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BLOG | Betrayed By Our Nation... The PIP Wars Are On | Phoenix DragonQueen

The government attacks on Disability Benefits, #PIP on Disabled People is horrifying. I'm a permanent wheelchair user, who can’t use the toilet, needs her mother to look after her, unable to leave the house, has #Dysphagia, is #paralyzed, in agony, has Functional Seizures, #FND & #Fibromyalgia. Severely #disabled — and ALL because I got PNEUMONIA aged 32...
😡☹️😖😢🫣
#disability #disabilityrights
phoenixdragonqueen.webador.co.

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Es gab auch Kritk an die Gestaltung des #GDS. Panels ohne Beteiligungsmöglichkeiten aus dem Publikum, sehr frontal. Und viele Regierenden auf den Podien, teilweise sehr fragwürdige, wie eine türische oder italienische Ministerin. Neofaschismus und Rechte behinderter Menschen... hmmm nein. einfach nein.

Manch eine Veranstaltung verkam zu einer Selbstlob (von Politiker*innen) und Marketing (von Unternehmen) Veranstaltung.
Hier unten Aufnahme des Bildshirm mit Schriftdolmetschung bei einem Panel über inklusive Urbane Resilienz und Reduktion von Risiken bei Katastrophen. Microsoft durfte für sich (wie toll sie sind weil sie Behinderte in der Belegschaft haben) und AI werben. Dank AI sind wir gerettet...

Mein Eindruck: auf den Podien kamen viele Leute wegen Macht- und finanziellen Interessen. Regierug xy hat mitfinaziert also wollen Minister auf die Bühne. unternehmen xy hat mitfinanziert, also dürfen sie versteckte Werbung auf der Bühne machen.

Global #disability summit. #GDS
Es gab leider wenig Veranstaltungen wo es richtig um #selbstbestimmtLeben und #Selbstvertretung ging.
Bei einem Panel zum Thema, der durch die Lebenshilfe 🤷‍♀️ organisiert war,war immerhin möglich Fragen zu stellen, Statements abzugeben.
Das wurde reichlich genutzt. Es gab Bedarf, zu Wort zu kommen. Ich habe auch meinen Senf dazu gegeben, erklärt was für mich Selbveretretung, Selbstbestimmt leben ist. Weit weg von Heimen, Werkstätten. Mit persönlicher Assistenz. Aktiv und nicht Objekt der Politik. Direkte Aktionen gegen Barrieren.
#Disabilityright #independentLiving #Ableismus #Behinderung

kobinet-nachrichten.org/2025/0

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@DionRa and me NEED TO LIVE:
(details in 🧵 and pinned)

💸 overdraft and fees: £94.48/655
💩 septic tank maintenance: 0/300€
‼️ OVERDUE SINCE SEPTEMBER 😬😬😬
🔌 3-month electricity bill: 0/182€
🚮 trash fee: 0/40.66€
🔥chimney sweep: ??
‼️ OVERDUE SINCE SEPTEMBER 😬😬😬
(too scared to look up prices bc we can't afford it anyways and yeah the house fills with smoke more than half the time we light a fire now but it still freezes here so 🤷 )

paypal: diontheblackdragon@gmail.com
dm for € paypal or bank transfer

“The best way you can include the disability community in resistance efforts is to ensure they’re accessible. Often we want to participate only to find out that masks aren’t required, an event is being held in a space that isn’t accessible and/or online options aren’t being provided”

If you’re feeling left out of the #HandsOff protests, or you want to find ways to resist online, my chronic illness spoon saving guide has you covered.

To non disabled activists, please make your events accessible. Disabled people have a ton to offer resistance efforts, make sure to include us!

disabledginger.com/p/spoon-sav

The Disabled Ginger · Spoon Saving Social Media Tips and How to Resist OnlineBy Broadwaybabyto

YOUNG DISABLED COUPLE IN NEED OF CARE

After an urgent life saving move and an unexpected diagnosis of Addisons Disease for their Dog has led to a Financial Crisis

They are Behind on Several MAJOR Bills
Car Payment & Registration,
Electric, Internet, Health Insurance etc...

GOAL: $1275 ASAP for April Rent

Please Support @skelders333

Venmo.com/skelders333
PayPal.me/skelders

💕💸 #MutualAid #Poverty #Disability #HelpSky #Fundsky #SignalBoost #MABoost #MutualAidRequest #HelpFolksLive2025

On this Day in Social Security History:

#SocialSecurityat90 
#StrongerTogether

4/5/1935 The US House of Representatives began debate on The Social Security Act of 1935.
More: ssa.gov/history/senate35.html

4/5/1944 The United States District Court, Eastern District of Michigan, held that money paid to a widow, after the death of her wage-earner husband pursuant to a back-pay award by the National Labor Relations Board entered after the wage earner's death, did not constitute wages as defined in the original Social Security Act because it was not remuneration for employment.
More on, Social Security and Vulnerable Groups—Policy Options to Aid Widows: congress.gov/crs-product/R4618

4/5/1948, President Truman vetoed H.R. 5052, a bill to exclude vendors of newspapers and magazines from social security coverage.
More: ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v11n7/
 
More Social Security history: ssa.gov/history & #SSAHistGWC 

#SocialSecurity #socialinsurance #History #Disability #Retirement #Medicare #Unemployment #insurance #healthcare #NewDeal #OTD #SSDI #OASDI #equity #justice Social Security Administration

I Could Really Truly Use Some HELP and SUPPORT Right NOW!

I am a #disabled man living in #poverty, my #disability is 60% physical and 40% mental, and as I get older, both of those are increasingly hard to deal with, each day I try to do what I can where I live, as part of my rent is to help out when and as I can, but that is getting harder and harder to do, I am spent, between losing what little strength and physical ability I have left and not getting decent sleep nor having a decent diet, things just keep getting harder, and that causes my #anxiety to get worse which causes my #bipolar to cycle, which causes more lack of sleep, and I am in constant pain, and on and on it goes, at 47 years old I sure wish people could see the value in helping me #fundraise $5million dollars so that I can buy my own property and build my forever home, and have everything I need to never have to worry again, and to alleviate the stress of my day to day situation, and so I can really just age at a pace that wont effect anyone or anything, because in my own home, if I cant or dont feel like it I dont have to do anything for days, weeks, or months at a time and no one can get mad at me. People seem to forget that I am disabled and they dont realize I am getting older, nor do they comprehend that I simply cant afford #food to eat 3 meals a day, often not even one meal a day, that I have no #healthcare, people in general expect me to just keep going like the energizer bunny, when the reality is I am an old broke down ford truck, that on occasion I can get fired up and get a few things done, but more often than not, I really dont have the gas to even stand up, being #disabled and living in #poverty Fucking Sucks! you cant afford to eat when your hungry, you cant afford to take care of your health, you cant afford anything a person needs in life, Poverty Fucking Sucks, but when Your Disabled, it Fucking Blows, and every little thing is compounded a 1000 times and no one really cares to help you. I have so many unseen issues, most don’t realize the true difficulty I endure each day, first I don’t sleep well, for many reasons, from a brain that is constantly in overdrive, to relentless nightmares, to being in constant pain, to not having a decent supportive bed to sleep on, so my days start of painful, tired and overwhelmed before I even get going, Often I go hungry because living in #poverty I simply can not afford #food to eat, I typically only get around 600-800 calories a day when a man my size and age should be getting around 3000 calories a day, as a result despite my appearance I suffer from malnutrition, I have a great deal of difficulty cleaning my tiny cave, from not being able to afford the basics to have cleaning supplies to being physically limited in my ability to do so, I cant hardly bend over, nor can I very easily get up and down off the floor, taking a shower can simply become a serious challenge, and often leaves my exhausted not to mention I cant often afford the basics for personal hygiene, simply washing a dish or standing at the stove at times can be brutal on my back, then there are chores I need to tend to as part of my rent, and those absolutely can be a painful and exhaustive event for me, and those around often don’t even realize and expect more as a result, and if I say I have had enough today, I am questioned, because they assume I did what I did with ease, but they have no idea of the pain and struggle I had to endure to deal with to accomplish the tasks at hand, reading has become trouble some, as world become very blurry and melt together, writing is becoming increasingly difficult, as finding the words is getting harder and harder, being creative used to help but I have been in so much pain, and under so much stress that I often cant even muster up the energy to attempt to be creative, not to mention my camera is failing, my laptop is struggling, and again no money to obtain what I actually need, I have no #healthcare because the laws people pass have really messed that up, and after years fighting to get it resolved I have given up, so I fight through each day to just to suffer the next, I reach out constantly for financial support yet receive nearly nothing compared to what I actually need, this #disable man exists in #poverty, constant pain and my #anxiety exacerbates my #ptsd, my #bipolar cycles, and several other issues, my blood pressure has been all over the place and frankly in a rather obscenely high range for to long, my core body temp has been far lower than the average, while I often feel as though I am on fire, things get darker with my sight each day, and yet to bright, I hear and see so much that is not actually there, so very much wrong and no support nor help to be found, it would really truly help if people could and would help me #fundriase the money I need each day to live, and the money I need to set up a life where I can take care of myself and lessen the effects of poverty and disability on an aging body and mind.

$5-10-15 It All Helps, via #cashapp at $woctxphotog or via #paypal at paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=…

The #pixel_dailies theme today was #wheelchair.

I knew that I wanted to work on a symbol this time, so I researched the history of the now ubiquitous #disability symbol (♿).

My entry today is a rendition of an unsuccessfully proposed disability symbol, originally created by the organisation "Open Doors for The Handicapped".

Source:
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id

The palette is #skylyte5 by Ben Yandon:
lospec.com/palette-list/skylyt

@pixel_dailies

Please help my love #SabiLewSounds, her elderly mom & our son Little Man (ESA bun)

They're a disabled Latina family; homeless, sheltering in a hotel

822 Minimum Needed for safety
1141 Covers all Bills
1391 to cover All Needs

22 Hotel Past Due
800 Hotel Due 04/08

50 Phone Due 04/10
200 Car Insurance Due 04/15
69 Vaccination Due 04/18
250 Gas & Food & etc NoCam

Ko-fi.com/SabiLewSounds
PayPal.me/SabiLewSounds

Today in Labor History April 5, 1977: U.S. disability rights activist stormed and occupied the offices of the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Seattle. They demanded enactment of section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which had passed Congress four years prior. The law mandated that no federally funded programs could exclude persons with disabilities and put into place legal protections, and the right to accommodations, for students with disabilities. During the prior four years, HEW director Joseph Califano repeatedly delayed enactment of the law, while regulations were weakened to benefit business interests. During the San Francisco protests, disability rights activists Judith Heumann, Kitty Cone, and Mary Jane Owen organized a 25-day occupation of the US Federal Building with 150 other activists. Solidarity support from the Black Panthers, allied politicians, and the International Association of Machinists, who provided food, mattresses, wheelchairs, and other equipment, and helped a delegation get to Washington, D.C. The regulations for section 504 were ultimately signed into law on 28 April, 1977.

For a really great documentary on the birth of this movement, please see Crip Camp, A Disability Revolution (2020).

#workingclass #LaborHistory #CivilDisobedience #occupation #directaction #disability #ableism #union #solidarity # #blackpanthers #sanfrancisco #JudithHeumann #KittyCone #MaryJaneOwen #BlackMastadon

Today in Labor History April 5, 1989: The United Mine Workers launched their strike against Pittston Coal Co., eventually winning concessions by Pittston on February 20, 1990. The strike started in response to Pittston’s termination of health care for widows, retirees and disabled veteran miners. During the strike, there were 2,000 miners camped out daily at Camp Solidarity, and up to 40,000 total engaging in wild cat strikes, civil disobedience, picketing, occupations and sabotage. The strike reduced Pittston’s production by two-thirds, while over 4,000 strikers were arrested during the strike.