National protest against benefit cuts, Thursday


9:45 am - April 12th 2011

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Thursday, April 14th sees the 3rd National Day of Protest Against Benefits Cuts.

Protests and events will be taking place in London, Bristol, Scotland, Poole, Brighton, Leeds, Burnley and Cardiff with more cities expected to confirm events this week.

Protest Outside The Daily Mail – Stop the Defamation – Stop the Lies
Thursday, April 14 – 2pm
Daily Mail Headquarters, Young Street (off Kensington High Street), London W8 5TT
Protesting about the media’s defamation of benefit claimants.

Islington Protests Against Benefit Cuts
Thursday, April 14 – 8:30am – 9:30am
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.
Protesting against the company which carries out the Work Capability Assessments.

Protest Outside Westminster City Hall & Mass Food Give Away!
Thursday, April 14 – 5:00pm – 9:00pm
Protest Outside Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, London, SW1E 6QP
Protesting against the ban on rough sleeping and handing out food, as well as the Housing Benefit caps.

Millions are set to be affected by savage cuts to housing, disability, sickness and welfare benefits. Disabled people,those with long term 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.

Claimants 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.

For further details plus details of other protests around the UK please visit: http://benefitclaimantsfightback.wordpress.com/

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1. Mr Apple

I need Disability Living Allowance bcause I’m disabled. Cameron and his millionaire buddies hate people on benefits. We are disposable scum in their minds. The Tory PR machine will crush us and their newspapers will look the other way.
History books in years to come will read ‘Nothing to see here.’

2. @ukcuts

Sorry, but where was all this protest back in October when the CSR announced these cuts?

Seems a bit too late now given the amount of public service closures affecting the vulnerable which to reverse now, is uneconomical.

Rather than sit-ins at Vodafone, people should have been concentrating on matters such as this!

3. Robert

Yes way to late , but of course now it’s kicked off because the beloved Labour party are out of power, when they were in power nobody including the Unions wanted to know, now of course the Tories are in power and they are evil. I noticed when Labour lost the election that little turd Purnell stated he’d be willing to work with the Tories on welfare. I notice some idiot in labour has put him forward as the next leader, I hope so it Will keep that idiot out of power with the party that started welfare reforms.


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