UK Public sector cuts Newswire Archive
Protect OUR NHS: demo in London on 20th October.11am to 1.30 march to Hyde Park.
16-09-2012 19:37
Tories getting ready to receive bids on NHS services to the total of £20bn, new briefing reportReport exposes the hundreds of homes the council are leaving empty
10-09-2012 10:13
the Met say they want to protest with DPAC against ATOS
10-09-2012 07:40
Subject Future Atos protests
Message Sir/Madame – I would like to discuss the arrangement for future peaceful protests at ATOS offices.
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06-09-2012 17:58
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The Westcountry Mutineer #1 Out Now!
05-09-2012 10:52
The Westcountry Mutineer is a new monthly black n white radical newssheet for the Southwest, 8 pages of bile and hearsay, all wrapped up in a veneer of class struggle anarchism - for your free copy, e-mail us at mutineerpress[at]riseup.netPolice break wheelchair user’s shoulder in peaceful protest
31-08-2012 22:47
Disabled people peacefully protesting against government cuts that are killing disabled people were physically attacked by police in a demonstration outside the Department for Work and Pensions today.Without any provocation from the peaceful protesters who had gathered to show their support to disabled activists from DPAC, police used heavy handed tactics and pushed the crowd without any concern for the disabled wheelchair users lined up in front of the door despite repeated warning that disabled people were being placed at risk. Their actions resulted in one of the protesters having his shoulder broken. Another wheelchair user’s chair was broken in this unprovoked and disproportionate use of force by the police. The police made several attempts to unbalance protestors at the front of the crowd and broke one man’s glasses.
£1billion of title deeds for schools transferred to private companies
30-08-2012 21:54
£1billion of title deeds for schools has been transferred from taxpayers to private companies of Tory sponsors.Report and Photos From Today’s DPAC Demonstration in Birmingham
28-08-2012 22:39
http://www.dpac.uk.net/2012/08/latest-information-on-atos-games-week/ protesting the Working Capability Assessment (WCA) which is run by ATOS for the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) and is supposed to assess whether someone on disability benefits is fit for work, but has come under large amounts of criticism for failing to do that – and in the process punishing many disabled people by pushing them off disability benefits onto unemployment benefits and workfare.The week of action is taking place during the Paralympics because ATOS are one of the main sponsors. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/david-cameron-wins-gold-medal-1283031 Their core business is as an IT outsourcing company, but like Capita and Serco they have moved into taking all government outsourcing contracts. The contract to run the WCA is £100m/year – and we pay an additional £50m each year http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/aug/28/atos-3bn-government-contracts-paralympics?newsfeed=true for the appeals process to correct the huge number of people that ATOS declare fit for work who go through the appeal process and have the decision reversed – a process that can take over a year.
Glenda Jackson MP condemned by her constituents for social cleansing remarks
27-08-2012 18:47
Birmingham Tenants & Homeless Action Group - What we are doing
27-08-2012 16:15
Tenants & Homeless seize abandoned council house
27-08-2012 10:49
https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/birmingham/2012/08/499134.html and the council’s lack of action to create badly needed new homes seized one of Birmingham’s 11,000[4] empty properties. The group calling themselves Birmingham Tenants and Homeless Action Group issued a statement on their website[1] condemning the City Council for failing to take action to help the growing homeless population of Birmingham, which has risen by 25%[2] since 2009.
Equivalent of 75,000 homes worth of empty office space in Bristol
26-08-2012 14:45
After calling Savilles I was astounded to find there was around one-and-a-quarter million square feet of empty office space in Bristol. I set out to discover how many homes that floor space was equivalent to.Free Soup for the Revolution - FnB gig
24-08-2012 19:53
NATIONAL DEMO - London, Weds 21 Nov - #Demo2012
23-08-2012 00:01
London, Weds 21 Nov 2012 - #Demo2012
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Atos Games
19-08-2012 13:24
Disabled People Against Cuts and UK Uncut have called for a week of action against Atos. Calling for people to organise an event outside Atos Office at St Aldates4,000 Oct 20 leaflets handed-out at Durham Miners Gala
15-08-2012 21:15
4,000 Oct 20 leaflets handed-out at the Durham Miners Gala
Beware of Home Care
10-08-2012 16:57
Increasingly we're being told that sick & vulnerable people would be better off in the community that in institutions. What has happened to the mentally ill shows that this is probably untrue.
The trial of G4S rooftop occupiers begins
07-08-2012 23:55
The two activists who occupied the roof of G4S' HQ near Crawley for eight hours on 2nd July 2012 (see http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2012/07/497595.html) appeared in court yesterday to plead guilty/not guilty to an 'aggravated trespass' charge under Section 68 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994.
