History month launch hears disabled people ‘must keep fighting back’ on austerity
Disabled people must “keep fighting back” and “politicise” so they can battle the impact of a decade of austerity.
In the Disability News Service article, Andrew Lee, director of People First (Self Advocacy), spoke of the campaigning work of the COVID-19 Support and Action Group of self-advocates during the pandemic.
He said the pandemic had left many people with learning difficulties frightened to leave their homes, with self-advocacy groups having to adapt how they operate.
He said: “For society generally, it has finished, it’s over, but for a lot of people with learning difficulties, and other people with pre-existing conditions, our minds are still stuck in the Covid mindset.”
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