Disabled people are being victimised by Atos. On top of all that if a disabled person finds their nearest library is now a bus ride or 2 away, that is a devastating blow, a loss of something good in their lives; for many disabled people isolation is a big problem and a visit to the library or from the mobile library service is a lifeline. Library books provide entertainment, information and knowledge. Libraries themselves are convivial places where disabled people can access information, get a cuppa and a cake and feel connected with society. That will all go when our libraries go. SO FIGHT BACK at Atos, 5 November, 11am with The Closing Atos Ceremony 2013 from Unite The Community, Atos Medical Services, Hartshead Sq, Sheffield, S1 2EL (behind Argos, opp Dove & Rainbow pub). The Closing ATOS Ceremony 2012 saw over a hundred people invade the space around ATOS in Sheffield and brought the press, TV cameras and radio crews to cover the event; disabled people spread the word far and wide about what misery pimps ATOS are doing to people in the UK. The misery. The compounding of conditions. The deaths of people deemed fit to work. The suicides. George Osborne has vowed to slash £18 billion from the welfare budget, regardless of peoples needs and ignoring the alternatives. To help them do their dirty work, the Government are paying Atos £100 million a year to ‘test’ sick and disabled people and decide whether they’re ‘fit for work’. But Atos Work Capability Assessments are driving disabled people to suicide and over 1,000 people have died of their illnesses soon after being found fit to undertake compulsory work related activity. The Government claim that the welfare system is being abused- this just isn’t true. Less than 0.4% of Incapacity benefit payments are fraudulent, but the government want to cut welfare spending by 20%. And instead of helping to get people into work, the government are closing workplaces for disabled people. The Government and Atos don’t give a toss about libraries OR disabled people. This is about making ordinary people pay for a crisis caused by the bankers. It’s about making disabled people pay, instead of super-rich tax dodgers who cost us over £25 billion every year. This is an ideological attack on the welfare state; these cuts are a political choice. But were fighting back.
Posted on: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 13:54:41 +0000
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