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December 14, 2008
Community to Hold March and Vigilto Condemn Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Gay, Anti-Latino Hate Crime
Contact: Contact: Anamaria Archila, MRNY, 917-330-5337, Andrew Friedman, MRNY, 718-809-7158
***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE***
Family of Victims, Elected officials, Bushwick residents, African-American,
Latino, and Asian community groups and other concerned New Yorkers to gather
Gatherers to light candles and hold
signs
bearing messages such as "United Against
Hate", "Xenophobia and Homophobia affects us all", "An injury to one is an
injury to all" and "Bushwick is a hate-free zone"
Groups
to call for long-term solutions to intolerance such as, implementation of anti-harassment
legislation in city schools, comprehensive immigration reform, and full civil
rights for LGBT people
What: A march, vigil
and press conference to condemn the hate crime committed against the Sucuzhanay
brothers. Groups will also call for long-term solutions to intolerance such as
implementation of anti-harassment legislation in city schools, comprehensive
immigration reform, and full civil rights for LGBT people.
Who: Diego Sucuzhanay,
brother of victims City Council Speaker Christine Quinn Make the Road New York and GLOBE,
(a group to empower the Bushwick LGBT community); Alianza Ecuatoriana; Anti-Violence
Project; Frente Ecuatoriana; Generation Q; Greater New York Labor-Religion Coalition; Labor Council
for Latin American Advancement; National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People (NAACP); The National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights; New York
Civil Liberties Union; New York Immigration Coalition; Queens Pride House; Sunset
Park Alliance of Neighbors; United States Department of Justice Community
Relations; We are all Brooklyn; and YKASEC.
When: Sunday, December 14th, 2008 at 2PM Where: Gather at Make the Road New York Children's Grove Park,
corner of Myrtle Ave
and Grove Street
in Brooklyn and march to the corner where the
incident happened at the corner of Bushwick
Ave. and Kossuth
Place. (Take the L train or the M train to Myrtle-Wycoff Ave)
More on: GLOBE 
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 Victory for Immigrant Families: Preventing Unjust Deportations in NYCOn March 18, 2013, Mayor Bloomberg signed new legislation to stop federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from using NYC’s criminal justice system to deport thousands of New Yorkers.
Building on legislation we helped to win just over a year ago, Local Laws 21 and 22 prohibit not only the Department of Correction but now also the NYPD from spending millions of city taxpayer dollars to hold individuals on behalf of ICE agents for detention and deportation. Each year, thousands of New York families will stay together who would otherwise have been torn apart by overly aggressive, indiscriminate immigration enforcement.
At a moment when the country is debating immigration reform, with these laws, New York City sends a clear message to Washington that tearing apart thousands of immigrant families is bad policy.
With your support, we look forward to winning national reform that keeps families together. We thank our partners at the Center for Popular Democracy, the Cardozo Immigration Justice Clinic and the bills’ sponsors, NYC Council Speaker Quinn and Council Member Mark-Viverito, for their courageous leadership. 
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