 The 3rd National Day of Protest Against Benefit Cuts has been called for April 14th 2011.  housing, disability, sickness and welfare benefits. People with disabilities, illness, the unemployed, single parents, carers,the low waged, part time students, volunteers, homeless people and college students are all likely to see a devastating drop in disposable income with many slipping even further below the poverty line.  The poorest and most vulnerable are being asked to pay for the mistakes and extravagances of the richest. Meanwhile poverty pimps like Atos Origin and A4e are set to rake in hundreds of millions on government contracts to bully and intimidate people from claiming the pittance handed out in benefit payments. Many disabled people have threatened suicide if these cuts are allowed to continue. Some have tragically already carried out that threat. The first two days of protest against benefit cuts have seen demonstrations, meetings, unemployed discos, public pantomimes and occupations in cities across the UK. Atos Origin have been forced to close offices, protesters have gathered inside and outside workfare sharks A4e and demonstrations have taken place from Downing Street to local town centres such as Lydney and Crawley. This time we have two months to organise for the biggest day yet. 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 on the wall below to be added to this page and the website at: http://benefitclaimantsfig  You can also send details to notowelfarecuts@yahoo.co.u 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. We are fighting for our homes, our livelihoods, our very survival. It's time to show these public school parasites and their poverty pimp collaborators we mean business.  Confirmed events so far: Brighton Thursday April 14th 2-5pm Churchill Square Brighton http://www.facebook.com/ev 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/ev 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/ev London 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/ev  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/ev Poole Outside the Jobcentre at noon. Everyone welcome! http://www.facebook.com/ev Everywhere National Troll A Tory Day 3 and Rat On A Rat! http://www.facebook.com/ev  Supported by: o Anti-Benefit Cuts Glasgow 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 Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty o Free London Listings o Goldsmiths in Occupation o Haringey Solidarity Group o Ipswich Unemployed Action 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 The 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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