Tanni Grey-Thompson inaccessibility the norm for disabled people
On Monday night Tanni Grey-Thompson had to do something she’s unfortunately accustomed to now – crawl off a train. She had the same experience 12 year ago, too. Tanni Grey-Thompson’s…
Daily Mail just fired the starting gun for the new DWP war on disabled people
The Daily Mail has had a busy couple of days spewing out scapegoating propaganda for its billionaire owners and the political class. The Canary’s HG reported on its vile Islamophobic…
Assemble to launch ‘House of the People’ on 11 August
Our electoral system works… for the rich and powerful. For everyone else, it sucks. It pretends that voting in elections makes a difference. But it very rarely does anything that…
heavy rains kill people in famine-ravaged, war-torn country
Heavy rains have triggered building collapses that have killed dozens of people in northern Sudan since June. It comes as the country reels from almost 16 months of fighting between…
Sudan famine threatens hundreds of thousands of people
While the world focuses on the Middle East, war in Sudan between the army and rival paramilitaries has pushed the Zamzam camp near Darfur’s besieged city of El-Fasher into famine.…
Mashco Piro people are being let down and betrayed by the FSC
Three key Amazonian Indigenous organisations have issued an unprecedented joint statement, accusing the FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) of deliberately delaying a decision on whether to withdraw certification from a notorious…
fossil fuel project already harming people and wildlife
The climate-wrecking East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) is already wreaking havoc on wildlife in a biodiverse national park. A new report has exposed how key fossil fuel infrastructure associated…
Labour’s plans will kill more old people
A new government, but the same old callous austerity agenda. The stark “heating or eating” dilemma is about to get much worse for millions of older Britons. Because, less than…
government in court over disabled people
A legal challenge over the UK government’s failure to protect disabled people, property and infrastructure from the foreseeable impacts of the accelerating climate crisis was heard in the High Court…
Morocco heatwave kills 21 people in just 24 hours
A heatwave in Morocco has killed at least 21 people in a 24-hour period in the central city of Beni Mellal, the health ministry announced on Thursday 25 July –…
Disabled people already protesting over their basic rights
Chronically ill and disabled people took over Parliament Square to demand that the new Labour Party government undo years of damage caused by the Tories. From the DWP to social…
Labour just abandoned the poorest people in the king’s speech
The king’s speech on Wednesday 17 July was nothing if a direct play to the Labour Party’s now-target audience: the middle classes and middle England. Because within the 39 bills,…