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News from Survivor History

From Andrew Roberts Secretary Survivors History Group http://studymore.org.uk/ studymore@studymore.org.uk telephone: 020 8 986 5251 home address: 177 Glenarm Road, London, E5 ONB The next meeting of the Survivors History Group will be held on Wednesday 31.7.2013 from 1pm to 5pm at Together, 12 Old Street, London. Everybody is welcome and refreshments will be provided. In the first part of this newsletter we described the great slough of despond into which the project to write a book on "Survivors History from 1800 to 2015" has fallen. We told how Peter Campbell and Thurstine Basset struggle to stop Andrew's head from going under the mud - glug - glug - , and how Peter Geary does the same with respect to meeting minutes. (-: Just to remind you that the progressive (-: part of the depression )-: , the broad outline of the book that Peter and Andrew plan, is available on the website at http://studymore.org.uk/7.htm#CampbellandRoberts2015 This will b

They're on our side.

From Amnesty International . This AGM Calls for urgent action to halt the abrogation of the Human Rights of sick & disabled people by the ruling Coalition government and its associated corporate contractors. 18 Calls for AIUK to urgently work with grassroots human rights campaigns by and for sick and disabled people, carers and their families. And to set up a specialist Disability Human Rights network akin to the already existing-  Children's Human Rights network  Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender network  Teach Rights  Trade Union network  Women's Action network To protect the human rights of People with disabilities , ill people and carers to halt this regressive & lethal assault on our rights. Proposers Background Note: Since signing the UN Convention on the Rights of Disabled People in 2009, successive British governments have not fulfilled their responsibilities. This has now resulted in between 1,300 to 10,600 people dying after havin