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How do you usually use your free time? If this is a question you’d like to respond to via a questionnaire (or meeting), please visit the website breadrosesdisability.uk/ques… This is part of the Bread & Roses: Rest, Free Time & Disability project #Disability #FreeTime #Rest #Capitalism
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Are there any particularly good books on loneliness?
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Give Us The Right To A Grand Day Out By Ian McMillan Just discovered this amazing poem by Ian McMillan on The Unfurlings website theunfurlings.org.uk/the-poe…
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‘Give us some signs that are crystal clear Give us a guard who knows their stuff Give us a trip we can file away When the world seems harsh and life gets rough’. Ian McMillan
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‘Yes, give us the right to a grand day out, Give us a seat on a nice clean train; Give us a view of the shining sea As the sun breaks through the Yorkshire rain’. Ian McMillan
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Front page of The Times: Andy Burnham’s first big announcement about his approach to leading the country is that he would be willing to cut benefits to fund the defence budget, with the usual ‘rights and responsibilities’ fluff about more work opportunities. This terrifies me.
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Issue 27: 'Workers Inquiry: The Politics of a Method' - Out Soon 👀 Out now online is "Yarmouth Workers’ Project: A Territorial Inquiry" by Lotte and Dan. In this article, they discuss setting up an inquiry in the heartland of Britain’s rising far-right: notesfrombelow.org/article/y…
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2-week availability of old questionnaire responses - the already completed responses should be available on your device for up to 2 weeks from the last edit. Anyone who started to respond on 1 June can add to previous responses until 14 June! breadrosesdisability.uk/ques…

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How do you usually use your free time? If this is a question you’d like to respond to via a questionnaire (or meeting), please visit the website breadrosesdisability.uk/ques… This is part of the Bread & Roses: Rest, Free Time & Disability project #Disability #FreeTime #Rest #Capitalism
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Join the Grenfell 9 year anniversary Silent Walk on Sunday 14 June. We should not be living in buildings where evacuation and safety remain major concerns.
I’ll be speaking at the rally following the Grenfell Silent Walk. 9 years on, Disabled people are still living in buildings where evacuation and safety remain major concerns. Grenfell must never be forgotten, and neither should the ongoing fight for justice and change. 💚
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The future phases of this project will involve collective discussions / 'focus groups' from autumn 2026 onwards. If you'd like to be part of a group discussion, please either complete this brief form breadrosesdisability.uk/grou… or email ioana.chis@glasgow.ac.uk #FreeTime #Disability
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85% of sanctions are removed if appealed and 90% of them are for being late or missing an appointment. Work coaches are not using their ability to give easements and not sanction. Also the law does need changing on sanctions (and guidance and safeguarding rules) but they should not exist in social security really.
Job Centre Gives Claimant 15 Minutes to Attend a Meeting youtu.be/9j6ZUMIROIQ
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‘Pass It On’ Reflections On Rest, Work, And Disability - reflections by gig economy workers subjected to disablement, from a previous project #Rest #FreeTime #Disablement #Capitalism breadrosesdisability.uk/pass…
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“People that you would never think would need to use a food bank, you see coming in. I see lots of people who I know work full-time here.” This is what a broken system looks like.
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As a disabled person these threats from politicians terrify me as there is such a lack of awareness of what equality means in practice for disabled people, and how we make that a reality. Heaven knows what outcomes there would be if such legislation was repealed.
There seems a fashion on the right of politics to say repealing the Equality Act would be a good thing. They don’t say what precise consequences would flow or what they intend to do to prevent adverse consequences. Why then do people mindless cheer on such superficial thinking?
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