[Netnews-action] 13 July: Sukula Family Must Stay

[Michael]

>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
>
>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 <http://www.sukula.org/>www.sukula.org or 
>ring Jason on 07976476181
>
>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