Protests against benefits cuts

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Subject: Protests against benefits cuts

Protests against benefits

cuts

Dear Subscriber,

We’ll be sending out our normal newsletter next week. But in the

meantime, we want to let you know about protests happening right now, or in the

near future, against cuts which affect claimants.

The Broken of Britain are holding a blogswarm, beginning today and lasting over

the weekend, entitled One Month Before Heartbreak. It’s intended to

highlight the fact that the unusually short consultation about the abolition of

disability living allowance, and its replacement with personal independence

payments, ends in just one month’s time.

More details about the blogswarm, which involves mass postings about the issue

on blogs, at One

Month Before Heartbreak and from Bendygirl

writing in the Guardian.

You can take part in the DWP

consultation about abolishing DLA and/or contribute to the Broken of Britain submission.

There’s also a

petition you can sign.

A National

Day of Protest Against Benefit Cuts is taking place on 24 January, with

events already arranged in London, Livingston, Leeds, Lydney, Burnley and

Hastings. Organisers are hoping that many more people will arrange events

in their own local area.

Justice for All is a coalition of, so far, over 1,300 advice agencies,

community groups, lawyers, members of the public and others. They are

campaigning against the slashing of the legal aid budget, which could see

hundreds of advice services close and a massive reduction in the availability

of free advice about issues such as welfare benefits, debt and housing problems.

Justice

for All launched with

a lobby of the House of Commons on 12 January and have managed to get an

Early Day Motion against the legal aid cuts tabled which you may want to

ask your MP to sign.

Justice for All are hoping that many more people will sign up to join

the fight against legal aid cuts.

These may be small beginnings, but we hope that you’ll find something here that

you can support. We’ll do our best to keep you updated on any further

actions in the coming months.

This information is also available online at

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/latest-news/1285-protests-against-benefits-cuts.

Good luck,

Steve

Donnison

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