“Karen has always been a champion of her clients.”
Karen Reissmann, community nurse and UNISON activist, was sacked by Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust in 2007. She was sacked for speaking out about cuts and the effect of privatisation.
Mental Health and One Nation: Made in Many Communities November 15, 2012 8:00 pm By Steve Griffiths Ed Miliband’s speech to the Royal College of Psychiatrists widened the reach of political debate about mental health in a way that suggests a coherent strategy that reaches, as Miliband says, ‘beyond the NHS itself’, ‘changing the way […]
8 TH November, 2012 Greater Manchester PCC: Cuts are reckless says candidate Greater Manchester Police has had its budget cut by 20% over five years[/caption]Government spending cuts for Greater Manchester Police are “reckless”, the Labour candidate for the police and crime commissioner post has said. Tony Lloyd told a BBC Radio Manchester debate the force […]
DISABLED PROTESTOR TO STAGE VIGIL & HUNGER STRIKE OUTSIDE OF ATOS OFFICES IN CARDIFF Action, All Posts, Atos, Welfare reforms Add comments Nov 042012 DISABLED PEOPLE AGAINST CUTS (DPAC) CAERDYDD PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE ISSUE CONTACT – Disabled People Against Cuts Caerdydd, 07855510534 STARTS A disabled person in his 30s will lead a five day […]
A campaign group is seeking a planning lawyer to work on a pro bono basis towards a judicial review of controversial approval to demolish the historic Manchester building
In June Urban Splash won minded to approve consent to demolish the Grade II-lised Ancoats Dispensary building despite opposition from locals and SAVE.
Mental health community treatment orders on the rise 25 October, 2012 10:24 AM The number of Mental Health Act detentions and Community Treatment Orders (CTOs) has increased in the past year, according to official figures. Data from the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) shows 48,600 people were detained in NHS and independent hospitals […]
SALFORD MENTAL HEALTH CAMPAIGNERS TAKE PROTEST TO MANCHESTER ! Star date: 14th October 2012 SALFORD USUC JOINS MANCHESTER USERS TO FIGHT CUTS Yesterday, campaigners fighting mental health cuts in Salford joined the Manchester Users Network to have a joint demonstration and march in Manchester City centre. Here, Phil Hamer discovers that the United Service Users […]
lipstick socialist “My Country is the World, my religion is to do Good” Tom Paine Political Women (6) Karen ReissmannSocialist, nurse, woman, fighter against injustice……….. Karen has been involved in politics from the age of 16. She is a shop steward and member of Unison Executive. She was not from a political family but… Neither […]
## Manchester memorial service commemorates ‘real difference’ Lord Morris made in disability campaigns Posted Friday, October 12, 2012 – 15:51 By Dominic Claeys-Jackson Disability campaigner Lord Morris of Manchester, who died in August aged 84, was commemorated for the ‘real difference’ he made, at a Wythenshawe church memorial service today. The public ceremony, at St […]
