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The 1 John 4:20 project turns the tide of vile hatred spewed by conservative religious leaders calling for the death of the President of the United States.

1 John 4:20If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? 

There’s a new slogan making its way onto car bumpers and across the Internet. It reads simply: “Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8”  A nice sentiment? Maybe not. The psalm reads, “Let his days be few; and let another take his office.”

So join us at 1 John 4:20 and show your support of the President.  You can also go to the Zazzle store and purchase 1 John 4:20 bumper stickers, stickers, hats, and more.

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I'm and ESL teachers at Newcomers High School in LIC, Queens. This is a school for new immigrants to the US.  I also run a human rights program at the school.  We have been focusing on the human rights abuses against immigrants on LI, particularly in Suffolk.

My students and I would love to connect with and help anyone involved in positive actions to improve the lives of immigrants in Suffolk.

Please let me know who I can contact.

Thank you!

wow this is just so not right. I mean what crime he had commited to deserve his life to be taken a away?

This article is a reflection of human right's violation for immigrants. It show's how immigrants are treated in here. It show's that how many American's think about immigrants living in here. Me as an immigrant, I feel very passionate about this issue. I feel that all immigrants living here should deserve equality as American's. They come here in this country with a dream. Some of us would refer to it as  "American Dream". Murcelo Lucero is an ecuadorian immigrant. He also came to this country with a hope of living standard life like all the American's. He never thought that his dream would washed away. He has left his family back in Ecuador. He though of America as a land of oppurtunity. He thought that America would offer him a job but here they have a job exploitation. He died before complteting his American dreams.Threfore, We should work hard to raise awarness for human right's. We should always try our best to talk about  human right's issues and become more active about this.

What happened in LI, it's really dissapointed. I don't understand why some people think that they are superior of others. I think that people who usually discriminate immigrants people don't have feelings. This is something who make scare to people who are immigrant just like me, we don't know whemn we are going to be attacked, we don't feel safety. This is ironic because we come jsu t to have a better future nothing else, and what we are getting here is just abuses and mistreatment.   

I was really upset by reading the above event. In reality this is what happens to a person who tries to inspires himself or herself for  fight for humanrights violation. The person windes up dying for saving other rights. I guess this is why we dont have insperiational peoeple lilke Mr, lucero tp fight against humanrights vilation because they are very much concerned about living their lives. They dont understadn the fact that their lives are not only ment to be for serving their purposes . people like Mr. Luccero dedicate their lives on fighting fopr our rights and eventually they are ones who get to face humilitation and we got to take advantage of their heard work.

I think it is a wonderful thing. If everybody work together as one, we can stop these hate crimes.Bescause it coul happen to anyone.And I think if we convert as one we can bring big changes, not only in this kind of problem, but in many others. And also if we don't do something now, it coul get worse and worse. It is time to do something not only for you, but for everybody..

I am sebastjano i am from a school called newcomers high school which is located in LIC.in my school i am in the human rights class in which we discuss the violations of human rights and the rights of immigrants.In my class i heard about the case of Marcelo Lucero.All i have to say is that i am really sorry for the loss of that family.What the murderers did was very wrong.i think they have no brain to think or eyes to see whats in front of them.they think that immigrants are some ignorant people and they take away their jobs but that is so not true.The immigrants are hard working and really intellegent they are doing the jobs that americans are not willing to do.i will support any organization that has to do with the protection of the humman rights of the immigrants u have my help anything just email me sebastiano_02@hotmail.com.

I am a Newcomers students , and I am part of a program for human rights. When I see this, it just makes me feel like all the efforts we do in the class are in vain. Still, I will keep fighting for immigrants rights, which are also human rights. I am an immigrant too , and several time I have been victim of discrimination because of my accent, or because of my skin color. Keep fighting for those who are somewhere in the world and every single day are victim of hate crimes, discrimination, slavery, or others is my goal. I won't stop fighting untill I reach that goal !

Not in Our Town. Not In our School. Not in our Home.  As an Immigrant, I'm aware and I've experienced agressive acts of discrimination just because I'm Mexican-American. Nevertheless these crimes don't scare me. I feel more passionate and more thirsty of justice. The death of Lucero will not be in vain, and he will never be forgotten unless we let him be forgotten. "We the people" of the latino and immigrant community must fight for our rights. This is just the beginning of a new era.

PS: I just want to ask Mrs. Mann  the educators and the NIOT staff if they could help me to get started. I need more information about the things I can do or the places I can attend to work for our rights. Thank you.

man what the hell is happening to teh world now just because someone comes from another country tehy have the right to beat them to dead and as ROY said it is very upset and as FANNY said it must not happen again cuz we are all humans and we have rights and we dont deserve to die like animals and we should do something to stop it dont let it happen again  adn Marcelo lucero was just another victims of hundreds that have been victims of hate crime adn no one does anything no efven the police until now

The death of Marcelo Lucero was an impact for our community. It's true that racial crimes are not something new in our society nowadays but  the most impacting was the people who killed him: seven teenagers. They took away the life of an inocent just because he was an immigrant. A person with dreams and hopes. A person who had to sacrifice himself to suceed in life. I feel sorrow about the family of marcelo, especially about his mother because she didn't have the opportunity to talk to him one more time. i believe everyone deserves to be in the place they want. The united states is a country made of immigrants. I watched a documentary called "Made in Los Angeles" and  a woman represented  an immigrant community with a pyramid. immigrants are the bottom, if we take it away, everything is going to fall down. perhaps a lot of people want to get rid of all immigrants, but what would happen without them?

This type of events can't happen again. It is very disapoint that in the world some people are against other people just by their nacionality. What happened to Marcelo Lucero show us that immigrants here always have to face different problems . Like many imigrants we came here with many dreams and it is difficult for us but it is part of the life. The problem here is that many americans don't permit us to life in pace here. We know thta it is their country but we are just looking a better future for us and our families. I like the idea that people get together to fight for humans rights.

This is a sad story. Discrimenation happens everywhere and the hate crime  follows it. i have seen many films about latino immigrants being beaten or even killed. and most of the people who commit beating are high school kids. thay dont like immigrants and they just do it for fun. This action has been called "Beaner-Hopping". High school kidsalso do it as  a sport, and im sick of this. people hate eachother, doing things to hurt others. I hope this would be changed someday. Like that Martin Luther KIng Jr' sppech of " i have a dream" that people would live together in peace.

This is a sad story because Marco Lucero was a person that had dreams as others do . And these  dreams were broken just because of hate. I don't  know why people create this hate againts immigrants, I think this is wrong becuase we are people that are looking for a better life and nobody is trying to steal anything from Americans. In this article we can see violation of human's right that people do just for fun.This is a problem of discrimination and this must end, because crimes againts immigrants must not reach so far. I think people should understand that everybody is equal and nobody is more than other, because immigrants must be treated as americans do.