Disabled People Against Cuts and Right to Work will be co-hosting a workshop at the Unite the Resistance conference to be held on Saturday 17th November 11am – 5pm at the Emmanuel Centre, Marsham Street, London.
The workshop will explore how unemployed, disabled, young people and migrant workers have all been targeted by a Tory government that seeks to scapegoat us for the economic crisis. This workshop will look at the attacks we have faced, how we have fought them and how we can best work together, build solidarity both between groups and trade unionists in the continuing fight against austerity.
Speakers will include Merry Cross (DPAC), Mark Dunk (Right to Work), Ronnie Draper (Bakers Food and Allied Workers Union), and Jamil Keating (NUS executive) and will be facilitated by Ciara Doyle (DPAC).
Points for discussion will cover the myth of the ‘undeserving’ poor and why we need to defend universal benefits, winning the argument with the trade unions and building links and organising on the ground.
The workshop will launch pamphlets on ‘WORKFARE: The Tories’ war on the poor, and how they want to replace your job with unpaid labour’ and ‘Disability, Austerity and Resistance’ and put forward model motions from DPAC and Right to Work.
The event is wheelchair accessible with induction loop and easy read papers. There will be graphic facilitation in the DPAC workshop thanks kindly to Stephen Lee Hodgkins.
