Balade en tricycle avec le groupe "Vélos adaptés" de l'association La ville à vélo
https://wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/FINAL.pdf
#sundaygimp #tricycle #cycling #handicap #disabled #inclusivecycling
#disabled
To the #leftists out there. You don't owe #liberals your vote, you don't owe them a damned thing, but you do owe #trans people, #disabled people, #LGBT people, #women, and disenfranchised people your vote. If you think Not #voting or voting #3rdparty will protect them then go ahead but if you have been paying attention to the election and the past presidency at all, you know that anything but a #Vote for #Harris will mean actively hurting all of these people. Both sides are complicit in genocide, but Trump will be even worse & everything I mentioned AND we will blow past 2C. this is not about voting FOR anyone. Its about making a chess move to protect as many people as possible. #Project2025 has people ready to hit the ground running to immediately start actively hurting these people. Also have fun losing all overtime pay, suckers.
The speaker is John St Julien Baba Wanyama, he's quite an interesting guy who founded and is running a #disabled #children's home in #Tanzania, which is quite a remarkable exploit in itself:
Palestinians with disabilities face immense hardship in Gaza | Al Jazeera Newsfeed
“I feel alone.” About 50,000 Palestinians with disabilities are among the most vulnerable people in Gaza, as Israel’s total siege has left them without neces...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #Gaza #Israels #Palestinians #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #assistance #bombardment #disabilities #disabled #displacement #latestnews #necessary #newsheadlines #seige #shelter #total #vulnerable
Palestinians with disabilities face immense hardship in Gaza | Al Jazeera Newsfeed
#averybrittishgenocide
since cant see these two posts from here, re-posting already reshared (from another instance (sorry, cant get diaspora links to work for this from here.. https://nerdpol.ch/posts/11263484 & https://nerdpol.ch/posts/11102895 )), manually:
colinroyhunter@pluspora.com
Colin-Roy Hunter - about a year ago
Why are so many #Brits apathetic or so sure that their tiny lives are all there is to existence? Most are incapable of agapē (love-in-action) for anyone outside their circle of loved-ones. Egotistic and selfish to their very cores. Hence why #BREXIT came to pass and why all kinds of #hate, hatefulness & hate-crime are flourishing. #Fascism, or at least some kind of ultra-right-wing #totalitarianism is now the one-way street along which these once great isles are now travelling. #Fairness, #Justice, #Equity have all been sacrificed so that Brits do not have to think: think for themselves; distracting themselves at every opportunity so they do not need to think whatsoever. Unthinkingly, Brits have placed themselves in a gaol with nought but gruel to sustain us. I recall #AllegoryOfTheCave from #Plato’s #Republic. Wake up #Britain: let us be known as #GreatBritain once more!
“[T]he other inmates of the cave do not even desire to leave their prison, for they know no better life.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave
colinroyhunter@pluspora.com
Colin-Roy Hunter - about a year ago
I am one of the 2,000,000 disabled individuals who received zero #UKgov support.
Under the #Covid19 #pandemic #Lockdown, “The Government was so scared of what people might think, suddenly forced to live on so little, that they gave basic benefits a little boost during this time, by £20 per week (£1,040 a year), up from around £70 in normal times. But they didn’t add this extra cash to old-school benefits. Two million #disabled people didn’t get anything extra. Determined to push people on to #UniversalCredit (#UC), and citing creaky old computer systems for the old-style benefits, the Government said it couldn’t be done.”
#DisabilityRights #DisabilityDiscrimination #DisabilityHate #DisabilityDeath
Republican: Feeding Hungry Kids Should Hinge On Performance - YouTube
#Tennessee ( #TN ) " #GOP Rep. John Ragan really reached to reject federal #funds allocated for #lowincome and #disabled #students. "
Including FREE meals.
The #Whiteness of #Mastodon discusses the problematic nature of the #Fediverse for minority groups, including #black, #disabled and #queer / #lgbt. Interesting comparison to #twitter in terms of moderation of racist (et al.) posts, building community, and expressing identity. Also a good critique of the difficulty to change the federation and the problematic nature of "make your own #instance" as a response. Worth listening to or reading.
My follow-up blog to “#Crime, #Death or #Asylum?” is entitled “Continuing #Failures to #Care”. #SocialCareCrisis #Trafford #CareQualityCommission #UNEnable #Disabled #ChronicallySick #ChronicallyIll
https://crippledqueeranglo-europeanranter.blogspot.com/2022/06/continuing-failures-to-care.html
“A coroner has called on the Department for Work and Pensions (#DWP) to make urgent policy changes, after it ordered a #disabled patient to leave hospital to visit a jobcentre despite being severely ill with a condition that later killed him.
The call for urgent action has come in a prevention of future deaths (#PFD) report, the latest in a series of such letters to be sent to DWP by #coroners over the last 12 years following the department’s repeated failure to ensure the safety of disabled benefit claimants.”
Rosie Jones is right to call out ableist abuse – what is wrong with people? | The Independent
Trapped between the view that every single one of us is “inspirational” or “superhuman” for something as simple as buttering toast, and the dangerous myth that we’re scroungers sponging off the state with benefits claims, it’s hard for disabled people like me to simply exist.
It’s almost impossible for us to be passionate about what we believe in, because it goes against these two established stereotypes of what disability is supposed to look like.
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/rosie-jones-ableist-abuse-question-time-b1934855.html
How game makers are catering to disabled players - Hardware and software solutions open gaming to a wider audience than ever
According to a recent study, more than 2 percent of the US population can't play video games due to poor accessibility options. This same study suggests more than 9 percent are unable to enjoy the traditional gaming experience because of visual, cognitive, or physical impairments. Additional research suggests 20 percent of the casual gaming audience is disabled in some fashion.
That amounts to millions of disabled players who are locked out of games because of a lack of support. But after decades in which accessibility options were absent or an afterthought, game developers in recent years have shown an increasing willingness to cater to this audience explicitly.
See How game makers are catering to disabled players
#technology #gaming #hardware #disabled #accessibility
Hardware and software solutions open gaming to a wider audience than ever.
“I am not claiming that #TV can save lives, but it can change temperatures, and those temperature changes in turn might save lives. #Empathy is a powerful tool in any argument, and disabled people need that empathy rather than #sympathy. People have been fighting these fights for a very long time, and frequently #disabled fights are isolated ones, ones where there is no grand #compassion from the population as a whole to hold the fight up.”
#DisabilityRights #DisabilityDiscrimination #DisabilityHate #DisabilityDeath
Take heed of this sensible yet exciting advice. Anyone can suddenly become #disabled - due to an accident, health-condition or unexpected epidemic. #CarpeDiem!
Hello,
I'm new here. I'm #disabled, #queer, non-cis, white. #introduction
With this account I plan to bring some visability how some specific responses to the #corona pandemic effected me as a disabled person, and basically made my life a nightmare...and what could be done differently.
Some of this reflection you can read here:
https://venera.social/display/85a863ed-5760-9a83-6e2b-563653604186
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Hallo,
Ich bin neu hier. Ich werde/bin schwerbe*hindert, queer, nicht cis, weiß.
Diesen Account werde ich vermutlich dafür benutzen um ein wenig Sichbarkeit dafür zu schaffen, wie bestimmte Corona Maßnahmen mich als schwerbe*hinderte Person betroffen haben, und mein Leben im quasi in einen Albtraum verwandelt haben..und auch was könnte anders gemacht werden.
Ein paar meiner Eindrücke können hier nachgelesen werden:
https://venera.social/display/85a863ed-1060-998a-5cd3-9ae772609871
Disabled people lead the fight against austerity
In February 2011, New Internationalist editor David Ransom helmed an issue called ‘The Great Rebellion’ where he outlined a ‘con-trick of truly breathtaking proportions’, played out across the Majority World by unscrupulous financial institutions and abetted by the World Bank and the IMF. As much of the Majority World had wised up to the devastating practice, it was being turned on those countries that had devised it instead.
What was termed as ‘structural adjustment’ in the Majority World phase, was now being called ‘#austerity measures’ in the Minority World phase, though the con-trick was essentially the same: the citizens of countries were being made to pay for vast debts that they had no hand in creating, allowing the market to privatize national assets while imposing outrageous cuts and levies on the population. Ransom outlined the dangers ahead, of inevitable spiraling national #debt, the rising power of unaccountable, undemocratic, opaque #corporations and financial institutions and the crippling onslaught of brutal cuts.
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The resistance begins at the raw front lines of those impacted first and impacted the hardest. The #UK #grassroots direct action group Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC), run by #disabled people, has grown out of that immediate need to hit back against crushing austerity. Their story is a microcosm of the #neoliberal story, including its construction, its destructive effects and how to fight back. Without learning from #DPAC, and having active solidarity with them, the various pockets of resistance risk remaining fractured and ineffective. ...
The UK has become the first country in the world to use the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities to be investigated for ‘grave and systemic violations’ of disabled peoples’ rights and it is telling that the Tory government has since refused to make public the findings.
Andy Greene, member of the national steering committee for DPAC, tells me, ‘What you have is the people who are engaged most with the state, disabled people because of the nature of impairment, being the first in the firing line when these public services and the welfare state start to be dismantled in the name of austerity… and the fall out is that peoples’ lives shrink or people die.’
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Despite their being probably the most prolific grassroots group in the country in terms of direct action, even forcing their cause into the Houses of Parliament itself twice, the amount of physical support for DPAC reciprocated from people in the wider movement is negligible.
Until that changes and people stand in solidarity with DPAC, using direct action and civil disobedience, putting their bodies in front of their convictions, then the UK movement against #neoliberalism risks remaining fragmented, ineffective and easily dismissed or ignored by the right wing press and government.
The Government’s own statistics reveal that between 2010 and 2011, 10,600 sick and disabled people died within six weeks of losing their claim.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/george-rolph-hunger-strike-after-1946899
