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This Wed: WV speak in Brent at No to Austerity 2.0

By winvisibleblog | 14 June 2025 | 0 Comments
Photo of Keir Starmer with black strip across eyes which reads No to Austerity 2.0. Other event info in blog post.

We’re looking forward to taking part this Wednesday 18 June at 7pm, kindly invited by Brent Trades Council to their No to Austerity 2.0 event. The day of the disability benefit cuts Bill. Come along in person to Chalkhill Community Centre (wheelchair accessible), 113 Chalkhill Road, HA9 9FX. Near Wembley Park tube (step free station) … Read more

Newham protest against Sir Stephen Timms MP, DWP minister for disability benefits

By winvisibleblog | 04 June 2025 | 0 Comments
An array of people, many disabled, holding placards and banners, grouped around the paved area at Stratford Station.

On Saturday 31 May, we took part in a lively community protest at Stratford Station against Sir Stephen Timms, minister for Social Security and Disability and MP for East Ham, who is bringing forward the proposed cuts to PIP and Universal Credit disability payment. It was called by Disabled People Against Cuts with support from … Read more

WinVisible women at lobby of MPs, 21 May 2025

By winvisibleblog | 28 May 2025 | 0 Comments
Seven diverse women are outside the visitors' entrance to Parliament. They are holding the WinVisible banner, standing next to the Disabled Mothers' Rights Campaign banner and one is holding a Palestinian flag. One woman has a dog on a lead and one is a wheelchair user.

On 21 May, we joined a large number of disabled people, family carers and concerned people who came to Parliament, lobbying MPs to refuse Labour’s cuts to disability benefits. Some of us were also outside with our banners and placards, showing our determination to defend our benefit rights. Some of us took action from home, … Read more

“Disabled campaigners watching ‘in horror’ as trans people face toilet segregation”

By winvisibleblog | 25 May 2025 | 0 Comments
Photo of toilet signage at Kiln Theatre, Kilburn. A row of icons -- woman, man, wheelchair user/accessible, multi-gender/non-binary, baby change icon. "Gender diversity is welcome at Kiln Theatre. Please use the toilet that you need."

We’re quoted in The Guardian article: “When we heard the supreme court ruling, we immediately felt this as an attack on all of us who are dealing with discrimination,” said Claire Glasman of WinVisible, a grassroots multiracial disabled women’s group. “Disabled women know what it’s like to be treated as lesser women.” “Trans people mustn’t … Read more

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

By winvisibleblog | 14 May 2025 | 0 Comments
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

Bread not bombs for Gaza. Let the children eat. No more weapons for Israel.

By winvisibleblog | 11 May 2025 | 0 Comments
Photo of Rashaf, 12 years old, in Gaza. She is emaciated and her ribs are showing above her orange vest. Her face is puffy and her hair is falling out.

WinVisible supports this statement by our friends Doctors in Unite. #WelfareNotWarfare Please email in support, details below: “Emergency statement from Doctors in Unite to Keir Starmer and David Lammy on the deliberate starving to death of Gaza’s children by Israel *.“ “This is an urgent appeal to all healthcare organisations and healthcare workers, as well as … Read more

‘Disabled woman faces eviction threat over £6K bill for ‘disgusting’ meals she never even ate’

By winvisibleblog | 26 April 2025 | 0 Comments
Image of newspaper article with brown pile of food in a foam box.

WinVisible is supporting Alice Talbot since 2021, who lives at Charlie Ratchford Court a supported living place run by Camden Council. She contacted us as she didn’t want the meals: Care dinners: Would you fork out £4.50 for this meal? She also wanted to challenge the high care charges, which are on top of rent … Read more

Tues 29 April – Bring People Home from Psychiatric Hospital

By winvisibleblog | 25 April 2025 | 0 Comments
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

“Group demands better maternity care for disabled women”

By winvisibleblog | 06 April 2025 | 0 Comments
Black and white photo of a standing woman's middle. She is holding a baby to her above her belly which has the pregnancy line. News: North London group demands better maternity care for disabled women.

Shared from North West Londoner 5 April 2025 by Grace Wiszowaty “A Camden-based organisation are calling for North Central London NHS services to combat discrimination within maternity care. WinVisible’s campaign comes in light of a report published by The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and The Missing Billion on 6 March, which found … Read more

Day of Action publicity — Welfare Not Warfare!

By winvisibleblog | 31 March 2025 | 0 Comments
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).

Thanks to everyone on our contingent for the Day of Action on Wednesday 26 March!  It was so encouraging to be with everyone who came out. We’re sharing some of the widespread publicity — which shows the growing refusal of the government’s plans for terrible disability benefit cuts, while they are hiking up spending on … Read more