National Day of Action Against Atos Origin and the poverty pimps!
Friday, September 30
Everywhere!
Take Action Against Atos Origin and the Poverty Pimps on the 30th September 2011.
We aren’t going anywhere!
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=181940165210541
Atos Origin have £300 million contract with the Con-dem Government to continue carrying out ‘work capability assessments’.
It is claimed assessments are to test what people can do rather than what they can’t. The real purpose is to strip benefits from as many people as possible.
This testing system has already led to people with terminal illnesses and severe medical conditions being declared fit for work and having benefits cut. GP’s are ignored in favour of decisions made by Atos Origin’s computer.
Plans announced for the scrapping of Disability Living Allowance have also revealed that this intrusive testing is likely to be extended to everyone on some form of disability or health related benefit.
To date around 40% of appeals against Atos Origin’s decisions have been successful.
Atos have now extended their harassment of sick and disabled by using legal threats to silence websites which have been critical of them: http://johnnyvoid.wordpress.com/2011/08/22/atos-origin-vs-the-internet-stop-atos-censorsing-the-web/
Organise and take action on the 30th September! Please list details in the comments below or email notowelfarecuts@yahoo.co.uk and we’ll try maintain a list here.
A list of Atos Origins locations can be found at: http://www.uk.atosorigin.com/en-uk/about_us/locations/
Cities organising include London, Brighton, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hastings, Manchester and Nottingham.
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Nottingham
Friday, September 30 · 12:00pm – 3:00pm
Pedestrianised area of Hockley, outside Jugglers at the crossing of Broad St/Carlton St/Stoney St
A protest against ATOS and the their unfair capability assessments, designed to strip claimants of their disability benefits.
Assemble in Hockley to head over to protest at the ATOS assessment centre on Stoney Street: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=278089295537408
London
In London people will be gathering outside the BMJ Recruitment Fair where Atos will be attempting to recruit yet more ‘disability assessors’: https://benefitclaimantsfightback.wordpress.com/2011/09/09/protest-atos-outside-the-bmj-recruitment-fair-30th-sept/
Please blog, tweet, spread the word!
Nearly 30 websites are now publishing material in defiance of Atos legal threats.
Trackbacks
- Atos Origin vs the internet – stop Atos censoring the web! | the void
- cAtostrophe! | York Anarchists Blog
- Hate-filled thugs in violent rampage | Cautiously pessimistic
- The Great Atos Rebrand – Update | the void
- Atos Macht Frei – That Censored Carer Watch Post Revealed! | the void
- Atos Origin: Atos Silences, Atos Macht Frei, Atos Kills!!! | Friday's Work Programme
- Redesign the Atos Logo! | the void
- Protest Atos Outside the BMJ Recruitment Fair – 30th Sept « National Day of Protest Against Welfare & Housing Benefit Cuts
- Report from Build the Alternative, Broaden the Struggle public meeting | Birmingham Against The Cuts
- Protest Atos Outside the BMJ Recruitment Fair – 30th Sept | Black Triangle Campaign
- Atos Origin and the New Statesman | the void
- National Day of Action Against Atos – Latest News « National Day of Protest Against Welfare & Housing Benefit Cuts
- National Day of Action Against Atos – Latest News « Act of Defiance
- National Day of Protest Against Welfare & Housing Benefit Cuts | WorldWright's …
- Picnic Against Atos | SACA
- Why you should be joining the anti-ATOS day of action on Friday « Brum Protestor Rants
- National Day of Action Against Atos – 30th September! | the void
- Atos Inspired Art | the void
Benefit Claimants Fightback 
just remember atos what has happened in libya- people power much more powerful than u little lot
If you’d said Egypt & Tunisia I’d have agreed, but Libya is hardly about people power, it’s a distinctly unhumanitarian NATO (acting as a US proxy) operation to install a puppet government and secure oil supplies and strategic dominance in the region.
A handful of people may be demonstraiting outside Ian Duncan Smith’s manor house at Swanbourne Manor, Swanbourne Near Milton Keynes
How nice – one of the lowlives at the helm of all of this has himself a lovely little manor house. I hope he likes hot weather, because when he pops his clogs, it’s going to be very toasty warm where he’s going… There’s going to be a lot of desperate explaining being done at the Pearly Gates, when this lot fall off their respective perches!
It’s true – my dad has Emphysema, which is terminal – yes, it will eventually kill him. He can barely walk a few yards, it’s getting worse each year, yet he has been put into the Work Related Activity Group – for people who are expected/likely to recover from their condition, and return to work! What a joke! And it should be doctors ONLY, doing any assessments and medical reports on patients, not nurses!
Im going for a medical on Wednesday with this lot , they said it was an informal chat …any tips ideas of what to expect
Regards
John
Be prepared to touch your nose wid. Your right finger and vice-versa wid your left. Are you incontinent?Honestly “the doctor” can say yes, no, yes, ignoring the fact you’re sitting in a wheelchair ,you’re. Fit to work!!!
8yrs ago I suffered a femoral anuerism. I lost six pints of blood while my mother held my hands and watched me die. Someow my life was saved. I took six months recovering from a major stroke, my prgnosias was that I would not walk again. With the help of a zimmerframe I battled on. My movement is impeaired, luckily I don’t need a wheelchar. Without givimg me the oppurtinorty to state my case, I was told I didn’t need to be present. I left assuming I had won.Two days later a. Letter arrived telling me that, although I had not the chance to put my case forward, I had lost. My only option is to apply for a setaside. This I.have down, my name is not Cameron or Osbourne, so why do I bother? Fellow people I wish you well but don’t depend on a system of blue -blooded idiots who look after them selves, Love to free thinking people who know the score,,,Kevinxx