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The BMJ @bmj.com · Sep 8

The BMJ’s former editor in chief, Fiona Godlee, was arrested this weekend alongside over a dozen other healthcare workers at a demonstration outside the Houses of Parliament in London while holding a sign reading, “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action”
www.bmj.com/content/390/...

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Cate Bailey @drcatebailey.bsky.social · Sep 2

What does it mean to invoke the right to health without accounting for conditions of sustained persistent, overwhelming and abiding terror and violence? - Dr Danya Qato
Vital episode exposing settler colonialism as fundamental cause of ill health and debility. Not another 'social determinant'.

Death Panel @deathpanel.bsky.social · Oct 11

Today we’re re-releasing our conversation with @danyaqato from last year on the intersection of colonial occupation and the pandemic in Palestine, alongside a brand new full transcript. New episode still coming tomorrow. Free Palestine 🇵🇸

on.soundcloud.com/Fy4UYuZgTa8Y...

Public Health and Palestine w/ Danya Qato

This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on August 22nd 2022, and we are re-releasing it today alongside a new transcript of the conversation. (This is in addition to our regular s

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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · Aug 13

If you're in Berlin on August 29, come along to the launch (again) of Medicine on a Larger Scale (open access CUP 2025)!
#histmed #histstm #sts

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social · Aug 21

Capitalism disables people constantly—through war, prisons, workplace injury, pollution, denial of care—then blames disabled people for being “unproductive.” It creates the conditions for debility, then moralizes about dependency. It’s how the system protects its own value logic.

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Cate Bailey @drcatebailey.bsky.social · Aug 22

"From the moment you are born, the great machine begins to notch its teeth into you, measuring the span of your usefulness against the curve of your eventual collapse."
@reallandsend.bsky.social what an opening to a 🔥 essay on disability as a political relation produced by capitalism.

Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social · Aug 21

To take disability seriously is to understand how capital constructs & manages life, justifies abandonment, austerity & slow death. Read the whole essay here

An Iron Sky Pressing Down

The Phenomenology and Political Economy of Expected Impairments

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Medact @medact.bsky.social · Jun 23

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Medact @medact.bsky.social · Jun 23

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Medact @medact.bsky.social · Jun 23

The BMA said NO to Palantir today!

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Palestine Solidarity Campaign @pscupdates.bsky.social · Jun 9

🚨URGENT: write to your MP - help release the Madleen crew now!

Israel has unlawfully hijacked the Madleen, a
@GazaFFlotilla
boat flying a British flag, and detained the 12 civilians on board.

Demand your MP take action to get the crew released now: palestinecampaign.eaction.online/Madleen/

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Recovery in the Bin @ritb.bsky.social · Jun 9

www.trussell.org.uk/news-and-res...

Nearly half a million people in disabled households will be forced into severe hardship if UK government goes ahead with cuts to social security | Trussell

Hundreds of thousands of people will be pushed into severe hardship if government goes ahead with ‘cruel’ cuts to disability payments.

www.trussell.org.uk

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Cate Bailey @drcatebailey.bsky.social · Jun 9

This may be of interest, please feel free to share @medicinered.bsky.social @medact.bsky.social @nsunnews.bsky.social @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social @stopoxevision.bsky.social

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Cate Bailey @drcatebailey.bsky.social · Jun 9

The Mental Health & Social Justice Network are organising a meeting with service users and workers involved in Trieste’s Mental Health ecology in London this Saturday 14/6/25. All welcome to come and discuss the radical, liberatory possibilities. Free registration: lu.ma/uoecy4jz?loc...

Image from Mental Health and Social Justice Network's Instagram with the details of the event 11am - 5pm at Birkbeck, London.

Image from Mental Health and Social Justice Network's Instagram with the details of the event 11am - 5pm at Birkbeck, London. Includes asking delegates to bring a small object, image or text reflecting your experience of mental health and/or care.

Image from Mental Health and Social Justice Network's Instagram with the details of the event 11am - 5pm at Birkbeck, London. Details of who will be visiting and the discussions around the radical mental health ecology of Trieste. Event open to all service users, survivors, professionals, practitioners and anyone involved in mental health. With free vegan, gluten free lunch.

Image from Mental Health and Social Justice Network's Instagram with the details of the event 11am - 5pm at Birkbeck, London. Image of the Trieste yellow building.

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Dr Jay Watts (they/she) @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social · Jun 1

People talk about “benefits culture” like it’s some scam.
You know what the real scandal is?
That you have to fight, cry, collapse and prove you’re disabled again and again just to survive.
Labour were supposed to be better, not worse.
#TakingThePIP

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Medact @medact.bsky.social · Jun 4

Abolishing Prevent: A Community Day of Action and Organising 💥📣

🗓️ Sunday 29th June, 10:30am - 5pm
📍 The Advocacy Academy, London

Join us for a day of conversation and workshops, as we build a community able to resist the racist Prevent duty ⬇️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/abolishing...

Abolishing Prevent: A Community Day of Action and Organising

Join us for a day of action and workshops to resist Prevent. Co-hosted by Amnesty, Liberty, Maslaha, MedAct, No More Exclusions and RSI.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Cate Bailey @drcatebailey.bsky.social · May 23

“The first step is to strip away the concept of heroism, perfectionism and rescue. Solidarity is a relationship of error, of small steps, of building for the future.”
Brilliant ep @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social @autumnmeghanbrown.bsky.social Sarah Schulman
endoftheworldshow.org/episodes/the...

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John Pring, DNS @johnpring.bsky.social · May 22

More than 50 disabled people’s organisations have called on the equality watchdog to investigate the “urgent threat” to the equality and human rights of disabled people posed by the new #Labour government.
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/equality-wat...

Equality watchdog must investigate ‘urgent threat’ posed by Labour policies, say DPOs

More than 50 disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have called on the equality watchdog to investigate the “urgent threat” to the equality and human rights of disabled people posed by the new Labo…

www.disabilitynewsservice.com

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Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · May 22

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨

Yesterday, over 100 Disabled people joined the mass lobby of MPs to resist benefit cuts - the largest lobby of Disabled people Parliament has seen in over a decade.

Read more👇
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/over-10...

Over 100 Disabled People's Mass Lobby of MPs to Resist Benefit Cuts

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Turn2us @turn2us.org.uk · May 14

The DWP Pathways to Work Green Paper proposes cuts to disability benefits we believe would be devastating. One of the organisations we work with, @gmcdp.bsky.social, has created a petition, calling on the Government to drop these proposals.

Sign here: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

Petition: Abandon DWP Pathways to Work Green Paper & create National Disability Strategy

The DWP Green Paper Pathways to Work proposes what we think are devastating cuts to disability benefits. We think the Government must drop these proposals and instead begin a process of co-production ...

petition.parliament.uk

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Cate Bailey @drcatebailey.bsky.social · May 22

"Most people will be disabled at some point in their life. Welfare is one way of recognising everyone has needs, that all of us live interdependently rather than independently."
Alice Hattrick's brilliant essay on ableism, art and the latest attacks on disabled people.
artreview.com/disability-i...

Disability Is Not a Separate Category of Personhood

The disabled experience is increasingly visible in the artworld yet an ableist political landscape is constantly on the attack. This affects us all

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · May 22

Elbit systems is financially crashing internationally!

BDS pressure is the most direct way of depriving Israel’s genocidal military of the weapons it uses to massacre, maim, and forcibly displace Palestinians.

Read more: loom.ly/kzeePzo

Elbit Systems: war criminals and genocidaires face financial woes

“An unfortunate tendency to crash”

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Recovery in the Bin @ritb.bsky.social · May 21

“resile”…..

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I will not resile from difficult welfare decisions, says Kendall

The work and pensions secretary says welfare changes are

www.bbc.co.uk

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Campaign for Disability Justice @campaignfdj.bsky.social · May 21

Disabled people and their organisations MUST be fully involved in reviews of: WCA, PIP assessment process, Safeguarding, employer & employee support & Access to Work.

Sign our open letter now: buff.ly/TJI8pM6

#ItsTimeForInclusion

Open letter (text also available at the link)

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · May 21

Always remember: this is a crime being committed by Israel, a Western ally armed and backed throughout by the United States and Britain.

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Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · May 19

'I think this is one of the main remits here – a dialogue between the speaker and the listener, the reader and the writer, the disabled and the non-disabled.’ – Richard Downes, @disabilityarts.bsky.social, on @rachaelboast.bsky.social's anthology Versus Versus.
disabilityarts.online/magazine/rev...

Versus Versus: anthology of 100 disabled poets that demands to be heard - Disability Arts Online

Richard Downes reviews Versus Versus an anthology of 100 poems by Deaf, Disabled & Neurodivergent poets, edited by writer, editor and disability advocate Rachael Boast.

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Cate Bailey @drcatebailey.bsky.social · May 19

This was (as always) a fantastic and timely episode. Made me think deeply about the injustices of labour in healthcare and the artificial and unhelpful capital-driven divide between those who give and receive care. Highly recommended for anyone interested in health justice.

Red Medicine @medicinered.bsky.social · Jan 2

Callum Cant describes the history of workers inquiry, a form of research in which workers take the lead, and explains why it should be central to our movements.

EPISODE 71: WORKERS INQUIRY IN THE CARE ECONOMY

LINK BELOW !

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