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Another valuable posting from Andrew Roberts of Survivor History and research (studymore@studymore.org.uk) I managed to get to the last day of the Hackney museum exhibition CREATIVE JOURNEYS Responses To Mental Health in Hackney, Present and Past 12 February - 25 May Core Arts, the group that organised this, have created a book about it. The printed version costs £30, but the e-book is free. I attach your copy. For general survivor history see the creative journey of Frank Bangay (dealing with MPU in 1970s London and PROMPT and CAPO in the 1980s) and the Mad Pride notes of Mark Roberts, which bring the story up to the present resistance to welfare reform. Every story in this book is (in my opinion) worth reading many times, and every piece of art worth looking at many times. Some of the art work was much more effective in the exhibition, but I have found other pieces more effective when I looked at the book which is here on the Core Arts website Issues relating to...

THIS IS WELL WORTH POSTING IN FULL HERE: *JUDICIAL REVIEW JUDGEMENT * *SENIOR JUDGES RULE THAT THE WORK CAPABILITY ASSESSMENT DISCRIMINATES AGAINST PEOPLE WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS* The Mental Health Resistance Network (MHRN) welcomes the judgement handed down today by judges in the Upper Tribunal in the case of the two claimants with mental health problems who have challenged the manner in which people with mental health difficulties are assessed for their fitness for work through the Work Capability Assessment (WCA). The court held that the WCA process disadvantages people with mental health problems because they have greater difficulty than others in explaining to the Atos assessor how their condition affects their fitness to work. The solution is for Atos and the DWP to seek evidence from the claimant´s doctors and others in the community that know what they can do. But the DWP have consistently refused to take this step. Those who have been claiming that t...

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