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Posted by Mark Buckley on Tue 22/11/11. Listed in UK disability equality news
Quick and Easy!
Help the Hardest Hit Campaign to lobby Parliament with e-petition against the Welfare Reform Act
Dear Colleagues,
We are writing to you as you because we urgently need your help with a very quick and easy action.
The Welfare Reform Bill is making its way through the final stages in Parliament. The next month provides us with our last real opportunity as a sector to influence the bill and we need to make our next action BIG and LOUD.
A giant Christmas card has been organised by the Hardest Hit campaign group (DBC (Disability Benefits Consortium). The famous cartoonist and illustrator, Gerald Scarfe, is illustrating the card. We have 2 weeks(deadline 6 December) to gather 10,000 signatures before the card is presented to the Government in early December.
The action is timed for WRB reaching Report Stage in the House of Lords and aims to increase political pressure on the Government by demonstrating mass concern over how disabled people will be affected by proposals within the Welfare Reform Bill, particularly the time-limit on ESA and PIP proposals.
Text of the card follows:
"Dear David Cameron and Nick Clegg, While we don't expect gifts this Christmas, we do want our basic rightsprotected and the support to enable us to live independently and with dignity. Please make the New Year something disabled people can look forward to
by:
*Not bringing in an arbitrary time-limit on Employment and Support Allowance for those who've paid into the system and still need support.
*Making sure that those who rely on Disability Living Allowance continue to receive the financial support they need through Personal Independence Payment"
This is the link where you can sign the card:
http://www.e-activist.com/ea-action/widget?widgetId=752
Please do promote this action to your friends, family and colleagues.
Those signing the card can also leave a short comment if they wish in the card.
For those people who do not have access to the internet, off-line signatures can be collected on the attached form. Please send any offline signatures through to our Judd Street campaigns team by telephone on 020 7391 2123 orby email to campaign@rnib.org.uk or by posting the form back to: Campaigns
Team, RNIB, 105 Judd Street, London WC1H 9NE. We will then make sure they are added to those signatures that are being collected online.
Thank you so much for your help.
Kind regards
Lindsay
Lindsay Armstrong
Regional Campaigns Officer RNIB North West
The Gateway Centre
71 London Road
Liverpool L3 8HY
Fair benefits? Act now http://tinyurl.com/765rorx RNIB is supporting the Hardest Hit campaign to protect benefits and services for blind and partially sighted people. Please sign the Christmas card to David Cameron and Nick Clegg asking for a fair benefits system.
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