DPAC Sheffield #FightTheRealEnemy 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️

We are Sheffield based disabled people campaigning on disability issues. Part of Disabled People Against Cuts. COVID isn't over btw. Wear an N95/FFP2 mask.

[DPAC Sheffield #FightTheRealEnemy 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @DPACSheffield]

Andy G (DPAC) “We have seen savage cuts from the Labour government on the back of savage cuts from the last Tory government…I don’t know how they are finding more to cut because we’ve already had everything stripped to the bone…”

https://t.co/muGedd9xId

[charlie @charlietwill7]

FYI for any blind people out there, if you contact @SouthernRailUK about a complaint & let them know about your disability and that you literally can’t fucking see so to please call you, they’ll send you a long ass email instead even if you are, I repeat, B L I N D @TfLAccess

[Recovery in the Bin @RITB_]

Have you been refused a copy of your PIP or WCA assessment recording?

https://t.co/WeGIFxGFvA

[Neville Southall @NevilleSouthall]

And through everything, Rupert still smiles.

He plays. He laughs. He adores his brothers. He brings joy wherever he goes.

He has been through more in his short life than many face in a lifetime.

AHC is part of his story.

It will never define him. 🌈

@rupertsrainbow

[DPAC Sheffield #FightTheRealEnemy 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @DPACSheffield]

Congratulations Lula 🇧🇷

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Congratulations to Brazilian President Lula for beating the fascists.

[Sam (Flower Girl) Jennings @flowergirl_lon]

@SouthernRailUK giving more unlawful disability discrimination…

[Wheelie MS Advocate - #PoweredByExperience - ♿️ @WheelieFUMS]

Wheelie’s Weekly: Are Young Disabled People About to Lose Their Health B... https://t.co/XEKRJLnZpz via @YouTube

[Wheelie MS Advocate - #PoweredByExperience - ♿️ @WheelieFUMS]

Reform UK is proposing £40 billion in spending reductions, including £20 billion from welfare, to help fund tax cuts and other measures.

Robert Jenrick says disabled people would be protected.

But what does that mean in practice?

Which benefits would change? Who would lose eligibility? And where is the detailed impact assessment?

If a political party proposes cutting £20 billion from welfare, the public deserves to know exactly how.

This is Reform UK's alternative Budget, not government policy.

Source: https://t.co/nvSr0EwWiS

#ReformUK #RobertJenrick #WelfareCuts #DisabilityBenefits #PIP

[Paula Peters @paulapeters2]

#Budget2026

📢Eve Of Budget Protest
📢March Against Austerity
📢Tuesday 27 Oct 2026
📢Assemble 6pm
📢Victoria Embankment London

Details here

https://t.co/Q0ZKNLLbic

Please RT

[Dermot Devlin he/him @castleDD]

I wrote a blog about @Channel4's #TheExpertiment.

I feel totally spent tonight after watching it and writing about it.

I'll post it tomorrow, if I feel strong.

[DPAC Sheffield #FightTheRealEnemy 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @DPACSheffield]

#TheExperiment

[Rachel Charlton-Dailey @RachelCDailey_]

"We don’t need a TV experiment to see disabled people treated as a burden" - My thoughts on Channel 4's #TheExperiement for @IndyVoices

(unpaywalled) https://t.co/iSnsaEiBeE

[DPAC Sheffield #FightTheRealEnemy 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @DPACSheffield]

#TheExperiment

[Recovery in the Bin @RITB_]

Do watch 'The Experiment'
Watch it here on Channel 4: https://t.co/ePXQ7X5PNF
It offers some history on Aktion T4, the nazi Germany systematic killing of sick, disabled, mentally ill, learning disabled, children & adults from 1939 - 1945 where up to 300,000 were murdered. The forced sterilisation programme ran from 1933.
Children & adults were murdered by lethal injection, starvation, and gassing (chamber & mobile van gassing), before it was implemented larger scale in the concentration camps.
Mass murder didn't start there, it started with words, propaganda campaigns, to convince the population that disabled people were a burden not deserving of life.
This programme was a social experiment to demonstrate how people could be convinced that it's a good idea. Participants were disabled actors with members of the public filmed on a fake tour of a fake residential home using nazi era ideas. The public were unaware of the experiment.
The "workshop" showed disabled people doing what we know to be 'industrial therapy', which was still seen in the late 80s in the UK in the old style sprawling asylums like Napsbury and Friern and medium secure units.
The public tour participants didn't appear to appreciate the demeaning nature of this.
Residents wore uniform clothing, which reminded me of my experience of seeing shared clothing & no underwear in "cheaper" private care homes for older people in the 80s.
It was only in the dormitory style barren bedroom with lockers did some tour participants start to question it, though others considered it acceptable.
The Experiment held up a mirror to the current demonisation of disabled people, to the rhetoric from politicians, rightwing journalists, MSM, broadcasters, Think Tanks.
The nazis wanted genetic supremacy, and used economic burden to achieve their aims.
Currently, politicians, MSM, broadcasters and journalists, peddle a not dissimilar rhetoric using economic productivity with economic blame and burden as their method of propaganda and persuasion.
Mass killing never starts with injections, starvation, gas, guns, bombs, it starts with words, with a constant drip-feed of othering and propaganda until people are persuaded.
What this programme demonstrated is that yes, people can be persuaded. But it also showed us that people can recognise dehumanisation and voice it, those are the voices we must encourage.
Susan Sontag, on being asked about what she had learnt reflecting on the Holocaust said that 10% of any population is cruel, 10% is merciful, and the remaining 80% can be moved in either direction.
IDS, Jeremy Vine, Helen Whately, Fraser Nelson, Tice, Lee, so many MPs, Mail, Telegraph, Spectator, profs who don't stand up to the daily onslaught, everyone who looks the other way, need to think about which 10% are they? We need to get the 80% to join the merciful 10%.

[DPAC Sheffield #FightTheRealEnemy 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @DPACSheffield]

WTF happen to turn up and go???

[Sam (Flower Girl) Jennings @flowergirl_lon]

WTF

[DPAC Sheffield #FightTheRealEnemy 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @DPACSheffield]

This is state abuse

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

A 37-year-old man with a severe muscle-wasting disease has been trapped in a hospital for more than 13 months because of a dispute over his care.

Ravi Mehta has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and used to receive NHS funding that allowed him to hire his own carers and to live at home.

Now that has been taken away from him, and he is threatened with being put in a care home.

#Duchenne #NHS #Care #Channel4News #C4News

[Abtisam Mohamed @Abtisam_Mohamed]

In Sheffield Central, only 65% of people have taken up their breast screening when invited. This is lower than the achievable national standard of 80%, so I’m backing Breast Cancer Now’s awareness drive by wearing it pink.

Someone dies from breast cancer every 45 minutes. Checking your breasts or chest could save your life.

#WearItPink to raise awareness with me!

[DPAC Sheffield #FightTheRealEnemy 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @DPACSheffield]

“Make sure you look after you!”

Yes ok- when is anyone supposed to be able to do that?

[Paul Ridley @PaulRidley5]

What's the most fruststrating thing someone has said to you as a family carer?

[DPAC Sheffield #FightTheRealEnemy 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @DPACSheffield]

Solidarity to John P and to all former Canary staff

[Paula Peters @paulapeters2]

#DisabikityNewsService
#TheCanary

Solidarity to @johnpringdns

Disability News Service will continue publishing stories, despite indefinite closure of Canary

https://t.co/ezvYLOo4vD via @johnpringdns

[DPAC Sheffield #FightTheRealEnemy 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @DPACSheffield]

What do you want to say, but don’t, and who do you want to say it to?

Let’s have a cuppa and get it all out!

•Fund the NHS
•End wage related poverty
•Stop the endless and cruel scrutiny of welfare claimants
•Pay familial carers a wage they can live on

Add to the list:

[York Disability Week @YorkDisability]

Disability News Service will continue publishing stories, despite indefinite closure of @TheCanaryUK https://t.co/jl6UuiO33B via @johnpringdns

[Disability News Service @johnpringdns]

Disability News Service will continue to operate and produce stories for its website and subscribers, despite its editor being made redundant.
#Canary #DisabilityNewsService
https://t.co/3HtrI91zQL

[DPAC Sheffield #FightTheRealEnemy 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @DPACSheffield]

Damn right

[Atlanta Rey 📚 @areyoflight]

The @DailyMail are part of the problem