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Philip J Connolly
Aug 18, 20223 min read
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
Jul 14, 20223 min read
Air Pollution is Making More of us Disabled
Dr Dean Schraufnagel of Illinois University has led a review of 70,000 scientific studies and concluded that every organ of the body is...
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Philip J Connolly
Jun 20, 20223 min read
New Energy for the Unity Plan
If the disability sector is to advance then it will need to find new energy but where is this energy going to come from?
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Philip J Connolly
May 5, 20223 min read
The Unity Plan: how the DRN builds an inclusive economy with you
2000 people have connected with the Disability Resilience Network - the DRN. It is our hope that you can be connected too!
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Philip J Connolly
Apr 25, 20224 min read
"To the metaverse and back to the universe"
Your invitation to join the DRN purple trade mission and secure your place at our exhibition
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Philip J Connolly
Apr 10, 20223 min read
Rethink on Barriers
Of course there are barriers and they are in the main real and even hazardous. But! But have barriers been overthought? For decades the word
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Philip J Connolly
Mar 31, 20223 min read
"Touchyfeely": enabling disabled people to create markets that in turn employ them
Enabling disabled people to create markets that in turn employ them.
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Philip J Connolly
Mar 21, 20224 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....
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Philip J Connolly
Mar 7, 20224 min read
Positively Disruptive Leadership
Finding leaders isn't difficult once people know what leadership isn't.
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Nigel Niles
Feb 28, 20223 min read
Preparing for Our Demise
It is a bit strange that on the eve of building something new and important, that we should even be thinking of “demise”.
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Philip J Connolly
Feb 21, 20223 min read
Mass Membership: feedback on our scenario planning
We will become the biggest network for disabled people and those with a long-term health condition because you decided to join us.
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Philip J Connolly
Feb 7, 20223 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...
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Philip J Connolly
Jan 31, 20224 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."
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Philip J Connolly
Jan 24, 20224 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 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
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Philip J Connolly
Jan 2, 20224 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.
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Philip J Connolly
Jun 7, 20214 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
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Philip J Connolly
May 24, 20215 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.
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Philip J Connolly
May 10, 20216 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
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