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Disabled activists launch Disabled People Against Cuts

📅 3 Òktober 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...

TUC’s March for the Alternative draws hundreds of thousands

📅 26 Mart 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...

Disabled activists block Oxford Circus against benefit cuts

📅 28 Yanüari 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...

Disabled campaigners oppose restrictions on protest and public access

📅 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...

European Network on Independent Living is founded

📅 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.