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From Lisa Votino-Tarrant
November 13, 2008
Dear Friends,
Those of you who know me, know I’m heavily involved in activism. I try not to be preachy and usually send emails that contain more information than any sort of action or donation request.
This one is different. I am asking you for something. Something very important…one night of your life.
Last weekend, 7 teenage punks murdered Marcello Lucero, because they wanted to go get a “spic.” It didn’t matter who or what or where. It didn’t matter that they ended an innocent man’s life. It didn’t matter that they were throwing their whole lives away. They were apparently consumed with hate and Marcello, an Ecuadorian immigrant, who was on his way to his friend’s house to watch a movie, was what they decided to take their hate out on.
Marcello’s Father passed away when he was a young boy and he took over the role of the man of the house. He moved to the United States 16 years ago. His brother and sister live on Long Island and his mother and younger sister live in Ecuador.
I have spent my week in Patchogue at press conferences and small rallies in memory of Marcello. I have come to know many of the local community people and they are petrified to leave their house without a group of people. I also know that the Patchogue Librarian said she had many calls from her ESOL students saying they weren’t coming to class, that they were to afraid to walk there.
And as if this tragedy isn’t enough….there are two other hateful incidents this week in Suffolk County. Forty cars were vandalized in Mastic with racial slurs including threats against President-elect Barack Obama. In Islip Terrace, the KKK did an information drop, leaving their newsletter at peoples’ doorsteps and mailboxes and also leaving the newsletter on car windshields at the train station.
It is time for all of us, no matter who you are or what you are, to come together and show that these crimes, do not represent us. Tomorrow night, Friday, November 14th at 7:00pm, people from all across Long Island will be holding a candlelight vigil in honor of Marcello Lucero, to say NO to HATE. We will be meeting at the scene of the crime, behind the west side of the Patchogue train station.
If you have plans, consider cancelling them. It has never been more important with these three crimes that we say enough is enough. This is not who we are. This is not what we do. And we want everyone to live healthy and happy lives in Suffolk County.
Many have asked about the weather….hate knows no weather…..and neither do we! The rally will be held rain or shine.
If anyone has any questions, please call or email me. If you are looking for up-to-the-minute news and thought on everything that is happening, visit where I blog, www.longislandwins.com.
Lisa Votino-Tarrant
Blogger/Online Organizer
Long Island WINS
www.longislandwins.com
Cell: (631) 383-1066
Work: (516) 304-5644
lmvotino@optonline.net
Dear Friends,
Those of you who know me, know I’m heavily involved in activism. I try not to be preachy and usually send emails that contain more information than any sort of action or donation request.
This one is different. I am asking you for something. Something very important…one night of your life.
Last weekend, 7 teenage punks murdered Marcello Lucero, because they wanted to go get a “spic.” It didn’t matter who or what or where. It didn’t matter that they ended an innocent man’s life. It didn’t matter that they were throwing their whole lives away. They were apparently consumed with hate and Marcello, an Ecuadorian immigrant, who was on his way to his friend’s house to watch a movie, was what they decided to take their hate out on.
Marcello’s Father passed away when he was a young boy and he took over the role of the man of the house. He moved to the United States 16 years ago. His brother and sister live on Long Island and his mother and younger sister live in Ecuador.
I have spent my week in Patchogue at press conferences and small rallies in memory of Marcello. I have come to know many of the local community people and they are petrified to leave their house without a group of people. I also know that the Patchogue Librarian said she had many calls from her ESOL students saying they weren’t coming to class, that they were to afraid to walk there.
And as if this tragedy isn’t enough….there are two other hateful incidents this week in Suffolk County. Forty cars were vandalized in Mastic with racial slurs including threats against President-elect Barack Obama. In Islip Terrace, the KKK did an information drop, leaving their newsletter at peoples’ doorsteps and mailboxes and also leaving the newsletter on car windshields at the train station.
It is time for all of us, no matter who you are or what you are, to come together and show that these crimes, do not represent us. Tomorrow night, Friday, November 14th at 7:00pm, people from all across Long Island will be holding a candlelight vigil in honor of Marcello Lucero, to say NO to HATE. We will be meeting at the scene of the crime, behind the west side of the Patchogue train station.
If you have plans, consider cancelling them. It has never been more important with these three crimes that we say enough is enough. This is not who we are. This is not what we do. And we want everyone to live healthy and happy lives in Suffolk County.
Many have asked about the weather….hate knows no weather…..and neither do we! The rally will be held rain or shine.
If anyone has any questions, please call or email me. If you are looking for up-to-the-minute news and thought on everything that is happening, visit where I blog, www.longislandwins.com.
Lisa Votino-Tarrant
Blogger/Online Organizer
Long Island WINS
www.longislandwins.com
Cell: (631) 383-1066
Work: (516) 304-5644
lmvotino@optonline.net
Week of November 13
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Patchogue Lynching: Patrick Young Commentary
from WPKN News, Nov. 11, 2008:
This past weekend, 7 teenagers attacked and killed a 36 year old Equadorian immigrant on the streets of Patchogue Long Island. Marcello Lucero, who lived on Long Island for 16 years died from knife wounds Saturday night.
The police have charged Jeffrey Conroy of Medford with 1st degree manslaughter as a hate crime. His six companions are charged with 1st degree Gang Assault as a hate crime.
The killing has been condemned by Mayor Paul Pontieri of Patchogue as well as Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy and New York Governor David Paterson.
Patrick Young, Program Director of the Central American Refugee Center (CARECEN) and a teacher of Immigration Law at Hofstra University has this comment on the killing. (adapted from Mr. Young's commentary on LongIslandWins.com).
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Mr. Young's commentaries on immigration issues are a daily feature of the immigration blog www.LongIslandWins.com.
Commentary adapted by Mr. Young for WPKN and was broadcast on WPKN 89.5 Bridgeport and WPKM 88.7 Montauk on Nov. 11.
Additional details about the Lucero killing can be found at www.newsday.com
The Long Island Immigrant Alliance has called for a Candlelight Vigil to Stop Hate Against Latinos on Friday November 14 at 7pm at Railroad Avenue and Septhton Street (near the Patchogue Railroad Station).
This past weekend, 7 teenagers attacked and killed a 36 year old Equadorian immigrant on the streets of Patchogue Long Island. Marcello Lucero, who lived on Long Island for 16 years died from knife wounds Saturday night.
The police have charged Jeffrey Conroy of Medford with 1st degree manslaughter as a hate crime. His six companions are charged with 1st degree Gang Assault as a hate crime.
The killing has been condemned by Mayor Paul Pontieri of Patchogue as well as Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy and New York Governor David Paterson.
Patrick Young, Program Director of the Central American Refugee Center (CARECEN) and a teacher of Immigration Law at Hofstra University has this comment on the killing. (adapted from Mr. Young's commentary on LongIslandWins.com).
" I just returned from standing with the family and friends of Marcello Lucero at the place made holy by his death. I could still see the police markings on the street showing where his blood spilled from his body as he tried to get help after being attacked by what the New York Times called a lynch mob in Patchogue.
The horrible murder of Marcello Lucero is the latest and deadliest of a series of anti-immigrant attacks in Suffolk County. The seven young men charged in the attack come from an area a few miles south of the hamlet of Farmingville, the epicenter of anti-immigrant organizing on Long Island. Farmingville first gained national attention in 2000 when two young men abducted a pair of Mexican day laborers and tried to beat them to death. It was in the headlines again a few years later when five high school students burned down the house of a Latino family, whose sleeping occupants barely escaped with their lives.
Since then, human rights advocates have urged politicians in Suffolk to stop using the scapegoating of immigrants as a path to electoral victory. We have failed.
For example, after the beating of the two Farmingville day laborers, a member of the county legislature declared that if Mexicans moved to his town he, too, would greet them with a baseball bat. This year, as tensions mounted around immigration, the county legislature saw no less than five anti-immigrant bills proposed and a Congressional candidate ran for election in the district where the attackers were from on an anti-immigrant platform.
Suffolk's political class, led by the County Executive and the Presiding Officer of the Legislature, have done nothing to bring together the county's nearly 200,000 immigrants and 1.4 million native-born residents. Unlike other nearby suburban counties like Nassau and Westchester, Suffolk government has repeatedly missed opportunities to foster understanding and instead has depicted the hard-working immigrants of the county as a "problem" begging to be solved.
Should it surprise us that young men, hearing immigrants being described as criminals and invaders, would take it upon themselves to solve the problem with knives?
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Mr. Young's commentaries on immigration issues are a daily feature of the immigration blog www.LongIslandWins.com.
Commentary adapted by Mr. Young for WPKN and was broadcast on WPKN 89.5 Bridgeport and WPKM 88.7 Montauk on Nov. 11.
Additional details about the Lucero killing can be found at www.newsday.com
The Long Island Immigrant Alliance has called for a Candlelight Vigil to Stop Hate Against Latinos on Friday November 14 at 7pm at Railroad Avenue and Septhton Street (near the Patchogue Railroad Station).
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