WinVisible is among those supporting Joy Dove, mother of Jodey Whiting. On 10 June, DWP officials travelled to meet Jodey’s bereaved parents at the office of her MP, where they told her they have made many changes. They told her that Mind is providing training to staff. Read the Disability News Service report of the meeting … Read more
Ontario is a large province in Canada which borders the United States. Last month, their Basic Income (BI) pilot scheme was ended early. In April 2017, while the Liberal Party was in power in Ontario, they started a BI pilot scheme with about 4,000 people in the test communities of Hamilton-Brantford, Thunder Bay and Lindsay. It was … Read more
Film director Ken Loach, who made “I, Daniel Blake” (2016) to expose the brutalities of the benefits system, has given his support to Joy Dove, mum of Jodey Whiting. Ken Loach said on Twitter: “The DWP is still failing people – it may be worse now than it was when we made I, Daniel Blake.” In … Read more
Foil Vedanta PRESS RELEASE 10th April 2019: LANDMARK JURISDICTION CASE WON BY ZAMBIAN FARMERS AT SUPREME COURT Historic victory opens the door for global claimants to seek justice against British multinationals in the UK Watch a short video of the Supreme Court judgement here Supreme Court case materials here The Supreme Court today (10 April 2019) announced … Read more
Support the petition to stop the dangerous merger of tests for PIP and ESA/Universal Credit On 5 March 2019, benefits Minister Amber Rudd announced at a Scope conference that the DWP would develop a single digital system – online like Universal Credit — for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and Personal Independence Payments (PIP), and have … Read more
Tomorrow Monday 25 March, 10-11am, please support the protest at Lonmin’s AGM: At Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH. With War on Want, London Mining Network, Decolonising Environmentalism (students at University College School of Oriental and African Studies — SOAS), Women of Colour Global Women’s Strike, and others. UPDATE: the planned meeting on Tues 26 March … Read more
We’re supporting the petition to Amber Rudd to STOP the DWP telling GPs not to issue sick notes for patients who are wrongly found fit for work. Sign the petition here. See petition updates from Zacchaeus 2000 here. Sick and disabled people are being deprived of vital benefit while they appeal, leaving them destitute and risking their … Read more
We are supporting Joy Dove’s new petition, Justice for Jodey Whiting, her daughter – please sign here. A 42-year-old formerly married single mother of nine and grandmother in Stockton, North East England, Jodey Whiting took her own life in February 2017 after being cut off ESA. She had missed seeing a letter calling her in … Read more