Remember Marcelo: Calling All Bloggers

Written by: Steven L on Nov 4, 2009 3:11 PM EST

From the Long Island Wins Blog (read the orginial post at http://bit.ly/32nmGW),

This coming Sunday marks the one-year anniversary of the death of Ecuadorian immigrant Marcelo Lucero, who was killed by a group of teens in Patchogue on Nov. 8, 2008. Lucero's attackers told police that they would routinely go "beaner jumping" -- which meant they would hunt down and assault Latinos. One of the defendants said, "I don't go out doing this very often, maybe once a week."

In addition to a series of video interviews to commemorate the one-year anniversary of Lucero's death, Long Island Wins is sponsoring a "Remember Marcelo" blogging event, where we're calling on bloggers from across the country to write a post about Marcelo on Thursday, November 5, or Friday, November 6.

The two days of blogging will precede a candlelight vigil in Patchogue on Saturday night, which will be organized by Joselo Lucero, Marcelo's younger brother. For more information about the vigil, click here.

The content of the blog entries is up to the individual bloggers, but we ask that each blogger paste the "Remember Marcelo" badge into the post or a sidebar.

Here's the code for the badge. You just have to copy it and paste it into your post:

<a href="http://www.longislandwins.com/blog/in_the_news/remember_marcelo_calling_all_b.php" target="_blank">
<div style="text-align:center;"> <img src="http://liwinsphotos.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/remember_marcelo.png"> </div></a>

Bloggers are encouraged to drop links to their pieces in the comments section on this post, or to email links to thesson@longislandwins.com. We'll be highlighting blog posts Thursday and Friday as we receive them. Please spread the word to anyone else who might be interested.

In conjunction with the "Remember Lucero" blogging event, Long Island Wins is also asking readers (and other bloggers) to show their support for comprehensive immigration reform. Just as in Patchogue, there are undeniable tensions around immigration across the country, and in the worst instances, those tensions turn violent or deadly.

But instead of inflammatory rhetoric, we need real solutions for our broken immigration system. Comprehensive immigration reform isn't the only answer to these harmful attacks, but it's an important step towards bringing immigrants out of the shadows and under the umbrella of the law.

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