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Reasons to be Fearful… 1,2,3+ by Tina Rothery
Reasons to be Fearful… 1,2,3+ by Tina Rothery
Like so many in this movement, my sister Julie and I have waded through huge amounts of research over the years …lots of late night sharing and morning cuppa chats that tear pieces out of the subject till they make some sense. I thought I’d pause and gather some of the info I keep in mind for public meetings, into one blog that links to the research[…] Read more →
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Independent Living Campaign Conference #Right2IL
Independent Living Campaign Conference
Take stock of the key barriers to independent living that Disabled people who use adult social care services face. The day will aim to assess how far the situation has deteriorated in the last year and also to explore a shared vision for an independent living support system that can truly uphold our rights.
Independent Living Campaign Conference
Date: Saturday 25 November
Venue: 336 Brixton Road, London, SW9 7AA[…] Read more → -
Fuel Poverty Action Press Release 21st Nov 2017
In Fuel Poverty Action press release:
Photos: https://drive.google.com/ open?id=14Pd4_SgEe8ogw_ zAeVHqsmDbOOK58IIKFPA: [email protected], tel: 07751 748026, twitter: @fuelpovaction
Disabled People Against Cuts: [email protected], text: 07505 144 371, twitter: @Dis_PPL_ProtestPhotos: https://drive.google.com/ open?id=14Pd4_SgEe8ogw_ zAeVHqsmDbOOK58IIK
This morning, on the eve of the release of the latest excess winter deaths statistics, we delivered a tiny cap to Ofgem, along with a letter about their proposed “safeguard” cap on energy tariffs, which will exclude many of the people who[…] Read more →
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To the Mayor of Tower Hamlets, John Briggs
8th November 2017
To the Mayor of Tower Hamlets, John Briggs
Dear Mayor Briggs,
Re: The Jack the Ripper Museum, 12 Cable Street
We are writing to you concerning the above so-called ‘Museum’. You are, of course, aware of all the objections to the exploitation of sexual violence and brutality ghoulishly displayed in this dreadful place, and the effect the images and models of these dead women have on the family members who are descended[…] Read more → -
Charter of the Forest 800th year Anniversary
Charter of the Forest 800th year Anniversary
Dear Occupiers,
The Charter of the Forest 1217 was the first environmental charter in history, and enshrined the right of everyone to subsistence on the commons. The importance of this younger sister of the Magna Carta is deliberately overlooked by the establishment due to its radical implications. No ceremony or royal celebration.
So, it’s great that some good people including some ex-occupiers organised a celebration of the[…] Read more → -
National Disabled People’s Summit – 4th Nov. 2017
Join Deaf and Disabled people from the trade union movement, DDPOs and grassroots campaigns to explore how we can more effectively co-ordinate our resistance and organise joint campaigning in identified areas. Saturday 4 November 2017, 11am – 4.30pm, NUT headquarters, Kings Cross.
Saturday 4 November 2017; 11am – 4.30pm
NUT headquarters, Hamilton House, Mabledon Place, Kings Cross, London WC1H 9BD
Since 2010 Disabled people have been subject to brutal attacks in every area of our[…] Read more →
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GUEST BLOG
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Dear Prince Harry: Congratulations from a fellow Brit married to an immigrant.
Dear Prince Harry
Congratulations on your engagement to Meghan!
As a fellow Brit married to an immigrant, I wanted to share some of the enormous battles that you will surely face in the years ahead to ensure that she is allowed to stay in the country so that the two of you can live happily ever after.
First a bitterly harsh rain check. I am afraid to say that Her Majesty’s Government are making[…] Read more → -
Everytime we go to the camps to listen, my heart breaks some more
Every time we go to the camps to listen to stories, my heart breaks some more. By Hannah Aiyana.
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This afternoon, Sophie and I met with a woman who had lost all of her children. The army had doused them with kerosene in front of her eyes and burned them alive. My heart wept so much for her. She said she had nothing left to live for.
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MeToo. Woman born in the 1960s.
When I was a teenager, I thought men treating me like a sexual object was just a fact of life, like cold wind with rain in it blowing horizontally in your face, or like when your first car breaks down and it’s before mobile phones and you have to hitch a lift to a phonebox that smells of wee to call the RAC.
It didn’t occur to me that it was wrong.
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This is for my men out there by an Occupy Sister
This is for my men out here by an Occupy Sister
This is for my men out there. Femmes, it’s triggering. I’ve been having hard triggering arguments with the men in my life about scenes like this since I was about 16. I had already experienced my first assaults by then. This is the first time a man has ever ever in my life done the emotional labour to see it, explain it and change[…] Read more →
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GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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OL General Assembly 14 Feb 2015, Parliament Square
An Occupy London GA took place on Parliament Square Saturday 14th February at 7.30pm.
About 70-80 people were in attendance on a chilly, damp evening.
Liz B. facilitated and Ben was looking after the stack.
The Occupy Democracy Safer Space Policy was read out and hand signals were explained and demonstrated.
There was one proposal[…] Read more →
