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Leeds DPAC @leedsdpac.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🚨🚨 CANCELLED Due to unforeseen circumstances the event scheduled for Saturday has been cancelled due to Sha having to return to London. Apologies have been sent from the organisers. Donations are still being accepted to the Gaza sunbirds donation page gazasunbirds.org 🚨🚨🚨

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Leeds DPAC @leedsdpac.bsky.social · 7d

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...

Controversial professor to investigate overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence for Labour

Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...

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Leeds DPAC @leedsdpac.bsky.social · Aug 12

Leeds DPAC urgently calls on other local DPAC groups and DPOs in the UK and internationally to publicly stand against Israel's unrelenting genocide and occupation of Palestine…
#freepalestine #disabilityjustice @thecanaryuk.bsky.social

www.thecanary.co/long-read/20...

…and stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people, including disabled Palestinians and those being disabled en masse by Israel with the support of the US and European powers, including the UK government.

Forced displacement, forced starvation, and disablement via bombing, sniping, trauma, systematic torture and the constant threat of violence are disability issues that affect the whole of the Palestinian population.

As disabled people and allies facing our own issues as a result of the international attack on human and disability rights, it is imperative that we are concerned with the collective liberation of all peoples, recognising that our struggles are deeply connected.

Leeds DPAC recognises that the violent state repression of the Palestinian solidarity movement is a crackdown on all civil rights, including disabled people's right to protest too.

We understand that Palestine is a Disability Justice issue for the reasons outlined in this article and by many others.

Friends and allies – we call you to speak out for a free Palestine and an end to the persecution of all those speaking up in the UK and across the world.

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Leeds DPAC @leedsdpac.bsky.social · Aug 8

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Tory peer wrote secret report calling for DWP to reduce suicides and other ‘very bad cases’

A secret report written by a Conservative peer called for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to reduce the number of suicides of benefit claimants and other “very bad cases” linked to the d…

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Leeds DPAC @leedsdpac.bsky.social · Aug 2

Reminder - Our activist picnic is taking place this Sunday. Look forward to seeing some of you there.

Leeds DPAC @leedsdpac.bsky.social · Jul 19

ALT TEXT:
Leeds activist picnic.
Part of disability pride month.

Sunday 3rd of August at Kirkstall Abbey
Starts at Midday
Bring food to share

Partners and children are welcome.

ALT TEXT:
Leeds activist picnic.
Part of disability pride month.

Sunday 3rd of August at Kirkstall Abbey
Starts at Midday
Bring food to share

Join us for food, music and a people's assembly workshop on
- Deciding campaigns for future activism
- How to look after each other and support our activists including:

Leeds DPAC
Crips against cuts
The Yorkshire feminist collective
Sisterhood in solidarity
Unite community: Leeds, Wakefield and York branch
Leeds Palestine solidarity campaign

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Leeds DPAC @leedsdpac.bsky.social · Jul 26

From Leeds Alternative Pride (linktr.ee/altprideleeds)

See you all at park square on the 9th! leeds alternative pride is a more accessible, covid conscious, sponsor free, anti-cop, anti-racist, feminist, vegan (in other words - decolonial) alternative to commericialised, pink washing, mainstream pride events!

please do: wear a mask; bring your own container, cutlery and cup to reduce waste; only bring vegan food; be mindful of others... and have a great time!

if you have specific access requests or questions please dm or email

if you'd like a pdf poster version please email: alternativeprideleeds2023@gmail.com

scroll for plain text! alt text available also as always

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Leeds DPAC @leedsdpac.bsky.social · Jul 19

ALT TEXT:
Leeds activist picnic.
Part of disability pride month.

Sunday 3rd of August at Kirkstall Abbey
Starts at Midday
Bring food to share

Partners and children are welcome.

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Leeds DPAC @leedsdpac.bsky.social · Jul 11

alt text: Our next organising meeting will be on Monday 14th July at 7pm. If you are not on our email list and would like to attend please email us at [email protected]

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Disability Rebellion @disrebellion.bsky.social · Jul 9

If UC Bill goes ahead, it will
cause long-term damage to young people's futures.

Impact: More young people trapped in cycles of poverty, illness, and exclusion from the workforce.

#BinUCBill #DisabilityRebellion #DPAC #CripsAgainstCuts #TakingThePIP #DeafDPAC #StopTheCuts

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Disability Rebellion @disrebellion.bsky.social · Jul 9

Morning Rebels,

Are we ready to protest from 12pm today? Join us across our social media accounts

Accounts/Graphics below.

#BinUCBill #DisabilityRebellion #TakingThePIP #DPAC #CripsAgainstCuts #DeafDPAC #DRUK #InclusionLondon

linktr.ee/disabilityre...

drive.google.com/drive/folder...

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Disability Rebellion @disrebellion.bsky.social · Jul 6

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Leeds DPAC @leedsdpac.bsky.social · Jul 8

Posted from @crips-against-cuts.bsky.social Instagram account.

Oi, Labour! The UN wants a f*#£ing word.

The United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities just sent a letter to the UK government

It says what do you think you're playing at?

ID2: In particular, the Committee requests clarification on the following:

1. The extent to which an impact assessment has been carried out on the consequences of budget cuts introduced by the Bill on disability benefits.

2. The extent to which the measures envisaged by Bill will impact, in particular, young persons, new claimants of disability benefits, women with disabilities, persons with disabilities with high level of supports, persons with psychosocial disabilities, and persons with disabilities which require access to mental health care and support.

3. The changes introduced by the Bill to the eligibility criteria of Personal Independent Payment, including changes to assessment thresholds and conditionality and sanctions for benefit recipients.

4. The limitations to the Universal Credit Health elements envisaged by the Bill.

5. Any measures to address the foreseeable risk of increasina novertv rates amonast nersons with
disabilities if cuts are approved.

6. The consultation to the Government Green Paper 'Pathways to Work', released on 18 March 2025, only to 10 out of the 22 policy changes proposed.

7. The extent to which persons with disabilities and their representative organizations, including deaf persons and their representative organizations have been closely consulted and actively involved in the drafting of the Bill and the parliamentary process for the consideration of the Bill.

8. Limited scrutiny of the Bill by the House of Lords as the former has been considered by the Government as a "Money Bill".

9. Public statements by politicians and authorities portraying persons with disabilities as making profit of social benefits, making false statements to get social and disability benefits or being a burden to society.

10. The extent to which other…

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Manchester Disabled People Against Cuts @mdpac.bsky.social · Jul 2

And Still We Rise.
GM Disability Pride March
Saturday 5th July
Defiance and Joy!
manchesterdpac.com

Fabric hand made banner saying in multicoloured letters -Greater Manchester Disability Pride

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Leeds DPAC @leedsdpac.bsky.social · Jul 3

Lula from Leeds Crips Against Cuts speaks to LBC about the Universal Credit and PIP vote in Parliament last Tuesday.
Alt text: Cover photo of Lula, with red hair in red clothes sat in black wheelchair speaking through a microphone. Leeds DPAC logo in bottom right corner.

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · Jun 29

The EHRC consultation closes TOMORROW - have your say before then. We've produced some guidance to make it easier to wade through: transactual.org.uk/equality-act...

Equality Act: Campaigning to restore our rights – TransActual

transactual.org.uk

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · Jun 27

Thank you Kim Johnson 👏

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Leeds DPAC @leedsdpac.bsky.social · Jun 26

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Leeds DPAC @leedsdpac.bsky.social · Jun 26

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · Jun 25

This clip encapsulates in just 12 seconds why the Government should pull its plan to cut disability benefits before next weeks vote

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Leeds DPAC @leedsdpac.bsky.social · Jun 25

Thank you for listening to your constituents and the many different organisations and professional bodies who have raised serious concerns about the bill. Thank you for putting the lives of disabled people, their carers family and community first. (2/2)

Leeds DPAC @leedsdpac.bsky.social · Jun 25

Thank you @alexsobel.co.uk and Fabian Hamilton for doing the right thing and signing the amendment to the universal credit and PIP bill which halts the bill until further impact assessments and genuine consultation with disabled people's groups can be made. (1/2)

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Leeds DPAC @leedsdpac.bsky.social · Jun 24

To follow what happens you can join the Leeds DPAC Facebook group.

Or follow the Leeds DPAC Instagram or Blue Sky.

You can also email: leedsdpac@gmail.com for more information or to get involved.

You can get in touch with DPAC or become a member on their website.

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Leeds DPAC @leedsdpac.bsky.social · Jun 24

We are looking for BSL interpretation for the action.

If you can help us please send an email to leedsdpac@gmail.com.

There are benches in the square if you need to sit down.

We will have masks available.

Please wear a mask if you can.
Leeds Playhouse has accessible toilets and a Changing Places toilet.

There are dedicated disabled parking bays for Blue Badge holders in Playhouse Square, or opposite, near Leeds bus station.

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Leeds DPAC @leedsdpac.bsky.social · Jun 24

The action is to protest against the changes to disability benefits announced by the government.

You can read more about the changes here.

We are inviting other disability and community organisations to join us.

There will be a fake coffin and a fake funeral director.

We will pretend to march in a funeral procession through Playhouse Square.

You can wear black if you want to.

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Leeds DPAC @leedsdpac.bsky.social · Jun 24

Easy read information

This is information about an action planned by Leeds Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC).

The action will be on Monday 30th June 2025.

It will start at 12pm and end at about 1:30pm.

We will meet outside the Leeds Playhouse.

The address is Playhouse Square, Quarry Hill, Leeds, LS2 7UP.

Leeds Playhouse is opposite John Lewis and Leeds Bus Station.

This is Leeds Playhouse.

Click here for a link to bus routes to Leeds.

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