Anti-Defamation Campaign in Defence of Disability Rights
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The doctors’ union has finally agreed to tell every GP in the country about two regulations that campaigners believe could protect disabled people facing the controversial “fitness for work” test … Continue readingVictory for Black Triangle Campaign as Doctors’ union finally agrees to spread the word on ‘life-saving’ WCA rules
Iain Duncan Smith Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Dear Secretary of State, We are deeply concerned by
Continue readingOpen Letter to Iain Duncan Smith – Maximus Contract
Black Triangle Anti-Defamation Campaign in Defence of Disability Rights ‘Black Triangle Campaign’ Submission to The Smith Commission Black Triangle Campaign
Jamie Szymkowiak writes on austerity, welfare and disability … Continue readingDisabled Scots: Invisible Collateral Damage
Updated tragic list of welfare-related deaths of UK’s sick and/or disabled people. This is the tip on the iceberg:
Continue readingUK Welfare Reform Deaths ~ Updated List ~ October 21st 2014
A lot of people wish that this referendum campaign had never happened. They wish the whole damn thing would go
Continue readingGo ahead, Scotland: Vote NO to independence and sign your own death warrant
Claimants are asking the courts to again quash the decision to close the Independent Living Fund … Continue readingSecond court case to challenge ILF closure in England and Wales launched
All I ask of you is for your help. Help us save the independent living fund from closing on 30th June 2015. … Continue readingJoin the campaign to save the Independent Living Fund #SaveILF
Black Triangle DPAC and Boycott Workfare call on PCS to ballot members on non-cooperation with DWP sanctions … Continue readingDisability Rights campaigns unite with Boycott Workfare to call on PCS to ballot members on non-cooperation and sanctions
What’s at stake in the European Elections Tomorrow is polling day; the 2014 European Elections are upon us. The Scottish
Continue readingVote Green to Eliminate Racist Disablist Homophobic UKIP
Please sign this petition and encourage friends, family and your networks to do the same: LETTER TO THE ICC AT
Study’s authors surprised by poor performance after they find only Malta has more deaths of children under five … Continue readingUK child death rate among worst in western Europe, say experts
By Rob McDowall A raft of changes introduced by the Conservative Lib-Dem Coalition has once again made ‘welfare’ and ‘benefits’
PIP should be a national scandal: Iain Duncan Smith’s new system already has a huge backlog and people are dying waiting … Continue readingPersonal Independence Payments are a Punishment of the Poor and Ill
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.” … Continue readingThe leadership of the British Medical Association is ‘complicit in the suicides of Britain’s disabled people’
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.’ … Continue readingLetter to The Guardian: ‘Grim toll of the government’s fit-for-work tests’ ~ Black Triangle, DPAC, Inclusion London & Others
Black Triangle DPAC and WoW Petition Joint Statement on the Bizarre ATOS Exit Strategy from the DWP WCA Contract … Continue readingBlack Triangle Disabled People Against Cuts 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. … Continue readingBedroom tax axed in Scotland: Holyrood rivals back SNP Government’s £15m plan to banish hated spare-room 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 … Continue readingLorraine from Glasgow had cancer but was forced to starve and rely on the foodbank by DWP-Atos who over-ruled her doctors and declared her ‘fit-for-work’