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Posts Tagged ‘ Marcelo Lucero ’

Rally Wed. Noon to Make Suffolk Hate Free Zone

November 8, 2011
hate free zone

The Long Island Immigrant Alliance (LIIA) will hold a rally Wed., Nov. 9 at Noon to Make Suffolk County a Hate Free Zone. Here is the announcement from LIIA: On Wednesday, November 9th, LIIA, along with other Long Islanders, will hold a press conference and rally to demonstrate the vibrancy of the county’s immigrant...
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Marcelo Lucero Anniversary Observed on Long Island

November 7, 2011
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Two hundred Long Islanders gathered in Patchcogue yesterday to commemorate the 2008 hate killing of Ecuadoran immigrant Marcelo Lucero. Lucero’s death came in the wake of a campaign against immigrants by Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy. Seven young men from the area had engaged in at least a dozen attacks on immigrants over a...
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Bellone Pledges Permanent Hate Crime Task Force for Suffolk

November 2, 2011
Steve Bellone discussed bullying with a student at last night's event.

At an event to kick off  a week of remembrance for hate crime victim Marcelo Lucero, County Executive candidate Steve Bellone dramatically announced that he would make the Suffolk County Hate Crimes Task Force a permanent and independent entity. The Hate Crimes Task force was established two months after Marcelo Lucero was killed by...
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NY Times Editorial on Suffolk’s Failure to Protect Latinos

September 26, 2011
Levy conjured up a brew of hatred and violence in the county he leads.

Today’s New York Times has an editorial today called Justice and the Suffolk County Police that highlights the failure of that department to enforce laws against hate crimes when those crimes were directed against Latinos. Here are excerpts from that editorial: Suffolk County, N.Y., has seen some of the country’s most shameful political battles...
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Long Island Immigrants Demand Change in Suffolk Police Department

September 22, 2011
These seven young Suffolk men were convicted in connection with the killing of Marcelo Lucero.

Following the issuance of a letter by the United States Department of Justice critical of Suffolk County’s handling of hate crimes, the Long Island Immigrant Alliance held a press conference yesterday calling for police to comply with Federal civil rights laws. The Justice Department investigation began after the November 8, 2008 murder of Ecuadoran...
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PBS Documentary Looks at Marcelo Lucero Killing in Suffolk-Review

September 18, 2011
Thousands of Long Islanders held a vigil at the place where Marcelo Lucero was killed to call for an end to hate-mongering.

  Not In Our Town: Light in the Darkness,  premiering Sept. 21 at 10 PM on PBS Channel 13, is an engrossing but flawed look at the November 8, 2008 murder of Marcelo Lucero in Patchogue. The premise of the film according to its packaging is that this is a story “about a town...
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Thoughts on the Second Anniversary of the Killing of an Immigrant

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November 8, 2010
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Marcelo Lucero, Steve Levy and the Democratic Party
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Portrait: Steve Levy Leads Suffolk to Disunion

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September 24, 2010
Steve Levy hoped to ride the anti-immigrant horse to Albany.

This is the first of a series we are offering looking at politicians who are inciting anti-immigrant prejudice. Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy took office while the county was going through a crisis of hate crimes against immigrants. Local neo-Nazis had kidnapped two Mexican day laborers in Farmingville and tried to murder them. A...
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