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EasyJet profits, while disabled passengers lose | Tanvi Vyas
The airline’s policies have repeatedly failed disabled people – its profit margins may come at too high a price When easyJet released its trading figures for the fourth quarter of 2011, it reported a 16.7% increase in revenue, taking pride in the fact that its confident financial performance bucked the trend of poor sales across other UK airline carriers.
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Rod Liddle’s attack on disability cannot be ignored | Frances Ryan
By presenting disabled people as scroungers Liddle has done a lasting damage. We must help the public see us as we really are “My new year’s resolution for 2012 was to become disabled.
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Wheelchair users block Oxford Circus to protest at disability cuts
‘We’re not scroungers and fakers’ say wheelchair protesters Disability activists blocked one of central London’s busiest road junctions on Saturday with a line of wheelchair users chained together in the first of a series of promised direct action protests against government welfare cuts. The demonstration, which brought much of Oxford Circus to a standstill for more than two hours, was the product of an alliance between disabled groups and UK Uncut, which came to prominence by staging similar direct actions against corporations accused of avoiding tax
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Welfare reform: Lib Dems urge Nick Clegg to back Lords amendments
Letter from more than 50 former Lib Dem parliamentary candidates urges party leader to respect party policy on benefits Nick Clegg is coming under unprecedented private pressure from his own party to back a string of Lords amendments designed to protect children and those with disabilities from the impact of the government’s welfare reforms. A letter from more than 50 former Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidates in the 2010 election has been sent to Clegg urging him to respect party policy and vote to allow disabled people to retain employment support allowance for at least two years without being means tested. The letter, passed to the Guardian, warns more than 800,000 people with disabilities will be hit by the reforms, and expresses deep concern that the employment minister, Chris Grayling, has said the government defeats in the Lords will be overturned.
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Adrian Cave obituary
The architectural career of my friend Adrian Cave , who has died of cancer aged 76, exemplifies the way disability issues have moved to the foreground of our culture. At an age when others consider retiring, Adrian embraced the concept of inclusive design and pioneered the transformation of
Liverpool’s DaDaFest wins prestigious prize
The international disability and deaf arts festival has scooped the Lever Prize The DaDaFest in Liverpool has won this year’s prestigious £10,000 Lever Prize, just over a year after I wrote about fears over the festival’s future funding due to Arts Council cuts. The UK’s largest disability and deaf arts festival, which attracts international artists was chosen by senior representatives of the 30 largest companies in the north west to receive the prize. In 2011, DaDaFest celebrated its 10th anniversary, having begun in 2001 as a community arts event
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