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From: "Mike Higgins" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2003 7:48 AM
Subject: Unity of the oppressed at last . . .
> Immigration Laws - They Disable Us!
>
> Message from: Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People (GMCDP)
>
>
> GMCDP Conference & 2003 AGM
>
>
> A conference for disabled refugees, migrants and immigrants - and all
> those opposed and subject to immigration controls
>
> Saturday 8th November 2003
> 'Le Meridien'
> Victoria & Albert Hotel
> Water Street
> Castlefield
> Manchester, M3 4JQ
>
>
> Why we need this conference
> There exist two movements in this country. One is the movement of
> disabled people against the social and political system that disables us.
> The other is the movement against racism and particularly against
> immigration controls.
Mike,
I'm sure that the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered and other queer
activists in your country will be delighted to have been effectively wiped
off the political spectrum. Ditto feminists.
Shelley
The aim of this conference is to begin to unite these
> struggles. For far too long the fact has been ignored that many of those
> subject to the racism of immigration controls are disabled people.
>
> What the conference will discuss and organise against
>
> * Fundamental to both immigration control and the oppression of disabled
> people is the false and reactionary science of eugenics - the idea that
the
> country/the nation/the state will only be healthy when there is removed
from
> it "the unfit". A recent example of eugenics in action has been the call
by
> the Tory Party that there should be compulsory testing for HIV before
entry
> is allowed into the UK.
>
>
> * A frequent lie spread by governments is that hospital treatment is
free
> to all at the point of delivery. However since 1982 those people without
the
> "correct" residency status have been denied free treatment. This affects
> those who have been through the mental health system as well as those with
> physical impairment and/or learning difficulties. The Labour Party have
> proposed that free hospital treatment be restricted even further - on the
> grounds that the country is being overwhelmed by "health tourists". One
> consequence of this is that hospitals have become spies for the Home
Office
> in their investigation of immigration status.
>
>
> * Entry to this country or leave to remain here is denied to anyone
> considered to be a "burden on public funds" - which effectively denies
stay
> to disabled people unable to work.
>
>
> * Many welfare benefits are denied to disabled people without full
> immigration status - such as Disability Living Allowance.
>
>
> * Since 1999 disabled people without full immigration status have been
> excluded from most community care legislation - such as the right to meals
> on wheels, direct payments, night-sitter services or in some circumstances
> home adaptations.
>
>
> * Asylum-seekers are now subject to a modern "poor law" whereby they can
> be forced to live wherever the Home Office decides at an income below that
> of social security. Disabled asylum-seekers are in a particularly
vulnerable
> situation.
>
>
> * Disabled people, like everyone else subject to immigration controls,
are
> liable to deportation.
>
>
> * Carers subject to immigration controls have no right to come or stay
> here.
>
>
> Agenda:
> 12 to 1pm Registration & lunch
>
> 1 to 4pm Conference & Workshops
>
> 4.30 to 5.30pm GMCDP 2003 AGM
>
> 5.30 to 8.30pm Buffet/entertainment
>
>
> Workshops - Details of workshops and a booking form will be sent out
> with the final AGM mail-out on 23rd October 2003.
>
>
> The conference will be followed by the Annual General Meeting of the
> Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People, which itself will be
> followed by a cabaret performance of art and poetry by disabled people
> affected by immigration controls.
>
>
> For more information about the conference please contact:
> Mike Higgin
> 0161 273 5155, Mobile 0796-856060 or
> Email [log in to unmask]
> Fax: 0161 273 4164
>
>
> For information about the AGM, venue or access requirements contact:
> Thelma Tomlinson
> 0161 273 5154 Speech and Text or Email [log in to unmask]
>
>
> Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People
> BEVC
> Aked Close
> Ardwick
> Manchester
> M12 4AN
> 0161 273 5153
> [log in to unmask]
>
>
> Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People
> (Established in 1985, we are an organisation OF disabled people; that is,
> controlled by disabled people. Only disabled people can be on the
Management
> Committee and vote at meetings, and GMCDP employs only disabled workers.)
> http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~gmcdp/
>
>
>
>
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