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Selian Agricultural Research Institute. Scholastica Morrison is CIAT's lab technician, in the soil chemistry and fertility department.
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October 2011
Unofficial sustainability assessment of the Trevallyn Power Development, Tasmania, Australia
Find out more about the Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol: hydrosustainability.org
October 2011
Unofficial sustainability assessment of the Trevallyn Power Development, Tasmania, Australia
Find out more about the Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol: hydrosustainability.org
DPAC and TUC Disabled Workers block Tottenham Court Road - London 22.05.2013
Activists from DPAC and disabled workers attending the TUC Disabled Workers Conference blocked Tottenham Court Road in Central London for an hour and a half as they protested loudly against punitive government cuts to disability benefits and services which is impacting disastrously - and already fatally - on our most vulnerable citizens.
**From the DPAC website **
On the day of the success of the High Court ruling ruling against the Work Capability Assessment, activists from Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) and disabled workers attending the Trades Union Congress (TUC) Disabled Workers Conference blocked Tottenham Court Road in an unprecedented act of solidarity.
This Government has repeatedly used the language of division, trying to divide workers and claimants, public and private sectors workers, non-disabled and disabled people. Today we strike back as one, united voice.
The Cuts imposed by the ConDem Government under the cloak of ‘Austerity’ impact on disabled people in every area of life. The scrapping of Disability Living Allowance (DLA) and the Independent Living Fund (ILF) will tens of thousands of disabled workers, and will force many of them out of their jobs. Hundreds of thousands of disabled people both receive and deliver public services as workers in Public Service Departments, Local Authorities and the Voluntary Sector. ILF and DLA play critical roles in maintaining people in these jobs. The 1% uplift limit on Benefits, Universal Credit and the Bedroom Tax will impact on many disabled people both in and out of work.
The removal of many of our basic rights affect not just disabled people, but all of us. For example, the removal of Legal Aid for medical negligence claims comes at the same time as every single contract within the Health Service is open to tender by private companies. This has serious and significant implications for each and every one of us who make up the 99%.
But not everyone is being hit by austerity. While multi-nationals like Atos and Capita make fortunes, tax avoidance and evasion to the tune of tens of billions goes uncollected. The wealthiest 1000 UK residents increased their wealth by some 35 billion last year while disabled people and the poorest members of society were pushed into poverty and despair as the targets of brutal cuts.
Disabled activists have led the fightback against this Government since the beginning, and today disabled activists and workers lead the way again in the first joint, co-ordinated direct action by campaigners and unions on the streets of the U.K.
Shabnam O Saughnessy from DPAC said: "We are delighted to be joined on the streets today by our union comrades. This represents the first steps towards uniting resistance from communities and workplaces. It dispels the myth of disabled people as scroungers and workshy. We are not some separate group of others, we are your friends and neighbours, we work alongside you. Many millions of disabled people are being affected by cuts, and today is about getting our voices heard."
Mandy Hudson, co-chair of the TUC disabled workers committee said: "Trade unionists would like to send a clear message to this government that trade unions, workers and grass roots disabled groups stand together against the onslaught of vicious cuts rained down upon us by the Condems."
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Officials in Puerto Rico continue to lower the water level behind a dam. U.S. Air Force photo by A1C Nicholas Dutton
Bigger. Stronger. Faster. Thanks to RehabWorks for coming out and assessing some of our athletes here at Auburn Mixed Martial Arts. For more information please call (334) 887-0818
Bigger. Stronger. Faster. Thanks to RehabWorks for coming out and assessing some of our athletes here at Auburn Mixed Martial Arts. For more information please call (334) 887-0818
Before entering Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant you have to sit in one of these chairs which somehow measure the level of Caesium-137 in your body....
October 2011
Unofficial sustainability assessment of the Trevallyn Power Development, Tasmania, Australia
Find out more about the Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol: hydrosustainability.org
October 2011
Unofficial sustainability assessment of the Trevallyn Power Development, Tasmania, Australia
Find out more about the Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol: hydrosustainability.org
October 2011
Unofficial sustainability assessment of the Trevallyn Power Development, Tasmania, Australia
Find out more about the Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol: hydrosustainability.org
October 2011
Unofficial sustainability assessment of the Trevallyn Power Development, Tasmania, Australia
Find out more about the Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol: hydrosustainability.org
October 2011
Unofficial sustainability assessment of the Trevallyn Power Development, Tasmania, Australia
Find out more about the Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol: hydrosustainability.org
11 March 2014
Interim Economic Assessment.
Rintaro Tamaki, Deputy Secretary-General and acting Chief Economist of the OECD
OECD Headquarters, Paris
photo: Herve Cortinat/OECD
October 2011
Unofficial sustainability assessment of the Trevallyn Power Development, Tasmania, Australia
Find out more about the Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol: hydrosustainability.org
October 2011
Unofficial sustainability assessment of the Trevallyn Power Development, Tasmania, Australia
Find out more about the Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol: hydrosustainability.org
October 2011
Unofficial sustainability assessment of the Trevallyn Power Development, Tasmania, Australia
Find out more about the Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol: hydrosustainability.org
DPAC & UK Uncut hold ATOS Closing Ceremony - 31.08.2012
As the Grand Finale to a week-long national campaign of protests against French IT company ATOS Origin and its spinoff ATOS Healthcare which carries out the much-criticised Wirk Capability Assessments on behalf of the DWP, which has seen tens of thousands of severely sick and disabled people declared to be "Fit for Work" and thrown off their disability benefits, several hundred activists from DPAC (Disabled People Against Cuts), WinVisible, Disabled Activists' Network, UK Uncut, Right to Work Campaign, Unite the Union, the GMB Union, Occupy London and the National UNion of Students descended on ATOS' London headquarters to carry out what they had billed as the "ATOS Closing Ceremony" - a reference to ATOS' hugely derided sponsorship of the Paralympic Games which is, say the activists, an act of spectatular cynicism by a corporation which is currently contracted by the Cameron government to the tune of £100 million to conduct the much-feared medical assessments without any reference whatsoever to peoples' medical notes of histories.
For two hours the crowd chanted slogans, listened to oral testimonies from people whose lives have been badly affected by ATOS decisions, heard accounts of people driven into such despair by dealing with ATOS that they have comitted suicide, and also heard many accounts of seriously ill people thrown off their benefits by ATOS who have been forced to look for work - having been declared fit for work - and who have died shortly afterwards. The list of people irreperably harmed by ATOS' computer-driven tick-box assessment which cannot possibly take into account the huge range of physical and mental disabilities seems endless.
Following some dogged Freedom of Information requests by two Daily Mirror journalists earlier this year it is now known that an average of 32 sickness or disability benefit claimnants who have been thrown off their benefits by the DWP following an ATOS zero-point rating and placed in the Work-Related Activity Group or who have been put on Jobseeker's Allowance have died shortly afterwards. In many instances relatives of the deceased have claimed that the stress of being treated in such an inhumane way by ATOS contributed to their deaths.
During the protest at Triton Square the 500-strong crowd were entertained by a street theatre performance which saw a fraudulent "ATOS Miracle Cure" booth set up. The "ATOS Reverend" would lay hands on a disabled person and tell them that "by the power of ATOS you are no longer disabled", and sent them through the ATOS Miracle Cure arch, but sadly once through the arch the disabled people realised they had been tricked and they were still, of course, disabled... but worse was to come, as each disabled person was then confronted by an "ATOS Doctor" who stated that because they were now officially no longer disabled and were fit for work they could now be assigned to do their dream jobs, to which end the phoney doctor handed each person a sheet of paper on which was written "100 meter runner", "Bar Tender", "Mountain Climber" and other completely unsuitable job titles.
At around 2:30pm a section of the crowd took off and headed for Westminster where they picketed outside the Department for Work and Pensions, during which an over-agressive action by the police resulted in a disabled man's shoulder being broken as he was knocked off his wheelchair when police shoved protesters into him.
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October 2011
Unofficial sustainability assessment of the Trevallyn Power Development, Tasmania, Australia
Find out more about the Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol: hydrosustainability.org
October 2011
Unofficial sustainability assessment of the Trevallyn Power Development, Tasmania, Australia
Find out more about the Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol: hydrosustainability.org
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FWC researchers perform a health assessment on the manatee prior to transport to the release site. The assessment included taking measurements of the animal, documenting scars, performing an ultrasound to measure the body fat of the animal and cleaning the open wounds with antiseptic.
What to Do if You See a Sick, Injured, Dead, or Tagged Manatee
Activities were conducted under the US Fish and Wildlife Service permit # MA770191.
October 2011
Unofficial sustainability assessment of the Trevallyn Power Development, Tasmania, Australia
Find out more about the Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol: hydrosustainability.org
October 2011
Unofficial sustainability assessment of the Trevallyn Power Development, Tasmania, Australia
Find out more about the Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol: hydrosustainability.org
Coast Guard aircrews conduct flyovers to assess the ports of Houston, Texas City, Freeport and Galveston, Aug. 31, 2017. These port assessments are conducted in order to identify any damaged Coast Guard regulated port facility, potential oil spills or chemical release and any navigational obstruction along the ports. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Patrick Kelley/Released)
October 2011
Unofficial sustainability assessment of the Trevallyn Power Development, Tasmania, Australia
Find out more about the Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol: hydrosustainability.org