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Leeds Disabled People Campaigning for disabled people. Allies welcome. #socialmodel #nothingaboutuswithoutus #Disabledpeopleagainstcuts #disability

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Leeds DPAC are supporting the budget day demo in Leeds. Disabled people often get targeted when cuts are made and we say there are alternatives.
Alt text: Poster of We Demand Change, Budget Day rally. 26th November 4-6pm Dortmund Square. Supported by Leeds Trades Union Council and Leeds, Wakefield and York branch of Unite Community.
November 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Leeds DPAC stands in solidarity with our trans siblings.

We remember the dead so we can fight for the living.

Transgender Day of Remembrance, 20th November 20205.
November 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Join us and York Dpac for our online talk and discussion on the impact of eugenicist ideology on disabled people and all marginalised groups on 4th December 6pm.

Register at www.eventbrite.com/e/eugenics-p... or scan the QR code.
Disabled People have much to fear from the discredited pseudo-science of eugenics. This presentation explores key themes followed by an opportunity for questions. The session contains some distressing content. We advise caution as there will be depictions & discussion of harm being done to disabled people and other groups. • Slides will be audio described • BSL interpretation • Closed captions available Poster for event with Leeds DPAC and York DPAC logos. Image shows drawing of tree with title of EUGENICS across it. Sub text reads "Eugenics is the self direction of human evolution" and "Like a tree eugenics draws its materials from many sources and gives them organic unity and purpose". The roots of the tree have words associated with eugenics on it, such as genetics, anthropology and heredity. Contact Leedsdpac@gmail.com for further information or if you have any access requirements or support you may need to attend the event.
November 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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🚨🚨🚨 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 🚨🚨🚨
October 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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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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October 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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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

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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… …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.
August 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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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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August 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Reminder - Our activist picnic is taking place this Sunday. Look forward to seeing some of you there.
leedsdpac.bsky.social Leeds DPAC @leedsdpac.bsky.social · Jul 19
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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
August 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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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
July 26, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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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
July 19, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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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]
July 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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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
July 9, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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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

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July 9, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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July 6, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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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…
July 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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And Still We Rise.
GM Disability Pride March
Saturday 5th July
Defiance and Joy!
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Fabric hand made banner saying in multicoloured letters -Greater Manchester Disability Pride
July 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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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.
July 3, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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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
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June 29, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Thank you Kim Johnson 👏
June 27, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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June 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Alt text Urgent call to action DPAC Leeds logo Please contact the Speaker of the House of Commons to request that he select the Reasonable Amendment (moved by Meg Hillier and signed by 120+ MPs) to be debated in Parliament. Via his contact form - https://shorturl.at/FX4DG Suggested template at - https://shorturl.at/8RRea (Links also in our LinkTree at https://linktr.ee/LeedsDPAC) And tag him on the following socials: Instagram and X - @commonsspeaker BlueSky - @commonsspeaker.parliament.uk
June 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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This clip encapsulates in just 12 seconds why the Government should pull its plan to cut disability benefits before next weeks vote
June 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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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)
June 25, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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No more welfare deaths. Stop the cuts. Join Leeds DPAC for our action - Monday 30th June 12pm. Meet outside Leeds Playhouse, LS2 7UP. Please wear black.

#nomoredeathsfrombenefitcuts
#welfarenotwarfare
#takingthepip
Black poster with white text over an image of a woman in a black shroud holding white flowers. No more welfare deaths. Stop the cuts. Join Leeds DPAC for our action - Monday 30th June 12pm. Meet outside Leeds Playhouse, LS2 7UP. Please wear black.
June 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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This is video of our actions today in Alex Sobel MP's constituency, with Unite Community Leeds Wakefield and York and Unite union

Come on Alex make the right choice! End these cruel cuts!
June 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM