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No More Deaths from Benefit Cuts

Tottenham Court Rd, London. Thur 19 May 2016

  
 
 Delegates from the TUC disabled workers conference came out to protest during the lunch break, lining up

 in front of Congress House with banners 'No More Deaths from Benefit Cuts'. Among them were activists from

 Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC), Mental Health Resistance Network (MHRN) and

 Winvisible (Women with visible and invisible disabilities).

 and set off down Great Russel St towards Tottenham Court Rd

 

 where they stopped and waited for the pedestrian crossing lights to change

 moving out into the middle of the road when they did, and stopping there

 Paula Peters of DPAC

 

 

  Building workers were among those who stopped to listen and watch
 
 

 

'Is This How 2 treat Disabled People?' a banner asks 

 

Paula Peters speaks with some anger; two more DPAC members have just died because of the Benefit cuts 

Roger Lewis of DPAC speaking 

 

 

 

and Paul leads some chanting. Many of her friends have died because of the government cuts 

and a poster at the back lists around a hundred names and some with photos, among them  

David Clapson, a diabetic ex-soldier who died penniless, alone and starving after being sanctioned. He didn't
even have enough money to keep the refrigerator to store his insulin running. 
   

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