Justice For All Campaign (Birmingham and Coventry) Friday 3 June

Justice For All Campaign(Birmingham and Coventry) Friday 3 June Posted: 31 May 2011 06:04 PM PDT Day of Action (Birmingham and Coventry) Silent March/protest Friday 3 June, 12pm Birmingham county courts to Council House Friday 3rd June, 1.30pm Lady Godiva Statue Broadgate to the LawCentre,  Coventry Birmingham The Justice For All Campaign has been set up to stop the erosion of people’s rights to free legal advice.  With proposed cuts to legal aid and other associated funds free advice could become a thing of the past.  We aim to stop this by voicing our dissent at a local and national level.  Please come and join us in our ‘Day of Action’ Workers and Service Users from a variety of Advice and Legal support agencies across the city will join Jack Dromey MP to lead a silent protest against the governments proposed cuts to legal aid services. Please join us in the protest to show your support to protect front-line services which keep families in their homes and in work. Please also sign our petition to support the provision of free legal advice for all the people of Birmingham. www.gopetition.com/petitions/birmingham-supports-justice-for-all.html Coventry Our legal advice and representation at Coventry Law Centre is free to our clients. It is paid for by funding from Coventry City Council, the Equality and Human Rights Commission and other funders, and by Legal Aid. The government is currently proposing drastic cuts to Legal Aid. Click here for Further Information. We believe free, independent advice and representation on legal matters  is essential to achieve justice for all. Legal rights have no meaning if you  can’t enforce them. YOU CAN HELP If you would like to help, there are three things you can do: Support the Justice for All national day of action Please join our Silent March from Broadgate in Coventry City Centre to Coventry Law Centre on Friday 3rd June 2011. Click the link above for further information. Sign our petition This will be sent to Ken Clarke, Secretary of State for Justice. Write to your local MP We have included some template letters which you can use.

Letter to Steve Cram to reconsider his role as Atos Ambassador Posted: 31 May 2011 11:02 AM PDT News about Steve Cram as Atos Origin 2012 ambassador Disabled people are extremely angry with Steve Cram for accepting the post of  ‘ambassador’ for big business privatisers Atos Origin in their capacity as IT partner for the London 2012 Olympics. (from Les Woodward, Remploy Trade Union National Convenor ) DPAC wrote the letter below to Mr Cram to ask him politely to reconsider his position. Sent to info@cram-alert.co.uk and Steve Cram’s agent: info@missionsports.co.uk Dear Mr Cram With all the charity work you do and the fact that you have been involved with the paralympics,we find it very surprising that you have made the decision to be ambassador for any part of ATOS. http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/feb/23/government-reform-disability-benefits please read this article. You may or may not be aware that people all over the country have been and continuing to campaign against Atos for the horrendous work they are doing against disabled people. http://www.dpac.uk.net/2011/05/national-week-of-action-against-atos-origin-some-reports/ They were campaigning against ATOS healthcare, part of ATOS origin, and the barbaric WCA tests they carry out on the sick and disabled and the notorious tick box LIMA computer system used by them for ascertaining people as fit for work or not. And It may interest you to know that many Disabled People Organisations, disability groups, Medical Professionals, Scholars & Academics, Independent Inquiries & Commissions have made clear in unequivocal public statements that the Work Capability Assessment in it’s current guise is “NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE” but is willingly administered by ATOS Heathcare To give you an idea of the type of experience disabled people go through at an Atos assessment, have a read of this website- http://dwpexamination.wordpress.com/examining-atos/ Please withdraw your support for them and speak to any disabled people’s organisations to find out what the disabled community, charities and the CAB think regarding this company. Please WITHDRAW YOUR SUPPORT for this company and if you could, publicise why! Bearing in mind the increasingly voluble and angry voices of disabled people and their allies, we wonder if being an ambassador to Atos is worth the disappointment of the public and loss of the reputation you would have built over the years. Thank you for considering this petition, Yours sincerely Disabled People Against Cuts http://www.dpac.uk.net —————————— The campaign is at Virtual Gherkin the facebook campaign Steve Cram’s Facebook page: