Philip J Connolly
The Bluffers Guide to Obtaining Old and New Resources
Most NGOs have two arms to them. The first is the one that established them as providers of information, advice and guidance, possibly...
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Philip J Connolly
- Aug 18
- 3 min
Disability, Self-Sufficiency and Mutualism
Ok, so you've signed a petition, been on a march, added your details to the sum of evidence and yet still been ignored. What’s left?...
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Philip J Connolly
- Mar 21
- 4 min
Semiotics of Disability
Semiotics is the study of anything that communicates something. The anything is regarded as a sign and the something is its meaning....
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Philip J Connolly
- Feb 7
- 3 min
"Creating our Own Weather" DRN's theory of change
Rainforests occupy only 6% of the earth's surface but 50% of the world's animals live there. Why? Its because rainforests create their...
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Philip J Connolly
- Jan 31
- 4 min
The Purple (Disability) Planet: The DRN Invitation and Challenge to the BBC
David Attenborough was once asked, what gave him hope. He replied "the indomitable spirit of humans and the resilience of nature."
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Philip J Connolly
- Jan 24
- 4 min
Mission Ignition
The Disability Resilience Network is asking for two years of your free time, say about five hours a week.
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Philip J Connolly
- Jan 18
- 3 min
The Book of Numbers
The Disability Resilience Network seeks to capitalise on the wisdom of the crowd.
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Philip J Connolly
- Jan 10
- 3 min
The Inclusive Economy - The Disability Resilience Network (DRN) Goal
The DRN is a network and we are already welding national representation to local activism. Our evolving structure will allow us to conduct c
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Philip J Connolly
- Jan 2
- 4 min
Tipping points for a mass movement
Tipping point theory tells us how small differences can make a new reality or break an old one.
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Philip J Connolly
- Jun 7, 2021
- 4 min
Disability Unleashed
The starting point of being counter-cultural is your determination not to have your life mapped out in the statistics that describe the norm
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Philip J Connolly
- May 24, 2021
- 5 min
Cut through thinking on disability policy
Do you know the game called rock, paper, scissors? If you do you will recognise that a surprise is always possible.
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Philip J Connolly
- May 10, 2021
- 6 min
The Book of Exhumations; spilling the beans so we can all smell the coffee
I have been involved in disability politics long enough to have a nuisance value, you see I know where the bodies are buried. I want to move
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Philip J Connolly
- Apr 28, 2021
- 5 min
Hire Vision: changing the narrative
As a disability movement we need the energy that flows from a renewal of our vision.
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Philip J Connolly
- Apr 6, 2021
- 4 min
Liberation Technology
Technology gives disabled people the ability to disrupt their assigned traditional role: to be disseminators of information and not simply r
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Philip J Connolly
- Mar 29, 2021
- 5 min
Interdependent Living – there is such a thing as society!
Interdependence brings news, information, acquaintances, neighbours, friends and all the opportunities that flow from that.
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Philip J Connolly
- Feb 24, 2021
- 5 min
Catalysing Reactions for Seismic Change
Covid-19: Were the consequences avoidable and will the aftermath benefit from what you the readers know and do? “A stitch in time saves...
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