Best wishes with your action
Peter Irons.
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From: Frank Hall-Bentick <[log in to unmask]>
To: OZAdvocacy <[log in to unmask]>; UK Disability-Research
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Date: 01 May 1999 06:42
Subject: Re: look what's happening in England!!
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>marsha wrote:
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>> From: ALAN HOLDSWORTH [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> Sent: Sunday, April 18, 1999 10:55 AM
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>> DISABLED PEOPLE'S DIRECT ACTION NETWORK
>> PRESS RELEASE
>> EMBARGOED UNTIL 11AM. THURSDAY APRIL 22ND
>> DAN LAUNCHES NEW "FREE OUR PEOPLE" CAMPAIGN
>> DISABLED PEOPLE TARGET SOCIAL SERVICES DIRECTORS
>> TRALEE HOTEL West Hill rd. WESTCLIFFE BOURNEMOUTH 11.30 AM.
>> Disabled people from all over the country will be targeting the
Association
>> of Directors of Social Services Annual General Meeting in Bournemouth on
>> Thursday as they launch their new campaign to get people out of and stop
>> people going into residential institutions. Using tactics of non violent
>> direct action they will attempt to disrupt the meeting and make it clear
>> that it is no longer an option to take a person away from their community
>> and bang them in a home just because they are disabled people.
>> Arrests are expected.
>> DAN is calling for :-
>> *Centres for independent living to be set up in every town.
>> *An end to the charging for services policy.
>> *A 10% per year reduction in residential care beds year on year. *That
the
>> care package that a person receives should be of a high standard and not
>> vary from one authority to another. *That disabled people should be able
>> to live in the community no matter what it costs financially....no cap on
>> people's basic freedoms.
>> On Thursday we are calling on the ADSS to :-*Publicly support our
campaign
>> through a press release *Set up early meetings between ADSS and DAN *Pass
>> an emergency resolution to set up sufficient Independent Living Centres
run
>> by disabled people in their area. *To resist charging disabled people
for
>> essential services.
>> * To commit to a joint programme with DAN to eradicate the physical,
sexual
>> and emotional abuse that is rife in public and private residential care
>> establishments.
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>> Recent escapees from residential care will be on hand to tell their
>> personal stories.
>> FREE OUR PEOPLE !
>> For further information call :- 01222 317 000
>> Mobile phones on the day : 0385 118 464
>> 0966 151 551 If you still want to come ring 0385 118 464 now.
>> --
>> ALAN HOLDSWORTH
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