Tag Archives: Benefits
Cracking the whip – case against the ‘Atos Two’
Two Nottingham residents, a wheelchair user and a retired paediatric nurse, dubbed the ‘Atos Two’, have been charged with aggravated trespass following a protest at the local offices of Atos ‘Healthcare’. They will stand trial at Nottingham Magistrates Court on February 27th and 28th.
Atos Macht Frei – That Censored Carer Watch Post Revealed!
Thanks to cunning use of wordpress.com’s excellent analytics widget (who loves ya wordpress) we can reveal the post which led to poverty pimps Atos issuing legal threats against the Carer Watch forums. It turns out that it was a repost of a piece (re-produced below) which first appeared on the Void blog http://johnnyvoid.wordpress.com/.
Atos Origin vs the internet – Stop Atos censorship!
The Carer Watch forums forced offline by poverty pimps Atos Origin are still not back despite Atos claiming to be willing to negotiate. It now appears that Atos are refusing to even state which posts on the site, a volunteer-run online meeting place for disabled people and their carers, they have deemed to be ‘libellous’.
Who benefits from claimants?
Private companies accept free labour under government plans The coalition government has finally launched its controversial new back-to-work scheme that will see those claiming benefits forced into compulsory work programmes or risk being excluded from receiving further social assistance. The new work programme, dubbed without irony ‘workfare’, is an attempt by the government to not [...]
Claimants win against bullying A4e
Campaigners intervene to stop workscheme giants from punishing claimant Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty (ECAP), the grassroots organisation set up by people on benefits and low incomes, have just won a significant victory against the New Deal company after they intervened to support a claimant who, despite threats and benefit suspension, stood up against A4e bullying tactics for over a [...]
National Week of Action against Atos Origin (9-15 May)
Benefit cuts protesters are staging a week of action against health testing IT company Atos Origin beginning on Monday May 9th. Atos carry out the notorious Work Capability Assessments which have been used to strip health related benefits from thousands of people, many with serious and in some cases even terminal conditions.
Benefits claimants strike back
A national day of action was called for Monday 24th January against benefit cuts. The coalition’s attack on societies poorest and most needy in order to force through their ‘austerity measures’ agenda is amplified through their all out assault on the benefit system. With a call to focus on those companies who are set to [...]
Benefit party for Freedom Press
Friday 4th March 7pm till late entry: donations Freedom Bookshop Angel Alley 84b Whitechapel High Street London E1 7QX All welcome! Benefit party for Freedom Press and Bookshop collective, the longstanding anarchist publisher based in Whitechapel, East London founded in 1886 by a group of friends, including Charlotte Wilson and Peter Kropotkin.
Dismantling the Welfare state
New Labour’s new vision of a privatised benefits service New Labour took another step in dismantling the welfare state with the passing of the controversial Welfare Reform bill into law in what campaign groups are calling an all out assault on the poor, vulnerable and most needy. The bill, which sets out changes to the [...]
