Disability Rights Campaigners Protest outside the Atos Origin HQ

As part of the Coalition of Resistance's 'National Day of Protest Against Benefit Cuts', Disability rights campaigners demonstrated today outside the London HQ of Atos Origin to protest against the punitive medical testing of those claiming disability and sickness benefits. The new Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) has replaced Incapacity Benefit.

Protesters are angry that in spite of well documented criticisms of the Work Capability Assessment by HM Government's Professor Harrington, ATOS have again been awarded a £300 million contract by DWP to continue making these flawed assesments which have already ruined many disabled peoples' lives and has already led to several suicides.

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Its about time people in the UK started to stand up for themselves instead of been bullied and brainwashed by the right wing media, who are inciting hatred towards disabled people.