[Netnews-action] [Fwd: Meeting Reminder- Sukula Family Must Stay! July 13]

[michael]

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From: Jason Travis <jason2inethiopia at yahoo.co.uk>



Meeting Reminder- Sukula Family Must Stay! this Wednesday 13th July
Bolton Town Hall from 6.30 p.m. sponsored by Bolton Unison and NUT

Please circulate widely.

Students, teachers, trade unionists and others, Black and White, have
launched an anti-deportation campaign after Bolton students have been
threatened with deportation to the war-torn country of the Congo.
Daniel and Flores Sukula, students at Mount St Joseph School and Bolton
6th Form College respectively, led the Bolton contingent on the anti-G8
ake Poverty History demo in Edinburgh and have called for as many people
as possible from across the region to come to rally their support from
6.30 on Wednesday 13th July outside Bolton Town Hall.  

The family- who are fighting against all deportations- have asked for
people to gather from 6.30 for a rally on the Town Hall steps.  The
meeting proper will start from 7.00 p.m. but please if you can come half
an hour earlier so we can have an outside demonstration of support.
Please make an effort to come to show the North West is opposing these
deportations and to rally support for the Sukula Family.  Jason Travis,
President Bolton National Union of Teachers

More details can be found on www.sukula.org or ring Jason on 07976476181

Please do everything you can to come to this meeting and to let others
know. We need numbers.

Even if you can’t come to other meetings or make a regular commitment it
is important to come to this meeting to show that Bolton supports the
Sukulas. 

Sukula Family Must Stay! 
PUBLIC MEETING
WEDNESDAY 13th JULY 2005 
7pm – 9:30pm
BOLTON TOWN HALL
Speakers:
DANIEL SUKULA
(Sukula Family Campaign)
FLORENCE OKOLO
(Anti-deportation Campaigner)
MOHAMMED AZAM
(Acting Chair – National Assembly Against Racism)
plus Local Trade Unionists
Daniel Sukula lives in Bolton with his mum, three sisters and two
brothers and is currently studying for his GCSEs. Yet a shadow hangs
over Daniel’s life and that of his family. In April the Home Office
wrote to them warning that they might be thrown out of their home and
deported back to Congo at any moment. That would mean sending them back
to the life-threatening dangers from which they escaped. 
On New Year’s Eve, 2001, the family were forced to flee after Daniel’s
mother, Ngiedi 
Lusukumu, was badly beaten by government militia and threatened with
further violence. The militia was looking for her husband, who had
already been forced to leave as a suspected opponent of the government.
The beating inflicted on Ngiedi left her with permanent scars but after
coming to Britain to seek sanctuary, the family were told that their
asylum claim was invalid. 
The ongoing conflict in DRC is the worst of the ‘forgotten wars’ of our
times. Three million 
people have been killed. Yet only once has it made the front page of any
newspaper in Britain. 
Furthermore, it is a war in which women and children have borne the
brunt of the violence, suffering torture, rape and detention. 
NO DEPORTATIONS

 

 More info or to find out how to help phone Jason on 07976476181

Thanks