Disabled Scots: Invisible Collateral Damage
Jamie Szymkowiak writes on austerity, welfare and disability … Continue readingDisabled Scots: Invisible Collateral Damage
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
Re-thinking Welfare: Fair, Personal and Simple Wednesday, June 4, 2014 ISBN: 9781784125400 This is the 2nd report of the
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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
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’
We Are Spartacus releases its ‘almanac of condemnation’, a devastating critique of welfare reforms backed with case studies … Continue readingAt last, a report that skewers Iain Duncan Smith’s welfare policies
Black Triangle and fellow anti-workfare demonstrators blockade Salvation Army shop in Edinburgh … Continue readingAnti-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 … Continue readingPRESS RELEASE: Government appeal against Work Capability Assessment discrimination ruling is rejected ~ Mental Health Resistance Network
Scottish independence is a lifeboat for disabled Scots: To vote YES is a vote for life. It is NOT a vote of no solidarity with our disabled sisters and brothers south of the border … Continue readingScottish independence: A lifeboat for disabled people drowning in a sea of cuts
The coaltion’s use of private companies to manage the most vulnerable amongst us is inspired by half a millennium of Poor Laws … Continue readingPauper management by G4S, Serco and Atos is inspired by a punitive past
An exhausted banker gets unlikely sympathy from the City. Atos shows no sign of following this example … Continue reading‘Can’t work through stress? Tough luck if you are poor’ ~ An exhausted banker gets unlikely sympathy from the City. Atos shows no sign of following this example