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Protest Monday 24th January Newcastle

Protest and Picnic Against Benefit Cuts and Poverty Pimps

11am Monday 24^th January 2011 at A4e Newcastle (meet at Manors Metro)
Called by Tyneside Claimants Union http://tynesideclaimantsunion.wordpress.com/ tynesideclaimantsunion@googlemail.com Part of the National Day of Protest Against Benefit Cuts http://benefitclaimantsfightback.wordpress.com/ notowelfarecuts@yahoo.co.uk
Everyone welcome, whether you are a benefit claimant yourself, or want to give your solidarity: please tell your friends. Bring: banners and placards, music, drums and whistles, food to share, and your ideas, enthusiasm and solidarity.
We say
NO
- TO CUTS TO WELFARE AND HOUSING BENEFITS- TO COMPULSORY WORK FOR BENEFITS- TO “THE WORK PROGRAMME”
- TO BENEFITS SANCTIONS
- TO CASUALISATION AND ATTACKS ON WORKERS' RIGHTS
- TO POVERTY PIMPS LIKE A4E AND WORKING LINKS

After a certain amount of time signing on, unemployed people are forced to attend private companies like A4e and Working Links as part of the “New Deal”. This is supposed to help the unemployed find work, but many unemployed people who have been forced to go to these companies complain of a total lack of any useful courses, training or facilities and denounce the disrespectful and bullying way these companies treat unemployed people. The ConDems are replacing “New Deal with “the Work Programme”, which will mean that more benefits claimants (including disabled people in the work-related-activity group of ESA, and single parents with children as young as 5 (its now 7)) will be forced to attend these companies and more of us will be made to work for our benefits (i.e. for as little as £1.27 an hour).
Benefit Cuts and Poverty Pimps The government wants to make massive cuts to the benefits system, for example forcing many disabled people off Employment Support Allowance/Incapacity Benefit, abolishing Education Maintenance Allowance and making 20% cuts to Disability Living Allowance. According to the Chartered Institute of Housing, ¾ million people across the UK will lose their homes as a result of the cuts to housing benefit alone. We can't let them get away with this!
Emma Harrison, the owner of A4E, lives very well off benefits. She has a £40m fortune and a 100 acre country estate. Yet people forced to attend A4e in Newcastle and Gateshead complain that there aren't enough computers or even pens and that there is a culture of disrespect and bullying in the company. Whilst millions of people face a spiral into poverty, debt, stress, and homelessness, the gravy train is being extended for poverty pimps like A4e and Working Links which seek to profit from the misery of others.
Don't get fooled by divide and rule tactics People who are unemployed for whatever reason, either through ill health, or the recession, or because they are caring for a child or disabled person, are not scroungers, but human beings with real needs for food, housing and health! Only 1 in 10 housing benefit claimants is unemployed – most have low paid jobs. Many people with jobs also rely on benefits like tax credits, child benefit, and council tax benefit to make ends meet. Carers and single parents do the toughest – unpaid – jobs there are!
The “Work Programme” and the benefit cuts are not only an attack on the unemployed and other claimants, they are an attack on workers in jobs. Making people work for their benefits won't reduce poverty or improve life chances. But it will allow employers to bypass the minimum wage. If the government get their way the current 4 week compulsory work placements will become much longer. We all have to organise to stop workfare and benefit cuts.

Let's get together to take some real action to stop these injustices! Come along to this demonstration, contact Tyneside Claimants Union. Isolated we can be bullied but together we can turn the tables !

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Posted by ians1 on 20 Jan : 17:29
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Comments: 30	Supported by: o Accept the challenge Iain Duncan-Smith! (FB Group from Dundee Unemployed Workers) o Benefit Claimants Fightback (fb group) o Black Triangle Anti-Defamation Campaign (fb page) o Brighton Benefits Campaign o Cardiff's Unemployed Daytime Discos! o Carer Watch o Carer Watch fb page o Crippen – Disabled Cartoonist o Disabled People Against Cuts o Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty o Free London Listings o Goldsmiths in Occupation o Haringey Solidarity Group o Ipswich Unemployed Action o Islington Disabled People Against Cuts o Kilburn Unemployed Workers Group o Lancaster and Morecambe Against the Cuts! o Norfolk Community Action Group o Nottingham Claimants' Union o Oxford Save Our Services o Nuneaton Against Benefit Cuts (fb page) o Squattastic o Tyneside Claimants Union o Welfare Rights 4 u (UK) fb page o Welfare Action Hackney o Work Programme & Flexible New Deal Scandal o World Homeless Day

Posted by ians1 on 20 Jan : 17:30
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Comments: 30	Mon 24 Jan – Day of protest against benefit cuts Main London event: 2pm Picnic and party in Triton Square – office of Atos Healthcare NW1 3HG near Drummond St There is a UK-wide protest against benefit cuts on Monday – see list of claimants’ groups co-organising it, below. Groups in Edinburgh, Dundee, Ipswich, Norfolk are among those taking part, Cardiff’s action is today. People have chosen different targets, for example, Tyneside Claimants Union chose A4e, the back-to-work company. In London, the target is Atos, the multinational company which has the contract for DWP “medical” examinations, and also for government employers like Royal Mail, certifying staff as too sick to work. (Sometimes the same people who they later score 0 points under ESA!) They are responsible for denying and cutting people off ESA (which replaced incapacity benefits), including with terminal cancer. Some of us will be going to the picnic – more details below. Please let us know if you can come. If you aren’t able to come to Triton Square in person, you can also complain to Atos Healthcare customer relations dept: Disability Assessment Customer Relations Tel: 0113 230 9175 Email: -email- Switchboard Tel: 020 7830 4444 Atos Healthcare 4 Triton Square Regent's Place London NW1 3HG from WinVisible. Below is more info from the organisers. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Come to a picnic and party in Triton Square, London on the 24th January 2011 from 2pm as part of the National Day of Protest Against Benefit Cuts. Bring music, drums, whistles, banners, food to share and let’s brighten up the faceless corporate wasteland that is home to poverty pimps Atos Origin Ltd. Musicians, poets, orators, ranters, shouters, all benefit claimants and supporters welcome. Please help spread the word and invite your friends. Triton Square is on the North side of Euston Road, a minute or so from Warren Street tube and less than five minutes from Euston/Euston Square or Great Portland Street tube stations. Part of the National Day of Protest Against Benefit Cuts on the 24th January 2011. Facebook page at: The main page for the national Day of Protest Against Benefit Cuts can be found at: The website is at: In London a Party and Picnic has been called out Triton square, NW1 from 2pm. Bring banners, stuff to make noise, food to share, etc, please get in touch asap if you can help. Protests/events are also being held in Livingston (nr Edinburgh), Leeds, Brighton, Lydney, Burnley, Crawley, Hastings all on Monday 24th January and Cardiff (on 20th Jan). Please visit the website or facebook pages for full details of events. It's not too late to organise a protest near you, if you have something planned and would like us to publicise it then please contact us at -email- Please distribute!!!

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