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The Direct Action Network has asked UKDPC to reproduce the following leaflet, which is the opinion of the writers and not necessarily the opinion of UKDPC.
D.A.N.
SAYS NO
The Disabled People’s Direct Action Network (D.A.N.) campaigned for accessible buses so disabled people were free to travel, like everyone else and for the right to live independently in the community, like everyone else. We won those battles. Now meet our Anti-Poverty Campaign:
New Labour’s proposed Welfare Reforms now threaten to force disabled people into poverty. D.A.N. SAYS NO.
NO to being forced off benefits into low-paid work.
NO to coercion and to punitive cutting of benefits.
NO to the Poverty Trap for part-time and casual work.
NO to disabled people being portrayed as scroungers.
NO to care charges. NO to their hands in our pockets.
WHY ARE WE HERE TODAY?
Barking Mobility Shop, Sunningdale Ave, is MP Margaret Hodge’s surgery. She plans to get 1 million people off Incapacity Benefit but has a poor grasp of the issue. The problem isn’t in our attitude towards working, it lies in employers’ reluctance to offer us jobs.
Where are these jobs going to come from?
Why would employers make the reasonable adjustments they need to make to recruit disabled people?
Will
the Government put the money into Access To Work to ensure those
adjustments are made?
If
the Government won’t find the resources needed
THE PLAN JUST WON’T WORK!
Dear Margaret Hotch-Potch
WHY are we on Incapacity Benefit in the first place? WHY did we lose our jobs when we became disabled? WHY do employers train someone new, rather than enable someone who knows the job to carry on working?
WHY
is the media full of Incapacity Benefit Fraud stories? WHY
are we the new scapegoats?
WHY does New Labour assume it is full-time, long-term work we want, are capable of doing and is available?
Many disabled people have fluctuating conditions. We get medical appointments. We need Personal Assistants. If we work, our work patterns need to revolve around this.
Change The Job Not The Worker!
The Disabled People’s Movement agrees meaningful jobs are a key to disabled people escaping out of poverty.
D.A.N. therefore also says YES! YES to a flexible and realistic approach to all the issues of work and benefits.
YES to disabled people’s freedom to choose work.
YES to a fully comprehensive Civil Rights Bill
YES to ending discrimination against disabled people
YES to meeting in full all the extra costs of disability.
YES to ending poverty for disabled people now.
To
find out more about D.A.N. or the action contact
Danmail-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Or Mike on 07956 856060