violations' of our rights

- Failed to end discrimination

- Failed to ensure 'adequate standard of living and social protection'

Via DPAC

The Committee is appalled by reports of “benefit deaths” referring to fatalities among disabled people in the State party, subsequent to their engagement with the process for determining eligibility for benefits. The evidence received revealed a disturbingly consistent theme>

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#CRDP24 Please RT and get the word out that the UN special inquiry follow up report is out.

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We are still far, far from a direct threat to humans. But, the idea of a virus like H5N1 moving back and forth between the reservoir in birds, and the global human food supply chain, is not a welcome development.

Tommy Nicol was kind and friendly – a beloved brother. Why did he die in prison on a ‘99-year’ sentence? Simon Hattenstone highlights the terrible injustice to Tommy Nicol resulting from his IPP sentence and the amazing campaigning work by his sister Donna theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

Please check out the C4 News piece about the preventable death of Connor Sparrowhawk with autism. As ITV's powerful Post Office drama showed sometimes it takes actors to make people sit up & take notice of a national scandal that the mainstream media repeatedly ignore.

… breezy (?) and reveals the systemic problems here. I fear you’d be relentlessly haunted by the details and the final moments if you knew and loved Marcus.
As ever, grateful to George for - yet again - reporting what should not need to be reported. 2/2

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We spoke to 斎藤幸平 about Marx and nature, degrowth, historical materialism, and the Japanese Left 🇯🇵

📺Watch here:
youtube.com/watch?v=3zqIVj…

There's a million reasons why. I really recommend listening to the podcast Working Class Voices by Ads for GND Media - it provides incredible insight into all of this if anyone is interested in delving more into class politics and movements :)

gndmedia.co.uk/working-class-…

As Julia Steinberger raises – class is not just an income gradient or labour relation. It is a relation of exploitation which transcends the economic and permeates into all areas of life; working class dialects and accents, where we live, what we wear, what we eat...

Hoping to start season 3 next month, geared towards outreach.

Marcus Hanlin Inquest georgejulian.co.uk/2024/04/22/mar…

'I find was gross failure, failure to follow care plan and SALT guidelines and to leave unadapted food where Marcus could access it. This gross failure caused his death. Accident contributed to by neglect'

From Fern's family's statement:

'With the right support, Fern would have become a wonderful mother. Instead, they made her feel like a bad mother, without telling her why or giving her a chance to try.'

Latest from me: Laughing Boy is a new play about Connor Sparrowhawk & the fight for justice after his death in an NHS unit. It's about how ppl with Learning Disabilities & autism are - still - at the frontier of the fight for human rights theguardian.com/stage/2024/apr…