Shami Chackrabarti and Liberty have showed therir true 'disabilist' colours!!! (Yes Mike, Nick, I will swallow my pride amnd say that you were both right and warned everyone about this!!!)
What do we do next?..
Their staff 'disabilist attituides and behaviour has caused me great trauma and upset this afternoon as an Autistic/NeuroDiverse disabled person. They have intentionally gone out to cause me harm and also disability hate crimes. They are a disgrace!!! They even will not alllow me access to complaints procedure. What does this say on basic human rights?
I have reported them to the EHRC. I intend to make complaints to the Charities Commission too and the Courts.
We need a DAN Action and Allies outside Liberty's office to express our feelings. Make sure we get full publicity on this too.
Martin, make sure this letter goes on NDI website.... They have had Adrian, others and I on a string for 4 1/2 years with their promies to DAN and our Allies and I within the Disabled Peoples' movement, sionce Adrian and I challengedf Shami Chakrabarti on 'disability-issues' at the European Social Forum,In London 2004.
She also promised to meet us again lasy year when she came to the East Riding for David Davis civil liberties debate....
DAN and our allies have been blatantly lied too by Shami Chackrabarti and others at Liberty.
Let's get outside their offices ASAP and let them know how we feel within DAN.
Colin... Copy of letter attached below...
LIBERY
http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk
Mr Colin Revell [log in to unmask]
Dear Mr Revell,
6th May 2009
For several months now colleagues of mine within the Operations Team at Liberty have been attempting to arrange for you to meet with Liberty's Director. Unfortunately, this is proving to be an extremely difficult thing to achieve.
When the Director initially agreed to meet with you, it was on the understanding that it was a meeting between yourself and her. Subsequently, you advised us that the meeting was to be widened to include several colleagues of yours.
We reluctantly agreed to this, and attempted to arrange for a meeting to be held in London, and a date was identified. At this point, you informed us that you were no longer in a position to travel to London.
Since then, we have tried to re-arrange a meeting between you and Liberty's mrector nearer to you.
However, this has also proved to be extremely difficult, and we are now at a stage where my colleagues are spending an increasing amount of time dealing with this and other matters relating to you. My colleagues are finding it extremely stressful dealing with considerably lengthy calls and correspondence from you and your now former personal assistant.
I have now come to the conclusion that it will not be possible for us to arrange a meeting between you and the Liberty Director. I regret having to take this decision, but I feel that we have done as much as we can to facilitate the agreed meeting, and have been faced with obstacles beyond our control on every occasion.
In view of my decision, I must ask you to refrain from calling members of the Liberty Operations Team with immediate effect. Should you do so, my colleagues have been instructed not to take your call.
Yours sincerely,
Raj Chandarana Director of Operations
THE NATIONAL COUNCiL FOR CiVlL UBERTIES
Hi Linda et al...
As I said, if Shami Chackrabarti and others within Liberty have totally disrespect and ignorance towards DAN and our Allies, then we should make everyone aware of this.
DAN and our allies should organise a campaign against Liberrty for their continued 'Disabilism' and the way they are ignorant to our 'disability-issues'.
We need now to up our campaign against Liberty.
I know Adrian and I was expecting this bad news from them, but even expecting it, the news has still caused me alarm and distress and triggered a response which Liberty have heard this afternoon. This letter and their 'disabilist attitudes, conduct and behaviour by the insentivitive 'disablist' staff has also triggered my autitistic/neurodiverse 'behaviours'and trauma this afternoon too.
It is cruel and inhumane their behaviour towards Adrian and I and DAN, RADAR, Autistic/NeuroDiverse Rights Movement and our allies by having us hanging on a string all these years, since 2004, at the European Social Forum ion London, then again Shami promised this meeting again, in front of loads of witnesses, at the David Davis MP 'civil-liberties' debate when she visited the East Riding last year.
How can any of us ever trust Shami and Liberty ever again?
If you look at Liberty's website there are plenty of opportunities for DAN and our allies to oragnise our protest against Liberty:-
http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk
***You have my permission to share this letter within all your networks.
FREEOURPEOPLE
Colin Revell, Hull and E.Riding DAN regional Co-ordinator and CEO NeuroDiversity International
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