D.A.N.

The Disabled People's Direct Action Network (DAN) is Britain's premier civil rights group with hundreds of members. DAN believes in Direct Action, which means mobilising disabled people to demonstrate against injustice. DAN was responsible for getting ITV to scarp Telethon. A well publicised marathon charity fund-raising gala which was held annually on television which portrayed negative images of disability in order to raise money for charities. Since then many such actions have been held. The organisation has taken the centre stage, in changing the way disabled people in Britain are perceived by demanding civil rights not charity or pity.