Disability Rights Alliance protest 'Rights not charity' Dublin, 21st ...

Disability Rights Alliance protest 'Rights not charity' Dublin, 21st ...

a great sucess...will the government hear us

#Disability Rights #Protest in #Dublin - YouTube

#Disability Rights #Protest in #Dublin - YouTube

and the march went on and on and on FANTASTIC

upsetting post on the web - read with caution

This offensive post went up on a site in Ireland last evening after the disability protest in Dublin.  It shows what I've been thinking all alone.  disability hate Crime. Which underpines cuts.  Maybe I'm alarmist but just read this shit!

Hate to do it but have to play Devil’s Advocate…First of all all thieving bankers and those that manipulate the markets should be taken behind a shed and sent on their way to hell BUT as someone who has seen what people with kids with disabilities are I have to say 80% of the time…Fuck em.

You want to see demanding, arrogant, threatening parents?…Go see what a teacher has to put up with with people who want to have kids, know they are having disabled kids yet expect everyone to pay for their kid’s needs and on top of that dump them off at schools as babysitters.

I am sure many of these kids are sweet but so many are brought into this world with ZERO ability to survive without constant help, medication or medical attention…I for one am tired of these dumb ass people…Ever have to tackle an autistic kid who is threatening others?…Ever have a kid who has over 20 seizures a day disrupting the flow of others from learning?

A neighbor has a severely disable child…It breaks my heart to see him in a wheelchair smelling of piss and shit because he can’t control it…Nor can he speak.

Why would you selfishly bring this child to this world who is not only mentally slow and physically disabled that he can only move his left hand?
Sometimes it’s okay to not have the child…For mercy’s sake…What will happen to the child when the mother who is in her 40′s dies or is unable to take care of him?
People need vasectomies and free birth control…It isn’t enough that scum bankers/traders and politicians are choking the life out of us but now we’re trapping ourselves…I know it sound like eugenics but you know what?…Sometimes the weak aren’t meant to be born…Sounds horrible but people have to see that YOUR choices in life have nothing to do with my responsibilities.
You want to have a disable kid KNOWING that he’s disabled…Then deal with the consequences…As of now due to great medical advances just about everything of the child can be known before he comes to term…So to the Irish…Get your head out of your ass and let medical procedures happen without all your fake ass Catholic Piousness

cardboard scissor sisters

they called us the cardboard scissors sisters...we are twins actually , well that means sisters too.  We were supposed to be in London but we delayed our journey to go on this march.  Do people in wheelchairs 'march' or do we 'roll'?  Well,  we rocked and rolled along with 5,000 others.  It was great to be there, gives you a definite sense that you are not alone.  That disabled people, families, friends and supporters were outraged 'enough is enough' they all said, "we can't take more cuts", "easy targets" "enable us, don't disable us" "no more cuts" and the banners went on and on.  Red cards signified the red card as in football, get off the pitch you have fouled us.  One banner said "seeing red" anger....yes anger.  But for Inclusion Ireland and the Disability Rights Coalition Ann and I might not have been able to be there.  Thanks Lorraine, thats her little daughter between us.  She too is a twin.  Twin power eh?  will this government, this country, though it seems to be in a crises, no-one doubts that, see OUR CRISIS?  That we disabled people only survive, can only have 'a life worth living' when we have good, proper support based on equality not pity, not charity.  Yuck to charity, yuck to the mentality that "aren't you lucky you get a free bus pass?" The last time someone told me I was 'lucky' was when I declared I had (only) 3 hours personal assistance (PA) help a week.  I was 'lucky' because others had none.  Can you see that logic said by a parkinson's disease nurse?  If some have no PA and I have 3 hours ergo I'm lucky...NO...I'm not, none of us are 'lucky' to get such a shoddy non-existant support package. There is a mentality, and I can't prove it, because it's unproveable because it's deeply ingrained in the psyche.  The mentality is that we are 'expensive' and that we are a 'drain' on the economy, and that we are 'useless' citizens.  Yes, it's deeply, deeply embedded in many people's minds and hearts. such that I'm 'lucky' to get out of my house for three hours a week.  One neurologist told us we were 'unlucky'...not because we had a degenerative condition...progressive...no...we were unlucky to be ALIVE!  well, she may not be far from the truth here.  because 'being alive' in present day Ireland is actually like being dead already. Well thank God 5,000 people thought we had rights, thought that we are suffering an injustice, a total breach of all human rights.  My sisters scissors read 'Human Rights...Human Life'  , dead right, without human rights we can't have human life.  Mine read 'Equality is not for cutting'...every single cut cuts our equality, our sense we are EQUAL citizens.  But this Government doesn't think we are EQUAL, we are expensive. NO, Enda, Mr Reilly, Howlin, we create jobs for Home Helps, OT's, Physios, Doctors, nurses, etc etc., without us these 'career's' would be non-existant.  We pay our taxes..or did when we could work...we give to our community, we are lecturer's, artists, photographers, we are everywhere.  And BOY we werent 'everywhere' today...we were in Dublin, at Leinster House and we 'rocked and rolled, we did we 'rocked and rolled'....

Draft National Standards for Residential Centres for People with Disabilities | hiqa.ie

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Disability Rights Coalition Ireland

Disability Rights Coalition Ireland

please all remember this is almost the last chance to tell this government in ireland that they seserve to be 'off the pitch'.  "foul" play is not on.  and foul play is certainly the hallmark of any government that makes those who are sick, disabled or elderly bear the brunt of swingeing cuts. hands off our care packages, pa system and home helps and any other support service that makes are 'lives worth living'.

hoping everyone who can will be at the march. 

Disability Rights Demonstration | Inclusion Ireland

Disability Rights Demonstration | Inclusion Ireland

Come and join disabled people fighting for our rights!  Dublin 21st November