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Terminal cancer patients now expected to attend work interviews or lose welfare support

Pride's Purge

(not satire)

From Charlotte Ryan:

“I have terminal cancer, my prognosis is 0-3 years and I was diagnosed in March 2014 with my brain stem glioma. In April 2014 I was placed in the support group* for 3 years and I have gone from being able-bodied to hopelessly disabled. I have many neurological deficits including diploplia, dyspraxia, dysarthria and dysphagia. To save you googling, this means that I have double vision and am going blind, I’m very clumsy and most days I drop everything I pick up, my speech is failing and one day I won’t be able to communicate verbally at all and I have such difficulty swallowing that I now have a feeding tube. I cannot leave the house alone and I’m at risk of choking and need 24 hour care. They speak of me going into residential care, but they hope to keep me in my…

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Federal Police Attack Ayotzinapa Students and Parents; Dissident Teachers Retaliate

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Federal Police Attack Ayotzinapa Students and Parents; Dissident Teachers Retaliate

Sergio Ocampo Arista

La Jornada, 15th December 2014

003n1pol-1Chilpancingo, Guerrero – Twenty-two people were injured—including 14 teachers, parents and students of the Ayotzinapa Rural Normal School and the National Autonomous University of Mexico [UNAM] and eight members of the Federal Police—in three confrontations in which police attacked with blows, rock-throwing and tear gas a group of students who were preparing for the rock concert Festival: A Light in the Darkness in the area known as El Caballito.

The clashes occurred between 4:00 and 7:00 a.m. Sunday morning. The first two were between Federal Police and students and parents [of the disappeared students]. The third clash involved about 250 members of the State Coordinating Committee of Education Workers of Guerrero (CETEG), who came to support the latter [students and parents].
Later, in a protest…

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Government already stopping unemployment benefit to women for being pregnant

I thought they wanted more British babies? whazup?

Pride's Purge

(not satire – it’s the UK today!)

Iain Duncan Smith yesterday flagged up the possibility of refusing child benefit to women who have more than two children.

But women who are pregnant with their first child are already being refused unemployment benefit.

An unemployed woman has lost her unemployment benefit after she was put on light duties at a workfare placement in B&Q when she informed them she was 23 weeks pregnant.

Full story here:

Ashton Job Centre sanctions young woman for being pregnant

This is not the first time – or the last time – that unemployed women have been targeted by the DWP for being pregnant.

In fact, this is not the first time in our history we’ve seen this kind of treatment of women in poverty who have the audacity to get pregnant ………..

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Rare Survivor

Mega-good story and good reminder to be on the lookout for asbestos lurking in your environment – they even required steel i-beams to be sprayed with it as a fire retardant – duh. So it is still in thousands of commercial buildings, and like lead will dry out and get into air inside buildings.

Silvia Writes

7-Victory

Cancer — a shocking diagnosis, triggering fear that strikes to the bone. Even in best-case scenarios, as those affected know, looking ahead tests every granule of strength.

Until recently I knew precious little about a form of cancer called mesotheliomaLung cancer brings to mind smokers, but mesothelioma goes beyond smoking, or exposure to second-hand smoking, the risk factor being exposure to asbestos.

The Patient

Last week I received an email from someone I’ve never met, Heather Von St. James, a rare mesothelioma survivor, cancer advocate, and Huffington Post blogger, among other sites. She asked if I would help share her story, and couple of email exchanges later brought us here.

If you goggle her name, Heather’s story is sure to overwhelm.

At the age of 36, soon after the birth of her daughter, Heather fell ill. She was losing weight rapidly, had no appetite, and felt like a…

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Here, There and Everywhere

Petchary's Blog

The past couple of weeks have been a little… well, busy would be an understatement. Here are a few quick highlights of some significant happenings in Kingston, Jamaica – a kind of growing intensity of pre-Christmas madness. This has all been interspersed with daily showers of rain, many heavy and lengthy and soaking in nature – an unusually wet December, so far. It is in a way rather a shame that so many events have been squeezed into a short space of time, with many occurring on the same evening. I am not very good at dashing from one place to another; I am lacking in physical stamina these days, especially since the “chik v” arrived. Well – we will all collapse over Christmas soon enough I suppose, with a glass of sorrel in our hand and platefuls of ham, Christmas cake and other goodies… Enjoy!

Two speakers at the National Volunteer Symposium, Miguel "Steppa" Williams and Kimberley Issa Sherlock chat at the JN Foundation's National Volunteer Symposium on December 5. (My photo) Two speakers at the…

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