Please help this valuable campaign
Best wishes
Victoria
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From: Swift, Rebecca [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 23 November 2011 11:48
Subject: Urgent Hardest Hit Campaign Action- please sign our giant Christmas
Card to the Government!!
Importance: High
Dear All
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.
The text of the card is below:
"Dear David Cameron and Nick Clegg,
While we don't expect gifts this Christmas, we do want our basic rights
protected 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 to the online action:
http://www.e-activist.com/ea-action/widget?widgetId=752
Please could you take a minute to click on the link and sign our Christmas
card?
We are also asking everyone to ask ten friends or family members to do the
same. Please could you forward this to as many people as possible?
If you there is anyone who isn't online who would like to sign please
forward their names to [log in to unmask] and we will add them to the
card.
We only have 2 weeks to collect 10,000 signatures so your help is really
important to us.
Thank you!!
Rebecca
Rebecca Swift
Regional Campaigns Officer (West Midlands)
Royal National Institute of Blind People (West Midlands)
58-72 John Bright Street
Birmingham
B1 1BN
Tel: 0121 665 4260
Mobile: 07852775124
E-mail:[log in to unmask]
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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