📅 3 October 2010
Disabled people led a protest at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham against austerity, benefit cuts and reassessment policies. The action helped launch DPAC, a movement insisting that...
📅 26 March 2011
The Trades Union Congress organized a mass demonstration against public spending cuts. Disabled people, public-sector workers, students and community groups brought distinct experiences of austerity...
📅 28 January 2012
Wheelchair users and allies blocked one of London’s busiest junctions in a direct action against cuts to disability living allowance. Disabled activists described themselves as resisting hostile...
📅 1 April 2021
Disability justice organizers warned that new police powers and inaccessible public policy threatened both assembly and independent living. Their advocacy connected the right to protest with...
📅 12 April 1989
Disabled activists from more than a dozen countries found a network to promote personal assistance, independent living, and disabled people’s control of policy and services.
