AUCKLAND ACTION AGAINST POVERTY

Media Release Monday 21 February 2011

Rebstock Report Provokes Picket

The recently formed Auckland Action Against Poverty group is organising a picket:

2.00pm Tuesday 22 February

Outside Work & Income offices, 36 Sel Peacock Dr, Henderson.

All supporters and media are welcome to attend.

‘We believe the Rebstock Welfare Working Group’s recommendations due out tomorrow represent the biggest potential attack on beneficiaries in a generation,’ says AAAP spokesperson and former Green MP Sue Bradford.

‘Our group seeks to send a clear message to Government that the fightback begins now.’

‘We want genuine job creation and a fair benefit system, not further attacks on sole parents, unemployed people, and the sick, injured and impaired.’

AAAP was set up in late 2010 to bring together unemployed people, beneficiaries, students, unionists, church people and others working for a fairer society which puts the wellbeing of low income people above the welfare of bankers and investors.

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