Daily Archives: 18/05/2011

The Hardest Hit march: Legal action could be next on protest agenda

Leading disabled activists have hailed the success of the Hardest Hit protest after thousands of disabled people marched past Parliament to demonstrate against the government’s spending cuts and welfare reforms.
Organisers estimate that between 10,000 and 12,000 people – the majority of them disabled people – took part in the protest.
But they warned that the march [...]

The Hardest Hit march: Thousands send coalition message on cuts

Thousands of disabled people have taken part in a march to call on the government to halt its programme of cuts to disability benefits and services and its attacks on equality and disability rights.
The Hardest Hit march, which started with a rally on Victoria Embankment by the Thames before protesters set off on a route [...]