Summary
In Glasgow, Disabled People Against Cuts will be protesting an MSP on 18th April.
Members in Swansea are planning to host a public debate to hold their MP to account.
Swansea Disabled People Against Cuts have also been invited to speak at the Swansea May Day rally on 3rd May.
Upcoming Glasgow Action – Anas Sarwar MSP, Friday, April 18th
Friday, 18th April at Anas Sarwar’s Office at Brunswick House, 51 Wilson Street, Glasgow, G1 1UZ. We will be gathering at 12 noon.
Sarwar has made it explicitly clear that he is in support of the proposed Labour cuts to welfare and disability benefits – offering no viable alternative to disabled people in Scotland if Westminster’s cuts are successful. Successive Scottish and UK Governments have failed us.
We will be highlighting the real impact that his party’s cuts will have on people in Scotland, and the rest of the UK, of which he seems painfully unaware.
Please share widely, if you would like to speak or propose someone to speak, please let me know.
DPAC West of Scotland dpacwestofscotland@gmail.com
Swansea event, date to be confirmed
Labour MPs: no more insults – disabled people demand a debate!
Tired of being ignored, Swansea DPAC will soon be hosting a public debate, with or without our MPs.
We have zero faith in a so-called consultation process that starts out, on day one, outlining all the areas that it won’t be consulting on. There is one, and only one, public consultation process for the whole of Wales. Our MPs are not responding to our repeated attempts to contact them as constituents or as disabled people’s organisations.
We are particularly keen to publicly debate the Swansea West MP Torsten Bell, who has defended the cuts on Newsnight as a DWP minister, and who has been quite rude. From his keyboard, he has called disabled people “keyboard warriors” and a “burden”. We demand a “right of reply” – in person!
We thank our trade union friends for all of their support so far. At our last meeting, we were honoured to accept an invitation from Swansea Trades Council to speak at their May Day rally (see https://www.facebook.com/SwanseaTradesCouncil).
Disabled people know that we are not the only ones targeted by the government, as Reeves and Starmer take the hatchet to jobs, pay, and services everywhere.
Swansea Disabled People Against Cuts swanseadpac@gmail.com
Swansea May Day rally – Swansea DPAC to speak
DPAC Swansea raises high the trade union motto “an injury to one is an injury to all”
DPAC Swansea thanks our friends at Swansea Trades Council for the invitation. We know that we are not the only ones targeted by the government, as Reeves and Starmer take the hatchet to jobs, pay, and services everywhere.
We hope everyone will join us on 3rd May in Swansea.
Trades Union Councils: Swansea
- Fight for a public sector Pay Rise!
- Welfare not warfare!
- Jobs, homes and services, not racism!
Join Swansea Trades Council for our annual May Day rally
Saturday 3rd May, 12 Noon Castle Square – Swansea
Hear speakers from across the movement
- Trade Unionists
Anti-Racism Organisers
Disability Rights Activists
Community Campaigners
Bring members, family, friends, and your banners and placards.
BFAWU – CWU – Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) – Swansea – GMB – Unite – PCS – Unison – NASUWT
https://www.facebook.com/SwanseaTradesCouncil
