Indymedia York

The Press is reporting about a Kurdish family living in York to be deported back to Turkey. Deporting Kurds to Turkey is of course something this Goverment thinks is a good idea :-(

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/yorknews/display.var.1202420.0.refugees_...

Seems a group called Refugee Action York is launching a campaign to help keep them here. Any one know them? Anyone know how to help fight deportions from York?

Families Need Fathers will be opening a local branch for the York/Leeds/Bradford areas. It is a non gender specific campaigning charity which strives to support and advise parents who have separated and have been excluded from the care of their children, usually by hostile former partners. It challenges the law in its present form and is currently lobbying for a debate on the issue of shared parenting in Parliament.

I know this will be a controversial issue for this list as many will probably adhere to the myth that most "absent" parents are abusive or dangerous or there is some "reason" why they have been excluded. This is, in the vast majority of cases, simply not the case. Obviously, as anyone who has separated from a long term partner, it is not an easy or pleasurable experience, and can often be fraught with all sorts of emotional issues, especially where children are concerned. The law in its current state basically invites parents to go to war. It then gives one parent a large stick, called "control" of the children, with which to beat the other parent! Speaking personally, this is easily the worst experience of my life. But, because it's your child, you take it.