Category Archives: Blog
A Call to Atos for Advice
Black Triangle member & supporter Stuart Wyatt phones Atos to enquire about what euthanasia options they can offer him. Nice one Stuart đ … Continue reading →
La Familia: The corporate cartel behind the welfare reform agenda
It is depressing to compile a list of the numerous assaults the Coalition has unleashed on disabled people since it took power last May. Some have been well publicised, mostly in the form of regurgitated briefings and press releases from … Continue reading →
Atos, The Oppressors of Free Speech
While nobody can deny that thereâs a place in any civilised society for legislation to counter libel & hate speech it is a mark of a failing society when that same legislation is used to oppress and silence the expression … Continue reading →
ATOS Miracles, Report Your Miracles HERE
A new Facebook group has been established to record the amazing miracles being carries out my Atos in which they apparently cure seriously sick and disabled people of their illness, they visit an Atos Assessments Centre, some seriously ill and … Continue reading →
Atos Register of Shame – The New Republic
Thanks to The New Republic … Continue reading →
Black Triangle’s Response to the English Riots: We let Jimmy Reid speak for us from Glasgow, 1972 – As True Today as Then
Jimmy Reid’s inaugural address as Rector to the students of Glasgow University in 1972 Alienation is the precise and correctly applied word for describing the major social problem in Britain today. People feel alienated by society. In some intellectual circles … Continue reading →
Bill of rights commission fails to live up to its brief
“The commission has nine members, seven of whom are QCs. Two are considered to be human rights experts and are also peers. Consequently, it is not lacking in expertise about the law, human rights or the workings and history of … Continue reading →
PAUL REEKIE AND DAVID CAMERON
I think friends of Paul Reekie, to whom this website is dedicated, will baulk at putting the two names in the same sentence. Please bear with me. Â Last night I watched minority prime minister David Cameron describe the riots … Continue reading →
David Cameron to apologise for misrepresenting incapacity benefit claimant figures and end Atos’ role in assessments
The undersigned ask that the House debate the notion that David Cameron should apologise for misrepresenting incapacity benefit claimant figures by not including results of successful appeals or those who have been excluded from the process because it is either … Continue reading →
Another ATOS employee who derides the sick and disabled on his Facebook profile
After yesterday find of Debbie Carr calling the sick & disabled that she deals with while working for ATOS as a HCP “Down & Outs” on her Facebook page yet another ATOS employee, this time a Medical Examination Centre Administrator … Continue reading →
Workfare Unravels
Workfare, the governmentâs forced labour scheme, could be the latest policy to unravel as encouraging momentum builds against the proposed reform of the welfare system. On Tuesday activists forced the cancellation of the âMaking Work Payâ conference at the Royal … Continue reading →
UK Disabled Community Against Welfare & Benefit Cuts – Petition – Please Sign
Published by Adam Lotun on Jul 26, 2011 Target: Department of Works & Pensions Region: United Kingdom Web site: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1631738440  Background (Preamble): The UK Disabled Community needs to send a clear and unequivocal message in one unified voice to call on the Coalition Government to … Continue reading →
Alliance to fight care cuts
AN unprecedented coalition of private and voluntary sector groups working with children in care has been formed to fight for better services despite the financial squeeze. The Scottish Childrenâs Services Coalition warns public spending cuts are threatening vulnerable children, including … Continue reading →
Woman who drowned in drain was upset about health check
A WOMAN found dead in a drain had been worried about attending a medical appointment to assess disability benefits, an inquest heard. The body of Elaine Christian, 57, was found in Holderness Drain by a mother returning from a school … Continue reading →
BILLY BRAGG – NEVER BUY THE SUN
Filmed live in the dressing room at Garforth Academy during Garforth Festival, Yorkshire, Saturday 9th July 2011 by Stephen Grubb BILLY BRAGG – NEVER BUY THE SUN from Billy Bragg on Vimeo. … Continue reading →
Enough to make you sick: Government urged to claw back millions from contractors after they wrongly assessed thousands on disability benefits
BUNGLED rulings by the private firm deciding whether benefit claimants are fit to work are costing taxpayers s50million, we can reveal. The Government have been urged to claw back millions from the contractors after they wrongly assessed thousands on disability … Continue reading →
THE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIAL MODELS OF DISABILITY by MIKE OLIVER, B.A. PhD. / READER IN DISABILITY STUDIES, THAMES POLYTECHNIC; Paper presented at Joint Workshop of the Living Options Group and the Research Unit of the Royal College of Physicians
CONCLUSIONS In this paper I have suggested that the medicalisation of disability is inappropriate because it locates the problems of disability in the wrong place; within the individual rather than in society. Further, once the true nature of the problems … Continue reading →
(BTC): DPAC condemns the outrageous comments made by Phillip Davies Conservative MP for Shipley
By Debbie Jolly from our sister organisation Disabled People Against Cuts DPAC condemns the outrageous comments made by Phillip Davies Conservative MP for Shipley, Yorkshire. Davies announced that disabled people should be paid less than minimum wage. He claimed disabled people … Continue reading →
A presentation prepared by Bob Williams-Findlay from our sister organisation Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) on the oppression of disabled people and the social model of disability within the historical context of the evolution of the disabled people’s resistance movement
PLEASE CLICK ON THIS LINK TO VIEW PRESENTATION SLIDESHOW: Social Model of Disability: DPAC … Continue reading →