Showing posts with label ATOS Kills. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ATOS Kills. Show all posts

Sunday 23 February 2014

ATOS Is Dead, Long Live ATOS!!

      French IT firm Atos saying they are planning to pull out of Work Capability Assessments, the shambolic and cruel tests designed to strip away benefits from sick and disabled people, is the most humiliating blow yet for Iain Duncan Smith’s bodged attempt at reforming social security.
      In a stunning victory for campaigners, Atos say the Work Capability Assessment isn’t working, for them, claimants themselves and even the hapless DWP.  The attempt at early withdrawal from the contract comes just days after protests were held outside Atos assessment centres in towns and cities across the UK.
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      If ATOS pulls out of this bludgeoning of the sick and disabled, it will be due to the sustained persistence of those who campaigned relentlessly against their savage implementation of the DWP policy, of punishing the most vulnerable in our society. It is of course only a partial victory, as there is an army of blood sucking leeches waiting to jump into the place vacated by ATOS. It is Ian Duncan Smith and the whole stinking system that he represents that has to be flushed down the toilet.
       We are a very rich country, we can afford to keep a family of parasites, that we call "Royals" in unimaginable splendour and pomp, we can buy and maintain the most expensive weapon systems on the planet, we can spend billions of pounds on spectacles such as Olympics, Commonwealth Games, we can indulge in endless wars. However, we can't keep our sick and vulnerable in reasonable comfort, we have people dying from hypothermia, because they can't afford to heat their homes, and we have 25% of our children living in poverty. Any sane person can't accept this, we have the wealth and resources for a fair and just society, all created by the people, but sadly we leave that abundant wealth in the hands of thieving parasites, and call it a market economy, as if that made everything OK. We can do better than this.

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Friday 30 August 2013

The Ever Growing Anti-ATOS Army.





    Glasgow's monthly protest outside the offices of ATOS in Cadogan Street was today, Friday 30 August, 12:30 to 2:30. Each month this protest is held the numbers seem to grow, this is probably due to the effect of ATOS's brutal treatment of people on disability allowance, reaching and  impacting on more and more people. It was good to see the return of a cheap and traditional way of getting your message out, namely chalking the streets.







     On average, every week 73 people on disability die shortly after being passed, by ATOS, as fit to look for work. This brutal, criminal process must be stopped before any more of our sick and vulnerable are sacrificed at the altar of accountancy ideology.









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Thursday 22 August 2013

Glasgow's Monthly Anti-ATOS Picket.


      Please come and join us at our monthly picket of the ATOS testing centre at Cadogan Street Friday, August 30, 12:30 to 14:30, and support our fight against the cuts to the sick and disabled, we want the so called Health Care Professionals to  know we wont be going away until ATOS is removed from its role as DWP medical assessors.


    This IT company has found thousands of people fit for work who have subsequently died within weeks of assessment, plunged thousands of sick and disabled people into poverty, everyone knows a friend or has family member who has a debilitating illlness or disability that leaves them unable to work, ATOS KILLS ! KILL ATOS !

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Thursday 8 August 2013

ATOS Kills, ATOS Has To Go.


       More from Glasgow's dirty washing on The Green last Saturday August 3rd. lifted straight from Glasgow Against ATOS, with a couple of photos.

 Commonwealth shame

The Power Of The Pen!

        Resistance comes in all different forms. For people who aren’t able to make it to our meetings or protests there are other ways you can help build the campaign. Send us your articles on news developments about the cuts (particularly those affecting the sick and disabled) or letters of your personal experiences of the Work Capability or Personal Independence Payment assessments. Include in your email if your happy for them to be published on our blog spot. Please send these to glasgowagainstatos2012@gmail.com
Norman Dickson has been sending us his poems to help spirit the fight back. Three of these are included below.
GAA calls for resistance to the cuts on all fronts!

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MURDER BY SIGNATURE

          ( ATOS AND THE BEDROOM TAX )

    ITS CALLED MURDER BY SIGNATURE,
    A COWARDS FARAWAY DECREE,
    HIDDEN IN AN OFFICE SOMEWHERE,
    NEVER TO WITNESS OR SEE.

    THE MISERY, THE DYING..
    THE GRIEF AND THE PAIN,
    THE RELATIVES LIVES RUINED,
    A  WELFARE STATISTIC ERASED.


GENOCIDE

  ( 21st Century Style )

    (IAN DUNCAN SMITH )

HE SHOWS ALL SIGNS OF A PSYCHOPATH.
AS HE VILIFIES THE ILL.
THOSE ON JOBSEEKERS ALLOWANCE..
AND ALMOST EVERY OTHER THING.

A FAILED LEADER AND POLITICIAN,
DEFINITELY A FAILURE AS A MAN.
HIS NAZI LIKE POLICIES..
DESIGNED ONLY TO KILL.

THERE SHOULD BE AN EPITAPH..
BUILT VERY HIGH,
WITH NAMES OF THE DEAD AND DYING.
TILL IT REACHES THE SKY.

OVER 10,000 AT LAST COUNT.
AND ITS ONLY JUST BEGUN.
EACH AND EVERY POLITICIAN..
THE QUESTION THEY SHUN.

ITS THE 21ST CENTURY
AND ONLY 68 YEARS ON.
FROM BELSON AND AUSWITCH..
BUT GENOCIDE LIVES ON.

ITS HERE IN THE UK.
HIDDEN BEHIND LIES.
SPUN BY EVIL PEOPLE.
AS ANOTHER ONE DIES.

ITS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY..
WILL THE HAGUE TURN AWAY ?
OR WILL THE COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS..
BE BUSY THAT DAY ?



I AM HUMAN

My legs may not work.
But my pain is real.
It's not the money, 
Its my dignity,
That with hatred,
They steal.

Im a person.
Not a number.
My family they care,
Love it is real.
Not your accountants,
Cold stare.

You've destroyed the soul.
Of 10,000 now dead,
But those left behind..
I will tell you its said,
We will not lay down,
Our legacy will fight,
In 2015 you'll be ousted
You shite.

The future will speak..
In dignified refrain,
We are people not numbers,
The determination remains,

So hang your head parliament,
Each and every mp,
You turned away and let horror decree,
Where were you GPs,
When we needed you there,
Deny genocide ...I ask if you dare.
 
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