Nottingham Claimants Action formerly Nottingham Campaign Against the Job Seekers Allowance "A great set of links to advice and action relating to work, unemployment and benefits" is moving.
YAHOO GEOCITIES IS CLOSING AT THE END OF THE MONTH so the website has moved to 
http://www.afed.org.uk/nottingham/claimants/ hosted by the Nottingham group of the Anarchist Federation:
http://www.afed.org.uk/nottingham
NCA / NCAJSA is now just a website now, as the group hasn't existed for quite some time. But hopefully in the future there will be a new claimants' group in Nottingham.
If you are going to the anarchist bookfair in London this weekend there are some good meetings relating to claimants activism. Full programme here http://www.anarchistbookfair.org/whatson.html
ROOM EB 4, Below Octagon Room stalls:
4pm – 4.50pm
Dig where you stand: mutual aid, self-activity and current anarchist strategy
This meeting is for people interested in the current wave of occupations and revival of direct-action casework. It asks how this new culture of resistance can bring about generalised class confidence and help us in our own struggles at work, at the job centre etc.
Organised by: Anarchist Federation
Plus (same room, just before):
3pm – 3.50pm
Beyond Direct Action Casework - Collectivising Struggle
While Direct Action Casework gains concrete victories for individuals and families, it is not enough. Mass organisations need to be built to collectivise our struggles.
Organised by: London Coalition Against Poverty
Plus (in other room):
12 noon – 12.50pm
Countrywide Opposition to Welfare Reforms
With increasingly punitive attacks on Jobcentre users, claimants across the UK are organising to defend social welfare.
Organised by: London Coalition Against Poverty
http://www.afed.org.uk/nottingham/claimants/ hosted by the Nottingham group of the Anarchist Federation: http://www.afed.org.uk/nottingham NCA / NCAJSA is now just a website now, as the group hasn't existed for quite some time. But hopefully in the future there will be a new claimants' group in Nottingham.
If you are going to the anarchist bookfair in London this weekend there are some good meetings relating to claimants activism. Full programme here
http://www.anarchistbookfair.org/whatson.html ROOM EB 4, Below Octagon Room stalls:
4pm – 4.50pm
Dig where you stand: mutual aid, self-activity and current anarchist strategy
This meeting is for people interested in the current wave of occupations and revival of direct-action casework. It asks how this new culture of resistance can bring about generalised class confidence and help us in our own struggles at work, at the job centre etc.
Organised by: Anarchist Federation
Plus (same room, just before):
3pm – 3.50pm
Beyond Direct Action Casework - Collectivising Struggle
While Direct Action Casework gains concrete victories for individuals and families, it is not enough. Mass organisations need to be built to collectivise our struggles.
Organised by: London Coalition Against Poverty
Plus (in other room):
12 noon – 12.50pm
Countrywide Opposition to Welfare Reforms
With increasingly punitive attacks on Jobcentre users, claimants across the UK are organising to defend social welfare.
Organised by: London Coalition Against Poverty
Homepage:
Great site, many longterm "volunteer" workers on dole need contracts
21.10.2009 13:18
Otherwise if it goes wrong, their screwed+ without having payed.
This is more important than ever with people currently being forced into voluntary jobs, voluntary sector should pay for travel, food &proper health & safety training or low cost union membership as absolute minimum for long term workers.
By continually ignoring this what makes some workers coops & voluntary organisations that Afed work with any better than Temp agencies??
Dole worker
Critical of voluntary organisations
21.10.2009 21:01
The new Welfare Reform Bill will only make things worse.
The latest issue of anarchist magazine Black Flag (no. 230) has an article in it which covers these issues in some detail, contributed by the Anarchist Federation. It'll be out at the London Anarchist Bookfair this weekend.
AF member
Homepage:
http://www.afed.org.uk