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Vigil for Marcelo LuceroThis Evening in Patchogue, Long Island, NY
11:17 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Events| Immigration| Justice| New York · No Comments
7 Nov 2009
Vigil in Memory of Marcelo Lucero
Saturday November, 7th @ 6:00pm
RailRoad Ave. Patchogue, NY
Religious Service to follow at Congregational Church 7:30pmMy family’s wish is to create a new environment of peace and unity for our community. We would like to invite members of all communities to share in the vigil in memory of my dear brother, Marcelo Lucero, on Saturday November 7 at 6pm next to the train station where he lost his life. Following the vigil, we will walk to the Congregational Church of Patchogue located on Main Street for a religious ceremony scheduled for 7:30pm. We request from all who attend to wear a white t-shirt in solidarity to share in this day of peace, healing and hope. Our message is no more violence but peace, no more racism but instead brotherhood and no more abuse rather respect.
During the vigil, we will collect donations for the Marcelo Lucero Scholarship that I created last year for the students of Patchogue-Medford HS and monies will also be used to send a mural to Gualaceo, Ecuador, which was created by Pat-Med students as a symbol of peace. If your organization would like to send a contribution in advance please write checks to: Marcelo Lucero Scholarship and send it directly to the Patchogue-Medford HS, 181 Buffalo Avenue, Medford, New York 11763.
Please be advised that this event will not be used for any political agendas. We would like to thank you in advance for your support and for respecting our wishes.
En Solidarity,
Joselo Lucero and family
One of Marcelo Lucero’s Attackers Pleads Guilty
4:11 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Justice| New York| Violence| crime · 1 Comment
5 Nov 2009
While I was writing my reflections on the anniversary of the hate motivated killing of Marcelo Lucero, , one of his attackers plead guilty to a variety of charges. Nicholas Hausch, 18, pleaded guilty to first-degree gang assault, fourth-degree conspiracy, second-degree assault as a hate crime and second-degree attempted assault as a hate crime.
Hausch’s plea is apparently part of a deal in exchange for information on what happened the night Lucero was brutally attacked. Hausch had no problem yelling slurs at Lucero almost a year ago, but had problems speaking up before a judge.
In a barely audible voice, Hausch answered a prosecutor’s questions about the events that led to the slaying, admitting that he and his six co-defendants set out to search for Latinos to attack.
“Keep your voice up, young man,” the judge said to Hausch twice during the teen’s admissions.
Responding to questions from Assistant District Attorney Meghan O’Donnell, Hausch detailed three attacks he was involved in on Nov. 8, including the Lucero killing.
Before coming across Lucero, Hausch said the group pursued another man. “I got out of the car and I chased him. We were yelling at him,” calling him a derogatory name, he said….
Hausch faces 5 to 25 years in prison on the gang assault charge and will not be sentenced until the prosecution of the other six defendants is completed.
Via / Newsday
Southern Poverty Law Center Report Tells What Latinos in Suffolk County Know and Live
5:21 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Immigration| New York| Violence · 2 Comments
2 Sep 2009
Todos somos Marcelo Lucero. We are all Marcelo Lucero.
That’s the reality that Latino immigrants in Suffolk County, New York have been living with for a while now. Just two weeks ago, another life was nearly lost in the Long Island community of Patchogue. The idea of immigration reform coming in 2010 offers no comfort for those, who according to a report to be relased later today live in a : Climate of Fear: Latino Immigrants in Suffolk County, N.Y.
The report will show what those of us who live in immigrant communities have been saying for years, that as new groups move in, especially immigrants of color, residents are less than welcoming. Instead of making room for us in that melting pot, we are run off the road, beaten, killed.
So while the Obama administration postures behind all the Latino names it has brought into the beltway, off the Long Island Expressway, those with Spanish last names live in fear of losing their lives.
I look forward to reading the full report (I think the gmail failure of yesterday put me behind on getting an early copy). Pero at 10:30 this morning there will be a press conference in Hauppauge to release the report and to announce a bilingual hotline – (800) 328-2322 set up by LatinoJustice-PRLDEF to take calls from victims and witnesses of crimes, especially hate crimes, on Long Island against Latinos.
The Problem With Comprehensive Immigration Reform Messaging: Almost Marcelo Lucero
9:11 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Immigration| New York| Violence · 1 Comment
17 Aug 2009
While many from D.C. and the internetosphere were at Netroots Nation discussing messaging and Comprehensive Immigration Refrom, another Latino was attacked and in the same ‘hood where Marcelo Lucero was murdered.
From AP:
NEW YORK — A Hispanic man told investigators he was beaten and robbed in a racially charged attack in a Long Island community where another Hispanic was killed in an alleged hate crime last fall, police said.
The latest incident happened around 11:30 p.m. Friday in Patchogue, where the earlier attack prompted a U.S. Department of Justice investigation into allegations of hate crimes on eastern Long Island.
The victim in the latest episode told investigators that three young white men called him over and engaged him in conversation as he walked along Division Avenue in Patchogue, about 50 miles east of Manhattan.
One man then hit him in the face and knocked him to the ground, and the three stole cash and other items from him while making disparaging remarks about his ancestry, he told police. Police didn’t release his name and age, and they said Sunday that they didn’t immediately know whether he had been taken to a hospital.
Luis Ramirez and Every Mother’s Sons and Daughters : Seeking Justice by All Means Necessary
7:31 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Activism| Immigration| Justice| Politics| Violence| crime| media justice| pennsylvania| race · 6 Comments
8 May 2009
in 1991, in the rapidly changing immigrant community of Corona, Queens, NYC 19 year old son of Dominican immigrants, Manny Mayi Jr. was beaten to death.
Last year, Marcelo Lucero was killed.
At the start of the new year Wilter Sanchez was nearly killed.
In February of this year Jose Sucuzhañay, an Ecuadorian immigrant was beaten to death.
Speaking Spanish can get you beaten.
And most recently, Luis Ramirez was beaten and killed and those accused got away with murder.
I could go through recent and not so recent history and clearly see a pattern and practice of hate that has been growing. A pattern and practice of racism, nativism, fueled by the media and government, eaten up by the mainstream public.
People in Shenandoah celebrated, went out into the streets and rejoiced after an all-white jury found Brandon J. Piekarsky, 17, and Derrick M. Donchak, 19, guilty of lesser charges and acquitted them of criminal homicide and aggravated assault.
And then people have the nerve to ask why are more Latinos not more active in the fight for immigration change?
This is not just about laws, this about lives.
So what do we as a community do?
More Hate Crimes Against Latinos : New Jersey Colombian beaten to Near Death
12:23 pm By Maegan La Mala · Immigration| Justice| crime| race · Comments Off
30 Jan 2009
While the Feds investigate patterns and practices of hate crimes and their cover ups in Suffolk County, while the alleged (trying to be all legal and proper)killers of Marcelo Lucero get more indictments against them for other attacks that preceded his death, more Latinos are being assaulted for being Latino.
The latest known attack comes out of New Jersey, where last week Colombian Wilter Sánchez was beaten to the point of requiring reconstructive surgery. There shouldn’t be any doubt as to the intentions of those that attacked Sanchez.
(Sánchez’ cousin Fernando) Quinchia claimed that after Sánchez was beat up the men returned to their car and tried to run him over.
Feds Open Investigation on Pattern of Suffolk County Hate Crimes and Practice of Local Enforcement Doing Nada
7:20 am By Maegan La Mala · Justice| New York · Comments Off
13 Jan 2009It only took the death of Marcelo Lucero, a pattern of attacks on immigrants and those that look liked immigrants (read Latinos). It only took the action, anger and sadness of a community tired of the same old happening under the selectively watchful eyes of those vowing to protect and serve everyone except people like us.
The U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI and the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District today announced the launching of a joint probe of Suffolk County’s handling of hate crimes against Latinos.
The investigation is in response to this complaint filed by the Manhattan-based LatinoJustice in the wake of the hate murder of Marcelo Lucero documenting a climate of hate and neglect towards Latino victims promoted and/or tolerated by Suffolk County officials.
It took the hate driven murder of Marcelo Lucero
for Suffolk’s Hispanic Advisory Board to consider ways to improve police community relations. What are they proposing? Flyers.
Mel Guadalupe, Levy’s minority affairs director, said he hoped to receive “corporate support” for the board’s efforts to distribute fliers promoting the Suffolk Police Department policy of not asking a crime victim’s immigration status and teaching officers basic Spanish phrases.
And they can’t even get such a useless program like that funded.
But Legis. Ricardo Montano (D- Central Islip) said there is “not a lot of substance” to the advisory board’s proposals, adding that the county should devote more resources to the all-volunteer board with a $5,000 annual budget.
Marcelo Lucero’s Accused Killers Spent a Week Practicing Their Racist/Murderous Skills
11:08 am By Maegan La Mala · Immigration| Justice| New York| crime · Comments Off
23 Nov 2008
Yesterday people took to the streets of Hempstead, Long Island to demand justice for the 37 year old Ecuadorian who was killed last week in a vicious, racist gang assault targeting Latinos.
What Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy refuses to accept is his role in this, in how his initial reaction of Lucero’s death, diminishing it to a one day story , told a million days of truth of what the death of a Latino is worth. One fucking day. Pero the lives of the accused killers? At least a week. In the lives of others in Suffolk county? Years.
La Lucha Sigue Sigue : Marcelo Lucero Vive Vive
1:39 pm By Maegan La Mala · Immigration| Justice| New York · 1 Comment
21 Nov 2008
Excuse me if I have little sympathy for parents at a meeting at Patchogue-Medford High School, where the accused in the racist hate driven murder in the death of Marcelo Lucero, especially one who yelled :
“What are we doing to make sure the media doesn’t grab our kids to be interviewed?” and then many parents screamed and confronted the Newsday reporter–who was escorted out even though she was given permission to attend.
I have little sympathy because these parents and so many others like them were not and still are not screaming the way I and other Latinos have been screaming for years: “What are we doing to make sure that my neighbor, lover, father of my child, tio, hijo, familia and comunidad are not grabbed to be killed.”
Marcelo Lucero’s story, sadly is not a new one. It is one of many instances of hate fueled by anti-immigrant policy and rhetoric coming from both ends of the political spectrum. The fact that Marcelo is another Mannuel Mayi is the reason why I take no issue with calling Marcelo an immigrant, while some Latino blogs have taken issue with that labeling. When Marcelo was targeted for death, the killers didn’t ask to see his papers or engage in conversation to hear if he spoke with an accent. He was tagged a Latino which has been made to equal immigrant which has been made to equal not having the right to exist. It didn’t matter what Latin American country Marcelo came from. It mattered that he was “other”, the way my own children can be othered by the color of their skins and their names.
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