Fiona Godlee
The BMJ’s former editor in chief, Fiona Godlee, was arrested this weekend alongside over a dozen other healthcare workers at a demonstration outside the Houses of Parliament in London while holding a sign reading, “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action”
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
What does it mean to invoke the right to health without accounting for conditions of sustained persistent, overwhelming and abiding terror and violence? - Dr Danya Qato
Vital episode exposing settler colonialism as fundamental cause of ill health and debility. Not another 'social determinant'.
If you're in Berlin on August 29, come along to the launch (again) of Medicine on a Larger Scale (open access CUP 2025)!
#histmed #histstm #sts
Capitalism disables people constantly—through war, prisons, workplace injury, pollution, denial of care—then blames disabled people for being “unproductive.” It creates the conditions for debility, then moralizes about dependency. It’s how the system protects its own value logic.
"From the moment you are born, the great machine begins to notch its teeth into you, measuring the span of your usefulness against the curve of your eventual collapse."
@reallandsend.bsky.social what an opening to a 🔥 essay on disability as a political relation produced by capitalism.
The BMA said NO to Palantir today!
🚨URGENT: write to your MP - help release the Madleen crew now!
Israel has unlawfully hijacked the Madleen, a
@GazaFFlotilla
boat flying a British flag, and detained the 12 civilians on board.
Demand your MP take action to get the crew released now: palestinecampaign.eaction.online/Madleen/
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Image from Mental Health and Social Justice Network's Instagram with the details of the event 11am - 5pm at Birkbeck, London.
Image from Mental Health and Social Justice Network's Instagram with the details of the event 11am - 5pm at Birkbeck, London. Includes asking delegates to bring a small object, image or text reflecting your experience of mental health and/or care.
Image from Mental Health and Social Justice Network's Instagram with the details of the event 11am - 5pm at Birkbeck, London. Details of who will be visiting and the discussions around the radical mental health ecology of Trieste. Event open to all service users, survivors, professionals, practitioners and anyone involved in mental health. With free vegan, gluten free lunch.
Image from Mental Health and Social Justice Network's Instagram with the details of the event 11am - 5pm at Birkbeck, London. Image of the Trieste yellow building.
The Mental Health & Social Justice Network are organising a meeting with service users and workers involved in Trieste’s Mental Health ecology in London this Saturday 14/6/25. All welcome to come and discuss the radical, liberatory possibilities. Free registration: lu.ma/uoecy4jz?loc...
People talk about “benefits culture” like it’s some scam.
You know what the real scandal is?
That you have to fight, cry, collapse and prove you’re disabled again and again just to survive.
Labour were supposed to be better, not worse.
#TakingThePIP
Abolishing Prevent: A Community Day of Action and Organising 💥📣
🗓️ Sunday 29th June, 10:30am - 5pm
📍 The Advocacy Academy, London
Join us for a day of conversation and workshops, as we build a community able to resist the racist Prevent duty ⬇️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/abolishing...
“The first step is to strip away the concept of heroism, perfectionism and rescue. Solidarity is a relationship of error, of small steps, of building for the future.”
Brilliant ep @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social @autumnmeghanbrown.bsky.social Sarah Schulman
endoftheworldshow.org/episodes/the...
More than 50 disabled people’s organisations have called on the equality watchdog to investigate the “urgent threat” to the equality and human rights of disabled people posed by the new #Labour government.
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/equality-wat...
🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
Yesterday, over 100 Disabled people joined the mass lobby of MPs to resist benefit cuts - the largest lobby of Disabled people Parliament has seen in over a decade.
Read more👇
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/over-10...
The DWP Pathways to Work Green Paper proposes cuts to disability benefits we believe would be devastating. One of the organisations we work with, @gmcdp.bsky.social, has created a petition, calling on the Government to drop these proposals.
Sign here: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
"Most people will be disabled at some point in their life. Welfare is one way of recognising everyone has needs, that all of us live interdependently rather than independently."
Alice Hattrick's brilliant essay on ableism, art and the latest attacks on disabled people.
artreview.com/disability-i...
Elbit systems is financially crashing internationally!
BDS pressure is the most direct way of depriving Israel’s genocidal military of the weapons it uses to massacre, maim, and forcibly displace Palestinians.
Read more: loom.ly/kzeePzo
Open letter (text also available at the link)
Open letter part 2
Disabled people and their organisations MUST be fully involved in reviews of: WCA, PIP assessment process, Safeguarding, employer & employee support & Access to Work.
Sign our open letter now: buff.ly/TJI8pM6
#ItsTimeForInclusion
Always remember: this is a crime being committed by Israel, a Western ally armed and backed throughout by the United States and Britain.
'I think this is one of the main remits here – a dialogue between the speaker and the listener, the reader and the writer, the disabled and the non-disabled.’ – Richard Downes, @disabilityarts.bsky.social, on @rachaelboast.bsky.social's anthology Versus Versus.
disabilityarts.online/magazine/rev...
This was (as always) a fantastic and timely episode. Made me think deeply about the injustices of labour in healthcare and the artificial and unhelpful capital-driven divide between those who give and receive care. Highly recommended for anyone interested in health justice.
It was Youth Demand who tried to disrupt genocidal Israel's Eurovision performance
Youth Demand supporters took action as Israel took to the stage at Eurovision - all as it continues to bomb Gaza
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
🔴Palantir is not just selling software—it’s selling a model of governance where corporate power replaces public control
Must read from Foxglove's Rosa
Curling on why Starmer's faith in Big Tech is dangerously misguided
New on Democracy for Sale:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmers-b...
To say the least, I am extremely concerned by the treatment of Dr. Hart. These concerns include:
1. The 12 months immediate prison sentence he received, for participating in peaceful environmental protest
🚨 #SpringStatement 2025: Austerity 2.0 unleashed - our NHS & health will suffer 🚨
Today’s budget confirms the government is making a dangerous political & economic miscalculation. Rather than taxing the super-rich, they’re targeting society’s most vulnerable.
A thread 🧵…
