{"id":227,"date":"2016-09-13T01:52:47","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T01:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.edinburghagainstpoverty.org.uk\/?p=227"},"modified":"2017-07-10T01:58:12","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T01:58:12","slug":"advocacy-is-not-a-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edinburghagainstpoverty.org.uk\/?p=227","title":{"rendered":"Advocacy is Not a Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"

DEFEND THE RIGHT TO BE ACCOMPANIED<\/span><\/p>\n

BESIEGE HIGH RIGGS JOBCENTRE<\/span><\/p>\n

MON 3rd OCTOBER 12 NOON \u2013 2PM<\/span><\/p>\n

Police preventing advocacy<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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On 1st\u00a0September the management at High Riggs Jobcentre called the police to deny an ill and vulnerable man his right to be accompanied to a Job Seekers Allowance appointment by his father and an advocate from Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty.<\/span><\/p>\n

The DWP are once more breaking their own rules: DWP official policy is that “Customers have the right to ask a representative to help them conduct their business with DWP…”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

(DWP Working with Representatives Guidance<\/a> p2)<\/span><\/p>\n

The High Riggs bosses have used the police to deny claimants\u2019 rights several times before. But every time we have come back in greater numbers and forced the Jobcentre to recognise the right to be accompanied.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is a fight for all claimants, for all who care about human rights and for all working class people.\u00a0The assault on benefits is central to the whole austerity attack \u2013 the ruling class want to make life on benefits intolerable so workers will accept any old crap wages and conditions. But the bosses forget \u2013 we are many and they are few.<\/span><\/p>\n

Join us on 3rd\u00a0October!<\/span><\/p>\n

Solidarity action will beat the bullies!<\/span><\/p>\n

ADVOCACY IS NOT A CRIME<\/span><\/p>\n

Full report of what happened at High Riggs on 1st September<\/span><\/p>\n

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