British poetry against Atos

This video is called ATOS FORCING DISABILITY WEBSITES OFFLINE.

By Jody Porter in Britain:

The poetry of struggle – Fit To Work: Poets Against Atos

Wednesday 10 April 2013

Mark Burnhope is part of an anti-austerity campaign with a twist – he’s an editor of the website Fit to Work: Poets Against Atos.

Taking the fight against welfare reform into the field of culture, the site is an ambitious attempt to change the very meaning of the phrase “fit to work.”

“We want to change the meaning of ‘fit to work’ from a condemnatory life sentence to a recognition that everyone is fit to – and wants to – work, in dignity and security at the work of their choice,” he says.

“We believe that these circumstances are often off-limits – we are fit to work, but by and large our corporate culture is not fit for anyone to work in.

“That’s amplified by the experience of physical or mental illness and disability.”

The project hopes to add to the already high, and rising, tide of protest against what Burnhope terms “the corporatisation of the Department for Work and Pensions,” represented by Atos and the work capability assessment programme.

“To say the programme isn’t working is a gross understatement,” Burnhope tells me.

And poetry can make a difference?

“WH Auden‘s line ‘poetry makes nothing happen’ has been taken out of context and made into a challenge – one we’re accepting,” he smiles.

What brought Burnhope into disability activism?

“Amid the misery of the coalition government there have been flashes of excitement as a coalition is being created on the streets, in squats, in occupations and in community groups,” he says.

“We’ve seen disabled and disability activists at the forefront of student fees protests, and the benefits cuts are leading to an alliance around disability rights between disability activists and other campaigners.

“We’re making contacts as we go – building bridges between poetry and disability arts communities, finding contributors from all around – and they’re finding us, which is nice.

“Speaking for myself, as someone born with physical and hidden disabilities, until the coalition came in I felt more of an ally than an activist when it came to disability rights. Even now, maybe I’m just a ‘proactivist’ or a ‘reactivist’ – I’ve watched the government swing a wrecking ball through the sick and disabled community and I’ve had to say no. Publicly.

“Like race, gender and sexuality, disability has often been invisible on the left or regarded as an add-on – but now people are seeing that it’s not a supplementary, minority issue but central and far-reaching. Disabled people have always faced a dominant culture which sees their complaints and demands as quaint.

“But we’re now seeing the effects of a government and media-manufactured culture that sees benefit claimants – any benefit claimants, the average Joe doesn’t differentiate – as ‘scroungers.’

“The overwhelming mood among the disabled and sick people I know and have met through social networks is that this protest has become synonymous with disabled rights as a whole. These times could be the most significant for disabled rights in recent history. We’re taking back the movement from a government that makes every effort to undo its achievements.”

I ask him about the co-editors he runs the site with.

“They are awesome – but not as awesome as me,” he laughs. “Plus, we prefer the politically correct term ‘minions.’

“Sophie Mayer and I worked together on Catechism: Poems for Pussy Riot, an online campaigning anthology that brought together over 100 poets and culminated in the production of a book and eight launch events nationally.

“That project is what gave us the confidence to start Fit to Work and use blogging and other social media to ensure it reached the widest possible audience.

“Sophie is also a poet in her own right, published by Salt and others. Daniel Sluman edits a magazine called Dead Ink and recently had his first full poetry collection published by Nine Arches Press.

“Sophie and Daniel are both passionate about identity politics including disability, social justice, equality, all that stuff. And they’re inclusive but critical about poetry, so they were a natural choice.”

What inspired the project?

“Pictures of tiny babies crying as they are evicted and sent to the workhouse because they and their parents have rickets caused by corporate lobbying from supermarkets which has eviscerated inner-city food availability.

“In other words – the combined effects of simultaneous vicious attacks on the 99 per cent and how they affect people with disabilities – universal credit, the personal independence payment and employment support allowance, the bedroom tax, the continued outsourcing of the work capability assessment programme – with the free market, profit-led values that promotes.

“This is intensified by the tabloid media’s language of ‘scrounging’ and ‘skiving,’ all of which undermine any gains made in dismantling the disabling public perceptions of people with disabilities.

“It’s the horrible paradox where [Minister for Disabled People] Esther McVey claims she is helping (helpless) people with disabilities out of the oppression of benefits – double-speak for depriving us of what we need to participate in an ‘ablist’ society on our own terms.”

And how’s the campaign going?

“We’ve had nearly 100 submissions,” he says. “Both the poetry community in this country and the disability arts and activism community have shown their support by submitting work, reading the site and sharing it.

“We’ve got a WriteToThem link on the site so that readers can share it with their MPs, and we’re waiting to see what – if any – responses we get, which we’ll post on the site.

“So far all but a – legendary – handful of MPs have been very quiet about the total eradication of a fair benefits system, and we’re hoping against hope that the poems and statements on the site wake them up to the real effects on their constituents.

“We’re also running a GoFundMe campaign to support the site, which we’re running independently and for free. But we know that many of our contributors and readers are all struggling in the same economic situation. We’d like to raise enough money to enlarge the project, maybe with a print book, and even live reading events and workshops, thus increasing its visibility further.”

Any public events planned? Burnhope answers with a question.

“Does anyone have an accessible – and public transport accessible – venue with sign-language and hearing aid provision?” he asks.

“If so, we’d love to hear from you, so we can bring our poets and our audience together. Get in touch!”

• For more information visit Fit To Work: Poets Against Atos or their Facebook page.

Well Versed is edited by Jody Porter. Read more here.

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Atos against British disabled

This video from Britain is called ATOS FORCING DISABILITY WEBSITES OFFLINE.

From daily The Morning Star in Britain:

Atos appeals have already cost £25m

Monday 26 November 2012

Welfare minister Lord Freud admitted today that appeals against decisions by hated benefits assessor Atos had cost over £25 million in the first half of 2012.

The Department of Work and Pensions, in charge of the disastrous scheme, took a hit for £11.3m and the courts £14.9m.

He revealed the figures after Labour’s Baroness Wilkins told peers at Lords question time that 40 per cent of people who appealed had been successful.

“In total that figure is roughly accurate,” Lord Freud conceded.

Liberal Democrat Lord German also added that one in four Atos centres “did not have flat level access” for wheelchairs.

He asked if the government would ensure that wheelchair access would be provided in assessment centres.

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British disabled anti-Atos fight continues

This video from England is called DPAC and UK uncut team target Paralympics sponsor ATOS.

By Dave Sewell in Britain:

Tue 23 Oct 2012

Atos documents reveal the chaos behind Tory benefit reforms

Protests are having an impact on Atos Healthcare, the private firm paid by the government to test whether people are “disabled enough” to receive benefits.

Bungling officials at the Department for Work and Pensions have put confidential documents online. They reveal fears that the firm’s noxious reputation and nature of its tests will see it struggle to recruit enough healthcare professionals.

The tender forms for Atos’s bid to assess for the new personal independence payment benefit (PIP) refer repeatedly to these concerns.

Top of the list of risks in its risk assessment is the danger that “HPs [healthcare professionals] decide that they do not want to participate in PIP”. The cause is described as “adverse publicity”.

That’ll be all the protests—such as the high-profile week of action against Atos’ sponsorship of the Paralympic Games.

Elsewhere the tender document acknowledges that “experience shows us that the key reasons staff leave are job content, job variety and salary”.

That’s hardly surprising given the testimonies of disabled people who were reduced to tears by the assessments that make up Atos workers’ job content.

Just last month former Atos nurse Joyce Drummond publicly apologised for her time at the company. She, like many others, quit the job because of the stress of “having to trick sick people out of their benefit”.

Deskilling

One way around this problem has been deskilling. Many disabled people have been shocked to see the decisions of their GPs ignored by Atos staff who are not doctors.

The PIP tender document reveals Atos’ plans to hire just nine doctors for the whole south of England. And they plan to hire just ten for the whole of Scotland and the north of England.

Most of the assessments will be carried out by hundreds of physiotherapists. Atos lists “availability,” “cost” and “the desire for this work” among the reasons for this balance.

The other part of its damage limitation strategy seems to be to shamelessly fib. The document boasts of a “successful record of engagement” with groups representating disabled people—including Disabled People Against Cuts (Dpac), the group behind most of the protests against Atos.

On the TUC demo last Saturday Paula, a Dpac campaigner from Kent, described Atos’s claim as “an absolute lie”.

“They want to undermine us, to play divide and conquer, while people are dying,” she told Socialist Worker. “We’ve lost 1,200 so far—and that’s before the new PIP benefit, the bedroom tax and all the other cuts that are to come.”

Paula was one of hundreds of Dpac activists blocking the road at Marble Arch after the TUC demonstration in London last Saturday.

Hunger striker pickets welfare privateer Atos: here.

‘DISABLED people and their families are struggling to make ends meet and feel increasingly nervous about the future’, warned Disability UK on Monday: here.

Disabled airline passengers are being “hurt and humiliated” when they fly: here.

Atos anti-disabled corporation goes nuclear

This video from Britain is called Disabled people protest against Atos role in Paralympics.

By Paddy McGuffin in Britain:

Don’t let Atos near nuclear, Greens warn

Friday 05 October 2012

The Green Party attacked the appointment of controversial “fit for work” firm Atos to run nuclear industry IT systems today as “foolhardy in the extreme.”

Atos has been criticised repeatedly for its controversial role policing the government’s back-to-work scheme, with people wrongly having their benefits slashed and being forced into employment despite being too ill to work.

The firm also has a chequered history regarding previous government contracts.

In 2008 Atos was subject to a government inquiry after it lost sensitive data along with passwords and user names for the Department of Work and Pensions computer systems.

And earlier this year the head of the UK Borders Agency said that Atos was responsible for major disruptions in the Agency’s IT systems, causing “significant delays and hardship” for those applying for in-country visas.

But in a press statement the firm announced today that it had secured responsibility for the delivery of “significant aspects of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority‘s (NDA’s) IT services.”

The five-year, £140 million contract covers Sellafield, Magnox, National Nuclear Laboratories and Low Level Waste Repository.

Responding to the announcement Green Party environment spokeswoman Penny Kemp told the Star: “We are astounded at this government’s ability to employ companies which have been shown to be incompetent.

“This is the very company which assessed terminally ill people as fit to work and has happily helped the government slash benefits from the most vulnerable in our society.

“To trust them with the nuclear operation is foolhardy in the extreme.”

Atos said it anticipated that bringing “a diverse range of IT services into this arrangement” would deliver up to 30 per cent savings across the contracted services.

Atos UK and Ireland CEO Ursula Morgenstern said: “This is an extremely important contract for Atos and we are delighted to be at the beginning of a long and mutually beneficial relationship with the NDA estate.”

Nuclear workers’ union Prospect representative Jez Stewart said: “Any efficiencies to be made through the more effective use of technology would be welcome. But if Atos is seeking to make savings at the expense of staff we need to see a convincing business case to back their claims.”

The firm running Sellafield nuclear power station is to be prosecuted over allegations that it sent bags of low-level radioactive waste to a nearby landfill site, it was confirmed today: here.

British anti-disabled police brutality

This video from Britain is called DWP disability protest.

By Will Stone in London, England:

Met accused of Department for Work and Pensions protest brutality

Sunday 02 September 2012

Police were accused today of viciously attacking disabled protesters who peacefully occupied the Department for Work and Pensions, fracturing a wheelchair user’s shoulder and breaking another’s chair.

Campaigners occupied the department’s building in Tothill Street, Westminster, on Friday before being joined by hundreds more, concluding a week-long protest against Atos Healthcare to coincide with the opening of the Paralympic Games.

Desperate Met officers formed a line to prevent further protesters entering the building while others negotiated the exit of those already inside.

They resorted to “excessive and unnecessary” force and begun pushing the crowd resulting in the fracture of wheelchair user Patrick Lynch’s shoulder, damaging another’s chair and breaking a man’s glasses, Disabled People Against Cuts claim.

Campaigners say that another protester was tipped out of his wheelchair.

Mr Lynch said: “The police officer involved was a thug and a bully, not fit to wear the uniform. If he hadn’t been in the police he would be facing charges of assault.”

Demonstrators then began chanting “We all live in a fascist regime” to the tune of the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine.

A 31-year-old man was arrested for breach of the peace and obstructing police.

He was taken into custody and has been bailed to return in late October.

DPAC spokeswoman Maud Wilkinson said: “What happened is regrettable.

“Taken in the context of the week of action this was an isolated incident. But disabled people will not stop organising and mobilising the resistance to the brutal attack on disabled people being perpetrated by the Con-Dem government.”

Those occupying the DWP foyer left voluntarily at the end of the protest and the demonstration ended without further incident.

Protesters rail against Atos: here.

Police in Brighton have been accused of “kettling” a group of demonstrators during this weekend’s Gay Pride event in the city: here.

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British disabled keep fighting Atos

This video from Britain is called Atos protesters clash with police at DWP.

By Will Stone in Britain:

Disabled storm DWP in daring anti-Atos raid

Friday 31 August 2012

Disabled activists occupied the Department for Work and Pensions today in a daring act of defiance against government plans to cut their benefits.

The surprise action followed a hundreds-strong protest outside welfare profiteer Atos‘s headquarters in Triton Square, London, at 12.45pm that marked the grand finale of a spectacular week of demonstrations against the “fitness for work” assessors.

At the “closing Atos ceremony” disabled people spoke of how the assessments have put them “in fear of their lives” at the prospect of losing the little money they rely on to get by.

Disability activists including wheelchair users used the distraction to blockade the doors of the department, which has handed Atos a £100 million-a-year contract to boot as many sick and disabled people off their benefits as possible.

Hundreds of disabled people and their supporters from the first protest at Atos HQ then made their way by Tube, bus and taxi to join the disabled activists at the DWP.

They demanded an end to the “fitness for work” assessments, the termination of Atos’s contract and a reversal of the government’s welfare cuts.

The Con-Dem coalition wants to chop the welfare bill by a fifth, despite its own figures showing a fraud rate of less than 0.5 per cent clear alternatives such as clamping down on tax avoidance, campaigners argued.

Disabled People Against Cuts spokeswoman Lydia Foxton said: “We have been targeting Atos but they are just doing the government’s dirty work.

“Cutting welfare is devastating people’s lives and removing dignity, security and independence from thousands of sick and disabled people.

“At the same time David Cameron and his government are using the Paralympics to show themselves to be champions of disabled people. It’s a disgrace.”

The week of action, timed to coincide with the start of the Paralympic Games, began as another Atos victim became the latest to lose their life.

Breast cancer sufferer Cecilia Burns of Strabane, Northern Ireland, was found “fit for work” by Atos assessors and had been campaigning since February to against the decision.

She won her appeal just a few weeks ago but died on Monday.

UK Uncut spokesman Sam Kennard said: “The government are making disabled people a scapegoat for the economic crisis.

“They are being punished with welfare cuts while the banks and big business get off scot-free.

“The government could clamp down on tax avoidance and get back billions. The savings they will make from cutting welfare do not even come close and they are devastating people’s lives.”

See also here. And here.

Atos protest widens: here.

Carers hit by government reforms to disability benefits said today that David Cameron should keep away from the Paralympic Games: here.

Unions have urged the public to get behind disabled Remploy workers as they step up their fight to save their jobs, writes Peter Lazenby: here.

Welsh disabled people against Atos

This video from Wales is called DPAC Atos demo – Cardiff.

By a Morning Star reporter in Cardiff, Wales:

‘Is this country worth dying for?’

Thursday 30 August 2012

How can disabled people find jobs when millions are out of work? Why should anyone die for a country that won’t look after its most vulnerable?

Those were the questions asked by disability protesters who blocked a road and staged a die-in at the foot of NHS founder Aneurin Bevan‘s statue in Cardiff city centre on Wednesday.

Ex-soldier Jonathan Williams joined the action against Paralympic sponsor Atos, which is conducting tests aimed at throwing disabled people off benefits.

Mr Williams fears he will lose his own benefits and told the Star: “I wanted to highlight the plight of disabled ex-service personnel – and to ask whether a country that cannot look after its most vulnerable people is worth fighting and dying for.”

Hundreds of people stopped to support the protest. They heard partially sighted Olwen Leavold ask angrily: “Millions of people cannot find work and they have two arms, two legs and 20-20 vision. So how many jobs are out there that are suitable for people with disabilities?”

Atos’s testing standards are increasingly being called into question.

Protester Rob March said he had been passed fit after 10 years of failing tests. “Atos refused to look at my medical records and their rude, abrupt nurse took no notice of anything said by me or my carer,” he said.

Disabled People Against Cuts founder Tina Hogg vowed that the campaign would continue.

“Why should we be scapegoated and demonised for the financial woes that have been caused by the world’s banks and governments?” she asked.

Wheelchair access ramps installed in London Underground stations during the Paralympics should remain there permanently, disability campaigners said today: here.

Atos corporate oppressors abuse beautiful fish

Atos corporation are infamous for their oppression of disabled people in Britain; with people dying as a consequence.

Their spin doctors try to make the public forget that by sponsoring the Paralympic Games, now going on in London.

That is not by any means Atos’ only public relations trick, associating itself with positive and beautiful things to hide their negative, ugly activities.

In Atos’ logo, one sees a beautiful coral reef fish. Which has nothing to do with Atos, but never mind

It reminds me of polluting oil corporation BP, which tries to greenwash itself with a logo with lots of green. And to whitewash itself by sponsoring art; and the London 2012 Olympics.

It reminds me of the North Sea oil rigs of another polluting corporation, Shell, named after beautiful seabirds, endangered by Shell.

It reminds me … Etc.

BP, by the way, is not only a sponsor of the Olympics, but of the Paralympics as well.

Dow Chemical, another, to put it mildly, “controversial” Olympics sponsor, is a Paralympics sponsor too.

Activists turn up the heat on Atos in London and Cardiff: here.

Farmer Edward Adams was jailed for 18 months today after he shattered a Paralympian cyclist’s 2012 dream in a drink-drive crash: here.

Campaigners target Games sponsor Atos: here.

British disabled people fight Atos

From daily News Line in Britain:

Thursday, 30 August 2012

DISABLED PEOPLE REMEMBER THE DEAD AT ATOS HQ

DISABLED people, benefit claimants and supporters held a vigil and remembrance event yesterday for those who have died because of the actions of Paralympic sponsor Atos.

The event took place outside the company’s UK Head Office in Triton Square, Euston on the same day as the opening of the Paralympic Games.

Atos are responsible for carrying out the Government’s notorious Work Capability Assessment, a relentless health and disability assessment regime which has been used to slash vital benefits from hundreds of thousands of sick and disabled people.

Tragically, several people have committed suicide due to the endless, stressful assessments and the threat of poverty and destitution they bring.

An investigation by the Daily Mirror found that 32 people a week die after being declared ‘fit for work’ by the company, whilst Channel 4’s Dispatches recently exposed the system as ‘toxic’ in the words of Atos’ own staff.

Campaigners gathered in the square yesterday afternoon and delivered a coffin full of messages from victims of Atos to the front door of the company’s headquarters.

A memorial service then took place, involving a reading of the names of those who have died due to the company’s actions.

Some of the messages were then attached to black balloons and released as members of the congregation spoke of their own experiences at the hands of Atos.

The event took place during the National Week of Action Against Atos called by Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC), to coincide with the London Paralympic Games.

Events are taking place in towns and cities around the UK and in London disabled people and supporters will be back at Triton Square tomorrow, Friday 31st August.

Atos, disabled people’s oppressor, Paralympics sponsor

This video from Britain is called naugural Meeting of Disabled People Against Cuts or DPAC.

By Rory MacKinnon in Britain:

Disabled target Atos on eve of Paralympics

Wednesday 29 August 2012

The Paralympic Games‘ slogan is “inspire a generation” but life under Atos is killing us, disability campaigners warned today in a desperate plea to end its tick-box tests.

Disabled People Against Cuts demonstrators carried a coffin outside the multinational’s London headquarters, reading messages to Atos and memorials for people who have died after being subjected to the government’s hated work capability assessments (WCA) that are carried out by the corporation.

Meanwhile in Cardiff hundreds of protesters held a mass “die-in” around welfare pioneer Aneurin Bevan‘s statue, representing disabled people’s deaths from stress, exhaustion or even suicide after dealing with Atos.

And as the Morning Star went to press they were holding a second in an attempt to block Castle Street, a major road in central Cardiff.

In April Citizens Advice confirmed “a number of cases” where people had died shortly after Atos ruled them fit for work, while more than a thousand people in its “work-related activity group” – involving reduced payments and work-focused interviews – in last July’s trials had died by March this year.

Ex-serviceman Jonothan Williams said he was planning to turn out in his old combat jacket and beret, medals and all.

“I’ll do this to show that veterans, those people (David Cameron) calls ‘heroes’ in Parliament, are being ‘Atossed off’ as a thank you for their service and injuries,” he said.

The group’s Cardiff convener Dr Liza van Zyle said they were from many different backgrounds but were all victims of Atos’s assessments.

“Our futures have been destroyed, and we face homelessness and destitution.

“When people are driven to destitution because their benefits are stopped, some commit suicide, some sink into further ill-health – and some decide enough is enough and fight back,” she said.

The International Paralympic Committee’s sponsorship dosh is worth an estimated £100m over the next decade, yet subsidiary Atos Origin makes that much in a single year under its WCA contract with the Department of Work and Pensions.

People who score less than 15 points on its computerised checklist are automatically deemed “fit for work” and lose their incapacity benefit.

Trials last year saw a 70 per cent drop in full benefits and a 30 per cent drop in “unfit for work” assessments, leading critics to accuse Atos of deliberately driving down payouts.

The company has rejected the claim, but earlier this month a Channel 4 programme secretly filmed Atos trainers telling assessors that an approval rate above 13 per cent was “too high.”

Since its launch, more than 300,000 people have appealed against their decisions and 38 per cent have won – with a judicial review on human rights grounds now waiting in the wings.

Hours before the Paralympic Games opening this evening a poignant protest was made yards from the stadium by a former medal-winner – who’s just been sacked from Remploy: here.

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