Please distribute, spread the word and come on the day! - stuff needed, banners, placards, food for westminster protest, publicity, people to chat stuff, music, get in touch if you can help.
Actions, events and demonstration will be taking place around the country with many choosing to target Atos Origin, the company responsible for carrying out the health testing of sick or disabled benefit claimants.
In London protesters will be gathering outside Atos in Islington in the morning then later in the day heading to the head office of the Daily Mail, off Kensington High Street to protest against the constant lies and defamation aimed at claimants in the media. Finally at 5pm demonstrators will be making there way to Westminster City Hall on Victoria Street where they will be handing out free food in defiance of the plans to criminalise soup runs and also highlighting the Housing Benefit caps which are set to make many Westminster residents homeless.
Events are also taking place in Bristol, Leeds, Livingston, Poole, Brighton, Poole, Edinburgh, Truro and Burnley, with news of actions in other cities still coming in.
The Armchair Army will be holding a virtual protest online and the 14th has also been declared the 3rd National Troll A Tory Day.
Full details of all events below, visit the claimantsfightback website for latest news:
http://benefitclaimantsfightback.wordpress.com/
Actions/events organised so far:
Brighton
Thursday April 14th 2-5pm
Churchill Square Brighton
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=210782635605158
Bristol
Thursday April 14 · 12:00pm – 5:00pm
Benefit Cuts Hurt Protest – 3rd National Day of Protest
Government Buildings, Flowers Hill, Bristol, BS4 5LA
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=199413500079998
Burnley
Thursday April 14 – 12.30
Protest 14/4 at the bandstand in Burnley town centre from 12.30 onwards, everyone welcome, bring homemade placards and banners. Called by East Lancs Right to Work.
Edinburgh
Thursday April 14th – 11am – 1pm
ATOS, York Place (near top of Broughton St)
Edinburgh protest against ATOS
http://www.edinburghagainstpoverty.org.uk/
Leeds
Thursday, April 14 · 10:30am – 2:00pm
Meeting @ Leeds Train Station 10am before moving to picket ATOS from 10:30 for an hour then move onto A4e/BEST for a couple of hours. The last picket was a great success and we hope to have another good day. Bring banners, flags etc.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=155593464493862
Livingston
Thursday, April 14 · 12:00pm – 3:00pm
Atos Origin ‘Healthcare’ Ltd, Scotland HQ Livingston, Appleton Parkway – Eliburn
Please contact:
blacktrianglecampaign@hotmail.com for details of travel and transport if you are attending this event.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=200668179965448
London
Thursday, April 14 · 8:30am – 9:30am
Islington Protests Against Benefit Cuts
There will be a protest at 8.30am to 9.30am outside the Atos Healthcare assessment centre at 1 Elthorne Road, just off Holloway Road, 2 minutes walk south from Archway tube.
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=208099605885448
Thursday, April 14 – 2pm
Protest Outside The Daily Mail – Stop the Defamation – Stop the Lies
Daily Mail Headquarters, Young Street (off Kensington High Street), London W8 5TT
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=161556473898500&
Protest Outside Westminster City Hall & Mass Food Give Away!
Thursday, April 14 · 5:00pm – 9:00pm
Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, London, SW1E 6QP
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=186039361439862
Poole
Outside the Jobcentre at noon. Everyone welcome!
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=161332900587762
Truro
Thursday, April 14 · 11:00am – 4:00pm
Lemon Quay Truro
In line with the third National Day of Action against benefits cuts Cornwall Anti Cuts Alliance will be staging an awareness demo in Truro.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=183889834991317
Everywhere
National Troll A Tory Day 3 and Rat On A Rat!
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=173026406078054
Armchair Army
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=183300865049055&
Liverpool call out - urgent !!!!!
This is an urgent call for ACTION in solidarity from the Black Triangle Anti-Defamation Campaign in Defence of Disability Rights and Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC).
From tomorrow until Wednesday ATOS Origin 'Healthcare' Ltd. - the notorious organisation that is involved in disability denial as sub-contractors of the unjust "Work Capability Assessment" on behalf of the DWP wil be having a stall at the Royal College of Nursing exhibition in Liverpool.
http://www.facebook.com/notes/sasha-callaghan/urgent-request-to-our-comrades-in-merseyside-please-show-solidarity-with-the-dis/206269069397397
and then Cardiff on Monday 18th April – 2:00pm – 8:00pm
Cardiff Unemployed Daytime Disco
The Rockin Chair, Lower Cathedral Road, Cardiff
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=105823702832091
We call on all claimants, as groups or individuals, to organise and take action around the country on April 14th.
If you are planning an event in your town or city please add details in the comments below to be added to this page and the facebook page at: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=164277070288955
You can also send details to notowelfarecuts@yahoo.co.uk
If you would like to see action locally, set up a group, event page or ask below. We will do out best to promote and co-ordinate all activity.
Supported by:
o Anti-Benefit Cuts Glasgow
o Armchair Army
o Black Triangle Anti-Defamation Campaign
o Brighton Benefits Campaign
o Cardiff’s Unemployed Daytime Disco
o Carer Watch
o Carer Watch fb page
o Crippen – Disabled Cartoonist
o Diary of a Benefit Scrounger
o Disabled People Against Cuts
o Dundee Unemployed Workers
o East Lancs Right to Work
o Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty (ECAP)
o Free London Listings
o Goldsmiths in Occupation
o Haringey Solidarity Group
o Ipswich Unemployed Action
o Islington Hands Off Our Public Services (IHOOPS)
o Islington Poverty Action
o Kilburn Unemployed Workers Group
o Lancaster and Morecambe Against the Cuts
o London Coalition Against Poverty (LCAP)
o London Foodbank
o Mad Pride
o Medway Against Cuts
o Mental Health Resistance Network
o Norfolk Community Action Group
o Nottingham Claimants’ Union
o Nuneaton Against Benefit Cuts
o Oxford Save Our Services
o Squattastic
o Tyneside Claimants Union
o Welfare Action Hackney
o Welfare Rights 4 u (UK)
o Work Programme & Flexible New Deal Scandal
o World Homeless Day
Actions, events and demonstration will be taking place around the country with many choosing to target Atos Origin, the company responsible for carrying out the health testing of sick or disabled benefit claimants.
In London protesters will be gathering outside Atos in Islington in the morning then later in the day heading to the head office of the Daily Mail, off Kensington High Street to protest against the constant lies and defamation aimed at claimants in the media. Finally at 5pm demonstrators will be making there way to Westminster City Hall on Victoria Street where they will be handing out free food in defiance of the plans to criminalise soup runs and also highlighting the Housing Benefit caps which are set to make many Westminster residents homeless.
Events are also taking place in Bristol, Leeds, Livingston, Poole, Brighton, Poole, Edinburgh, Truro and Burnley, with news of actions in other cities still coming in.
The Armchair Army will be holding a virtual protest online and the 14th has also been declared the 3rd National Troll A Tory Day.
Full details of all events below, visit the claimantsfightback website for latest news:
http://benefitclaimantsfightback.wordpress.com/ Actions/events organised so far:
Brighton
Thursday April 14th 2-5pm
Churchill Square Brighton
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=210782635605158 Bristol
Thursday April 14 · 12:00pm – 5:00pm
Benefit Cuts Hurt Protest – 3rd National Day of Protest
Government Buildings, Flowers Hill, Bristol, BS4 5LA
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=199413500079998 Burnley
Thursday April 14 – 12.30
Protest 14/4 at the bandstand in Burnley town centre from 12.30 onwards, everyone welcome, bring homemade placards and banners. Called by East Lancs Right to Work.
Edinburgh
Thursday April 14th – 11am – 1pm
ATOS, York Place (near top of Broughton St)
Edinburgh protest against ATOS
http://www.edinburghagainstpoverty.org.uk/ Leeds
Thursday, April 14 · 10:30am – 2:00pm
Meeting @ Leeds Train Station 10am before moving to picket ATOS from 10:30 for an hour then move onto A4e/BEST for a couple of hours. The last picket was a great success and we hope to have another good day. Bring banners, flags etc.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=155593464493862 Livingston
Thursday, April 14 · 12:00pm – 3:00pm
Atos Origin ‘Healthcare’ Ltd, Scotland HQ Livingston, Appleton Parkway – Eliburn
Please contact:
blacktrianglecampaign@hotmail.com for details of travel and transport if you are attending this event. http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=200668179965448 London
Thursday, April 14 · 8:30am – 9:30am
Islington Protests Against Benefit Cuts
There will be a protest at 8.30am to 9.30am outside the Atos Healthcare assessment centre at 1 Elthorne Road, just off Holloway Road, 2 minutes walk south from Archway tube.
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=208099605885448 Thursday, April 14 – 2pm
Protest Outside The Daily Mail – Stop the Defamation – Stop the Lies
Daily Mail Headquarters, Young Street (off Kensington High Street), London W8 5TT
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=161556473898500& Protest Outside Westminster City Hall & Mass Food Give Away!
Thursday, April 14 · 5:00pm – 9:00pm
Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, London, SW1E 6QP
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=186039361439862 Poole
Outside the Jobcentre at noon. Everyone welcome!
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=161332900587762 Truro
Thursday, April 14 · 11:00am – 4:00pm
Lemon Quay Truro
In line with the third National Day of Action against benefits cuts Cornwall Anti Cuts Alliance will be staging an awareness demo in Truro.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=183889834991317 Everywhere
National Troll A Tory Day 3 and Rat On A Rat!
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=173026406078054 Armchair Army
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=183300865049055& Liverpool call out - urgent !!!!!
This is an urgent call for ACTION in solidarity from the Black Triangle Anti-Defamation Campaign in Defence of Disability Rights and Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC).
From tomorrow until Wednesday ATOS Origin 'Healthcare' Ltd. - the notorious organisation that is involved in disability denial as sub-contractors of the unjust "Work Capability Assessment" on behalf of the DWP wil be having a stall at the Royal College of Nursing exhibition in Liverpool.
http://www.facebook.com/notes/sasha-callaghan/urgent-request-to-our-comrades-in-merseyside-please-show-solidarity-with-the-dis/206269069397397 and then Cardiff on Monday 18th April – 2:00pm – 8:00pm
Cardiff Unemployed Daytime Disco
The Rockin Chair, Lower Cathedral Road, Cardiff
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=105823702832091 We call on all claimants, as groups or individuals, to organise and take action around the country on April 14th.
If you are planning an event in your town or city please add details in the comments below to be added to this page and the facebook page at:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=164277070288955 You can also send details to
notowelfarecuts@yahoo.co.uk If you would like to see action locally, set up a group, event page or ask below. We will do out best to promote and co-ordinate all activity.
Supported by:
o Anti-Benefit Cuts Glasgow
o Armchair Army
o Black Triangle Anti-Defamation Campaign
o Brighton Benefits Campaign
o Cardiff’s Unemployed Daytime Disco
o Carer Watch
o Carer Watch fb page
o Crippen – Disabled Cartoonist
o Diary of a Benefit Scrounger
o Disabled People Against Cuts
o Dundee Unemployed Workers
o East Lancs Right to Work
o Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty (ECAP)
o Free London Listings
o Goldsmiths in Occupation
o Haringey Solidarity Group
o Ipswich Unemployed Action
o Islington Hands Off Our Public Services (IHOOPS)
o Islington Poverty Action
o Kilburn Unemployed Workers Group
o Lancaster and Morecambe Against the Cuts
o London Coalition Against Poverty (LCAP)
o London Foodbank
o Mad Pride
o Medway Against Cuts
o Mental Health Resistance Network
o Norfolk Community Action Group
o Nottingham Claimants’ Union
o Nuneaton Against Benefit Cuts
o Oxford Save Our Services
o Squattastic
o Tyneside Claimants Union
o Welfare Action Hackney
o Welfare Rights 4 u (UK)
o Work Programme & Flexible New Deal Scandal
o World Homeless Day
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