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- Body Shop and Shoe Zone exposed – help find out more!Yesterday, Boycott Workfare members hit their local high street to find out which stores used workfare. Just a couple of hours of sleuthing delivered great returns as we uncovered new workfare exploiters, including several big brands. Finding out who takes on workfare is really useful so that we can take action against those who are [...]
- Body Shop and Shoe Zone exposed – help find out more!
- DPAC
- Disability Charities accused of bullying disabled people off benefitsWhile there always seems to be plenty of money for some from disability sadly, the trickle-down effect never seems to reach as far as disabled people themselves. We still seem to be being exploited as cash cows for others. Below tells how charities are exploiting disabled people through the evidence of a whistleblower from one [...]
- Disability Charities accused of bullying disabled people off benefits
- Freedom Press
- June issue of Freedom now availableJune 2012 issue of Freedom An Olympic Games special edition for June 2012 issue is now out and available either directly from Freedom Bookshop or from other good radical bookshops or social centres. Stockists: » Freedom Bookshop, London » Housmans bookshop, London » LARC, London » 56a Infoshop, London » Newham Bookshop, London » Pogo Cafe, London » Rough Tra […]
- June issue of Freedom now available
- Ian Bone
- FUCK THE MONARCHY-REPUBLIC DEMO ON JUNE 3RDFirstly -well done REPUBLIC. Secondly FUCK THE MONARCHY and roll on the CW cover ‘ANOTHER FUCKING ROYAL PARASITE’ when heir is born.I’ll be there:- FUCKING SWAN MAIMER Jubilee Protest – 3 June 2012 The Thames Pageant is the key event in … Continue reading →
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- Sparks, SPUC, pasties and parties – late May round-upA few recent items of interest: first off, the big news is that, having taken a well-deserved break after the defeat of the BESNA contracts, the sparks’ rank-and-file network is back in action today with a walk-out at Ratcliffe-on-Soar power … Continue reading →
- Sparks, SPUC, pasties and parties – late May round-up
- Ipswich Unemployed Action.
- Systematic Fraud in Welfare-to-Work (A4E, Working Links): We Ask the Hard Questions.Grayling: Praying for a Miracle. “There’s no problem with fraud in A4E or elsewhere. I asked them and they said it wasn’t so. And how is this Eddie Hutchinson chap? He goes there and a day or so later he’s making all these wild allegations. Anyway he was only at A4E for two minutes. And what about that [...]
- Systematic Fraud in Welfare-to-Work (A4E, Working Links): We Ask the Hard Questions.
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- FITwatch beneFIT: Weds 30th May.Come and join us in one of South London's finest boozers and live music venues, and help us raise some much-needed money! See you there. FW Crew x
- FITwatch beneFIT: Weds 30th May.
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- Globe Protestor: "Why is Israel the Exception?"Habima Israel's National Theatre is performing in London at the Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (SGT). Habima regularly performs in illegal Israeli settlements & is funded by the State of Israel. SGT refused Global calls to Boycott Habima. On Habima's opening night yesterday a Protestor from Denmark was thrown out by the Globe for displaying a […]
- Globe Protestor: "Why is Israel the Exception?"
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Hello,
I really enjoyed your blog.I would like to get a link on it.My names is
Joel & I represent http://www.fool.com,Let me know if your up for it.Thanks!
Joel
if yer gonna spam at least try and provide a working link eh
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spammer says:
Turning up the HEAT:
Can big business really save the planet?
no
ask next time
London Olympics terror threat used to vastly increase surveillance powers
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7386889.stm
Hi – I’ve just launched an anti-bottled water campaign that I think might appeal to your narking off ambitions… You can find us at http://www.wewanttap.com. If you like what you see then please help us get the word out.
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What happened to the Ray Lewis post? I called back to say what a brilliant bit of work, so I’ll leave it here. Fuckin nice one.
RE: another blog. nice 1 mr.void. keepin me sane enough to keep the faith. TOUGH AT THE TOP, INNIT?
Actually it won’t do spammers very much good to get a link from here because you’ve got nofollows on so Google will give linked to sites not credit.
Nonetheless I would have expected a little more creativity!
By the way, any spammers looking for a blog without nofollows, try mine. Yeah go on, just try it if you think you’re hard enough! Or maybe just visit it if you’re after info, opinion and general chit chat about what’s going on in Notting Hill.
Now that last bit WOULD have been good spam were it not for nofollow!
Enjoy Carnival.
Remember the plans to build a “super Pandemic Virus Lab” in Camden?
Camden Council have responded to all the indymedia pandemic postings with….advice pages on “what to do in a Pandemic. PAndemic and the elderly. PAndemic and your baby. Will your business survive a Pandemic. [..as in where are all the staff?]. There is even ” your IT systems in aPandemic form Camden in the USA….”. Glad to see we are getting to them….
P.S. sorry about my dyslexia….just one of those things…..it’s all this Pandemic worry.
That’s quite scary – is there any other info about this or is it just another Indymedia conspiracy theory? Searches on “Super pandemic virus lab” only lead to Indymedia and this page, do you have any more links or is that substantially it?
Speaking of horrible weapons, read my newest short story, “War Without Tears”, it’s all about the war, the basic premise being that the Fourth World War is fought in the country of the mind…
good to see you last night. lookin forward to going back for a gander at the pics without half of brick lane there!
paulx
I’m impressed with the content of your blog and your style and would you be interested in exchanging links?
London Is Cool
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I have never seen a page dedicated to just spam, interesting
Invitation to Unemployment Movement.
We would like to advise your visiters that the unemployment movement website is open for those who are interested in creating a movement to protect themselves from welfare reforms. Our aim is to create a national movement from the ground up not connected to political parties or organisations, unions or ngo`s.
What we provide are resources to socially network, blog and discuss issues in a forum and are not so arrogant to believe the website is a polished or a finished item and so will be relying on new members ideas and suggestions.
For us claiming any benefit is a Right and not charity; it is enshrined in Law as the right to life. We have nothing to be ashamed of, we are not spongers, we not criminals or deviants, we are unemployed because of the economic incompetence of a few.
We look forward to your visit and interest at http://unemploymentmovement.com
If you have any difficulty joining please contact us with the contact form or you can read our FAQ which may point to the problem.
I’ve been reading Johnny Void’s blog for a while now so thought I would leave some spam.
I’m Jason, my blog is fairly new. I’m banging the drum on prohibition and the human costs, especially tot he medicinal users of cannabis like myself.
I have followed to Debra Bell part of this blog since it started so thought it was time I said hi. All my best, Jason. (Home Grown Outlaw)
Not sure if i’ll be able to attend this one. People please print off this image onto sticker paper and plaster it wherever it will be best seen. Or blow it up big and attach it to placards. You know what to do.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexdeanphotos/5224406912/
Image uses Lib Dem Yellow, NUS blue (which also happens to be a similar colour to Conservative blue) and Money print in the background.
The following is from a leaflet advertising a “Bank Run” for 26 Jan 2011. Publicity has deliberately been left to a few days before the event. It’s totally uncentralised – no spokespeople or official HQs. Please circulate.
(start)
Fed up with the banks holding the world to ransom? Then hopefully you’ll want to take part in the bank run that’s planned for 26 January, 2011. Protestors are calling it “Revenge Wednesday”.
You can also help build up momentum by using Twitter to send the following tweet. (And if you receive this tweet from someone else, please “retweet” it!)
Suggested tweet:
*** Hit back at the banks: BANK RUN on Revenge Wednesday, 26 Jan 2011. Info at: tinyurl.com/bankrun2011 PLEASE FORWARD THIS ***
Further info – which also, please circulate if you can…
BANK RUN ON REVENGE WEDNESDAY, 26 JAN
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On Wednesday 26 January 2011, thousands of people in the UK will try to cause a bank run by withdrawing money from their bank accounts, in person, at high street bank branches.
The hope is that the movement will snowball.
Everyone is welcome. Just print out the form below, fill in your details, and take it to your bank, preferably around lunchtime, e.g. about 1pm. Even better, print out multiple copies and hand them round. Use email, Twitter, Facebook too.
When the first bank branch says it won’t pay out people’s money, let everyone know, using every means possible. Take photos. Use mobile phones, send tweets, get the journalists in on the picture. This movement is decentralised. It is what you and we make it.
Note that this idea was tried last December, after being suggested by Eric Cantona. Unfortunately it didn’t go very far, mainly because the organisers asked people to “sign up” online. We’re not asking you to sign up to anything. In particular, you do NOT have to give any personal details to anyone. The form below is just for giving to your BANK.
If you can only afford to withdraw 10 pounds, please do it. If you can afford to withdraw thousands of pounds, do that too. EVERY LITTLE HELPS. Banks cannot withstand everyone withdrawing even a tenth of what they’ve got in the bank. LET’S SEND THESE PARASITES A MESSAGE THEY’LL NEVER FORGET. It’s an open secret that they’re holding the country to ransom. Let’s kick ‘em where it hurts.
This is the financial system’s MAJOR WEAK SPOT. That’s why the Dutch government is considering making it illegal to call for a bank run. Because they’re SCARED. In 2009 there was a bank run against a Dutch bank. This was considered to be a particularly unpleasant bank, which had been encouraging millions od Dutch people to get into debt who couldn’t afford it. People did a run against it, and it went bankrupt. How sad.
In Britain, you’d be hard pushed to name a bank which DIDN’T try to get people into massive debt they can’t really afford.
Here’s the bottom line: THE BANKS HAVE GOT IT COMING TO THEM.
So please take part. Spread the news. Distribute this leaflet. Print your own. Just do a little bit to help, and we’ll be strong and we’ll blast the damn banks like they’ve never been blasted before.
Please print the following, complete the details, and hand it to your bank around 1pm on 26 Jan 2011.
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NAME: _________________________ _
ADDRESS:_________________ ____________
_________________________ _______
ACCOUNT NUMBER: ___________________
SORT CODE:____________________ __
NAME OF BANK:____________________ _
To: the Branch Manager
Dear Sir,
I wish to withdraw ____________ pounds from my account in cash, immediately.
Yours sincerely,
__________________ (signed)
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Hi there,
Maybe spam, maybe not… New website for anthropological types @ http://www.theanthropologist.co.uk
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Loving your blog Johnny.
Thought you might be interested in Armchair Auditing taking place at Westminster Council
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Hi Johnny Void,
Have you got an e-mail to reach you on regarding media enquiries for your blog?
Chris
(chris.henry@winkball.com)
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i have recently received a letter from DWP saying they will be calling in the next two weeks to confirm my husbands identity in order to send him a questionaire.
I have been dreading this for a long time and dont know how to deal with it really.
My husband does not even speak on the phone to anyone, he has suffered from serious mental illness all his adult life, clinical depression, self harming, anxiety, panic attacks, paranoia, night terrors, insomnia and he also has coronary heart disease (he had his first heart attack age 35, he is now 46. He has to take 13 tablets every day for his heart and depression.
I tried to complete a nursing degree to get us off benefits but my husband had a series of mental breakdowns during this time and found it hard to cope on his own and look after the children, so i had to give it up when i was in second year (having passed all my exams).
Also before he was diagnosed with heart disease in 2001, he worked off and on as a live sound engineer but had to give it up after he was hospitalised after a nervous breakdown during the first gulf war (which he was very worried about).
I just wanted to find out a bit more about what you do and try to support your protests, i came down to woodlands road on 29th september to see if i could speak to some people involved but i didnt get there till 7.45 and no one was there. Me and my husband have been together since 1979 when we were 14 and ever since these benefit changes were announced it has made my husband feel very anixious and worried about the future.
jan
I’m so fucking angry with this government and this system, corportate greed, nato bombing, military spending, police state, i could go on and on lol
Can ANYONE provide me with the weaponry to mount a wholesale assault on Kapitalism? Anything up to,and including,an ICBM would be most welcome.
Great Blog. Here is my own humble contribution.
http://alextalbot.blogspot.com/2012/02/it-was-sun-wot-dun-it.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/feb/25/burger-king-quits-work-experience-scheme
burger king pull out!!
THE HOUSE OF CARDS IS FALLING !
http://www.mya4e.com/2010/11/12/a-letter-of-thanks-to-our-edinburgh-team/
One worries that the only congratulatory letter they get is some sleazy crawling letter from somebody who was forced to work for them.. gratis!
He certainly knows his buzzwords though.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/exclusive-a4e-and-a-200m-backtowork-scandal-7440966.html
The Labour MP Margaret Hodge, chair of the Commons Public Accounts Committee, who has seen a copy of Ms Verwaerde’s complaint, said it was “horrifying”. Tomorrow she will call on Chris Grayling, the Employment minister, to carry out an “urgent investigation” into the state of A4e’s contracts with the DWP. She will also present him with documentation outlining allegations that she has received from people describing themselves as clients of A4e or previous employees of the firm.
“I have had so many serious concerns and allegations raised with me about what now appears to systemic poor practice and fraud at A4e that I shall be calling on the minister on Monday to undertake a transparent, thorough and urgent investigation,” she said. “When public money is at risk, the common-sense thing is to suspend these contracts until we can all be confident that taxpayers’ money is being properly used.”
At last – the house is crumbling!
I don’t mind spam, but I prefer luncheon meat. Sorry, I couldn’t resist.
For anyone in the Norwich area. Whether this is directed at Tesco or another company depends on developments over the coming week. https://www.facebook.com/events/173153599463782/
A4e – Professionals or Unfit for purpose?
Fit for purpose?
‘My view is that this company has demonstrated that it is unfit to hold this kind of contract’.
MP Fiona Mactaggart who sits on the Public Accounts committee 2012
“I have had so many serious concerns and allegations raised with me about what now appears to systemic poor practice and fraud at A4e that I shall be calling on the minister on Monday to undertake a transparent, thorough and urgent investigation,”
MP Margaret Hodge, chair of the Commons Public Accounts Committee 2012
A “Social Purpose Company”?
A4e is notorious for its now threadbare pretentions to being a “social purpose” company.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/feb/28/why-work-programme-bad-business
Bullying?
One whistleblower … said: “I have witnessed colleagues who were bullied by management so badly that it caused stress and depression leading to them resigning.”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/worked-over-tory-jobs-tsar-737191
Paying Contractors?
And The People’s Supermarket, which worked with A4e, said it had not received £15,000 for helping 17 people into work.
Boss Kate Bull said: “We feel we have been totally used.”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/worked-over-tory-jobs-tsar-737191
Touting for Business?
Supermarket group Sainsbury’s claimed that A4e had “persistently approached” its stores asking it to take on job seekers on unpaid work experience, “against our wishes”.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/feb/25/a4e-welfare-emma-harrison-properties
Ethics?
“A4e, a training company which is at the centre of an investigation into allegations of fraud, made jobseekers take up the unpaid four-week placements in at least two of its London offices.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9099947/A4e-made-jobseekers-work-in-own-offices.html
Several whistleblowers from around the country had already told the Mail about dubious practices at A4e while asking to retain their anonymity.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2106051/Emma-Harrison-resigns-A4e-quitting-government-role-amid-fraud-claims.html
You decide.
anyone any experience with pinnacle people?
Hi Jonny…wonder if anyone outthere has any info, other than the ‘perfect doctor’ image of Dr Ian Banks. This man heads up a ‘charity’ called mens health forum, and the forum’s ‘shop’ sells his books, published by Haynes like ‘how to change a nappy if you’re a real bloke’……..any enuf sed any help would be most appreciated…!
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hi, i’ve been off work since maggie thatcher 1983 with my cancer and depression and bad nerves. this govt. have yet to send for me. i’m on IS with the premium. under dear old gordy it was fairly straightforward ( has atol been in charge all along ?) but the rules of the game have clearly changed. when blair came in they had us on 2 months voluntary work straight away ( i was on the dole back then). i was sent by some private firm in walthamstow to an agency in harringey where they signed my timesheet and left it up to me whether i worked in a charity shop or not. forced volunteering was an oxymoron they said. i feel a bit worried about all this. i like this blog, as it expresses my exact sentiments. if anyone else is in the same boat please email me and i’ll buy them a beer, as i feel a bit on my own with it. ppsmudge@gmail.com
Hi, I’m a literary agent. I’d love to talk to you about ideas for a book if you’re interested.
Jamie Coleman
Toby Eady Associates
Hi, loved your piece entitled ‘war on poor’, could I use it as a voice over for a video I want to make? In fact, would you have time to read it for me?
yer email address don’t work mate. you can contact me at thevoidblog@yahoo.co.uk
I’m trying to contact the list owner? Any chance of an email?
Answer your phone, you old git. x