'A Universal Credit Christmas'.
Manchester Disabled People Against Cuts are joining the activists who have been holding a weekly action at Ashton Under Lyne Job Centre for several years now.
Every Christmas they have a special protest as they offer advice, help, and food to people affected.
The ever mysterious Scorpio returns with a sting in his tail. Head on over to our Opinon page here to see his stinging rebuke
From The Mirror
'Thousands of disability benefit tests have been branded "unacceptable" by the government's own quality control scheme.
Bombshell new figures say neither Atos nor Capita - the outsourcing giants paid more than £500m to assess people for Personal Independence Payments (PIP) - are meeting the target of 97% of assessments conforming to standards.
Latest audits show 6.4% of PIP benefit assessments were deemed "unacceptable" in the three months to October 2017.
From Proud and Loud Arts
Cells – A Body Of Work
What labels would you choose?
Some labels are given special treatment and a glass of champagne, some are put in a safe place where no one can find them. Others are hung out for everyone to see as an example of what happens to normality when it wanders off the path.
‘Cells – A Body Of Work’ is a live art installations created in response to the Manchester Evening News report, in October 2015, describing a 140% rise in reported hate crime incidents against people with disabilities.
Disabled campaigners have gathered at a conference to help develop plans for a fightback against the independent living “catastrophe” facing users of support services across the country.
The equality watchdog has asked a barrister to examine whether there needs to be a legal right to independent living for disabled people, because of concerns that their rights to choice and control over their lives is being “eroded”.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has asked the lawyer to assess how independent living is currently protected by law and whether “additional protections” are needed.
One of the key figures in the disabled people’s movement has come out of retirement to deliver a stinging rebuke to “parasitic” disability charities.
Professor Mike Oliver, the disabled academic who first defined the “social model of disability”, was speaking at an event hosted by the University of Kent last Wednesday, as part of UK Disability History Month.
Xmas Show Little Red and the Big Bad Wolf https://www.z-arts.org/events/little-red/
On Tuesday 12th December @ 1pm there is an integrated British Sign Language (BSL) performance suitable for all ages 4/5+ , families and most importantly adults and children with additional hearing needs. There are free arts and crafts before and after the show and free goody bags.
If you are interested in booking for children or families please contact Z-Arts as soon as you can:
University of Manchester's third event in their Disability History Month calendar, you are warmly invited to share in an open discussion on the history of the disabled people's movement, chaired by one of UMSU's Disabled Students Officers, Dorian Gordon.
A workshop will be included in this session run by the NUS Disabled Students Officer Rachel O'Brien.
Manchester DPAC are holding their first monthly meeting at Manchester Central Library on Thursday 7th December (2pm-4pm) - meeting in the cafe bar
Facebook event here