York Disability Week
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Keeping York up-to-date with disability activism, especially York Disability Week, as we find disabled people increasingly excluded #ClosedToUs
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https://www.yorkdisabilityweek.org 06-11-2019 11:37:15
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Thank you Natalie Bennett and Tanni Grey-Thompson for your contributions to the debate. From the outside, it's a helpless situation to be in. Thank you for giving disabled and chronically sick people a voice. š #UCBill
York Disability Week Surprised itās not 100% of disabled people asked. But given its history, Iām not convinced that an organisation like Sustrans can be relied on to fix any of it ? Where are they, for example, in opposing inaccessible rail bridges that break active travel routes ?
York Disability Week Iāve yet to see the Government plan to address disabled / chronically sick people being āmanagedā out of their jobs, many of whom donāt have the spoons to fight back by going to employment tribunal. Whereās the penalty for employers who chuck us toward benefits ?
Flick Williams York Disability Week Couldn't even get my union interested in a tribunal for an obvious case of constructive dismissal. Fees had just come in, and it was low paid work, so no real win to be had for them. It *felt* dismissive of disability generally, but that may just have been me...
Steve Wallis York Disability Week No, pretty sure itās not just how you felt about it. Many thousands of us have been through the same with varying levels of union support or none. Itās societal ableism coupled with capitalism that disposes of us as soon as we cease to fit neatly into being cogs in the wheel.
Disability & Climate: In conversation with Louise Kenward online onĀ Thursday 18th September, from 2-3.30pm BST forms.office.com/pages/responseā¦