Mandy Colleran
@disabilitydiva
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Disabled Woman. Feminist, Socialist, Actress, Scouser. Short of stature, but never opinion.
Joined October 2010
Sickening .
#Reform Council in #Lancashire … The #Reform Councillor in charge of care homes, is going to shut council care homes, forcing residents to move to private care homes. On an ‘unrelated’ note, the same #Reform Councillor is the owner of multiple local private care homes.
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Israel. Is. Still. Starving. Palestinians.
BREAKING: Gaza has received less than a third of aid trucks promised by ceasefire, director of Gaza's Government Media office says 🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/lRYFNTxbwv
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This is Sarah Pochin - Reform UK MP for Runcorn - @SarahForRuncorn Sarah doesn't want to see black or Asian people on her TV. She said: “It drives me mad seeing adverts full of black and Asian people.” This sort of racism is abhorrent, and she must resign. RT if you agree.
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A rail worker credited with saving multiple lives during a mass stabbing on a train has been named as Samir Zitouni. The 48-year-old's actions on the Doncaster to London King's Cross service on Saturday evening were described as "nothing short of heroic".
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If you see this image, put a dot to break the algorithm!
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Maybe you should consider the possibility that someone other than a man, and/or someone who isn't white, might be the answer!
Which one could put an end to the hard right, economically and socially illiterate politics of our country and win the next election?
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WTF? Where are Obama and Biden and all the western leaders and celebs who held her up as a hero when she was campaigning on Feb climate? All silent now as reports suggest she may be being abused in Israeli detention? She must be released.
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Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water
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She is a hero. They all are
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Francesca Albanese’s thoughts as to the true death toll in Gaza 🇵🇸: ‘65,000 are reported as murdered’ ‘75% woman & children’ ‘But some believe it’s more likely 680,000’ ‘Impossible to confirm because 🇮🇱 bans entry’ ‘But if correct then 380,000 children will have been murdered’
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“The only legal thing Israel can do in the Palestinian territories is to get the hell out.” —Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur
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I've not been able to do my job for the last 3 months because of a DWP decision to cut my #AccessToWork support. This week I received a letter reinstating my support, while this is good news for me there are many others still affected by cuts & delays https://t.co/5WKeVYgvXs 1/2
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A couple of weeks ago some colleagues and I gathered round a phone in the Touretteshero office to speak to my newly allocated caseworker from the Department for Work and Pensions about my Access to...
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Yep, @DrFrancesRyan spot on again. The disablist media/political discourse means disabled people are forced to 'prove our humanity on repeat':
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Britain’s political and media class advocate policies that leave disabled people hungry and dirty. Why are we expected to settle for this, asks Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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Remembering Srebrenica must go hand in hand with opposing genocide in Gaza, I argue in this new article. The one cannot be used to deny the other.
🔴From Srebrenica to Gaza: Genocide Denial and the Long Struggle for Justice Before the 30th anniversary of the largest mass killing in Europe since 1945, @martinshawx compares it with how the West is now treating the ongoing genocide in Gaza https://t.co/iQ6K3XSYtw
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This is why I will be voting against the Bill today. I remember the immense suffering & deaths caused when George Osborne forced through benefit cuts like this. The government should concentrate on helping people deal with their illness & disability not harming them in this way.
“Huge swathes” of severely disabled people will be hit by Universal Credit cuts, contrary to government claims they will be protected. My exclusive in today’s Guardian ahead of the vote:
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I have an FOI in about this. Fingers crossed it is useful.
@Shrink_at_Large The problem is the system - it decides what is a person’s ‘main disabling condition’ & only records that for statistical purposes This leaves lots of room for false narratives to be developed & for lazy journalists & politicians with an agenda to then spread these widely 😕
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US Chicana-Tejana artist Natalia Anciso, who often creates artwork on experiences of growing up on the U.S.-Mexico Border #womensart
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Disabled Labour MP Vicky Foxcroft has described how she was left with “no choice” but to resign as a whip over government plans to cut billions of pounds a year from disability benefits. https://t.co/A4hzxOopx6
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I just asked the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to name a single disabled people’s organisation that supports the Government’s “reforms”. She couldn’t name one. The Government should scrap this awful Bill, but if it doesn’t I will vote against it.
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