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>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 Survivors History Group News September 2013 The meeting on Wednesday 31.7.2013 at Together was attended by Hagir Ahmed, Frank Bangay, Sheila Beskine, Peter Campbell, Graham Estop (Sheffield); Nat Fonnesu, David Kessel, Ian Ray- Todd, Andrew Roberts, Christina Young, (Liverpool), Peter McGeary (taking notes). Agenda: Patsy Staddon's gift - Celebrating David Kessel - Chapter by Peter Campbell in a new book - Peter's research - Sheila's memories as an art therapist at St Clement's hospital (Bow) - Christina's Report - the St Clement's festival. This report uses the minutes compiled by Peter McGeary. Next Meeting: Wednesday 25.9.2013 1pm Together, 12 Old Street London EC1V 9BE SERVICE USER INNOVATION TO ENHANCE SECURE SERVICES Clare Ockwell will represent the S...

United Kingdom Mission to the United Nations One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza (885 Second Avenue) New York, NY 10017 Tel: +1 (212) 745 9200 Fax: User Field PDFaxNo = +1 (212) 745 9316 Email: uk@un.int http://twitter.com/UKUN_NewYork UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND STATEMENT BY MR STEPHEN THROWER, HEAD OF PARALYMPIC LEGACY, RIGHTS AND INTERNATIONAL TEAM- UK DEPARTMENT FOR WORK AND PENSIONS 17 July 2013 Statement on behalf of the United Kingdom for the General Debate of the Sixth Conference of State Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Mr President I have the honour to speak for the Government of the United Kingdom. Since last year, the United Kingdom has made further good progress in respect of implementation of the Convention, and this month sees three important milestones. The first on 2 July was the publication of the final part of the UK’s disability strategy: ‘Fulfilling Potential – Making It Happen’. ht...

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...

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...

Andrew Roberts of the Survivor History Network sends out this small plea: The last month has been very difficult for me as it is not only my most difficult annual period at work (reaching its end on Monday) every year but also a period when my whole work environment, and that of my colleagues, is changing and I have to redesign and relearn everything (That is how it feels). This process of redesign and relearning carries on throughout the summer. Many people in the Survivor History Group know about this and I am grateful to those who have refrained from asking me to do things during this period. The number of things I am being asked to do is, however, large and during this past few weeks it seems to have increased quite dramatically. I do not even get the time to think what I can do and cannot do. All I do is respond to some requests, knowing that others are being ignored. I have been trying to say no to requests I will not be able to fulfil, but some of the requests ...

On Saturday last Bob Blizzard, ex MP for Lowestoft, organised a demonstration against the plans for Norfolk and Suffolk Mental Health Trust to cut 17 beds from the NHS dementia unit at Carlton Court in Carlton Colville, near Lowestoft. I went and supported the demonstration. We had some initial problems; explained in this e mail to Ed Bober, the Secretary of Norfolk Coalition Against the Cuts: “HI Ed. No doubt you will have read about protests about services beds cuts by the Norfolk and Suffolk Mental Health Trust. The latest is the bed cuts at Carlton Court. Now this hospital is sited over the border in Suffolk but it serves Gt Yarmouth too. I think our Coalition should cover health as well as social care and welfare. There is a Demonstration against the cuts at Carlton Court 12 noon on Saturday. I'm going representing DPAC Norfolk (I have past connections with the unit and its not far from where I live) but I'm a little bit embarrassed as a retired UNISON member that the unio...

Another valuable posting from Andrew Roberts of Survivor History and research (studymore@studymore.org.uk) I managed to get to the last day of the Hackney museum exhibition CREATIVE JOURNEYS Responses To Mental Health in Hackney, Present and Past 12 February - 25 May Core Arts, the group that organised this, have created a book about it. The printed version costs £30, but the e-book is free. I attach your copy. For general survivor history see the creative journey of Frank Bangay (dealing with MPU in 1970s London and PROMPT and CAPO in the 1980s) and the Mad Pride notes of Mark Roberts, which bring the story up to the present resistance to welfare reform. Every story in this book is (in my opinion) worth reading many times, and every piece of art worth looking at many times. Some of the art work was much more effective in the exhibition, but I have found other pieces more effective when I looked at the book which is here on the Core Arts website Issues relating to...