Online Protest Against Workfare (5 Days, 5 Actions)
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We invite you to participate in unilateral mass protest against the governments Workfare scheme. Each evening there will be a different set of actions that we as a group will perform
Daily protest actions will be posted on our Facebook Information Page and below outlining planned online Actions you can take.
Thats the end of our first week of Online Protests against workfare (Mon 27th Feb - Fri 2nd March).
BUT DON'T PANIC there is plenty you can do . . . . .
Our Facebook friends at Benefit Claimants Fight Back have offered to step in for the weekend with a
Weekend of Online Action Against Workfare
Saturday 3rd – Sunday 4th March
Click here for as it happens info on Facebook
And anyone who fancy's a day out today we are aware of at least 35 Protests against workfare demonstrations planned.
Saturday 3rd March
Boycott Workfare National Day of Action
For the latest details of protests visit their facebook page
One Action from ourselves that we never really got time to do last night is send David Cameron a message
Cameron https://email.number10.gov.uk/Contact.aspx
Fax Cameron: 020 7925 0918
Postal Address: David Cameron, 10 Downing Street, London, SW1A 2AA
Email Template one (Copy and Paste)
Mr Cameron
I am writing to express my deep concern over your insistence on pushing forward with various Workfare programmes. The Policy behind these Programmes is well evidenced internationally to not only be of little effect regarding unemployment figures but also to have the potential to exploit millions of unemployed and disabled people within the UK.
These programmes, when scrutinised, are filled with objectionable policy, policy that directly contradicts that which you are personally conveying to the general public.
That you look to your CEO friends within the private sector to facilitate these schemes raises clear questions of conflict of interest also. Need I mention Mrs Harrison?
The stereotyping your party have sought to use through the media against both 2.6 million unemployed and those that oppose your Workfare schemes shows you to have nothing but contempt for the term ‘public servant'.
Perhaps if you were mandated to your job for £2ph you would begin to understand.
(Template two, Copy and Paste)
Mr Cameron
I shall get straight to the point. I would like to ask.
Why you are insistent on championing various ‘Workfare’ styled programmes that are well documented internationally to be a poorly effective when tackling unemployment, especially at times of high unemployment?
Why you have sought to involve the private sector so largely within the facilitation of these schemes? Surely a number of issues regarding conflict of interest arise when doing this? I shall point to your personal friend Mrs Harrison by way of example.
Why you keep expressing publicly that these schemes are not mandatory when various documents from the DWP clearly state otherwise?
Why government documents have been revised and altered with there being no reference to this having taken place?
Why you seek to use rhetoric that stereotypes the unemployed as being lazy and workshy?
Why do you seek to use rhetoric that stereotypes those who oppose these policies as being ‘Trotskyite’?
I look forward to your answers.
Please revisit, redo any of our Actions from this week
Comments and suggestions about actions can be posted using the feedback page
