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06 Dec 2010, 7:26 pm

7bn - cuts to welfare
6bn - vodafones unpaid tax bill

15th December - National Day of Protest Against Welfare & Housing Benefit Cuts: http://www.facebook.com/pages/National- ... 5382710717 http://benefitclaimantsfightback.wordpress.com/

Disabled People Against Cuts: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=121196194603310

Black Triangle – Anti-Defamation Campaign In Defence of Disabled Claimants: http://www.facebook.com/blacktriangle1

Work Programme & Flexible New Deal Scandal: http://www.workprogramme.org.uk/

Benefit Claimants Fight Back: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=116432071735566



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06 Dec 2010, 7:29 pm

Just don't resort to violence please, it would just make people like us look bad.



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06 Dec 2010, 7:33 pm

plans now afoot for DLA to be 'reformed'

http://johnnyvoid.wordpress.com/2010/12 ... ring-line/



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06 Dec 2010, 7:46 pm

Inuyasha wrote:
Just don't resort to violence please, it would just make people like us look bad.


People will do whatever they have to do in order to be more understood and listened to. If the occasional homicide is required, then cest la vie.

Life isn't pretty and individual survival is even greater when things are obscenely tough.



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06 Dec 2010, 7:47 pm

Inuyasha wrote:
Just don't resort to violence please, it would just make people like us look bad.


its often the police who push things in that direction, the mainstream media tends to portray demos as violent given a chance (and attribute it all to the evil 'anarchists') its only by talking to people who attended / watching amateur footage etc that we can get a reasonably balanced impression of the atmosphere.

I think a certain amount of violence at protests next year is inevitable when the cuts really start to hit hard, but for now i would expect a disabled protest would tend to be a relatively dignified place.

Its not a specifically 'autistic' movement though, there will be many 'NTs' - so likely to get VERY noisy.



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09 Dec 2010, 11:44 pm

Thanks for posting this pysch! I started a similar thread on this a while back. I will join the facebook groups above. To me this is currently the most important issue as an AS sufferer.



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10 Dec 2010, 10:48 pm

jamieboy wrote:
Thanks for posting this pysch! I started a similar thread on this a while back. I will join the facebook groups above. To me this is currently the most important issue as an AS sufferer.


not long ago we ( the AS movement) were talking about raising public awareness and understanding etc. Now i think a lot of us would just be happy to hold onto our homes and basic support.

benefitclaimantsfightback have called 'troll a tory' day for those unable to make the demo on the 15th.

http://benefitclaimantsfightback.wordpr ... -tory-day/



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11 Dec 2010, 9:50 pm

I fancy coming to the demo actually psych. I suffer from social anxiety though which makes me panic if i for instance "get lost". Normally if i'm meeting a friend i ask them to meet me at the train station i arrive at. It makes me feel a whole lot better.



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12 Jan 2011, 4:28 am

I'm sure this will be well attended since most claimants are disabled or mentally ill. They may aswell just put us down i'm sure that would save millions.

It's an evil world ran by evil c***s and i'm sick of it.