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disability-migrant.bsky.social @disability-migrant.bsky.social · Apr 22
DAMN Borders. End Barriers!
Disability and Migration Justice Conference. 28th June 2025 London.

Disability and Migration Network (DAMN) and DPAC Crip tank. @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social

#DAMNborders #DisabilityAndMigration

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DAMN Borders. End Barriers! Disability and Migration Justice Conference. 28th June 2025. Collaborative activist conference between the Disability and Migration Network (DAMN) and the DPAC Crip tank. Understanding, resisting and building alternatives to territorial and internal borders that divide us and reduce our lives. Picture of a mural created by Andrew Bolton together with Disabled people seeking asylum. On the left there is a person falling from a building with a police car below. A wheelchair user is chained. A man is holding his head. A small figure is tending a grave. A fence divides these people from people sitting outside a large house. Guards with their fingers in their ears are guarding the fence. The sun is shining on that side. At the top a small row of figures is pulling the fence away.
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dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social
#EppingProtest

@dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social activists are out on the Epping Protest defending refugees. As disabled people we know what it’s like to be oppressed marginalised and targeted.
Woman with short red hair wearing black stands next to a man wearing dark blue with curly dark hair and a grey beard holding a white banner with DPAC Colour Logo with black text Disabled People Against Cuts Rights Not Charity
July 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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#DisabilityBenefits
#WelfareNotWarfare

About the UC & PIP Bill and what we can do

Join the rally on 30th June Parliament square 4.30pm
Join the protest At Old Palace Yard Westminster Tuesday 1st July 1pm
Write to your mp

dpac.uk.net/2025/06/abou...
About the UC and PIP money bill and what we can do - DPAC
On Wednesday 18 June the government published the Universal Credit (UC) and Personal Independence Payment (PIP) bill.
dpac.uk.net
June 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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inclusionlondon.bsky.social
We need as many people as possible to join us and speak out against the Assisted Dying Bill.

🗓️ Friday 20th June, from 8.30 am
🗺️ Outside Old Palace Yard, London SW1P 3JY

There is still time to show that Disabled lives are not disposable. #KillTheBill #NotDeadYet
Image is on a purple, white red and white background. At the top of the graphic on the purple background is a red and purple and white megaphone with black lines coming out in white text it says Friday 20th New location outside old palace yard and a white exclamation mark next to it. Underneath on a white background in black text says Protest Against The Assisted Dying Bill Tell MPs we are #NotDeadYet. Underneath on a red background is a black and white image of Houses of Parliament next to it in white text says We need as many people as possible to join us unutec against this bill demo starts at 8.30 am #KillTheBill. Underneath on white background in black text says stop the terminally ill adults (end of life) bill The images of supporting organisations supporting the demo, which is not dead yet disability rights Uk Inclusion london and DPAC.
June 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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johnpring.bsky.social
Here's confirmation of the bill that will introduce billions of pounds of cuts a yr to #PIP and #UniversalCredit.
Seems to be called the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill.
It'll be presented after #PMQs today ie soon after 12.30pm.
commonsbusiness.parliament.uk/Document/955...
Order Paper for 18 June 2025
commonsbusiness.parliament.uk
June 17, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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paulapeters19.bsky.social
#WelfareNotWarfars

Liz Kendall, Secretary of State for DWP will be laying the Universal Credit & Personal Independence Payments Bill today after PMQs - this is the first reading of the bill

commonsbusiness.parliament.uk/Document/955...
Order Paper for 18 June 2025
commonsbusiness.parliament.uk
June 18, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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getyrselfactive.bsky.social
Working class Disabled people are less likely to be physically active than Disabled people from higher socioeconomic groups (43% vs 29%).

With the cuts introduced in Parliament today, we know the poorest will be the worst off in all areas of their lives.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
PIP cuts mapped: The worst-hit areas as more than 1.3m could lose support
Some of the UK’s most deprived areas stand to lose out the most, new data reveals
www.independent.co.uk
June 18, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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cripticarts.bsky.social
📢 ‪@disabilityarts.bsky.social‬ have compiled a page of info on the issues affecting Access to Work customers and new applicants. They've also made a list of actions you can take to fight the proposed changes to Access to Work.

Read now and help #ProtectAtW disabilityarts.online/resources/gu...
A blue background with boxes in the centre that contain white text: “How you can help fight against the changes to Access to Work. 1 Find out more about the changes on Disability Arts Online’s website. 2 Sign and share the open letter from the Culture Sector. 3 Include the hashtag #ProtectAtW when posting on social media. 4 Write to your MP using the template letter. 5 Respond to the current DWP consultation. All resources are available at disabilityarts.online/protectatw” Below is #ProtectAtW written in grey and the DAO and Cathy Waller Co logos.
June 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM
disability-migrant.bsky.social
Once again, the Government seeks to divide us by scapegoating migrants and Disabled people. We reject racist and ableist explanations of society’s problems.

Disability and Migration Network response to the Government’s recent immigration White Paper disability-migration.org.uk/updates
The Disability and Migration Network rejects, in the strongest possible terms, the Government's 'Restoring Control over the Immigration system' White Paper and the racist logic that underpins it. The government is attacking migrants using the same narratives of 'productivity' and 'contribution to society' which which it justifies devastating welfare cuts. While we should never rely on elected politicians alone to deliver a socially just society, the recent White Paper is a stark reminder of how important it is for us to resist the scapegoating of migrants and Disabled people together
May 19, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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disrightsuk.bsky.social
Are you watching the ongoing debate in Parliament about the Assisted Dying Bill?

If you're confused as to why Disabled campaigners and activists are opposing this bill, DR UK's Beth Bale explains more in this TikTok video👇 www.tiktok.com/@disrightsuk...
Disabled people and our organisations announced today that we plan to complain to the UN regarding the rushed, unfair, and inaccessible passage of the Assisted Dying Bill. Join us in opposing the bil...
TikTok video by Disability Rights UK
www.tiktok.com
May 16, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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disrightsuk.bsky.social
We are outside Parliament today protesting the bill and the devastating impacts it could have on Disabled people.

We’re here with Liz Carr, actor and activist with Not Dead Yet UK, speaking about why she’s opposed to the Assisted Dying Bill.
May 16, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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joedgallagher.bsky.social
tomorrow MPs will have their final vote on Leadbeater's assisted suicide bill. devoid of countless promised safeguards, and alongside other brutal gov't cuts to palliative care, healthcare + welfare, it represents a huge expansion of social murder against disabled ppl especially

some quotes below 🧵
newintermag.bsky.social New International @newintermag.bsky.social · May 15
Joe Gallagher (@joedgallagher.bsky.social) writes about how UK cuts to healthcare paired with end-of-life legislation threaten the disabled:

“For many it will be coercive euthanasia, an expansion of quotidian violence”

newintermag.com/assisted-sui...
Assisted Suicide, or Social Murder?
The UK cuts welfare and offers death.
newintermag.com
May 15, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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joedgallagher.bsky.social
"Assisted dying is a class issue… As long as we live in a world where certain groups of people are devalued […] it will never be safe to legalise assisted suicide, because no safeguard can protect against the abuse that will happen." Assisted dying can never be guaranteed as a truly voluntary act of suicide in any State which first neglects assisting people to live. For many it will be coercive euthanasia, an expansion of quotidian violence targeting vulnerable bodies. Manufacturing the deaths of minorities labelled ‘economically inactive’ or a ‘burden’ is not about their freedom of choice, but the State’s freedom to practice social murder and eugenics.
May 15, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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johnpring.bsky.social
Two terminally-ill disabled women are to lodge a complaint with the United Nations that the passage of a private members’ bill that aims to legalise assisted suicide breaches the UN disability convention.
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/two-terminal...
Two terminally-ill women to complain to UN over passage of assisted dying bill through parliament
Two terminally-ill disabled women are to lodge a complaint with the United Nations that the passage of a private members’ bill that aims to legalise assisted suicide breaches the UN disability conv…
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
May 16, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social
#NotDeadYet

📢Emergency Call Out

📢Vigil Against Assisted Dying Bill

📢Today, 16.05.25

📢9am to 12 noon

📢 Old Palace Yard, Near George V Statue Westminster London SW1P 3JY

📢 Vigil supported by Not Dead Yet UK

Link to eventbrite link www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stand-agai...
Stand against assisted suicide
The third reading of the assisted suicide bill will decide whether it will become legal. Stand with us outside Parliament to say no.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
May 16, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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joedgallagher.bsky.social
it takes 30 seconds to email your MP using the template here and tell them to oppose the bill righttolife.org.uk/asvote
Find out how your MP voted on assisted suicide and ask your MP to vote NO at Third Reading
Information on how all 650 MPs voted on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill.
righttolife.org.uk
May 11, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social
#NotDeadYet

The Debate on the Assisted Dying Bill has begun 135 amendments will be debated today over a 5 hour debate

90 MPs have indicated they wish to speak

You can watch the debate here

www.parliamentlive.tv/Commons
Parliamentlive.tv - Commons
www.parliamentlive.tv
May 16, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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david-s.bsky.social
Disability & Migration Network response to Care Worker Visa announcement

".. further normalises far-right politics, while distracting from the repeated failure of successive governments to progress meaningful reform, or to reverse widespread profiteering"

www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disabil...
Disability and Migration Network Response To Care Worker Visa
www.disabilityrightsuk.org
May 14, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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mumof3amigos.bsky.social
Chris Philp (Cons) suggesting we get the 5 million ‘economically inactive’ people into care work. Apparently it only takes a few weeks to train them up.

Dear lord, he really has no idea the level of skill required to do care work.

#Immigration
May 11, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social
#WelfareNotWarfare

📢Local Action Announcement
📢Norfolk
📢Saturday 17th May 2025
📢12 noon
📢Assemble outside Norwich City Hall, Peter’s Road Norwich Norfolk NR2 1NH
📢Event is Stop PIP & Benefit Cuts
#WelfareNotWarfare 📢Local Action Announcement 📢Norfolk 📢Stop PIP and benefit cuts 📢Saturday 17th May 2025 📢12noon 📢March assembles at Norwich City Hall, St Peter’s Road, Norwich Norfolk NR2 1NH Alt text Image is on cream background with red text and says Stop PIP And Benefit Cuts A picture of a grey and white megaphone with red lines as though on and blaring Black text reads End Austerity Cuts to Mental Health and Social Care Red text it says March and Rally Saturday 17th May Norwich Norfolk Underneath Black text reads: 17th May 2025 12 noon Assemble at Norwich City Hall Norfolk NR2 1NH There is a list of speakers and images of logos supporting the demo
May 14, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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irrnews.bsky.social
A. Sivanandan 🔊“What Enoch Powell says today, the Conservative Party says tomorrow, and the Labour Party legislates on the day after.”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m... @rajeevsyal.bsky.social
UK risks becoming ‘island of strangers’ without more immigration curbs, Starmer says
PM unveils policies to ‘significantly’ drive down net migration including English tests and degree requirements
www.theguardian.com
May 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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disrightsuk.bsky.social
🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨

Disability and Migration Network respond to Government plans to axe the care worker visa - a dangerous distraction from decades of decaying social care at the hands of government policies.

Read our full statement here👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disabil...
Disability and Migration Network Response to Care Worker Visa Announcement “When Disabled people are able to access care and support, this is often from migrant care workers, whose skills and essential role in social care have been devalued and invalidated by both the government and the media. The government’s dangerous and inflammatory announcement further normalises far-right politics, while distracting from the repeated failure of successive governments to progress meaningful reform, or to reverse the widespread profiteering in England’s predominantly privatised social care sector.” Disability and Migration Network logo underneath
May 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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buds-disability.bsky.social
At the exact same time as Downing St gives the green light and support to a Bill to force the NHS to offer euthanasia to its dying patients, the Government fails to fund palliative and end-of-life care for those same patients. Frankly, this is dystopian.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
NHS plans 'unthinkable' cuts to balance books
Diabetes care, rehab centres, end-of-life services and talking therapies at risk in England.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social
#DisabilityAndMigrationJustice
📢Damn Boarders, End Barriers
📢Disability And Migration Conference
📢28.06.25
📢11am to 5pm
📢Resource For London
356 Holloway Road London N7 6PA

📢You need to register for a place at this conference and can do this via the link

dpac.uk.net/2025/04/disa...
Disability and Migration Justice Conference 28th June - DPAC
Collaborative activist conference between the Disability and Migration Network (DAMN) and the DPAC Crip tank.
dpac.uk.net
April 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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migrantsrights.bsky.social
We must challenge the dog whistle politics that attempt to manufacture a link between nationality, religion, ethnicity + criminality, + that attempt to present criminality as something exclusively inherent to non-Western "incompatible cultures"...
Cooper ‘pandering’ to Farage by ordering publication of foreign criminals’ nationalities
Move expected to lead to ‘league tables’ showing which nationalities are more associated with particular crimes
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April 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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migrantsrights.bsky.social
The Home Office has announced that it will be publicising the nationalities of foreign national offenders (FNOs). These plans are a racist exercise in scapegoating, with the aim of linking criminality to nationality- esp. nationality of Global South + Muslim-majority countries...
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April 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM