trouble: One Red Drop: Cuts hurt when its you thats bleeding (one red drop)trouble ([personal profile] trouble) wrote,
@ 2010-12-15 05:17 pm UTC
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Entry tags:bitter anna is bitter, disability, disability: disabled people don't exist


National Day of Protest Against Welfare & Housing Benefit Cuts - Trafalgar Sq (vid 1)
Originally uploaded by Lisy Babe




Video is of around 30 or so people with a variety of evident & non-evident disabilities protesting in the rain at Trafalgar Square. Visible signs include "STOP!", what appear to be signs of where people are from(?) "Hackney", "Nanigey" "Haringey" "Brent"

Chats are "No to Homeless Cripples!" and "Save our Benefits, Save our Homes!"

See also: Protesters lobby outside Leeds Civic Hall over mental health services cuts

See also: The lack of #solidarity. Oh, wait, that's bitter me. Mustn't be bitter, then no one will stand up for the cripples because they're all so bitter. But as much as I appreciate the outrage over Jody McIntyre's treatment (and I do!), how come the broken of Britain were out supporting students, and yet students stayed home when it came time to stand up for us? {ETA: Not that students and people with disabilities are in any way mutually exclusive terms, nor are students not risking becoming homeless in light of these steep increase in fees and the cuts to support programs and similar things. Thank you for the poke, [personal profile] spiralsheep)

Must have been the rain.


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2010-12-16 02:58 am UTC (link)
Oh, yes, that would be great! Definitely when the alligators have been subdued.

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