Wed 21 May: Mass Lobby of MPs – No cuts to disability benefits!

Photo of our contingent: WinVisible, Disabled Mothers’ Rights Campaign, Global Women’s Strike, marching along Parliament Square (UK Day of Action, Welfare Not Warfare, 26 March).

Come and join this event in Parliament, where people are calling on their MPs to reject the government’s disability benefit cuts.  People will be gathering to meet each other and take photos as well. ** Wednesday 21 May — 1pm to 4pm **at Parliament SW1A 0AA – in Westminster Hall, Jubilee Room Station: Westminster tube … Read more

Tues 29 April – Bring People Home from Psychiatric Hospital

Bring People Home From Hospital. Easy Read picture. Drawing of a hospital building, at the window on the top floor is a woman in distress. The building has labels: mental illness - autistic -- learning disability. Then an arrow to her outside her home, using a wheelchair and someone is next to her providing care and support.

Day of Action  Tuesday 29 April 2025  11.30-3pm Leaflet below and full details here — things you can do to support the campaign, before the day, on the day and from home remotely and online. Nearest step-free tube – Westminster Meet at: the Mahatma Gandhi statue, back of Parliament Square,  London SW1P 3JX. WinVisible and … Read more

Event PALESTINE: REPAIR & RETURN — Stories of Disability and Rehabilitation

Artwork by Basil Marquosi. Brush strokes in grey, black and white depict the rubble in Gaza and suggest bodies.

We’re glad to attend and share this event highlighting disability — one of a series about Palestine at the P21 art gallery in Somers Town, London NW1. We want to find out more about the situation of disabled people there, especially children and women, and what they want supporters to do. Hope you can come … Read more

Event: Candles in the Darkness: Bhopal at 40

Event poster -- details in Eventbright link. An Indian woman holds a candle. Behind her is a night time candlelight vigil with a floor decoration surrounded by candles, young wheelchair users, a few placards and banners.

Wed 4 December 7pm — free Zoom event organised by our friends at the Bhopal Medical Appeal (Brighton) We’re glad to share this event — a chance to find out more about what happened, and get the latest news on the demands of the survivors. 7pm to 8.30pm UK time auto-captions available. Register here They say: Join the Bhopal … Read more

Marking #Bhopal40 — demands & events

Drawing of two Indian women, Hindu and Muslim together, with fists raised, in front of factory on fire. Bhopal 40 years of confronting corporate crime. International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal

3 December 2024 is the 40th anniversary of the Bhopal gas tragedy in India, the world’s deadliest industrial disaster, when a pesticide factory owned by Union Carbide exploded next to the community. It marks 40 years of women gas survivors confronting corporate crime and Dow Chemical — who took over the site but refuse to … Read more

We’re taking part Wed 2 Oct: Learn about your rights! The UNCRPD

Event image by Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People. Learn about your rights! Drawing of unequal scales of justice. Speaker announcement: photo of Prof Jorge Araya, a Latino man with dark hair, moustache and beard, in a suit and tie. He is Secretary of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and an official of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

The Disabled Mothers’ Rights Campaign/WinVisible was glad to take part in this Zoom event held by Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People, “Learn about your rights!”. About the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), with key guest speakers: Wednesday 2 October 11am-3.45pm Speaker info, programme of the day and register here: … Read more

Thursday 19 Sept: Kate’s talk at London Transport Museum Depot in Acton

Black and white photo from a Campaign for Accessible Transport protest. Kate, a wheelchair user, is in the middle of about 15 disabled people smiling and laughing. Police stand around them with arms folded.

Event this Thursday 19 Sept lunchtime at London Transport Museum Depot, in Acton. Our Kate Brown is giving a talk. Disabled People are seeing RED 12:45 | Holden Room | Talks last 30 minutes Red double decker buses were public transport, were we not the public? So we hijacked a bus in Oxford Street and … Read more

Wed 17 April – join Bristol open meeting

A paper budget cut by scissors

Please join this timely online event organised by Bristol Reclaiming Independent Living (BRIL) — we’ll be speaking on the panel: Wednesday 17 April 2024, 6.30pm-9pm  Cuts, charges and co-production BSL interpretation provided * CC closed captions BRIL and supporters oppose the hated “Fair and Affordable Care” proposals by Bristol City Council, and the cuts budget … Read more

Event Mon 11 Dec: End torture of disabled people in residential ‘care’ settings

Image for meeting End Torture of disabled people in residential 'care' settings. A Black woman is speaking into a megaphone standing next to Big Ben, Parliament.

Meeting in Parliament Monday 11 December, 3-5pm Grimond Room, Portcullis House, SW1A 2JH (allow extra time for security check) Westminster tube The Disabled Mothers’ Rights Campaign (DMRC) / WinVisible and other disability rights organisations are speaking at this meeting by the Alliance for Inclusive Education, Disabled People Against Cuts and Reclaiming Our Futures Alliance.   The … Read more