HENRY FOWLER, assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU), reports on Day 2 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at the Workers’ Retreat, Quorn Grange Hotel
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We should be offering assisted living
Assisted Dying Bills are pitched as humane but instead highlight disabled people’s lack of choice, writes ELLEN CLIFFORD
Assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions HENRY FOWLER reports on day 1 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at Quorn Grange Hotel
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This summer Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) will be taking on our most controversial campaign yet as we fight the Assisted Dying Bills going through Parliament. We will highlight the severe dangers that the legalisation of assisted suicide poses.
DPAC is probably best known for our campaigns against Atos — the company that profits from pushing disabled people off benefits through punitive assessments — and to save the Independent Living Fund, a source of essential support for disabled people with high support needs. We have always had to resort to direct action to get attention for our issues which are otherwise neglected by the mainstream.
This time the fight against legalisation of assisted suicide is even more complicated by the emotive nature of the subject and the fact that many of our natural allies tend to assume they are in favour. We aim through our campaign to bust the myths and show how legalising will remove, rather than give, choice and add to disabled people’s oppression.
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