YELLOW PROTEST FLYER (Flyer/Poster)
1994
E2024.0015.2
A yellow A4 flyer which reads 'Why We Are Angry - British Rail's Garden is an Insult!'. The flyer was made by DAN (Disabled People's Direct Action Network) to be distributed during their Rights not Roses protest at Leeds Station, March 1994. The flyer asks that the public 'support our action even if your journey...
Rights information: Donor: Gill Crawford Intellectual property: DAN (Disabled People's Direct Action Network) Exhibiting museum: National Railway Museum"
Description
A yellow A4 flyer which reads 'Why We Are Angry - British Rail's Garden is an Insult!'. The flyer was made by DAN (Disabled People's Direct Action Network) to be distributed during their Rights not Roses protest at Leeds Station, March 1994. The flyer asks that the public 'support our action even if your journey has been disrupted this once' and make the protest even more effective by 'using the goods lift rather than the stairs... [to] bring home to BR [British Rail] how unsuitable and inaccessible their facilities are'.
The 'Rights Not Roses' protest was in response to the opening of a garden at Leeds Station. DAN were protesting against the use of £40,000 funding to create this garden, while numerous platforms at the station were still inaccessible to disabled people, disabled passengers had to use the goods lift, and often had to travel in the guards vans of trains. Members of DAN disrupted the opening of the garden, and handcuffed themselves to a scheduled train due to depart Leeds for London.