{"id":10658,"date":"2016-11-22T16:15:33","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T16:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=10658"},"modified":"2016-11-22T16:15:33","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T16:15:33","slug":"we-are-all-daniel-blake-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=10658","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0098We are all Daniel Blake\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Members of Unite Community\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s West London branch will stage a \u00e2\u20ac\u0098We are all Daniel Blake\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 protest outside four west London job centres tomorrow (November 23) from 11am, as part of a day of action against benefit sanctions and welfare cuts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Holding \u00e2\u20ac\u0098We are all Daniel Blake\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 placards and dressed as the film\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s protagonist, protesters are urging everyone to go and see Ken Loach\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new award winning film <em>I, Daniel Blake<\/em> to build public support for a fairer social security system for people in and out of work.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The protest comes as chancellor Philip Hammond looks set to go ahead with plans to cut Universal Credit to the lowest paid, leaving them up to \u00c2\u01412,500 a year worse off when he delivers his Autumn Statement on Wednesday (November 23).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite Community has been campaigning to stop benefit sanctions ruining any more lives. Now it is calling on MPs and local councillors up and down the country to go and see <em>I, Daniel Blake<\/em> to see a true depiction of their impact.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite Community branch secretary\u00c2\u00a0Raj Gill said,\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u015bI, Daniel Blake is a damning indictment of food bank Britain. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s powerful because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s true. People need support to find work that pays, not starved for turning up 10 minutes late to an appointment or demonised for being unemployed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bMany of our members have first-hand experience of our nightmarish benefits system. They, like Daniel Blake, know the suffering and hardship caused to disabled people, unemployed and the low waged in this country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bMPs and local councillors need to speak out,&#8221; Gill added. &#8220;They need to bring humanity back into a broken system, because with 16m working aged adults in this country having no savings at all, what happens to Daniel could happen to anyone. It&#8217;s becoming less about them and more about us, we are all Daniel Blake.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe are urging the government to reverse the cuts to Universal Credit and stop benefit sanctions.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite Community membership brings together people from across society, allowing those not in work to be part of the union family to campaign on the issues that matter to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Unite Community\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s West London branch will stage a \u00e2\u20ac\u0098We are all Daniel Blake\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 protest outside four west London job centres tomorrow (November 23) from 11am, as part of a day of action against benefit sanctions and welfare cuts. &nbsp; Holding \u00e2\u20ac\u0098We are all Daniel Blake\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 placards and dressed as the film\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s protagonist, protesters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[631,491,625],"wps_subtitle":"Unite Community takes stand against benefit sanctions and cuts","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10659,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10658\/revisions\/10659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}