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The Disabled People’s Movement Dr Colin Cameron Northumbria University/Shaping Our Lives

The Disabled People’s Movement Dr Colin Cameron Northumbria University/Shaping Our Lives.

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The Disabled People’s Movement Dr Colin Cameron Northumbria University/Shaping Our Lives

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  1. The Disabled People’s MovementDr Colin CameronNorthumbria University/Shaping Our Lives

  2. Paul Hunt (1966)We are challenging society to take account of us, to listen to what we have to say, to acknowledge us as an integral part of society itself. We do not want ourselves, or anyone else, treated as second-class citizens and put away out of sight and mind.

  3. September 1972 Severely physically handicapped people find themselves in isolated, unsuitable institutions, where their views are ignored and they are subject to authoritarian and often cruel regimes. I am proposing the formation of a consumer group to put forward nationally the views of actual and potential residents of these successors of the workhouse. (Paul Hunt in The Guardian)

  4. UPIAS 1976: The Social ModelImpairment: lacking part of or all of a limb, or having a defective limb, organ or mechanism of the bodyDisability: the disadvantage or restriction of activity caused by a contemporary social organisation which takes little or no account of people who have physical impairments and thus excludes them from the mainstream of social activities

  5. BCODP(1981) Coalitions (1984)CILs (1984)Disability Arts (1986)Disability Studies (1990s)Direct Action Network (1992)

  6. Campaign for Anti-Discrimination LegislationCampaign for Independent Living

  7. Can disabled people go where you go?(Silver Jubilee Committee on Access for Disabled People, 1977)(Tony Heaton, 2014)

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