No To Homeless Cripples

[trouble]

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, spiralsheep)

Must have been the rain.

Comments

[kaz]

it's shitty that people with disabilities are only taken noticed of when they're being abused by police and can be used for point-scoring.

One thing I love about the Jody McIntyre thing is that although he could have easily been used like this, the BBC interview has made him important as someone with opinions in his own right (and who royally pwns interviewers, at that.) There's still elements of that but he's being treated as an active participant much more than I'm used to.

...thirding neglect of thesis. >>