For the BMA not to act 'is in our view to be complicit in the deaths of innocent people whose only crime is to have the misfortune to be sick and/or disabled' ~ Black Triangle Campaign
"History will not hold them guiltless."
BLACK TRIANGLE, DPAC & OTHERS LETTER TO THE GUARDIAN: 'The UK government and opposition should follow the Scottish government's pledge that private for-profit companies are removed entirely from having anything to do with the assessment of disabled people.'
Black Triangle DPAC and WoW Petition Joint Statement on the Bizarre ATOS Exit Strategy from the DWP WCA Contract
ALEX Salmond is to banish the bedroom tax from Scotland: The Scottish Government have agreed to cover the full cost of housing benefit cuts for Scots hammered by the vicious Con-Dem policy.
Benefits Street: A healthy media would stand up to the powerful and wealthy. Ours targets the poor and voiceless – […]
Running on empty: the desperate families forced to turn to the food bank for survival
Disabled Dennis Jones has been found dead after his benefits were cut five weeks before he died because he had returned a form late
Don't let the bluster, incompetence and misinformation obscure the Quiet Man's true, Tory purpose: destroying the welfare safety net
We Are Spartacus releases its 'almanac of condemnation', a devastating critique of welfare reforms backed with case studies
Black Triangle and fellow anti-workfare demonstrators blockade Salvation Army shop in Edinburgh
Mental Health Resistance Network: Court of Appeal rejects DWP appeal against landmark ruling by Upper Tribunal that the DWP-Atos Work Capability Assessment discriminates against people with mental health problems
Victory for disability rights campaigners as DWP loses appeal against Judicial Review ruling at the Court of Appeal
"This is the day, our day, Scotland's day. The day that we can cradle in our arms Scotland's future and hear the infant cries of a new country,"
"Let prosperous people sustain a great welfare state. Let that state end the fear that comes with insecurity. Let us gift ourselves that Scotland."
My name is Cindie Reiter, I’m one of those “New Scots” you hear people talking about from time to time, and I’m going to vote Yes in 2014.
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