2017 – Page 3 – Black Triangle Campaign

Caroline Lucas, Conservatives, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, Green Party, Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell, Jonathan Bartley, Linda Burnip

DPAC shortlisted for human rights award after parliament direct action

October 13, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 12th October 2017 Disabled activists who carried out a direct action protest in the

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Black Triangle Campaign, Cheshire Centre for Independant Living (CCIL), Conservatives, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DRUK, DWP, Maximus, Remploy, Tory. Tories, Work & Health programme, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Concerns over criteria for ‘fitness for work’ reassessment exemptions

October 13, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 12th October 2017 Disabled campaigners have criticised new Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)

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Black Triangle Campaign, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, Fiona Robertson, John McArdle, SNP, UN, UNCRPD

SNP hears ‘justice for the dead’ demand as it backs call to implement UN report

October 13, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 12th October 2017 The SNP’s annual conference has unanimously called on the UK government

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Access To work, DWP, Ellen Clifford, Inclusion London, StopChanges2AtW campaign

DWP ‘manipulated Access to Work figures to hide cuts and harassment’

October 12, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 12th October 2017 The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been accused

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Conservatives, CRPD, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, Marsha de Cordova, Motobility, Penny Mordaunt, PIP, Tories, UNCRPD, United Nations, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Mordaunt misleads MPs… again

October 12, 2017October 13, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 12th October 2017 The minister for disabled people has again misled MPs, after

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DWP, Maximus, work capability assessment (WCA); biopsychosocial model (BPS); DWP

Mum and new baby face Christmas eviction after WCA ‘nightmare’

October 12, 2017October 13, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service 12 th October 2017 A disabled woman with a new baby is set

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Blog

My Speech on the UNCRPD Judgement at the SNP Conference-Fiona Robertson

October 11, 2017 JJ

https://youtu.be/p06D073xAME “Conference, delegates, friends. I know I speak for the whole Disabled Members Group, and for disabled people up and

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Blog, Conservatives, Damien Green, David Gawke, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, Spartacus Network

Tory conference: Silence on eligibility means WCA announcement is ‘meaningless’

October 5, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service Oct5th 2017 Changes that mean some sick and disabled benefit claimants will no longer

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DAN, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts

Tory conference: Activists criticise ‘heavy-handed’ police action at tram protest

October 5, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service Oct 5th 2017 Disabled activists have criticised “heavy-handed” police tactics at a direct action

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Conservatives, Jackie Doyle Price, Learning Disability England

Tory conference: Care minister hides from fringe as funding crisis deepens

October 5, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service Oct 5th 2017 The Conservative minister for care services turned down at least

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Centre for Social Justice, Conservatives, David Gawke, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Inclusion London

Tory conference: Gauke admits sanctions can harm mental health claimants

October 5, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service Oct 5th 2017 Work and pensions secretary David Gauke has admitted that the system

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Disability Labour, Labour Party, NHS, Rebecca Boot, UNCRPD, Wheelchair

Labour conference: Student forced to crowdfund pain-free wheelchair

October 2, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service September 28th 2017 A disabled student has told Labour’s annual party conference that she

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Barbara Keeley, NIck Forbes

Labour conference: No vote on tax-funded social care system, at least until 2018

October 2, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service September 28th 2017 Labour has promised an extra £3 billion a year to

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#Human Catastrophe, Black Triangle Campaign, Catherine Hale, Chronic Illness Inclusion Project, Debbie Abrahams, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, Ellen Clifford, Jessica Kellgren-Fozard, PCS, UNCRPD

Labour conference: Abrahams pledges ‘supportive and enabling’ social security system

October 2, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service September 28th 2017 Labour’s shadow work and pensions secretary has pledged to transform the

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Anne Pridmore, Caroline Ellis, Debbie Abrahams, Disability Rights Commisiion, DRUK, Kate Green, Labour Party

Labour conference: Vote means party must rethink approach to social security cuts

October 2, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service September 2017 A shadow cabinet member has supported calls by party members for Labour

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Action for Blind People, Conservatives, CRPD, Disability Confident, Disability Labour, Labour Party, Marsha de Cordova, Thomas Pocklington Trust

Labour conference: New disabled MP pledges to fight government’s assault on rights

October 2, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service September 28th 2017 A newly-elected MP has accused the government of putting its “head

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Debbie Abrahams, Disability Labour, Frank Field, Jared O'Mara, Kate Green, Labour Party, Learning Disability England, Marsha de Cordova

Labour conference: Shock and outrage over Field’s minimum wage comments

October 2, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service September 28th 2017 Disabled party activists have expressed shock and outrage after the Labour

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Atos, Capita, Debbie Abrahams, Disability Labour, DWP, Labour Party, Royal College of Nursing (RCN)

Labour conference: Benefit assessment nurses must be held to account, says Abrahams

October 2, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service September 28th 2017 Labour’s shadow work and pensions secretary has called for nurses and

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Debbie Abrahams, DPAC Disabled People Against Cuts, DWP, Labour Party, Mark Serwotka, Paula Peters, PCS

Labour conference: Call for union action over DWP staff who ‘take pleasure in sanctions’

October 2, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service September 28th 2017 A leading disabled activist has asked the head of one of

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Anne Pridmore, Disability Labour, Labour Party, Louise Reecejones, Party Participation and Disabled People (PPDP)

Labour conference: Members accuse party of years of ‘blatant discrimination’

October 2, 2017 JJ

By John Pring Disability News Service September 28th 2017 Labour is facing concerted pressure to put an end to years

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Recommended Web Sites

'Down With All That' In-depth background reading on the shambles of the (rapidly disappearing) welfare state

Aktion T4 The T4 Program was responsible for the murder of over 100,000 German citizens…babies, children, adults, and elderly…who had physical and mental disabilities. Developed in 1938 and carried out at six different sites throughout Germany and Austria, the T4 P

AtoS Healthcare User Group (Closed Group – Request to Join) “How do you feel about the Government’s move in scrapping Income Support and Disability Living Allowance and the organisation calling itself AtoS ‘HEALTHCARE’ ?”

Atos Miracles Find out where your nearest Atos Miracle Cure Center is on this fantastic web site.

Atos Miracles A place for the sick and disabled to share stories of how ATOS have cured them. Many sites on this subject have been threatened with legal action by the company and this is a place of satire – which we are hoping is not yet outlawed in the UK.

ATOS VICTIMS GROUP “Telling it How it IS” – Staunch alllies and fighters against the UK’s genocidal so-called welfare ‘reform’ programme

Benefits Claimants Fight Back

Boycott Workfare Workfare – compulsory work for benefits – is being rolled-out across the country. We call on public sector bodies, voluntary organisations and businesses being offered these placements as well as union branches to join others in signing a pledge to boycot

Crippen Cartoons The website of David Luton-Crippen, renown disabled cartoonist and a member of The Black Triangle

Crippen Cartoons Blog David Luton-Crippen’s blog

Diary of a Benefits Scrounger Sue Marshes excellent blog that shares information on Welfare cuts, illness, disability and general, current, political thought.

Disability Arts Online A ‘must read’! Not to be missed.

Disability History Month Scotland The official website of Disability History Month Scotland – 22nd November to 22nd December 2011

Disability History Month Scotland Held annually in the Autumn to celebrate our history of struggle and to build for a better future

Disabled People Against Cuts DPAC is about disabled people and their allies. DPAC is UK based but we know that disabled people in other countries are suffering from austerity cuts and a lack of fundamental rights. We welcome all to join us in fighting for justice and human rights for

Double Karma Ania Waterman’s blog on everything to do with disabled people’s activism

Down With All That Bigleyma’s excellent blog that chronicles the farce that the WCA assessments are and the major players involved in it’s execution.

DWP Examinations Forum A friendly online community for those undergoing an Atos Medical Assessment or appeal full of loads of information and valuable advice.

Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty Practical advice and solidarity for all those facing benefit difficulties and hardship. Excellent campaigning organisation

Good Advice Matters Guides that haven been produced in an effort to simplify the various processes involved when trying to claim benefits.

Inspired By Atos Origin A Facebook Group for people to post their artwork that is inspired by Atos Origin.

Ouch Too A disability support forum founded from the ashes of the BBC’s Ouch Board after they closed it.

Paralympics 2012 Boycott Website Dedicated to exposing AtoS’s hypocrisy as disability deniers and sponsors of the Paralympic Games! Paralympians: SPEAK OUT AND PROTEST!!!

Rolling with the Punches Blog “33 year old with lupus since 17 and a variety of other weird awkward symptoms!” Campaigner who co-authored the Spartacus Report

soiniciulacht – 'Taking the fight to this Morally Disabled Government' Cuts right to the heart of all that’s wrong with the neoliberal tyranny we endure today …

Solidarity Federation Advice on what to do if you ‘fail’ your DWP/ATOS Work Capability Assessment

The Broken of Britain Non-partisan UK-based Disability campaign. Advocacy for people with invisible illness and/or physical & mental health conditions. Also Carers, their Families and Friends. Our individual voices are too quiet to be heard, but collectively we can shout

The Dawn Willis Blog Dawn Willis sharing the news & views of the “Mentally Wealthy”

The New Republic The daily tabloid of the “Age of Austerity”

The Void Narking off the state since 2005

Unum Insurance Blog An excellent website that exposes advisor to the UK Government on welfare reform, Unum, for what they are.

Using the Law to Fight Cuts to Disabled People’s Services A practical guide for campaigners – disabled people and their families; carers and local groups (Updated July 2012)

Victims of Atos Corrupton They tried to silence Atos Register of Shame and it back as Victims of Atos Corruption.

Where's the Benefit A blog on all things that affect sick and/or disabled people under the ConDem jackboot

Why Wait Forever – DWP ATOS Veterans An amazing website containing interesting detailed research carried out by Mo Stewart into Atos & Unum Insurance

YOUR CALL – National Freephone Telephone Counselling Service for Disabled People in Scotland This is the first service of its kind in the UK. The service takes calls to its appointment line from 11am until 3 pm Mondays to Thursdays. Calls are free from a home telephone, and from most mobile networks(including T-Mobile, Vodaphone, O2, 3, Orange a

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