We are disabled people in Greater Manchester and surrounding area fighting for our rights.
By disabled people we mean people facing disabling societal barriers due to their impairments or conditions and this includes physical impairments, mental ill health/mental distress, hearing including deaf and Deaf with BSL as first language, or visual impairments, learning disability/difficulty, neurodiverse people, and those with chronic illness or fatigue. We support the Social Model of Disability and Disability Justice.
Please get in touch if you want to Join the Resistance!
Twitter @McrDPAC
Facebook Private Group facebook.com/groups/MDPAC/
Facebook Public Page facebook.com/McrDPAC/
National DPAC Web dpac.uk.net
Email ManchesterDPAC (at) gmail.com
10 Principles Of Disability Justice
1. Intersectionality “We do not live single issue lives” –Audre Lorde. Ableism, coupled with white supremacy, supported by capitalism, underscored by heteropatriarchy, has rendered the vast majority of the world “invalid.”
2. Leadership Of Those Most Impacted “We are led by those who most know these systems.” –Aurora Levins Morales
3. Anti-Capitalist Politic In an economy that sees land and humans as components of profit, we are anti-capitalist by the nature of having non-conforming body/minds.
4. Commitment To Cross-Movement Organising Shifting how social justice movements understand disability and contextualize ableism, disability justice lends itself to politics of alliance.
5. Recognising Wholeness People have inherent worth outside of commodity relations and capitalist notions of productivity. Each person is full of history and life experience.
6. Sustainability We pace ourselves, individually and collectively, to be sustained long term. Our embodied experiences guide us toward ongoing justice and liberation.
7. Commitment To Cross-Disability Solidarity We honor the insights and participation of all of our community members, knowing that isolation undermines collective liberation.
8. Interdependence We meet each others’ needs as we build toward liberation, knowing that state solutions inevitably extend into further control over lives.
9. Collective Access including brown, black and queer-bodied disabled people we bring flexibility and creative nuance that go beyond non-disabled normativity, to be in community with each other.
10. Collective Liberation No body or mind can be left behind – only mobbing together can we accomplish the revolution we require.
Via Sins Invalid
Manchester Disabled People Against Cuts 