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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?...

Philip J Connolly
Aug 18, 20223 min read


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....

Philip J Connolly
Mar 21, 20224 min read


"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...

Philip J Connolly
Feb 7, 20223 min read


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."

Philip J Connolly
Jan 31, 20224 min read


Mission Ignition
The Disability Resilience Network is asking for two years of your free time, say about five hours a week.

Philip J Connolly
Jan 24, 20224 min read


The Book of Numbers
The Disability Resilience Network seeks to capitalise on the wisdom of the crowd.

Philip J Connolly
Jan 18, 20223 min read


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

Philip J Connolly
Jan 10, 20223 min read


Tipping points for a mass movement
Tipping point theory tells us how small differences can make a new reality or break an old one.

Philip J Connolly
Jan 2, 20224 min read


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

Philip J Connolly
Jun 7, 20214 min read


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.

Philip J Connolly
May 24, 20215 min read


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

Philip J Connolly
May 10, 20216 min read


Hire Vision: changing the narrative
As a disability movement we need the energy that flows from a renewal of our vision.

Philip J Connolly
Apr 28, 20215 min read


Liberation Technology
Technology gives disabled people the ability to disrupt their assigned traditional role: to be disseminators of information and not simply r

Philip J Connolly
Apr 6, 20214 min read


Interdependent Living – there is such a thing as society!
Interdependence brings news, information, acquaintances, neighbours, friends and all the opportunities that flow from that.

Philip J Connolly
Mar 29, 20215 min read


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...

Philip J Connolly
Feb 24, 20215 min read
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